No problem.  I'm glad you at least read my post and took a suggestion, which is more than the average bitcointalk member is willing to do.  I don't usually give tips on writing better English, as the ROI for doing so seems ridiculously low here.  And at least you didn't call me sir, which is another pet peeve that you seem to have picked up on. 

Some of these threads for signature campaigns are funny (almost) to read, because so much ass is kissed that there has to be some cold sores forming somewhere.

The two salient points of this are that 1) you CAN earn merit and rank up, but a lot of people haven't figured out what it takes yet, and 2) the whole reason merits were put into place was to curb the shitposting/account farming/whatever problem, which the old system nurtured.  Now it's much harder to rank up, and the goal here IS to discourage people from just posting nonsense.  They haven't quite stopped yet, but in time they'll learn.  *I hope*.