Currently it is hard enough. The difference between member and full member is already too much. As a new member you are definetly going to receive 1 merit maybe each 10 posts. Does that sounds right? For a full member, 1000 posts sounds like too much.
There is no use doing such merit to post counting as there are numerous forum members who have merits more than posts.
Anyway GazetaBitcoin, why would you want to slow down ranking-up? Take a look on ranking from different angle - it is easy to rank-up because forum and members are evolving rapidly. Same as the whole world. Previously users need to study something, search and share for something new for weeks. Now people do it in days days a get appropriate reward (merit, reputation). Same as I had to learn how to do this and that on PC, while kids now in the age of 6-8 can google how to set up windows from usb and do that while their parents are at work
