... I am asking theymos to remove the merit button from the meta section then we can concentrate on the bitcoin discussion of our forum. 
I doubt theymos will do that because it will significantly affect a lot (potential good) users/posters he even assigned a merit source in each local board to guarantee good posts get merited in that section
some users are not english fluent and some are not bitcoin (technical) savvy,
so restricting merit award only on bitcoin english discussion would be somewhat unfair