Merit is given to a user who post constructive opinions that are very useful. Unfortunately, not all who posts well are merited. Maybe all we can do is to just continue making constructive posts, and lets do it for the purpose of sharing our knowledge and ideas so we can help everyone in the forum especially the beginners.
its just a joke to give merits to those constructive posts? who can give and who have time to give? there are so many users on this forum and any action that shall be handle by people will be a big problem, especially the merit amount is limited
Merit sources patrol this forum at their own will. They have been notified by theymos (obviously) and they have imbibed the guidelines for merit distribution. There are currently 57 merit sources in the forum. Now what you need to do is to not shitpost and complain about the merit system and start making quality posts. Merit amount is limited to prevent you shitposters from ranking up and getting quick cash for shit-bounties.
In course of time these shitposters will become tired of shitposting and they will leave the forum. Something that will bring a radical change to this forum.