But why was this system change only enforces on newbies, why didnt all account on Bitcointalk not lose one merit, if a Hero member who has been here for year still only have 500 merit, then he is most likely also doing low quality post, just like the merit less newbies, and he should be forces to make some quality post also to earn one merit to keep his rank.
The rate at which spam is been posted by those highly rank members is at its minimum. I can't even imagine any rank above FULL MEMBER posting thrash, (
although we have Judas). But the newbie and junior members post thrash on a daily base.
I tried going through some account after their complains of demotion to see if I could help by giving them 1 merit but the 5 account I went through were just filled with garbage so I gave up and merited others.