Re: If merit is like A lottery jackpot then it could be so hard to acquire!
Are you sure? I am seeing you as Jr. Member 
Well there were data posted here already from someone who had made some statistics on demoted newbie that was able to rank up again. I was trying to look on that thread but could not found it here. But, basing on the old system where merit system is not required then probably I am full member now or even senior member basing on my activity (294 activity and posts 511).
The merit system is not a lottery, and it is only considered to be so by those who seem incapable of writing meritable posts.
This is why merit system could be given to any users that has shown meritable posts. I was just only encouraging newbie and jr. members like me to encourage quality posting and contribute meaningfully in the forum stating that merit is not a lottery jackpot that could be hardly to acquired.I disagree with your statistics. In fact, there may be more than 70% of bots in 2 million users, and 20% are farming accounts. Real users may be less than 10%.
I only quoted the statistics here and made a table to present the data. I am not a computer programmer that could gather data statistically instead I was just only using someone's post as a reference on the data presented in the table.