Honestly I have taking some time to go across this our board and I have actually seen some posts wey make sense but did not receive any merit.
Let's be honest if person take out time to make good post and the post actually make sense it can serve as an encouragement to that person if they get at least a merit as a sign of recognition.
Cases like this was why I created the unmerited post thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5506090.320 because there are chances that I may not come across more than 30% of posts daily due to our activities. The thread was to serve as my third eyes for others to report unmerited good posts I missed, but the thread was turned into a spam reporting. It's locked till I find a solution to it.
Secondly - we have the activities, but unfortunately the post quality hasn't been the same, I barely come across good posts these days and sometimes I'm forced to rollover my monthly allocation.
Lastly, if the community starts giving out merits organically to good posts, we would have enough merits - the board generates average 600-800 sent Smerits per month. I generate 10-20 unmerited good posts on this board monthly without a single merit. I'm also affected. Lol