Merit should only be awarded to quality posts that should be highlighted that's how they're meant to be shared and to a large extent, it's being done that way. Sometimes you can see posts that you might consider to be low quality being awarded merits but they aren't of a large quantity since others have their different reason why they merit a reply and merit is a subjective matter that people are allowed to interpret as they see fit so you can't actually question a merited post unless there is a clear evidence of abuse going on. You don't get merited base on the number of post you have written but I won't want to go further since justice should have already been done to this part of the question by other users.


I noticed you received 2 merits on this topic (congratulations) but this shouldn't give you the wrong Idea that this is how merits are being earned. If you want to receive a larger quantity, you have to make yourself useful to the forum and earning merits won't become an issue for you. Take your take to always make sure your contributions on the forum are that of quality and not just because you're looking for activities or meeting up post quota. Earning of merit is simple when you're not doing it for the merit but to help out others through answering their questions or educating them on the topic being discussed.