Did you notice that there are a couple of threads on this board that discuss the merit system?
Well people are hard to change, what you need to is to provide them a track to which they could choose or automatically convince them to merit rather than allowing them to set too high expectations that was not asked of them in the first place. I really enjoy this forum and as much as i can i participate with ample researches and read through as a beginner. I just don't know how to define quality right now, based on what parameter? What's happening right now is beginner's rank depends on the idealistic parameters of those in the higher rank.