Oh...the old fashioned quantity-over-quality-feature.
Well, it could be worser in here. Just imagine there would be some sort of postcount related and obviously ridiculous level/rank/degree for all the trolls/spammers...
"BETA has a clear definition : The software is 100% finished, and is in final testing before release. So... in Beta stage, only very minor changes and bug fixes can be made. Beta is a shorter stage of development, unless the developer seriously underestimated how complete the software was.
So... the next patch is still Alpha, just a better Alpha than you have at the moment, and with some new features and improvements, which I am sure you will like." Scawen, April 2006