Hi there!! Do you heard about merit?? What's it for??
Merit is the point given to you if you have a qualified post and sMerit(sendable merit) you can also send merit to others. Merit is to reduce shit poster in this forum. To get merit you should have a constructive and useful posts but for my experience about merit system, having a constructive post is not enough to be merited because no one gives.
You started with praising the merit system and then moved on to how it is not working. First of all, decide yourself what you really want to communicate here. If you are clear about the rules here, you will also be in a better position to rank up here.
In my opinion merit system is still very new. It is designed a way that it keeps improving itself with time. This happens as we will see the default merits getting dried up. Most of the scammers sending merits to all accounts would also have got recognised in some time.