I have been here since 2017 and have Total time logged in: 16 hours and 55 minutes.
How does this Merit thing work? I am defiantly not asking for free or just handouts but I don't understand it.
If I want to give someone a Merit can I not because I am a Newbie? Or do I need to upgrade membership first?
From the question of Op, it doesn't appear that he is interested in having merits or alot of it. I just understood that he must have seen some good posts that he wanted to give out merits to but could not and that is why he asked the question.
Many people thinks that the merits works like facebook likes or upvotes in redits. But he has been clarified and he must have known that for you to give out merits, you must be able to earn it (this is in exception of merits sources).