There are a lot of forum members, who spend their free time in this forum. And sometimes forum life need some fun for development, so I think admin must make virtual roulette in the meta board with free spins for all members. So forum member make free spins and win - either merits or next membership each day, even hero and legendary membership. So this will be more attractive forum and not so serious.
The forum merits is one of the biggest admin mistakes, they are 100% useless, ( for example, forum member with IT higher education will almost always be step higher than any other member with just home made IT knowledge, so how can home educated forum member can give merits in IT field to member with university education ).
So I think this will make forum life more happy.
It's a good method of bringing more spammers into the forum! It doesn't matter if you are higher educated or not; as long as you are contributing to the forum, you will get some merit as an appreciation. Why do you need merits in the first place if you think it was a mistake by the admin to introduce the merit system? It looks like you are not happy that your useless post is not getting enough merit to rank up so that you can join the BTC-paid signature campaign.
This forum is not to make someone's life happy. It's a place for newcomers to bitcoin to learn about it. There are many boards in the forum in different categories. There is an economy board, speculation, trading discussion, meta, politics, bitcoin, and WO(where all the fun stuff is going on). Anyone without an IT background can do better in the forum as well. I rank up from the beginning, and my educational background is not in IT.