I don't really have reasons as to why I created this post, but just stating a possible reason why many of us aren't getting the deserved merit for our contribution
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if you think a post or a thread is high quality enough and deserves merit/s(may it be yours or other people's) you can try and share it on merit "giveaway" threads. merit sources cannot see every post on the forum so it is inevitable that they may miss posts that deserve merits. also, a post deserving a merit can be subjective, you may think that it deserves merit but others don't.