wow. what a incredable and awesome post sir!.
by the way. i see'ing and i observe that only 45% of this furom not related to merit. so came-on guys dont be over thinking of miret. lit the miret cames to you and dont set to your mind that you need to gain a lot of miret.
I usually don't reply or quote posts like this but using the "miret" instead of the Merit several times in one sentence (which means it's not a simple typo but something else...) is something I need to stop and have a closer look...
For the members like Legendary, Hero, maybe the Sr. Member, it took years to gain enough activity, knowledge, experience, etc... to reach their rank. They were just doing their job and posting useful things here on the forum (of course there were also spammers that time as well), and they were waiting with patience for a long time.
Nowdays newbies and junior members are complaining after a week or a month because of the merits, and they want everything now, they can't wait...
I think the merit system still needs some time to become as efficient as it was planned to be, so we need to wait a bit more. Sooner or later people will find out what the merit system is about and spammers will understand that if they want to continue to rank their user up, they have to create quality content...