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Youre right even a single word can have 10 merits or more specially post made by bounty managers but those high quality posters cant even get a single merit.
At the beginning of my journey it also annoyed me how is it for such a shitpost 20 merits !!!

and for a stupid picture 50 !!!

And you know what I did? I stopped thinking about it and focused on the quality of my own posts and in a few months from the Jr. Member I came to Hero ...
Admin and moderators should look at those members who gives high amount of merits even the post is not good but rather give those merits to members who deserve the most.
There is a lot going on about Merit and I personally don't really pursue it because as it has been said,
the term even a single word can receive Merit and if it wasn't because they were friends it was impossible to easily give Merit. It is easy for them to give Merit to people they know or in other words as friends, and even though you have a not so bad quality of the post it's still basically possible to receive or get Merit, but if you don't have close friends or familiar people it seems it will be hard to get it.