It looks like we can pin a Certificate of Merit on the wall on some places
It reminds me of when I used to go to swimming lessons at school: you would get a badge for 10m, 25m, 50m and 100m. We could get a certificate when reaching similar landmarks in terms of merit...
I suggest thresholds of 10, 100, 250, 500, and 1000 merits and the certificates could award titles like "Member", "Full Member", "Sr. Member", "Hero Member", and "Legendary". The forum could even show those titles under the user name. It's a shame that theymos is too busy and will never implement this.