Note : I understand that I'm not the first person to complain about merit been abused. But
the question is, what are the forum mods doing about all this?
Can you please show me how many merit abuse case you have made on this forum? Moderators do not have any business with merit system. So what you expect from moderators? If you have obvious merit abuse case like merit sells or merit trading then please open accusation on reputation board.
On the others hand, since merits is sometimes determine about user quality that's why managers asking for earning merit. I can't see anything wrong about it. Everyone should have try to make good & useful post. At least someone will try to make good post due to managers requirements.