Quote from: gruio on January 25, 2018, 02:47:23 AM

But I never get merit (yes I wanna higher rank) from forum participants

This system was introduced 4 hours ago. I believe the majority of users on this forum "never" got Merit. This is fresh off the shelf, as new as it could be.
Give it some time, keep writing good posts in the future, and you will get your Merit.

Quote from: gruio on January 25, 2018, 02:47:23 AM

hero is more advantageous to negotiate and give merits to each other for boosting accounts.

The people with the most sMerit right now are legendaries.
They have no incentive to "boost" or "negoiate", as they already have reached the highest possible rank, their Merit has no influence, no matter how much they collect.
Thus they can give out Merit solely on a basis of post quality, and dont have to account for the rank of the user who wrote a post they reward with Merit.

Quote from: Timelord2067 on January 25, 2018, 02:50:05 AM

Just thought of another one; if a post has merit and is then deleted, are those issued merits lost?

We can quickly test that, delete your post, I gave you merit.

Quote from: bill gator on January 25, 2018, 02:50:55 AM

I don't know if this is an intended consequence, but it would seem that this excludes almost any non-English speaker from higher ranks. Am I incorrect to see this as a little bit unfortunate?

While we communicate in English, this isnt the only language we might speak. I just gave out some Merit in my local section.
I would suspect theymos also has placed some merit sources in the local sections (eg the mods of those sections) to avoid this problematic.