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When someone gives well reply and gets impressed with their effort but you are out of merits or zero merits in account. What is the better solution in this situation? I've noted few replies from member on my old post that they must deserves to get merited.

Except a topic/post is deleted you can always come back when you have merits to award what you think is merit deserving or you can even report those posts to threads where they can be awarded merit for good posts.  [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5093271.msg49051692#msg49051692)

Sometimes when you've got sendables, you must have forgotten about the former post as you moved on from it. Since there's a lot to attend to and keeping track of a good post might be difficult since you might even come across many of such kind before having smerits.

I think dropping PMs with such posts links to merit sources would be nice if they would permit it, so that good posts they did not see by themselves gets the reward it deserves.

1. You can bookmark the thread on your browser.
2. You can watch the thread
3. You can PM yourself with the post link.

There are more than 100 merit sources in this forum, instead of PM to few merit sources, better to post to public like the have been mentioned by @Churchillvv.

I think this is better, I didn't get detail on his post since I started my reply before his, but my attention was diverted to something else which resulted in wasting time before posting my reply to the thread. It's a valid point. and thank you for drawing my attention to it.

You have 3 posts and you've discovered how the forum works and you've noticed that there are some good posts that don't get enough merit? That's weird.

constantly sending such messages may lead to you being banned.

maybe you report that to thread like.  Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5093271.msg49051692#msg49051692[self-moderated)

@LoyceV is a merit source, so if he finds the post really helpful, then he might be sending merits to such reply.
Actually there are also other merit source that has a thread with similar purpose, I just could not find the thread.

Also, there are also merit source that focuses on the local board.

It's obviously an alt account created to pass the message across. He's Scared to use the main account probably

That's true though.

I look forward to you resuming your merit thread, A lot of us  do. You were the main person that supported me in my early days in the forum, of which I'll always be grateful.

We wait earnestly for your return, hope it would be soon?

I guess this is a common sense issue. This doesn't need a solution because this isn't a problem to begin with. If you don't have merits to give, then you can't give any. You can't do anything about it. Why would you worry?

If you've read certain posts that you think are deserving of merits, then let those who have also read them, or will read them in the future, who have available merits to give decide whether they're worthy of their merits or not. If not, then so be it. Whether a post deserves a merit or not is subjective.

With only 3 posts, and you knew about merit, want to merit others but didn't know how merit system works, it looks either impressive or weird and not like actual newbie.

I assume you are not an actual newbie, but no personal attack, if you are actual newbie, and want to learn, here you go.

• Merit & new rank requirements (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0)
• Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5030366.0)
• FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0)

Read only three above topics, and understand about merit as well as conditions you need to get to merit other forum members. My assumption goes to you want to get merit, and this thread is created for merit.

There is no error about it in seek of solution. If you think the post really deserve your merit you can as well save the post on your achive or draft so whenever you have sendable merit you can please your mind by meriting it later on.

But then, you can just give you commendable remark in reply to the post as being helpful to the forum. But you most note that no one is in debt to every post you can think that deserves merited.

There use to be a thread where you're allowed to submit a link to a quality post poster you've seen on the forum that you feel is not getting the expected merits on the thread or post, I don't know if that thread is still active, if it is, the best thing to do would have been to report such post on the thread for some merit source to check if it's worth meriting. Alternatively, you can boldly make a reply to the post to indicate how helpful that contribution his to you, by doing that, some persons will sendables might just give it merit if they so desires.

There are still a lot of good threads and replies on the forum that have not yet been merited yet, it doesn't mean that it will not be merited, it just takes someone to come across it and click the send button. Because you're still new to the forum, don't be too bothered about sending every quality post merits, if you're able to become a quality poster yourself, you will earn merit and in the process have enough sendables that will help you merit any post you see that's of high quality.

So true, the thing is that the more you keep touring the forum especially as a beginner ad the Opeis the more you find constrictive posts that you just wished to had merited if you had Smerits because the more you're growing your knowledge in the forum is how much you feel appreciating every single helpful posts that's contributing to the objective of what you want.
But DubemIfedigbo001, PMing merit source isn't permitted in the forum and sometimes it isn't that the merit source isn't seeing that your recommending post to be merited but could be to a standard based on merit sources views that the post isn't worth meriting.
Agree with me that some of the posts you merits here has been a passer-by by some sMerit holders because they don't see quality in the post as you do.
But as Churchillvv has send, you can only report such post to self moderators batch and if find meritable would be sure merited.

Note them down and merit them later. Unless things have changed, i believe every now and again your sMerits get replenished.
Or as mentioned above, you can find some topics that let merit sources know some replies deserve merit, and they reward them

Don't mean to hijack the thread but what are merits for?

Actually nothing but if you insist you could go to some merit sources thread then attached that post link to that and send it. They can give merits if they found it worthy to drop merits. Nothing you can do actually if you dont have smerits except help them direct it to someone who has some and hopefully they give some to that.

Why you don't ask this question from your main account. I don't believe that Newbie with 4 posts would ask such questions. Personally, I haven't faced such situation. I have more than enough sMerit and unfortunately I'm not spending it actively enough :(

I think you put wrong link to that topic, here is correct one:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5093271.msg49051692#msg49051692

Here you go, you can begin with this topic:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0

If you see good reply to your post but you lack the merits to give to such posts, you either send the post link to any merit source and I'm sure they will review the posts if they are merit deserving and reward them accordingly. There are many merit sources that are accessible and will be happy to review those posts. The only problem is that what you may regard as good reply may not really be one for others so if they don't merit those posts based on their standard, you should not feel bad.

Merit points are required to advance your ranking on the forum. For example, you'll need at least 1 merit point before you can advance to a Jr. Member rank.

You can read for more information here: Merit & new rank requirements (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0)

Well you can't really tell for sure, you know everyone has his/her own way of views. My view can be different from yours, their are some post that you will think that it has gotten to the right standard but in the view of other people the post  is still lacking some quality. at this point he/she will end up not getting merited in that Post. Of course that's how it is most times, which is why sometimes you will be surprise that the post you think it lacks some quality are the once we normally get merited from. I don't know if you have seen a situation like this before? That's just exactly what I'm trying to say, some people will find your post very interesting why most people will see it the other way round, which is why sometimes we always get merit unexpectedly.

Apart from ranking up, high number of merits under a profile means the user is an active contributor of the forum in some ways. The merit system was introduced to combat the spam and it did pretty good job as well in that matter but merits will not be awarded to all the posts even if it deserves merit for reason like the post buried by further replies so no one with merit noticed that post.

If you are in a situation like this, then just increase your post quality. If you make quality posts, you will receive merit so that you will be able to give out the smerit which you receive. I don’t think there is anything you can do if you have no merit. Or you can just submit a link to the post on the thread that @LoyceV created, if the post is really worth meriting, then people will definitely merit the post.

But you might even submit some posts that are useful to you, and they won’t be merited, because some posts might be useful to you, but other people won’t really find them useful, so don’t be disappointed if you submit a link and no one merits the post.

It's too early for you to start thinking about merits or gifting same to deserving members who have responded to your post. Take it that you are not yet qualified to give merits yet because you do not have any merits on your own post. If you don't have merits to give, you can just acknowledge their contributions and move on. Any other member of the forum who finds the posts worthy of merits can send merits to those posts. Now you should focus on learning from those deserving posts, that's the privilege you should be enjoying.

Merit is something that is given independently to users of the forum but it's unfair sometimes because some posts that are worth giving merit don't get it. What I will suggest you do in this situation is provide the link to the post, with the topic on the thread created by Fillippone (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5412657.0) to address issues like this. However, some posts may seem worthy of merit from your belief and aren't worth it from the stance of a merit source.

Don’t get frustrated about the lack of merits.
Merit source will notice your post quality, sooner or later.
In addition to my merit thread, I suggest you also this infamous post:

Ranking up is possible! 2900 Merits earned in less than 12 months!My 11 Hints! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5098333)

Things like this do happen most times, but that is the main reason we have merit sources in the forum to check some merit worthy posts that are not merited due to lack of merits and so on. If you don’t have smerits, you should not worry yourself, but you can bookmark the threads in case you have smerits to send in the future.

Beefier, there used to be some threads that allow users to submit unmerited posts by other users which is really helpful, but most if these threads are not active as they used to be before. Therefore, if you have any thread that worth been merited, keep an eye on the thread and merit it whenever you have smerit.

There's no time limit when you see a post that is good and doesn't have merits to give or send. You can send merits sooner or later when you have merits or post it in a thread where you can submit it to the thread where you can submit good post that didn't get merited and check if it is indeed merit worthy. If you aren't aware, there's a thread before (I don't know if it's still active or still going on) which I myself submitted the links of a post in there that deserves a merit. There is also a thread by filippone if you have a post that deserves a merit.

The question is, are they worthy enough for merit sources? There are times when we think our posts are good and impressive enough, but those merit sources may only find it quite common and not even adding new source of information that could educate other forum members. So the problem is the quality of our post, which those merit sources wouldn’t find it worthy enough of their merits. Just keep on posting, until you hit that quality post that these merit sources are looking for.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to earn merits these days. When I was a lower member, I earn merits fairly. But since I became a hero member, things are changed. I don't know if the standard of merits earning is high for hero members. I think sometimes how I will manage to become a legendary member one day when I don't even have a close rapport with a single merit source.

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The last time I saw a good post from franky1, I complained that I don't even have even 1 smerit to give him. I spoke out, and philipma gave him merit for the post.

I think your question has been answered by churchillvv which he earlier stated that you can report good unmerited post to the link he provided. Or better still when you find a post worthy of meriting but yet you don't have sendible you can wait till whenever you may have earned merit then you can use your sensible to merit such post. Just as simple as that.

I don't see a problem either. Sometimes people have heard so much about the merits that are used on this forum that they mistakenly think that they should "like" everything they like, as is customary in social networks. Sometimes a full answer, avoiding a short "thank you," is enough for a person to feel the usefulness of their post and advice. But unfortunately, here on the forum, some are so mercantile and will not be happy with ordinary gratitude, expecting only merits.

Exactly, we have a lot of merit sources so that way if you notice any post that deserves merit but you are out of merit you can just save the post somewhere or bookmark it so you can easily find it you have some smerit to spend. Meriting a post is something that can be done at later time if you really want to appreciate the person’s effort but you are out smerit, you can always come back later to merit it as you can. Or just as Hyphen(-) mentioned, you can also submit unmerited good posts to merit sources and if they find it worthy of being merited then the post will be merited but you must understand that some posts you find merit worthy might not really impress others so if the merit source is not impressed then he/she will not merit the post. Most of those threads that request for unmerited quality post are not really functional anymore.

Giving merits to useful posts is a way of encouraging people on the forum to keep up their good work so if you must merit a post you can always come back later when you have smerit to appreciate the users efforts and encourage them more.

You are definitely right,when the Merits are not yet there for you,it should be your motivating factor to make more quality posts so that you can also give merits to those who make quality contributions to your posts, just like the way other person's are giving merits to people who deserve it.
Merits are not yet at your disposal,so just forget about it,and keep on making good posts the way you are doing,with time, Merits will be available for you to give to whom you think deserves it.

Several months ago I stumbled upon a post that's worth meriting, but because of a lack of merits, I just bookmarked the post and just came back to merit it after I got merits to merit the said post. You can also praise or compliment the post; its a subtle way to recommend other members to merit the post.
If the post is really that good, you will not be the only one who will notice and merit it