There are 3rd party sites that you can use to read this board, but I'm not sure if any allows such sorting.
Cool thing would be a list of most merited post in las 24h/ week/ month so you wouldn't miss nothing important, I think this would be a lot easier to implement than sorting by merit.
Your idea is 100 times better than mine. I will edit my post right now. See if we can find a way to do it.