personally me think merit system should not be there and ranks should be done via there post counts and quality of its posts
as of its too hard for new comers too to gather merits from old members who always do trades and exchange merit only for them but the person who is new and if he dont has btc to exchange then its less chance for him even after posting quality post on bitcointalk forum
lol now dont give me merit for this i know the points which me said is true and many will agree

proof of merit abuse done on this forum
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3402060.0Of course you want the merit system to be removed. You can't get merit when your posts are like this:
u r never millennial its just that all in ur head just grow ur way of thinking and ur bigger then any person around u ... cheers
Did you really think you could get rewarded for this?

If the merit system went away, you'd automatically rank up despite making mostly posts like this

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