The merit system made the ranking up harder, which is good to prevent abuses, however some users gave up trying to improve their rank..
Then some questions & answers threads was created to incentive people to make some research and keep posting.
This gamification (rank, merits, etc) is one thing that works and such Q&A threads spreads knowledge.. My idea is a new badge based on a daily quiz that can start with easy questions and get harder..
Eg:
Day 1 - What's Bitcoin total supply?
a) 21.000.000
b) Infinite
Day 2 - What's Bitcoin time block?
a) 10 minutes
b) 10 seconds
(...)
Day 300 - Who created the PoW system?
a) Satoshi Nakamoto
b) Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor
IMO it can make people use the forum in a daily basis and search and learn more about Bitcoin.
There's a empty space above the search button
