How are newbies, junior members, and members rank deprived of merit? If they make any post that people believe is worth meriting, they will merit it, and they will rank up, but you don’t just expect merit to be given to a post that’s of no use to the forum, anyone that want to rank up will have to put effort. Also, I don’t think anyone is arguing with you that you don’t have smerit, all you should have done is just visit different sections and look for posts created by low ranks that you think are worth meriting, and you can just merit them. You shouldn’t have created a thread for it, it’s of no use.