Oh, hell no.  There's no way I'm going to lower my standards, because if every merit source did that and just started handing out merits for mediocre or even shitposts, the merit system wouldn't function as it should.  It's not supposed to be easy to earn merits.  Never was, and that's the way it should be.  By making members work harder to rank up, forum post quality has gone up significantly (IMO) since 2018, and account farming has been decimated.

This is far from a life-or-death issue, so I don't see why merit sources (or anyone else) ought to lower their standards.  It isn't as if there's been a massive outcry from the community about the merit system being an impossible barrier to ranking up.  If you don't up your rank on a discussion forum....it ain't a big deal, really.

I've got both of those sections on ignore, and I'm not apologizing for that.  I don't have time for all the B&H bullshit, and though altcoins interest me, the few threads I've created to ask for information have fallen flat.  That's likely because bounty hunters and assorted shitposters don't have any incentive to give thoughtful responses--and so my threads kept getting buried under a mountain of threads like "ETH or BTC???".  Fuck that. 

Besides, the altcoin sections are the main hangout for bounty hunters, who are the least deserving of merits, hands down.  Again, I don't hear a lot of complaints about a lack of merit distribution in the altcoin boards, so let 'em rank up when they rank up.  It may take years, but they'll probably have moved on to other money-making schemes by then anyway.