How do you explain 12 merit in 4 minutes? I hope you earned well on this?
You're embarrassing me. I did that in 4 seconds 
About 2 weeks later, theymos doubled my Merit source amount.
It's just discouraging to not only for my effort to go un-merited, but to also see many random posts getting highly merited (like the one I've mentioned here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.msg48484477#msg48484477)
You're probably better off not comparing yourself to obvious merit abuse.If I interpret this post from theymos slightly out of context:
~ if they have decent posts, by all means, give them the 250 or 500 merit that they need to rank-up.
You're not a spammer, you engage in decent conversation, and you use the forum as a forum instead of an ATM. I think you deserve the Merit needed to rank up.I'm posting this here as a reference in case someone wonders/questions why I went on a meriting spree
Note: sending Merit doesn't necessarily mean I agree with a post.