My take on this:

Think about Quality, Helping, and Contributing and neglect Merits.

Don't find merit, merit will find you

Can confirm.

I also see a thread that give some merits, you have to do is to provide your link so they can see your good quality post. This is an easy way for them to find out and see our good quality post. Do not be envious to other who have a lot of merit but try to make a good quality post and acceptable topic. There are also chances with similar post, so we do not receive merit, it's best to read before posting.

What would you say if everybody had to pay to post if they are wearing any signature and only those with the most received merits could have signature and post for free? lowlife illiterate beggars are still here, they are sliding some merits through to rank up their alts. you will eventually see that the only way is to charge fees.
There are many inactive accounts, they could still join bounties, if you charge $0.1 per post, they will stop, because they have no money, they are joining bounties to get paid in the future, asking them for money now would stop them from joining, nobody is stopping me from posting with 10 accounts.

I think that merit was invented for better communication about the crypt. Thanks to the system of merits, the forum will come out on top for useful information, this will be an incentive for those who did not want to share useful information. When you write a useful post you do not need to think about rewards. Do it for our community!

I wanted to respond to this from the view of a merit source.

I may not view the same post that you do as "good".

But probably I just haven't read it.  As an active bitcoin enthusiast (who uses this forum to advance bitcoin) I am very busy in other projects and don't have many hours a day to search and reward posts.  But I do what I can, and I try to use all my sMerit.

Saying that, please don't PM me to look at your posts.  I read the threads that interest me.

If Theymos expected us to merit every worthy post, he would probably pay us a salary, as it's close to a full time job. 

Each of us has their own perspective on deeming a merit worthy posts and the fact that there are a lot of shitposters and spammers still present in the forum despite the actions being made by reputed members of the forum, like banning them permanently, posts that are very helpful/informative get flooded easily by useless posts made by shitposters.

There are a number of such threads. After the merit system was launched, I think we had more than 30 such threads each offering at least 10 merit points in the thread. Some offered as much as 50 merit points in single thread for applicants. Note that some of these threads are little harsh in giving merits. In one of the threads, I saw the OP awarding 1 merit each to almost all the applicants. So, after making 30-40 quality posts, if you have still not got any merits, you can try your luck there.

Locking this thread as a lot of people feel the need to revive a thread started almost 1.5 months ago. Bye.