Well I guess this merit award or point whatever you call it to given for us guys as notification that our job or post is being recognize, it was given purposely to praise you for your good post and for those who has not so high merit will get a chance to do even better quality post, well I hope this will not bring discrimination at all, How about the people give effort in every post to give a chance or hope to be ranked up. so if this issue happen then sorry for everyone that cant afford to buy merit