Sr. Member, Hero and Legendary do they need a merits? These rank should be exempted on merits systems instead they are the one who will judge the lower ranks by giving merits.
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.'
The merit system was brought to the forum to clean it up from spammers, only high qualified posts will be merited no matter what the rank is, still the high ranked people will be the first to judge the small ranks and give merits, but how exactly they judge posts ? on which scale they consider a post high qualified ?, what if you don't share them the same opinion and yet you are qualified, do you think they will still give you a merit ? or just impose their ideas and ignore you because you are a beginner, this is where the problem of the merit system lies, ranking up depends on what people think about you actually, it is a great move but not fair enough.