Personally, I dont want to offend your thread, but I have spent a couple of mins to look at your recent posts. I think that those posts don't deserve to get Merits. It is due to the fact that there is some problem related to the initial purpose of those ones, which can not help other users in the forum to solve their problems. It seems that you tried writing higher-quality posts than before merit system launched, but it doesn't high quality enough.

My advices for you are:
1) You should keep trying, posting as helpful threads as possible. Keep doing this way, then Merits and sMerits will be sent to your account by other users (might be from the one you help, or might be from higher-ranked users who simply like your posts and want to motivate you).

2) Most importantly, that is the way bitcointalk forum (community-driven one) operates. Everyone help each other, help free (by now, from helping others we can get sMerit & merits, but don't pay attention to those rewards, simply help)

Best regards,