As newbie you make account and start posting or being active in the forum and you got about 1 merits to 10 merit on there own which makes them member rank right? Good! Then you needed more of 90 merits to get you full member rank. At this point theymos can set the system whereby if you gained 70 to 80 merits the system should automatically credit you 20 to 30 merits instantly without having to apply for merits counts down, and if such person is being credit such merits s/he have about 10 to 15 sMerit to spend to others whereby merits circulation won't be that scarce again.
Though your suggestion may sound good, but to me I think automating merit to be sent to forum members when they attain to a certain rank is not the best solution to our recent merit scarcity, because just as you said that when a forum "Member" reaches 70 merits, he/she should be automatically given 30 merits so as to enable him/her rank up as a "Full Member", and likewise a "Full Member to Senior", "Senior to Hero" and "Hero to Legendary". Hence, in regards to your suggestion, there is a simple question I will love to ask, and it goes like this,
So what about a Legendary Member rank, should he also be allocated an automated sum of merit, or does it mean since he/she has gotten to the last rank, he don't deserve a merit?