It is really hard to do some backreading sorry. I just want to ask if how does the system goes. Is it doing good or not?, well obviously there are some abuse no doubt but is there any given statistics for it? Like the total number of merits given. Who is currently leading in giving or receiving merits. I am most likely can understand it xD
The system in my opinion is going well as there are many merits are given. You can check the stats here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;statsAnd you can check the statistic of top merit giver here, i break it up into some statistics
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2947171.msg30272338#msg30272338