Merit is good and also a bad one. Merit helps the forum for spamming and also for having a good quality posters but the negative effect of merit is farming and abusing those sMerit to their alt accounts. It is very unfair to us, we're just new to this forum and even I am having good post I didn't receive merit.
It is really easy to find merit farmers due to magical designed of merit system and its mechanism. As you can see in the following link, there is a massive merit farmers was found, and all of componental accounts was banned permanently.
More mass merit farmingSpend seconds to read your thread gives me a feeling like you are merit beggar with negative attitude about merit system. It's not good generally, so you should change your attitude and your approach. If you can't do this, you should leave to other forums. This one is not appropriate place for you.
Merit system has both advantages and disadvantages. Its really hard to get merit for normal person with low skills. It is very tough to get merit for good post. Though its quite hard in the begining, its very satisfactory when i contribute a post with quality. Though it takes time to receive merits, its appreciated to continue giving out quality posts as much as one can.