I feel the need to say something about there "I agree with you" posts, because it's annoying me more than merit posts by themselves.
Its a great post from Kaar. BTCBTC
At first i thougt this merit system was very troublesome to me, but now i understand that by holding merit is to improve the quality of the forum. And newbie will be smarter again because will learn a lot to post quality, thank you...
I agree with that but best thing is that there will be activated accounts only. Neither spam nor inactive account s will be there.
Merit as not only the best thing that happened to me users, it spread its goodness down to even old members whose post quality has been really bad and full f scam.
Such an author post really deserves a lot of merits, for he wrote all the pluses that appeared with the implementing of this system. In fact, I thought the same thing, and it's amazing that I'm not alone.
Look, we know what merit does and why's it implemented, just as well we know that the post is good because of merit given to him. There's no need for you to point the obvious to us.
Merit is not there to be chased after, because no matter how hard you try, if you can't post quality posts you won't get merit. Also, no one's forcing anyone to post quality posts. Can you post one liners and "I agree" posts? Yes. Therefore no one's forcing you but you won't get far with that.
One more thing. Think of merit as something of a marker. Don't pay attention to it, don't write just for merit and don't stress about it that much, because that number depends only on you and you can't force it to go up.