Well, the post was well-written with good grammar for one thing. Those two things are so rare on this forum that any posts with the two combined are a rarity. Plus those 5 merits came from two different people, and since they're higher-ranked members, I generally trust that this wasn't some sort of merit-buying scheme. It really wasn't a bad post at all.
Jealousy is an ugly thing, and I'm seeing a lot of it this morning in Meta.
Sadly, most of the newbies doesn't understand what a quality post is. They think that a well written post must have been 100+ pages book. Sometimes a more precised short post is much better to understand and read than a whole book of post that has no pure meaning at all.
Tho I personally doesn't have an idea if that is really a good one lol