First of all you are a new member of the forum i.e. you are still a newbie member of the forum. The forum has several titles such as Brand New, Newbie Member, JR Member, Member, Full Member, Senior Member, Hero Member and Legendary Member. Certain merits are required to achieve this forum rank. And this merit is available only when your post has some informative content. When you have merit you can take merit from others. Suppose you have collected ten merits by posting something informative, here your (sMerit) will be 5. five merits you can give to others. In simple words you can share half of the number of merits you can collect in your own ID among all other users.