only time will tell for this since this is the start of something good to bitcoin.Bitcoin os a global ctypto and so it will do also the same with the forum. It was forseen by admin that forum still continue to be global. So, the merit implementation with users receive or sent with more less 30k users is not that bad. Reminders than one should need to get at least 1 merit to rank up to jr. member. The forum users with 2m registered on it states that only few knew about forun.