Proof of effort.
Well it's probably almost impossible to achieve a high rank if you can't speak English or articulate yourself very well. People got used to just being able to rise through the ranks by merely posting whatever generic posts they could be bothered making over time but that was the problem. You could literally have as many Hero accounts as you wanted just by logging in once a day to claim a giveaway and 1.4 years later you'd have an arsenal of Hero accounts farmed to do what you want with. Now this isn't the case. Not only will you have to put effort into your posts they also have to stand out enough to be merited which isn't as easy as it sounds.
hey then why not make it fair to all of the members of BTT forum and implement a complementary system that reduce high rank members merits ( and if accumulated it will reduce rank ofc ) if they dont get new merit in a certain time . i mean they are heroes and full members it should be easy to get 1 merit since they have more experience in the forum
that will for sure expose those fake rank members that simply take from the forum with no giving back or contribution to make it better