I wonder what are reasons of others why they are very much concern of not having merits? If they're just here to learn things about cryptocurrency, I think even if we're all just newbie its okay, People don't need merits to lurk here and to participate in discussion.
Everyone knows why merits (and ranks) are valuable. Most people who sign up here these days do not do so just to merely discuss bitcoin. They do so because they heard you can earn money here via signature campaigns and to get more money you need a higher ranked account. In fact, most Lower-ranked accounts are largely worthless because you cannot join the majority of campaigns, so they need merit to progress through the ranks, but it's obviously not very easy to get when you can't speak English very well nor can you contribute much here hence why people are moaning constantly.