I don't know about anyone else, but these obvious merit begging threads are causing me to put people on ignore--not only the OPs of them, but a lot of the new members who post in them, usually saying how great these new changes are. 

We get shitposters writing (badly) how bad shitposters are.  We get newly-inducted newbie hell members writing how great the changes are, even though they're negatively affected by the changes.  It's like Meta has become a bizarro world, and I'm tired of all of these people.  Higher-ranked members with sMerits to give away can see right through all of this crap.  I'm not sure why people like OP here think we're stupid.