Merit it a system that determine the ranking of any bitcointalk member. And merit is what will make a member of this forum to pick interest of quality post.

Any spammer can't make a quality post. And without a proper understanding of text you can not make a quality post. So merit is being earn through the ability of making a good qualitative and quantitative research over a new invention that is unknown to the forum. And someone who is creative is at good point to earn merit.