The merit system was set up on the forum to discourage the spam posting and encourage members to write up the quality posts on the forum.We have some members registered 4-5 years back and are hero, senior,full or legendary with same merit allocation as it was airdropped to them with the introduction of merit system as they are not able to write up one quality post also till the time.It was also not set up to help newbies who have no knowledge of the crypto market to gain merits with whatever they write and that is why we have seen legendary or high rank members giving merit to each other.There is reason behind it because if you see the merit distribution you will notice that the post quality was not compromised at all and we can't say merit system was abused with this.

When you will visit the merit history of members for sure you will see more merits to senior or high rank members than newbies because it's hard to find quality posts by some newbie members and senior members are making up the quality posts.So the merits are given to them who deserves them.

Here are some members who have gained merits within short span from merit sources and other members because of quality posts made by them on the forum:

RainbowKun
His stats- https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ddmrddmr/viz/BitcointalkMeritDashboard/PersonalSummary

Kaggie
His stats- https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ddmrddmr/viz/BitcointalkMeritDashboard/PersonalSummary

KingsDen
His stats- https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ddmrddmr/viz/BitcointalkMeritDashboard/PersonalSummary

So you see if you are serving as an assest to the forum you will receive merit rewards from other members and making forum a best place to gain and share knowledge of bitcoin and crypto market is going to help it.So make best use of your knowledge and you will see results for the same.