There are so few people out of the thousands of accounts here that have merits. It isn't really fair. The spread is terrible and many peoples posts get buried in other people posts. Very annoying if someone writes a good post and it gets buried is shitty posts. The next thing is that it is mostly people starting topics that get merit. This is because it is the first message you see. Maybe if you try get your post on the first page of a post where people can see it then you will have a better chance.
The worst thing is I am out of merits so how the hell must anyone rankup? There too few merits to rank everyone. There should be enough for everyone to rank.