I think without struggling for newbie it's gonna be stagnant the rank and cannot be increased to up rank as soon as possible .....
Hi mate here's my word,
"Why should I struggle for merit if I am a good poster and these detective merit sources is on duty doing their responsibility?"
If after all my good participation gain nothing from this forum, is this be my reason to struggle? My answer is "no"
But I will assume that the merit sources is lacking to execute their duty, and maybe one of the reason is spammers are already built their empire in this forum, the great barrier to stop the vision of the good team.