I find these cases strange. Can you clarify theymos?

Jr with 0 Merit instead of 30

Hero with 1000 Merit instead of 500
And is it possible for any existing user to lower their rank because of the introduction of merit? Someone complained about that
Hope so, we have the right to complaint to those dont have merit and so willing but not maybe qualified?!
Thanks for this post, at least my feelings become grèat, to have a supporter and see the some cases of this. More power and truly God bless us all.
1.I believe that jr member rank doesnt have merit and all the hero member who had activity number in the range of becoming legendary member will get 1000 merits, theymos stated that.
2. I believe there are many cases in meta complaining about that, their rank got lowered because some of their posts are deleted before the merit system introduced and they stuck on the lower rank because they need merits now to rank up. Merits just act as a barrier for people to rank up, rank is still determined by activity points.