Wrong! It seems that your main purpose to be here is to get 'possible earn'. I guess that what you really implied in your thread (not for getting knowledge, or at least it is not your main purpose to be here). Theymos launched merit system to control spamming endemic in the forum, which occured recently, I guess since the last year (2017) when whole crypto-market and crypto-ecosystem considerably blossomed, which in turn resulted in lots of newcomers/ spammers joined the forum and made it like a landfill with tons of their shitty posts.
I guess eagerly-to-learn newcomers will feel very comfortable with merit system because they will get what they deserved and feel satisfied when seeing spammers, shit-posters stucked at Junior Member rank forever!
1. Merit is to promote quality post.
a. I agree. Post is reviewed for it to be counted as an Activity? why add an additional Merit?
a1. Unfair to the newbie that came to this forum for knowledge and possible earn. Those guys who have been earlier were not required to have this to ranked up.
Not all of merited posts really deserved to those merit points they got, but the most important thing is merit-beggar, merit-cheater, merit-exchangers will be tagged and / or reported soon, then they will be banned. You should not worry about that, just simply focus to improve your threads' quality.
2. How will you that merits are given only to those with quality post?
a. How will you know that merit are given only to those that deserve it. What if they give it for some other purpose like selling them, or they give it to people they know who doesn't deserve it.
I don't really understand and get your point. No one has right to request you to send your sMerits to anyone. I would like to emphasize sMerits (sendable merits), not Merits. You can not send your Merits away, but you can do with your sMerits.
3. How will you compel to who have merit to give to give it out?
Good luck, my friend.