Greeting everyone. I was newly introduced into the system by a friend who made me to have so much interest in the system with the zeal and the passion to learn and gain adequate experience on the system but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.
Merit is a way that is used to determine the rank of users on the forum and a way to validate their post. Usually you would see a lot of persons make useless post on the forum but the merit system was introduced to reduce the amount of users posting rubbish on the forum.
Anyone can give you merit on the forum as long as they have smerit to spare which is gotten when a user earns merit on the forum(½ per 1 merit earned), although they are special users that are merit sources that are given a number of merit to give to quality post on the forum.
You shouldn't be bothered about individual preferences on what a quality post is cause they are several merit sources on the forum and other users that can give merit to you so if everyone skips your post then you should know that you've gotta improve on your post quality.