Well said, to add up to this, a person that is reading a post and feels a touch of something insightful or impactful will want to merit such post provided that he have smerits to give or is a merit source, quality post is not what some people think about it as from their own way of reasoning, a poster should not judge for his post being a quality one except when another person come across it and see some taught in it.
Making a posts is never consider to be easy but making a comprehensive posts that will portrayed ditch meaning to others and become important source for contributions needs thoroughly enough time. Merits are the core factor that attached a member to become dedicated to the system, he would do everything humanly possible to earn merits and boosts the level of his account.