limiting ppl who join to be member+ will only work for a small amount of time. If these ppl figure out a merit scam and rank up, it will be the same thing over and over again
Is extremly hard now with merit get member accounts.
Even with the merit system I don't think it will be extremely hard for a man who run 1000 account to also give merit to all his account. By the way you really tried to spot this guy out.