Nope, this is actually an unhealthy insight about merit system. If you explore the oldest topics created by the first members here in bitcointalk, they reply in a natural and honest way thus creating a very useful discourse in one topic. They reply because they need to learn something about the cryptocurrency. They disregard their activity and post count. Unlike today, people are being obligated to post because they want to reach their quota for the day, resulting of increasing shitposts every day. No surprise, kaya konti lang ang nagkakamerit sa local board natin kasi yan ang mindset natin.