The tread is cool and all those graphics are just awesome! I guess you spent a lot of time for that. But the main point stays uncovered - merit trading and how to stay noticeable among all those other users with all kinds of posts? We can see on the example of this post that in the most of case just few first comments in the thread get merit, I guess it is because of users do not bother to read tons of remaining comments to the thread,  it is actually true,  well,  one more idea for a new graphic