Rest assured I appreciate and I care of every single merit I receive.
I generally thought that after hitting legendary rank one would stop checking or getting excited when they receive a merit, but that's not the case at all, at least not for me. It also helps that it allows one merit others.
That's right. Some Legendaries may no longer maintain their quality because merit no longer matters to them. I have a different mindset, I care about the merit system and I want to contribute to many users (especially to my local board users) and help them rank up. That's why I try my best to maintain my quality and contribution even though lately I lack the sMerit to help them much.
Some users have a strange mindset in my opinion. They rarely send merit to Legendary because they think Legendary doesn't need merit. I often remind my local board users about this and I expect them to send merit to anyone regardless of rank and of course on quality posts.