Good to see no one die with my post 

By the way, i'm agreed with you, merits aren't something to force, they come with the good quality posts. Begging them will not help, but sadly a lot of users want to grow their accounts but they just can't get merits. Was a smart move to finish with the spam but a pain in the ass for the newbies. No one say it would be easy to grow in this forum.