I like the new system,only needs some tweaking IMHO to have the merit sources
and higher ranked members distribute merits more ,if you wish,willingly and easily
at the moment they have no incentitive to merit a newbie unless he is some outstanding exception to the rule
because of the fear they can get accused of multiaccounting and such most of the merits are transfered to the already established quality posters,usually high ranked too
while I would like to see new people who put effort into posting rewarded more often
Well yes, but most of the newbies are users will little to no knowledge about bitcoin or maybe something minimal. There are newbies that prove that newbies as well can write quality posts.
They just need to spend a little more time on the forum to catch up with the crypto, nothing new. The problem is that they're expecting to get merit for every post they make.
I'm trying to give out merit points everywhere I see it's possible, to motivate people and remind them that they can give merit. Tho, it's a rather new system that's been implemented, can't expect it to work over night.