I don't remember whether you had a minimum merit/120 days requirement for this review, but perhaps you might need an active account requirement as well, after this.
There was no 120 days merit requirement but a lifetime 50 earned merits + Full Member minimum rank.
See, that's the mistake. Assuming malicious applicants, what is there from stopping old accounts from before the merit system coming in and making applications?
Or people who've earned their 50 merit a year ago and hardly get a merit in 6 months?
These are exactly the kind of things that 120 day merit requirements stop, because it can identify the active, constructive user from the inactive user and also the spammers/bounty hunters/etc.