It's a nice explanation OP, I hope that you'll stay here and create more informative threads like this one. If only people actually read it, but instead we are getting a couple "what is merit" posts every day, even though at least 20 threads like the one you made can be found in various sections, including a sticky in meta.
Unfortunately I've checked your history ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1807652;sa=showPosts;start=60 ) and you clearly were trying to level up as quickly as possible by spamming in off-topic and then hit the merit wall I hope those posts are not just for show and you will go by your own rules and change your style of posting.


I'll give him one from myself and one from you