Ban every user with this name: "Dig Bicks", immediately. It will be awesome for the forum.
I kinda like the idea too.
Besides, at least one merit to become JR.
I prefer to make it 2, 3, 4 or 5, so that Dig Bicks won't be able to rank up immediately as he already got 1 Merit. Yeah, sounds good to me.
Here are some of my suggestions
-Add "=" in the "insert hyperlink" so that we won't need to add it manually.
-Automatically ban users/accounts who posts "Good project, Interesting project, Nice project" posts.
-2 to 5 Merits required to rank up to Jr. Member.
-Limit newbies posts per day to e.g 5 to 10 posts per day.
-Requires captcha in order to make a thread or post in Newbie rank.
-Sorting function in every thread with an option of "show top Merited posts/replies".
-Stays in the thread instead of going back to the main section when done reporting to moderator.