the merit system is a scam trying to keep the guys up on the ivory tower. don't try to reason with them or suggest alternatives. they will always find a way to tell you that what you're proposing has certain downsides. Except for the perfect merit system they came up with. What a joke!
I respect with your opinion but it doesn't mean that merit system is not working good. Merit system is best but it becomes bad because there are a lot of BCT users are not following rules. They make another account so that there merit will go back that is called
Account Farming