You're making a lot of assumptions.
Its my experience and not assumptions. I did gain a lot of knowledge in by reading the threads in the forum. Newbies dont seem to care.
Especially number three, considering that I've never been part of any campaign.
Does that mean in future you are not going to join any?
And number one and two, I don't care one iota about getting merits, and just expressing what I see.
You are seeing what is being hyped too much. Merit has become a hype among the shitpositng newbies who dont care about spam and are more interested in gaining rank as soon as possible so that they can enter the next tier of signature payments?
And what I see is that people as a whole have not gotten into any type of merit giving groove, so it's really, really, really hard to get any.
They have to be patient and continue contributing to the forum.
And I say that because as I browse this forum I rarely ever see well thought out, good effort posts getting any merit.
Merit sources are still low in my opinion. Still I do get merited often so I dont see how this can be true or biased for others. There are members who can be set as examples. The rest of them are just crying for merits.