Well, I would agree with you if our forum was not intended to discuss bitcoin and related topics. But when you look into the history of messages of such a newbie, then for a moment you forget what kind of forum you are on, since almost all of his messages about merit, statistics and social injustice to newcomers
Most of the forum is intended for bitcoin discussion, but there are sections dedicated to other things (like Meta). There are plenty of newbies posting in Bitcoin Discussion, but their posts are generally written for the sake of whatever campaign or bounty they're in--and that's been discussed to death, so I'll end my statement there. I do agree that the ambitious newcomers who want to climb the ranks tend to post about merits and other non-bitcoin related stuff a lot, but usually I know the difference between an attempt to get merits and a genuinely good post.-how to gain merits?
- how can we earn from this forum?
- thank giving threads to high rank members
They all know that most of the signature campaign have merit requirements in past 120 days atleast 5 or more to join it and they all are desperate to join it and that's why we see this sort of threads.But if we talk about the bitcoin discussion section it is also being full of such posts with all the irrelevant discussion by members to complete the signature requirements and you would see the merit history and find not any received and still spamming up whole thread.
See this is 1st page comparison and 100th page comparison of Bitcoin Discussion section and you could notice how the discussion have changed with time:
I have been avoiding writing up in this section from some time although it was one of my favourite.With time i also gained knowledge and learning a lot still but we need to come up something quite good and make this forum a better or say best place to discuss bitcoin and crypto related stuff aside from earning point of view.
However, talking about merit, and particularly complaining about it is one of the tell tale signs for account farmers. I don't think many normal users would have much of a problem gaining merit over a period of time, only those with time restraints due to trying to rank up several accounts at once.
Gaining 8-10 merits from start is not a tough job for newbies as there are lot of threads created by members to help them and they can easily locate them and if they are able to do the task they will receive the merits.But as you said who are in rush to move a their accounts up in order to earn from all of them might end up losing up all and what's the fun of it i don't know.You are learning and gaining knowledge free of cost and you can also earn from signature campaign which is sufficient enough but still they engage in such things.Hope we see improvement in newbie involvement.