@Fivestar4everMVP, I saw full members just applying when they crossed 75 merits. For full members, 25 merits is a big amount. If they get this rank easily, then they will be discouraged from contributing to the forum. They should earn at least 90% merit before applying here. Above Full Member 25 is fine; that is in your current rules. That's the reason sometimes I ignore full members. I don't want to let them be lazy. I believe merit limits would be different for each rank.
My advice is below.
To apply here, applicants should have below-average merits according to ranks.
To Members: 9 Merits
To Full Members: 90 Merits
To Sr. Members: 225 Merits
To Hero Members: 450 merits
To Legendary: 900 Merits
It's just my advice; maybe some +/- would be fine.
but some users is not following this principle, some of them is applying to this thread for applying sack, I think is the high time to monitor applications of users that fail to follow this instruction, mostly members that have not gotten up nine [9] merits you see them applying for this thread even full members too, I don't even know if they don't use to read the content of the thread and also the terms and conditions of the thread if I'm not mistaken before they apply, I don't want to quote anybody in respect of these, before some of them will start saying that I don't nwant their growth, I like as you repost this terms and conditions so that they read and understand before applying.