The merit system isn't the problem.  The problem is incoherent sentences like the above.  If you're wondering why you haven't earned any merits yet, this is the reason.  There are so many members here and so many posts (mostly garbage), and if what you write doesn't stand out from the rest of the shit, nobody is going to merit your posts--and certainly if someone with sMerits to give can't understand what the hell you wrote, forget about it.

The system is working just fine.  I don't support your suggestion, OP.  It would be very much open to abuse by armies of alt accounts, and believe me, shitposting account farmers would exploit anything they could.