I disagree. While this type of system might seem to stop spam, it will create more spam than right now and the advantages mentioned can also be applicable through the present system as well.

Creating such a system where a member's merit value is lower than a legendary's merit value would only create more division.

There are many legendary or higher account members who have so many merits, and a minority of them have many alt accounts as well, don't you think it will really be much easier for them to rank up their own alts than how a normal newbie would struggle against?

Plus, most higher rank members have so many smerits, that when they like a post, they giveaway as much as 50 merits lmao. So technically, higher level members already have some advantages in that way.