Why don't you give free access to buy and sell Merit for users of this forum?
I think it is blindingly obvious that that would defeat the whole purpose of the system.
I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
- Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
If you could just buy Merit you could carry on shitposting.