I see that bitcointalk has changed the rules to be able to rank in the forum, newbie have to try on quality posts to be able to rank jr member, this is great to rank jr member has more value, merit very The important thing on the forum is for people to increase their rank higher, I see people can buy / sell merit from high rank people and it makes unfair to other people, it can cause scam on the forum when people will want to buy merit to get higher rank especially with our newbie when it is difficult to get merit.  I hope bitcointalk recheck merit when someone receives merit from another member that is not from the admin of the forum, because merit is to reward those quality posts not for trading, buying/selling,I think bitcointalk should build merit / post or merit / actives ratio as an index to rank on bitcointalk, this ratio show the quality of post/ all posts