To be more direct,newbies are not recognized in this forum,and this ugly trend is not a welcome development to this community.
If you watch very well,you will observed that  old guys here always focus on the mistakes newbies made thereby neglecting the quality posts of newbies.
You can't tell that all the posts demoted jr members have are useless to the extent of not getting even 1 merit.
Some demoted jr members have more than one hundred  posts and activity made in different days /months ,yet no merit has been given to them.
The question is ,how do newbies attain to high rank if this  trend continue ?