I have been into the system for some months now and I have made over twenty posts but no simply merit has been given to me or earn by me and this make me to be surprise on how these merit are generated, given or earned. However, looking at it in another perspective, I don't know if it is because I did not meet the number of my post require to earn a merit or because of the low quality of my post that is the reason why I had not been able to earn a single merit. So please I will like to get more clarifications on the possible requirement for earning merit.
There's no minimum number of post or any special requirements to be merited, what you need is quality, if your post is of quality and educative passing an information that is very important and useful to the readers such that when someone reads the information, they get interested and want to reward you for sharing such important and useful information to them, so they reward you with merits but in the forum, there have never been a time when I have seen a number of post been required to be merited. Keep posting and improving your post quality and soon you will get to see the more merits resulting from your post quality.