So what's the real problem here? I hope this can serve as the main collection of all those grievances instead of getting spread out across multiple merit topics as cryptohunter has been doing lately.
We know all about that many quality post have unmerited. There is few reason involved. I can see no one replied yet there. It's fine if any quality poster he find. But I don't think so he will find much.
Reason behind unmerited quality post;
1. Post in wrong board. Wrong board means even someone make quality post on like Altcoin Discussion board then he might missed merit due to over spam. Because quality post will not bump many time, no one will reply on it. So thread will go to bottom. Even merit source or merit holder visits board he will not find that post. On the other hand few merit source and merit holder ignored few board then how they will spend merit on that board.
2. Reply on mega thread. Who will bother to read mega thread reply? At least not I am. So even there is quality post how we will hunt it.
3. Airdrop merit holder. We can say them merit
HODLER. Means they have HODL merit. I don't know why they don't want to spend merit. Most likely they don't know how hard to earn merit.
There are few more reason but mentioned above reason is main.
Look at the first 2 posters in this thread. Over 1k merits each wasted if you are of the mindset that merits are for ranking up.
We can't compare with first 2 poster. They have mostly merited for appreciation, not only for good post. So forget about that user. Merit deserve on post, not a person. I already describe above why few quality post are unmerited.
Actually I am encourage to send merit to good poster especially newbie or low rank. Even I spend time to find them but rarely I found them. But what can I do if found best post from higher rank

. Also merited them.