The way merit are being given out to some post on this forum is turn abused, how on earth will a single post merit 30+ merit? and must of this post are just simple question or answer.
Is this 30+ merits given by several users or just one? I've seen 50 merits sent by one user only a couple of times and even admin does that.
Post are not suppose to be merit more than 2-5 depends on how helpful and relevant the post.
According to who? The thing is you cannot tell anyone how to spend their sMerits or how many and you cannot judge how they spend it. Merit sources are different though, they have to follow some guidelines. There was a recent case where a former staff was questioned for giving merits for a simple statement.
But it now seems many person now buy it even when they don't merit have any. I don't think this was the primary aim of adding merit to this forum.
This is a clear case of merit abuse.