Don't you think allowing the purchase of merits would be oppressive to new members who may not have settled in the crypto space? Ideally, people should join this forum because they need help from experienced members in crypto (and other kinds of services) and/or because they want to provide some kind of help to other members, while they improve their own skills. Helping one another to get their problems solved shouldn't be a difficult task unless we all want to selfishly rank up and leave the forum with shitty posts.