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You are a year old on this forum but unfortunately, you still have this mindset, how did you start and what's your motivation here in Bitcointalk, you saw the negative side but not the positive side.
I guess you are not really dedicated, checking your post there's a long gap and on it, you just came back from a long hiatus and here you are complaining, why not be active and continue to make contributions, once people see how active and how good your posts are, everything will come along like respect and merits, don't force to get respect and merits, earn the respect of the community.
So far, beginners are required to make extra efforts to make quality posts so that they really get what they want, especially regarding merit and rank. The merit system was introduced to prevent many newbies and other users from ranking up if they don't make quality posts, of course that's good but definitely won't prevent them from ranking up as long as they are good posters.
Complaining will not solve the problem, but it will only add more problems which in turn will affect the mindset to be more negative. Nothing will stop someone from earning merit if they put in as much effort as possible to make useful and useful posts, but indeed beginners have to put in extra effort.