I was curious as I read the title, thinking that you have a suggestion or something. After reading the content, I was like 
it was not connected.
Read his post slowly and you'll realize that he was not complaining at all. He just shared that at first he doesn't like it, but now he accepted it and started seeing the advantage of the merit system.
it was not connected.We can turn back to our newborn period, right? So as the forum. Theymos can not turn the forum back to 9 years ago and launch the merit system at the new start of the forum. It's unrealistic, so that Theymos had to launched it in January (about two months ago) to help the forum.
You should appreciate Theymos efforts to control spammers, low-quality users ranked up to Ledgandary (just call them as shitty Ledgandary). Complaining won't help you to earn any merit.
I guess you mean "can't" You should appreciate Theymos efforts to control spammers, low-quality users ranked up to Ledgandary (just call them as shitty Ledgandary). Complaining won't help you to earn any merit.
Read his post slowly and you'll realize that he was not complaining at all. He just shared that at first he doesn't like it, but now he accepted it and started seeing the advantage of the merit system.