As a newbie,
I gave you enough merit for you to get promoted to a junior member.
Atleast if I don't have merit to give, I will just click like and move on pending when I'll have merit to award the user.
Some kind of waitlist for posts that deserve merit would be nice. There is a thread that you can report good posts that deserve merit that is monitored by many merit sources.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5093271.0Jr Member? He's reached the Member status

If you use Facebook or Twitter, do you think liked status or loved tweets are actually good ones, in quality?
Hardly. One simple word from an influencer and all the simps will like/ RT.