Have you witnessed the same you are talking about. If you have, i will give you my all merit points. I think you are trying to grab only merit points.
If you don't, How you can draw down any conclusion? Why you are trying to make these rubbish posts?
Trying to rotate the same topic once again.
The whole process is not the disadvantage, you are making disadvantageous for everyone by making meaningless posts.
So try different topics other than merit system.
Make some solidity in your posts. You automatically get the merits you want.
This is done mainly because members see most of the posts in meta section getting merit points. Initially when the system was launched, members were not aware about using smerits wisely. This is the only reason why there were posts getting 10-20 merits in meta section. Some members are trying to copy same approach for merits.