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 get the controlling spammers part.. But low quality posts also sometimes get merits especially if its someone they know or a merit seller giving them merits... This is not merely a complaint since I'm pointing out a flaw in this new system.