Re: Your post history is responsible for your unmerited status.
Still I will strongly suggest, delete your post history those are spam. Then try to make or perticipate on constructive discussion. Perhaps some one will merited you.
I wouldn't go as far as deleting hundreds of posts, actually, I would appreciate if I would see some real changes in the posting behavior.
The one thing that stops me in most cases from awarding merit is seeing that all the posts have roughly the same length, 3-4 lines, at this point, I just close the tab. So if I see somebody who was doing just one-liners and now has starting to really put some thought in his posts and not writing down the usual generic crap I would appreciate it more.
Also, I didn't give merit these weeks, mainly because the same reason #Helana mentioned as too saw a lot of newbies making a few more elaborate posts and after receiving the merit going back to spam posting so I'll just check on the ones that are really trying even after the begging madness has stopped...
Unfortunately lately, time is a bigger problem than available smerits
But how? They could be deleting their whole post history (most of the times 200300 posts, and I have seen quite a few Jr. Members with staggering 1200+ posts, before the 1 Merit update!).
Well, theymos could trash a few sections with one click...no big loss other than post count.