So remain silent snake tongue. Else I..
Its true colors quickly show themselves. 
Cryptohunter IMO is just a cranky contrarian who thinks everyone's brain should function with the logic of a computer, and yet he has this obvious bleeding-heart liberal mentality which manifests itself in him constantly thinking there's some underdog situation on bitcointalk whereby a cabal of senior members are keeping the lower ranks down, like slaves on a 19th century Louisiana plantation. I just don't see it that way, and I've put him on ignore. I'm just tired of reading his posts, which are probably made with good intentions but are consistently way off the mark.
Don't let someone push you aside with pseudo-logic. If only it remotely resembled actual logic, we wouldn't even get to this thread to begin with.That is, a good merit source, in my opinion, should merit a post even if he don't agree with, acknowledging the effort from users.
If you reward people just for the effort, then you going to raise a wave of spoiled users very quickly (which most people complaining about this nonsense in fact are).