why all this fight to get the merit? all the accounts are bounty hunters so they need the merits to partecipate?
Fighting for rank up to participate signature and spamming on forum. A quality poster will never fight for merit. Really merit is not required for bounty hunters. Only merit need for signature spam, especially to become Jr. Member. I strongly believe 1 merit is not hard to earn for good poster. It's not necessary to become high quality poster. Few good post is enough to earn 1 merit.
If your intention to earn merit from meta then you are on wrong place.