Only devs and admins should have smerit and they should reward it to the people making appropriate posts.
Devs? You sound like the type of person who labels anyone who's high-ranked or has a position of authority on bitcointalk as a "dev". I don't get this.
You got 1 merit since January, which is more than a lot of shitposters have gotten. It's a start. Most of the posts I could view in your profile were in the Speculation section, which isn't exactly a hotbed of merit-giving activity. Plus you seem to have a problem with capitalization of words, which doesn't go unnoticed. You might think that you can write posts on bitcointalk as if you were texting someone, but don't expect any merits if you do that.
What you need to do is be patient and improve your post quality. You might think you haven't earned enough merits, but the community is obviously not seeing it your way. Don't make posts in spam mega threads and you might have a shot at earning more merits. You're not likely to garner much sympathy here anyway, since people who bitch about not getting merits tend to be those obsessed with ranking up and earning more money via spam campaigns. That's almost invariably what it ends up being about.
