Might be an unpopular opinion... But I think merit works pretty well.

The goal of merit is just to reduce account farming and spam. To find the real great participants of the forum and make them lvl up in ranks.

Once you're legendary, merit is useless. It's here just for the recognition, but an  account with 1000 merit is the same as one with 1700 merit.

I got about 130 merit to spend and I try to spend it, but honestly people raging about merit system mostly don't deserve any kind of merit points.


You can lvl up by actually making good posts. I looked at your post history and haven't given any merit point simply because all your posts are trashy 2 liners. Start making good posts and you'll earn merit.