The best way is to take back this merit system and simply democratize the forum another way is to start a poll where members can vote in favor or against this system and the results should be implemented.
- change back (remove) the merit requirement for ranking up
- then remove abilities to add images, avatar, and signature from rank level
- and add those abilities to appropriate merit level
- so rank only works for posting wait_time and sending pm limit
and guess what would happen?
there will be an uproar and many will start screaming (again) the same thing but different approach
lets just be frank! the idea behind merit is for stopping massive accounts farmer which solely purpose is to spam and gain higher rank for joining signature campaign and then continuing their spam fiesta to get maximum weekly payment.
whew... that is a long sentence. so if you can't conform, might as well stop participating in this forum