That's not going to happen. He'll just continue to whine about the cruelty and unfairness of it all, and hopefully eventually he'll give up and go seek a real-life job. That's what I'm hoping all of these shitposters--who will never receive merit--will do, and the sooner the better.
It actually gives me pleasure to read threads like this, knowing that somewhere, many miles away from me, there is a person pulling his hair out, worrying about how he's going to get enough merits to rank up his shitposting machine.
It makes me smile that it no longer depends on activity, that there is now a quality factor involved which is hard to obtain. This is the way it should be, and it pleases me.
With the merit system and its mechanism, there is no way to rank up without efforts to make contribution to the forum activities. Of course, there are some ways to get merits (both legally and illegally), but I dont think newcomers of the forum should pay their attention on illegal approach to get merits (I would like to use the word 'approach' instead of 'method' because merits should not be the main focus of users in the forum when joining it).
Getting merits by doing wrong/ negative/ illegal approach will lead users come closer to be banned their accounts sooner or later.
Instead, they should focus on how to contribute to the forum with meaningful topics or threads. At the start, it seems to be hard (and actually hard) for newcomers due to their lacks of knowledge about the cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and the way bitcointalk forum operates). But I am sure that over time, they will more familiar with those and can contribute interesting threads if they have right approach.
Newcomers should pay their largest attention on learning when joining the forum. Knowledge will change people's lives, can change destiny, and of course, will change their positions in the forum (positions doesn't equal to ranks. What I would like to imply is their importance in the forum).