I have already completed your challenge. here is my celebration post.
Finally! 101 merit and 84 activity!! Celebration Post! My thoughts on merit.I was a newbie with 0 merit when merit system was implemented. I have now 133 merits and 84 activity. I am not a full member because I lack activity.
You can check my profile for my earned merits. I earned them one by one mostly. Never got a post which received more than 5.
There are other people who have earned far more merit than I did. I am not a crypto expert and I didn't knew a single member from this forum.
I don't have much time.
So I didn't study this case closely as it should. I just skimmed quickly through your posts.
You are the perfect example that merit system is bad.
Most of your posts on English didn't receive merit altho you spent maybe 10-20 minutes writing a high-quality post. Not one of your posts, I noticed at least 10 that should be merited, but they didn't. (and I skimmed through maybe 10-20% of your posts)
Most of the merits your received are from the Portuguese/Brazilian community.
So, it is not the quality that matters, but
who has merits to give. It comes down to whether you are noticed by someone who has lots of smerits and did he had sex that morning so is in good mood.
Even more, if the local community is strong or if you are good with movers and shakers.
I have also seen people with high-quality posts that didn't receive any merits (zero merits!) with 100+ activity, sorry 100+ quality activity.
That is everything but the righteous system.
It's more random than the price of the Dogecoin.
And we are on the Bitcoin forum, where thing should be arranged smartly. At least smartly.