Are you sure about that?
One of the smerit functions is to get bitcoin easily in this forum, it means if you get a lot of merit then chances to get bitcoin in this forum definitely with ease. But if what you say is true, indirectly this forum has failed to apply smerit.
False. Merit system doesn't has that function since it was introduced. Merit is being implemented to avoid spammer ranked up, so only quality posters who will be ranked up. It's not about to earn bitcoin or any token "more easily".
Where is the fail? As fas as i've seen, merit system is very good and it works.