I've took noticed that alot of users are always in a hurry to reply a post expecially newbies, I know it is a good strategies to always try to make your reply to be among the first or at least fifth position, because it would make it easier for other users to see and to read it.
I've seen some people making their post on the second or last page and they are earning their merit, it all depends on the quality of what one is posting, any newbie that tend to rush in making reply will definitely post shit because it will not contain the quality standard required, instead, it will show that such user is trying to make himself got noticed, you can agree with me that you will need to make some kind of research and possible reference to a reply you may want to make on any post to give the right and accurate information and before you can gather all these, you would have seen more than five replies ahead of you, which doesn't mean that your own will not be placed on higher quality than theirs.