At the moment of writing, 19 of the 40 titles on the first page of the Meta board contain the word "Merit". (I deeply apologize for adding one to that list)
Therefore I modestly launch a proposal to add a subboard about Merit in the Meta board.
Informally, we could call it "The Dungeon": it would probably be packed with Newbies and Juniors whining and begging for Merit, as many of them don't seem to have any raison d'être without them damned Merits!
Merit talk will die down in a few months when all the scammy sMerit has been spent.