I have a topic like this in the past, actually 2 years ago.

• Where receivers received merits from, and meriters sents merits to
• Personally, I don't expect to see any big change with such things. Even nowadays, it is more easily for lower rank members to rank up with softer behavior to send merit to posts like "like, love, etc.". It is actually kind of issue because more spammers will be able to rank up faster than they should.
• Generally, the overall distribution of merit between members and member ranks won't change much