Good point but merit is just a huge thing in this forum. I do get the point, low number of merits does not mean that you are not promoting "quality" in this forum in terms of your posts. But unlike before, this is the main thing in order to make profit in this forum, sad to say, unless you are in this forum to just learn and intereact which is the main purpose of forums. Without enough merit you won't be able to join campaigns which is the main source of profit in this forum. Although there are airdrops which do not require merits as well as campaigns, we cannot deny the fact how important merit is.
Well said mate, it is not all about merit, there are some factors that may affect why some posts don't have merit.
1. It is not that useful post.
2. It is not updated news.
3. Plagiarism.
4. Posted in a wrong board.
5. Already posted before.
Those are the only things I know why some posts are not getting merit, so always keep creating useful and help posts to help everyone in this forum.
There is no board that has the highest chance to be given by merit as long as you have created a useful posts it will be given a merit.
Some posts are not getting merits simply because other users chose not to give one for their own reasons such that they are not that familiar with the creator of the post (some are onky giving merits to other users they know), some thinks that it is a common topic and the concern is already answered in other posts or the idea was discussed already, and other reasons but the bottomline is that, we should respect still their decision of not giving so. Just continue your "thing" because we are having a wide community if users that can give you one or more someday.