At least, active poster in WO thread are the real interested users/investors of bitcoin. Others outside WO thread are just here to get few bucks (most cases) by participating in signature campaign. Who are better? Of course WO gang in my opinion. They do not write shit for filling requirements of signature campaign, rather they post shit (may be or may not be) because they enjoy posting here.
"Guide to becoming a bitcointalk legendary-
1. Hangout on Wall Observer thread
I believe whoever has posted that was sarcastic or jealous of not getting merit. Sarcastic because WO gang knows there are some people who lurk in WO thread to hunt merits.
A side note- Very few I mean very very few people from WO thread participates in signature campaign. So, merit is just a number to them.
... The WO is the purest form of posting, nobody there earns a $ of posting there signature crap...
Only a few trolls who trying to scare "new users or readers in the dark" but then again those are fast spotted in the WO by regular users and pointed out as trolls... So all is fine in there, also infofront is on top of the whole WO and overviews all to see that everything is alright in there.