Most post meriters like myself usually carryout a background check before meriting newbie account for the first time. sometimes I carry out this background check on higher rank users who haven't receive any merit minus their airdropped merit before meriting their average posts but if it's a high quality post, I just go ahead and merit them.
There are numerous topics advising on having a good post history like avoid one line replies, stop quote spamming and the rest. So in the spirit of having good quality post history I'll like to add, when moving your topics I advise you untick "post a redirection topic". That way your post history won't be filled with moved topics.
Note: when moving a very important topic the box can be ticked but moving your average posts it isn't required.
Lets say you post on a wrong board and was asked to move to correct board, if it's a brand new topic or you want your post history to be freed of moved topics do as I say above. This will also help in presenting you from your post history as a good poster.