Well, it is good to know for the sake of knowledge but merit shouldn't be the first thing newbies (like me) to consider. Providing value to the community comes first above all.
This is the first reasonable post in your post history, almost worth a few merits.
Problem is, to do so I have to disregard everything you wrote in the Alt board, included the POS>POW nonsense.
So the merits I would have given to you for this posts are more than offsets by be “negative merits” you earned for the other posts.
Really sorry.