My suggestion is to have at least An Automated Merits for every 100 activities if that not persuasive let's be for every 100 Topics from one individual with 100 Individuals Contribution no matter what they on their comments this is only to acknowledge that Topics attracts more people.
Jesus Christ, no thank you. Why should the forum help to rank up shitposters and bounty spammers? What's next? 50 free Merits for every 10 posts in Meta asking for Merits?
If you would stop talking about earning Merits and would just focus on delivering informative, high-quality content then you would easily gather some. If you don't know what I am talking about, just take the suggestion TMAN made a few month ago:
You need to go to the yobit forum now, cryptotalk they pay you for every post man. You can just use google translate or spam the keyboard, best forum now, this forum is ded