These could benefit the forum members as a whole;
1. Newbies that work as a spam will be controlled.
2. It will give an opportunity those newbies that really working hard to rank up in fair time.
(I saw a lot merits just given to the the higher ranks which a post is not really worthy of a merit. majority of the merits just dwell in their realm. Lower
ranks just gets the crumbs)
3. Merits will be distributed fairly to the lower ranks because higher ranks will not think of their merits anymore.
'Hope this post can get crumbs.'
You can read all of the forum and majority of the merits are in the circle of higher ranks. The lower ranks receive merits just only by chance.