Understood. This is not complain about amount but the purpose of the merit scheme and if we will look at it carefully the merit system which was actually created to improve quality posts have failed.
Disagree. It might often go to the wrong places in the opinions of some but I can tell when someone has a healthy merit count without looking at the score just by the way they write, and the same goes for people who've earned none. The rewards are going to the people who should get them.
It might not improve the quality of the hopeless. There's now enough merited posters for them to read and learn what does attract it.