Since merit is one of the best solution to prevent spamming and low quality post it has a good effect in the forum in these days. however merit system also affects others to rank up, maybe because they continue to post low quality post but on the other hand there are users that have good quality post but did not recognized by other user, my suggestion is how about the high rank members like legendary and hero members monitors the constructive post and give that user a merit so that user that creating good quality post will not taken for granted. why hero and legendary? they have nothing to do with their extra merits. i also suggest that in every sections there are moderators assigned to give merits in every user that makes a good quality post these moderators mostly likely the merit source to avoid abusing give away merit and give the right user a merit. why i suggest these because of this
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3122415.0if this suggestion is implemented many user are very affected since they cannot participate campaigns if they diddnt get a single merit in a month.
its only my suggestion and opinion as what i have seen in this forum. sorry for my grammar.