Well, I could link you to the stickies, but I won't. Find them yourself.
A merit is a reward given out to someone who has either written a very good review of a game(in the game's comments), or if you have won a contest tat has such prize. The merit will cause your comment to turn into a bigger, bolder writing, to be seen better. It will also give you a burst of 25 AP.
In other notes, you should not write the topic of a thread in the title, rather you should write the question in the post itself. Good way: Merit? What is a merit and how does it affect you? I don't understand! Bad way: Well, how you did it.
