Look man, I've been reporting rule-breakers since the time I got involved with this forum. I'm not so experienced as other users or the mods, but after almost 2000 successful reports here is my observation >
In this sea of newbies registered every day you can find probably 2-3 users that have real interest in cryptocurrency, and are here to stay the rest are accounts used for >
20% - bumping thread (quite a business here) they are controlled by a few people.
30% - alt accounts for abusing the bounties
30%- legit people heard that they can make money online
15%- banned people, just ban evading.
3% - people having different issues, looking for help.
2% - announcing new projects, services etc.
Note > this is just based only on my observation.
Big part of those above get banned.
I'm talking only for the newbies here, how you can see them in a different way as the majority are here only to harm/pollute the forum? I know that there are good people out there with good intentions and sooner or later they gonna pass trough this shitposting border and come out as legit users but it takes time.
Regardless if your observation is true or not, merit isn't even a problem for those newbie accounts. It BECOMES a problem for legit newbies who WANT to commit to the forums to make money later, because it's now HARDER for them to breach the line to become relevant.
The fact that they're newbies already fucks them over because no one is going to merit them, and that's it, stuck in a deadlock, not just as newbies, but again and again until they reach Hero level.