How come that a newbie were saying such thing, lol, im laughing right now literally . 
To be honest, i'm going to say to you that this merit system is really helpful because this forum is too crowded. It minimize those people who are abusing this forum, also. Merit system is going to help us to improve our knowledge about cryptocurrencies, if we are going to pay attention we could notice that it is benefiting us and not just some annoying rules.