I'll throw in my 2 sats too: Merit is meant for good posts, if theymos wanted people to earn Merit from reporting, he would have added it as a feature.
I checked only the first user on your list (bluspirit): he barely makes any posts, which explains the lack of Merit. Nothing wrong with a user who reads a lot, reports spam, and doesn't post much
Despite all other people's thoughts and opinions on my idea of creating this thread, what you actually do is my main goal. I want people who are willing to review their posts to at least get some quality posts for merit.
So while not all of you agree with what I'm saying, I'm really glad you didn't ignore me and were willing to give your opinion on my question and Congratulations to @bluspirit made it to the rank after @LoyceV was willing to review some of your posts. And for the other users on my list above, you will all get your ranking sooner or later depending on how quality your posts are.
Thank you all for your contributions, because without you I might not have realized that quality posts are so much needed on this forum. I've been temporarily banned before because too many posts were deleted in 24 hours, so for those of you who have reported my spam posts in the past, I say a big thank you. You've made me realize and since then I just want to do better. Specifically @acmyname, I just hope I'm not included in the many ignore lists of many other users on the forum because I've been on yours list. There's no point in regretting it now, but the changes and improvement quality post that was proof that I really wanted to change.