Sorry but, for the record, the rank in this forum does not justify anything. The only metric for rank, then, is the activity count (now including merit) and not knowledge. You might have seen high ranked members here with fruitful knowledge but I have seen some high ranked that are stupid and just talks about nonsense. I hope you are aware that most of the lower rank accounts here have high rank accounts. Thus, rank is not entitled to knowledge. Rank are just ranks, nothing more with a lot of less.
This is true, you do have a point here. But i thought to rank up you must atleast help the community in a way or another, are you saying the merit system favoured the old account holders?