Actually all of us have high possibility to earn and gain merits, but it depends to us if how our how many people are attracted to our quality of post. Sometimes they were need to give suggestions and opinions or else they were need to make creative post to gain high amount of merits from the other users.
It's interesting you got 3 merits for this post and I still don't get what you want to say in it...
Being a good speaker doesn't mean you deserve a Merit. This guy/girl deserves a merit since he/she is saying something that is great that maybe so great he can't put it into words. Well, you don't need to pay attention to your merit but to your posts that you need to post to gain some merits.