I don't know what's hard about that. It's like with money, if you got plenty of it, you take it for granted a little bit and start understanding that it doesn't solve all your problems in life (doesn't even solve half of them most of the time), but when you are poor, you always think that when you'll get that "x" amount of money (merit in this case), you'll become a much happier person.

And mostly when you're poor (money, merit, whatever) you just don't do enough in your life to change that.
I guess, I am one of those "shitty posters" you would like to get rid of, and I don't really understand the hate for bounty hunters. How are they harming you? There are a lot of people in need of money and I think it's better that they at least do something to earn some. I am not really experinced in this and don't know how much money can one make with bounties, but what is the harm in trying? Yeah, in ideal world, I would prefer to earn a lot right now, cause I am ambitious person, but I am realist don't really have anything useful to contribute on this forum so far, why can't I start with bounties while learning and one day maybe I'll be good enough to forget about those.
While I think that new rules are very useful for forum, and people with knowledge will still get thir rank up, it's undeniable that a lot of people were just lucky to register here before new system and earn their ranks without real contribution, I believe that's what he is referring to.

Partially true but there are people who are in the forum for years and done a lot for the forum. For them only, we are seeing the forum we have now. How about them? They deserved it. Every system starts from some points and feature like merit was needed to protect the forum. Instead of focusing on negativity OP should focus on the good stuffs happening on the forum since the merit has been introduced.

OP really needs to see there are people who started from 0 (like he has now) and achieved 100s of merits. List of members achieved 0 to 100 and plus merits - hope this will give OP and others some encouragements.

PS: Truth is - people like OP will hardly change unless they change their mindset.

Merit system is blessing only for those who have created accounts on bitcointalk prior to Dec 2017. They were rewarded merits just because they are old on this forum.
New comers joining this forums now are going to have tough time to get merits, in fact really hard.

particularly to the lower-ranked participants that sincerely preference to rank up not only that you're so blessed to emerge as a complete-member prior the merit gadget subsequently we should make bigger some sympathy to them but the information being shared inside the forum is already large in quantity making it tough to begin a specific and original topic. In my case, I striving to have great posts and removing the burden of wondering the way to earn an advantage. however, I can not completely say that I already acquire that nation of thoughts. If you may inquire from me to state five reasons for posting, then I will say that getting a benefit is one among my pinnacle 5

I am also hopeful to this one.  I think the expectations of Merit Sources should vary from one rank to another.  You cannot expect superb post from a newbie compare to a full rank member, hence we must extend more grace to the newbies.

I don't care about merit now at first hard to accept because I know hard to get it especially if you are not good in English but I already accept it. I think better not to talk about merit.

Actually, it is probably better if you do think about merits right from the start, and not go down the “just keep posting” road without it in mind. Now the idea is not to have merits in your mind like if it were of divine nature. Neither are they something you get in a lottery or raffle that you participate in, with better chances the more you post. Posting one-liner non-contributive posts as if there was no tomorrow will never get you any merit.

I’d rather people did have them in mind, as a feasible (yet scarce) feat, but understanding how your posting habits need to adjust to a better nature and contribution to the forum. It is way better to write less posts with much more thought/research, than being a Forest Gump poster that will eventually either be nuked, or arrive at Forest’s abrupt conclusion: "I’m pretty tired" (of posting jibberish). "Think I’ll go home now" (quit posting and do something else).

I totally disagree with this line. I am a bounty hunter myself and to be honest I am satisfied with my rank now. Why? cause i know that i'm still lacking knowledge about the whole cryptocurrency in general. There is a saying that knowledge is power which is true but I also believe that manners and good deeds will earn you respect. Try to observe this forum and you will see a lot of posters who are losing their dignity and manners just to earn those precious MERITS. Knowledge + Respect will surely make you a great person and nobody can take that from you.

NOTE: Not only quality post can earn you merits but also a helpful post.

Good story! I thought about learning English only after visiting this forum. All new and interesting information first appears in the English threads. So for me, this forum gave another impetus to the development of myself.