I think we all need to calm down a bit. Yes, it can be frustrating when you make what you think is a good substantial post, but you get no merit - and then you see someone throw out a one-liner and pick up a couple of merit for it. Apologies for meriting the post in this thread, that was pure devilry.

Merit doesn't always work out on a post-by-post basis, but it does tend to even out over the longer-term. I have managed to gain a fair amount of merit recently, but I have plenty of what I think are good posts that get nothing, the last two threads I started, for example:

Jeff Bezos saves the World!!!
Democracy 2020

Just relax. Merit will come on average, over time. No need to get stressed out and start seeing abuse everywhere. Sometimes you get it, sometimes not, no big deal.

The problem between you two was here in the beginning: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg54004369#msg54004369

I have seen people send Merit thousands of times, in one word post, try: zzzzz 50 Merit, if I show it to the OP, it is very likely that the OP will be pinned.

So stop this drama, "misusing Merit" Merit, not moderated.

OP, put an end to this dispute, you don't get anything in this thread.