It's a normal thing on the forum for people to create post and abandon it. But it's most common by newbies who feels the need to create post with the mindset that every new topic might earn them merits. Some of my post I do create, I do take my time to reply them if necessary, especially when someone contributes something meaningful or doesn't understand what I was trying to pass along. Many newbies don't even bother to read through their created topics. Once they see that within a day or two and still no single merit is attracted to the thread, they move on to creating another one..

This way they would never learn. I've seen threads with many pages where the op had no merits, but because he had better explanation to peoples questions, he earned more on those replies..