Am not talking about excluding newbies by using that 50 merit criteria. Am talking about high ranked members who do not have up to that number of merit and as such will be disqualified from the voting process.
If you show me a high ranking member who hasn't earned 50 Merits, I'll show you a member who's either been offline for years, or who's posts aren't worth reading.
Even now I ran into one legendary member who has only 5 merits and his posts are not that bad. But to avoid arguments and pointing anyone out so as not to make it look like am mentioning their case I will let this issue go. This user is in a well paying campaign. You would not say he is a shit poster