I'd love to know who those members are myself, as I'd be more than happy to give out some merits to them--assuming they're deserving of it by my standards, of course.  I think cryptohunter is looking for quality posts in the altcoin section specifically, and that's a monumental task if you're doing so by the old-school method of reading through threads.  There's so much garbage in all of those subsections that it's almost impossible to find lower-ranked members making good posts.  

Even in Economics, where I do the most reading, it's the Hero & Legendary members who always seem to take the time to write the most detailed and constructive posts.  I'm still trying to find Newbie-Full Member ranked people to give merits to, but most of them are just shitposters.

Cryptohunter IMO is just a cranky contrarian who thinks everyone's brain should function with the logic of a computer, and yet he has this obvious bleeding-heart liberal mentality which manifests itself in him constantly thinking there's some underdog situation on bitcointalk whereby a cabal of senior members are keeping the lower ranks down, like slaves on a 19th century Louisiana plantation.  I just don't see it that way, and I've put him on ignore.  I'm just tired of reading his posts, which are probably made with good intentions but are consistently way off the mark.