I agree with you, but sometimes I get confused. At example, you wrote a great and quality post in detail, but it received no merit. At the same time, post below, where we write something like:" I fully agree with the opinion above, Bla Bla Bla, etc..." or any other set of words, repeating posts in the topic, only his/er own words, and this post get a merit and me case it's a shame for my efforts.
Can you quote what post you've been talking about? I saw that you posted mostly on your local board and that isn't prohibited however it's rarely merited. Maybe you made an effort to create a post written in english but this doesn't mean that it can be merited. On a contrary, it looks like spam and shitpost so it doesn't deserve any.
Sometimes short and straight forward posts are enough as long as its make sense.
Don't push to hard to earn merit, it will just look like a rubbish.