If you want to collect 500-1000 merits now, forget it man, Satoshi himself (disguised) would not make it.
Somebody should tell the users that have already earned >500 merit...
99% of them are given merits when the new system is introduced.
If you want to "post constructive post" here you have to be a tech person, because for some reason people here hate Altcoin section, marketing, bounties, airdrops and similar.
Well, all of that is a part of THIS FORUM.
People managing this forum have the identity crisis it seems. They hate altcoin section, but still, it is a big part of their forum.
I have a suggestion, just delete every part of the forum that isn't tech part of the Bitcoin and it will make merit system righteous.
Very simple.