I have been writing meaningful and good quality posts since start of my journey on bitcointalk forum, but i have noticed that i have still not received appropriate number of merits. whereas some people are receiving merits for posting useless and meaningless posts because they have high position in the forum. According to me merit system is a bit partial and changes must be made to it. Only devs and admins should have smerit and they should reward it to the people making appropriate posts. Please let me know your views below. No hard feelings for anyone 
I can categorize post in three category :
1. Shit /spam post
2. Average (may be some below or some above average post)
3. Good post.
What ever the objective of this system , but it acted as a silent killer for average poster (category 2).
I just did the quick glance and might be you also fall in Category 2.
PS : Don't worry, be happy and continue what is close to your heart or you are good at. Don't try to fake yourself so that you can get some merits but do not break forum rules.