can you please share an article for me to read more about this? I'm new into it and haven't found anything usefull on google search. beside someone claiming that the merit system is heading towards 0 with the exemple I mentioned 
This is the first result when you Google "BitcoinTalk merit": https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0January 24. I guess I'm just 9 months late to this thread
