I know about this thread, and if you look deeper in mine, you would probably see that it is totally different from that which @Ratimov started, This one here is like a game, something you do for fun, it's just like knowing something that is to happen in a particular time and you start counting down to, this is the major point of this thread, the merit aspect of it is a side benefit which I decided to include.
So anybody with maybe 500, 200 100 merits left for their next rank are also qualified to post a count down to their next rank.
These are big merit lags and you see merit sources could help you to reach next rank if you are having little amount of merits only but suppose if a full member is having 110 merits so he still have 140 merits left so will they be dropping out such numbers at once?
If they like, why not?, like I've said before, this is majorly a count down to your next rank thread, some fun like, if you are a full member needing 110 merit you rank up to senior member, you can post a count down of 110 merits, and as you earn merit around the forum, you can always come around here to edit your count down post by bringing 110 down according to the number of Merit you've earned in the past seconds, minutes, hours or days or weeks, just like that until 110 become 0, this means you've earned 110 merit and now a Senior member.
I really you understand the explanation.
So there should be fixed criteria for these applications as shitposters will spam this thread as soon as it's open for all with no restriction so you need to review your criteria.
I am open to suggestions, so feel free to drop some based on my explanation above, like I said before, this is majorly for fun, the merit side of it is something I added as minority, to encourage users to join.