Those who joined last year became legendary members without the real effort and those who joined recently can't come even close to that rank. Merit system favorites the old members. If a newbie wants to reach legendary status he must comment for years and all his posts have to be amazing!
OMG, how do you function in life?
You should know that the only reason the merit system was implemented was because shitposters like yourself want to come here and rank up--and it's usually multiple accounts--so they can earn money shitposting for bounties that don't have any sort of quality control. Or they want a budding career in account farming. What you wrote is just an immature opinion based on an incomplete grasp of the facts.
The merit system didn't
need to be put in place from the start, because the shitposting problem didn't exist when bitcointalk started. Hopefully that sinks into your cranium.