Isn't it so unfair for the people who is new here? That will be struggling making such as good quality post so they could be given a merit by someone. I know all of you is having a hard time thinking what are you going to post such as good quality.
It is really hard to have a merit it is because as far as I know:
People are selfish. Even though you post a really good quality post still there is a people who won't give you a merit.
Some are alone. Like me, I don't really have much friend who would give me a free merit. I know that it is easy to have a merit with a friend that have an account of bitcointalk.
My question is. Why still need merit? We are still struggling to rank because of the merit.
I think the idea of merit is to be more collaborative with each other. Since members here are mostly anons there is no sense of cohesion sometimes in discussing ideas. Merits do push people to be more objective and provide excellent posts instead of mindlessly posting in the forums with no regard for everyone. Most comments are just replying with no cohesive ideas behind them. I think admins are sending the message that members should be more critical of the posts that are being posted and if you just joined to level up your profile then you do not deserve the rank.