Re: Do you think it is fair to save merits for high-quality, low-ranked members?
1. The number of posts drops off over time. After submitting roughly 50 posts, bitcointalk is counting 32 of them. I do not make spammy or irrelevant posts and they are not off-topic.
Posts do not "drop off over time". Your posts were deleted for being spammy, irrelevant, or off-topic, and you are likely to be banned if you continue making such posts.So I spend time contributing more posts which leads to more time on site with 0 merit, which on the surface will make it look like a spammer account.
That none of your 2. Bitcointalk is not giving members enough merit to give to others (see the rest of the thread on this topic.)
17800 merits every 30 days ought to be plenty.3. Bitcointalk doesn't seem to care and hasn't done anything to address the issue.
If the issue is that shitposters keep complaining that they can't get merit, then yes, it indeed seems that not enough is being done about it. 
Foxpup, for some reason, has given me quite a bit of merit and though I don't "need" it, it is always nice to have some smerit to give out.
My reason is simple enough. Take my generosity and pay it forward. 