The merit system is not working, look the merit points of people on the forum, it does not move (even for the more relevant posts), the forum established a system which was suppose to penalize newcomers flooding the forum with useless post, but the forum penalize itself, good luck everybody, If you think people will give you merit points for free you are mistaken.
I think as newbie we should not worry about it. As respect to the admin of this forum, they know much better ways for the improvement of everyone. Merits system is good idea to combat spamming and shitposters accounts. We just need to wait for enough time so we can see the results. Too much complaining is not good.