A ranking system should reflect competence, integrity and credibility of those it is bestowed upon. Unfortunately, the BTT system should be stremlined and made balanced through the implementation of necessary trade-offs. A system that promotes but never demotes never gets the best of its men. Let’s make this happen.
The envy about the high rank members is getting out of hand and this very post is nothing different. The merit system was introduced to curtail some of the things you mentioned in your post and so far it's serving that purpose despite its somehow being abused by some individuals in some ways. In every system, the early and loyal fans always enjoy the benefit of being part of the community from the first beginning and that is exactly what the forum did to her members when the merit system was introduced. Ever since the airdrop merits, some people find it hard to earn merits by themselves and you can easily identify such users by checking their profile and merit stats using BPIP. You'll know those who are genuinely contributing with useful posts and those who benefited from the system.
Now, the questions are these; are spam and shit posts being merit? No! Did Forum provide ignore button that allows you to ignore spammers or troll? Yes! Then what else do you need demotion button for? Perhaps you have a sinister against legendaries by advocating for this call. The forum already has enough features in place including temp ban and perm ban for erring accounts and this very one you are asking is to help people to carryout their grudges on one another to extra level.
Very soon now, I will create a post and ask thymos to issue certificate to all legendaries that will guarantee them work anywhere since everyone is claiming to come up with idea to make Forum a better place.
