Isn't it so unfair for the people who is new here? That will be struggling making such as good quality post so they could be given a merit by someone. I know all of you is having a hard time thinking what are you going to post such as good quality.
It is really hard to have a merit it is because as far as I know:
People are selfish. Even though you post a really good quality post still there is a people who won't give you a merit.
Some are alone. Like me, I don't really have much friend who would give me a free merit. I know that it is easy to have a merit with a friend that have an account of bitcointalk.
My question is. Why still need merit? We are still struggling to rank because of the merit.
My opinion is merit is only used and discovered for good purposes but the point are very to be a member many fake users will be deleted by this forum this will not be need in future and it will be enough in shorter periods.
It's not against the forum rules having alt accounts. The real problem is spammers and shitposters that will result useless threads and waste of time from admins or mods to erase spam post by spammers rather than managing something important for bitcointalk forum.