Haven given out 217 merits so far, what stops you from giving out the remaining 31 to the deserving posts? There are thousands of deserving posts (that has no merits) in almost all the threads. So much that they are practically too easy to find.
You simply do not need help nor contest to give out 1merit per post for 31 posts. You guys are creating unnecessary threads that should have no place in this forum, and allowing it to thrive is a travesty to the noble intention of this forum and it's merit base system.
Well I don't consider this thread as unnecessary what dev is trying to do is to encourage users to start making good and quality posts, and in other to save himself the time of going through the entire forum looking for posts he require users apply for the smerit then he check the out.