Indeed, I was not someone who did not know a thing about crypto when I joined this forum. Quite the opposite. Indeed Rikafip, you remembered well - I'm running a Romanian crypto portal. I'm still learning though, as many still do. But it's not a fault to have a skillset, is it?
Of course that it is not your fault to have certain skillset/inclinations, but having it make it very easy
for you to rank up on this forum. And what is easy for you might be very hard for someone else, and I really don't understand how can't you see that? Do you think it is smart thing to do, to base things like that on top 1% of the members?
I really don't see what would this forum gain from increasing merit and activity requirement 2x. That increased merit requirement could only lead to more merit abuse,and people would trade merit way more than they are now. At the time when forums in general ain't popular as they used to be, and while there are a lot of other platforms. After all, point of merit system was to stop shit posters and spammers, and not turning ranking up on this forum into heavy grind for an average user.
Now let's take another example: did you take a look at nullius?
You are taking things to extremes, using one way way above average member as an example. Equivalent of that would be using bounty hunter shitposter with 400 activity, 5k posts in Bounty section and 0 merit as an example how hard it is to reach Jr Member rank.