That may be true. There's twitter to spam wide and large. And facebook. That place is a huge advertisement banner.
But I know that now I'm stuck at senior member. I won't get merit because it's held like Gollum holds the One.
You may say I will get merit if I post quality text.
Except for the fact there is a lot of shitposts everywhere with a lot of merit.
And as far as I can see, only high ranked people are enthusiastic about this merit. I wonder why.
the merit probably came from alt account people wont merit those type of post if they dont own the account or probably they are trading merit. you should report people abusing the system so they will get a negative trust and wont get accepted to campaigns.