So, just because more Legendary users get more merit than most Newbies, you can safely assume that no one likes Newbies and they won't merit them by no means? Have you thought that maybe it's because there are a lot more Newbies (created in bulk by spammers), that those numbers are inflated?
While others only care about their beloved 1 merit to rank up to Jr. Member and keep spamming their bounty entries, which may be the reason why a lot of them only try until they get merited a few times, and when they can go back to their spam, they do it without thinking twice.
Sure, that makes sense. How about we do this :
Out of all the newbies/jrs/fulls/srs who DID get merit -which I'm going to assume means they're not spamming, if you can agree to that- what's the
average merit they received per post, and what's the average of
unique members that merited those newbies/jrs/fulls per post.
Just these two for each member rank, then do it for legendaries and heroes too. If the stats are evenly distributed i'll never mention this topic again.
EDIT : I doubt anyone has the fucking time or effort to do this, but if we want to also include post quality here, instead of average merit per post, make it average merit per WORD. A lot of words mean a quality post right? I'd eat my shorts if newbies make even a twentieth of what a hero makes.