In general, the new system is not bad.
But you need to write clear rules (criteria) based on what I can give the user "sMerit" without fear of getting negative (red) trust.
And also I have a small suggestion for improvement. You can do this for forum users, possibly starting with the rank of "Member" and above, so that "sMerit" is updated after changing periods. Those. After 14 days, a small amount of sMerit is added (2-5 sMerit depending on the rank). This proposal arose because all can have different criteria for the usefulness of the message. And what is interesting for participants of a lower rank, may be uninteresting for the participants of the Legends.
Everyone would spam that merit to their other account, and it will make the purpose of merit points unsuccessful to achieve. And it would be no different than activity point if you propose merit can be gained based on time.
Change your point of view and learn this merit point. For me, I see this merit as a "level or yourself quality", it is earned trhough a hard work of yours, it is a thing to be proud of. If you re here for money from your work at campaign (I bet everyone can not deny they re here for some money, whetehr its campaign or knowledge of trading,mining,etc), then you may put yourself as a worker trying to get paid and promotion to next level, and to get that promotion you will need that merit points, if you work hard you will get that points. And promotion in the company from your upper/boss doesn't decided on how long you already work there, but it is decided from the quality if you re worthy of that promotion based, and there are some reason like quality of your relationship (friend, family, etc), as you may see there are lot of new workers get promotion rather than old workers in one company.
