Why this sudden collective interest for a demerit function?
I don't see why, because of the airdroped merits? even those who have a majority of airdropped merits don't bother anyone either. We can all already see who has earned merits and in what proportion on Bpip or with the web extension, this is not misleading for anyone (I mean campaign managers etc..) ; for example with OP:

As for the others, apart from airdropped merits, I'm not such a hater myself lol.
In any case, for the moment the result of the poll look pretty clear:
