How many members are posting with a substantial quality and get no merits? if you are indirectly making other members and merit sources to spend their merits on a member with the same post quality of another unmerited member, you are by definition allowing a selected few to farm merits.
That doesn't make any sense at all. Nobody is "making" anyone do anything here.
To me this thread is a huge help because I can find members and posts that I otherwise have no chance of finding in the deluge of sewer that this forum is becoming. If there are quality members not getting merits please direct them to this thread or to other similar threads or send them your own sMerits. Be part of the solution.