You wrote that users should be active and behave well, and the reward (for example merit points) and good judgement will come automatically. So you could explain why you bought the "Copper Member" rank? After all, the privileges should come naturally.. right?
Well, it's true that doing good will return the favor. Being active doesn't mean the reward will come and that's why the OP bought copper membership. I think the OP is trying to earn merit but failed to earn more and decide to buy copper membership (possibly).
Maybe this statement of yours is true and I guess we have similarities on what we really wanted to tell, that even though we do our bestt being active here and trying the quality posting I think it is not actually enough.