You are right and I think that the merit system or Airdrop merits, it is a big impact to this community cause what you've said above there are many Hero Members/Legendaries Members who've not knowledgeable enough about crypto currencies and especially Bitcoins. That's why some newbies who knowledgeable enough overtake their merits counts or Rank here in forum. But I am thankful that many User like you have not stop sharing their knowledge/give some test to know how far our knowledge is. I think must be better if this test have a volume2 in order to test again and its okay that you would not give some merits cause the important is to know how far our knowledge in Bitcoins or in related cryptocurrencies.
Merit system has helped stop spam posting to some extent but not completely because there are still many members who still keep up that way of sharing irrelevant knowledge and useless stuff which is termed as spam post but the biggest advantage of merit system is it hinders them to rank up on forum.The secondary motive is to select members in signature campaigns that are deserving because most of their conditions is earned some merits over the last 120 days and merit can be earned with quality posts only.
But i would like to suggest to keep this thread on the track and it's about test only as we can have this discussion somewhere else.Waiting for more responses from members and earn merit as well.This is open to all.