You can't possibly tell me for a whole 120 days you didn't find any merit-worthy post to give merit. I know the quality of posts on the forum is down, but not that bad. There's something I read here where Themos said something like its better to give a post 50 merit than share it with shitposters.
You can say you didn't see the post, but there are still good posts in the forum that deserve merit but are not merited, and in 120 or 150 days, you'll definitely see a lot of most like that.

People complain about the drop in the number of post,s but I don't see that as a problem because Id rather see 10 quality posts than a bunch of shit and irrelevant posts. However, if quality posts are merited, I believe the number of quality posts will increase. People will put more effort into making their posts that way keeping the forum alive.