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Dear All,

I m new to Bitcointalk forum as a member but I was referring it since more than a year for many topics :) :D. Finally I thought It is a good time to connect with here as a member 8). I want to know how do we earn merits ???? What should I do?

What are the limitations of Bitcointalk forum ????

Highly appreciate your replies here. :-*

Hi 11Revenger11, welcome to bitcointalk!

Merits are units introduced to tackle spam and make high quality writers differ from spammers. Therefore, the forum requires a minimum amount of merits from its users for them to start acquiring ranks.

Read these:

— Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0)
— FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0)

Hello, welcome aboard.

I suggest to read and follow the forum's rule (link above), many users got banned because of neglecting of reading and understanding it.

There are lots of them it always affects your ranks, the threads above are good read, enjoy.

Welcome officially to bitcointalk you will have a easy time fitting in since you have been lurking around for long. Merits is like karma, merit is awarded for quality posts. Some users are very generous with their merits. Merit is not hard to get

Merit is very easy to get once you follow the rules of this forum and make sure you post and comment a reasonable post and make sure your post make sense for other people to gain from it.

Merit is not easy like you say. Neither of us has any

Welcome

Why did you ask about merit first?

• Newbies - Read before posting (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0)
• Merit & new rank requirements (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0)
• Writing a welcome message (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5036308.0)

I don't tell you exactly what you should do but I give you three topics to read. As a newbie, you have many time to read because you have limitation of 6 minutes between two posts.

Three topics above contain the information you asked for and even more. If you feel like that are too long to read, it means you will not deserve to earn merit.

First of all read all rules. Pay attention to it, and observed here in forum. Merits are associated or important unit of forum, this represent the outlook of some members here about your post and replies. A member received merit if he/she did a good post or interact, contributed something useful here.

Welcome and have a nice journey.

Earning merit is not easy. A user can give Merit to others only if he has received Merit himself first. If you have a close look, you will recognize that merit is produced by the founding users of Bitcointalk and their close circle. But still you can have it if you have high quality posts and replies on a regular basis.

boss, what you wrote is not newbie knowledge. This post is your great initiative to tell the others that you are not newbie.

merit is for quality post and somewhat posts are made with efforts from posters. Sometimes people give merit not because the quality of post is high.

merit does not relate to merit cycling or exchanging by its design.

There are literally hundreds of topics on the matter here (search around on Beginners & Help and you’ll see), and even some options to practically guarantee earning a bunch with just a few (albeit interesting) technical skills that can be obtained with a bit of effort. Regardless, the prime method is simply to create interesting enough content here and there, and that accounts for things like questions, answers, information, criticisms, helping others, well-versed opinions and so forth.

Not really. There are many Merit Sources that are rather newish to the forum, being just two or three years old, with likely lack of connections to anyone previously here.

Welcome to bitcoin mate. The first thing you should do is to read the rules and guidelines. It is written there about what is merit and its purposes.

Well regarding about merits, you can get merit naturally by making high quality post that contains useful information to help others but other than that you can actually get merits by posting in a thread where they give merits. You just have to follow their rules. I've been a newbie and it really helped me.

I will give the opportunity why don't try posting here, this can help you in getting merits.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5275032.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5289839.msg57821261#msg57821261

This forum is not about merit, it is about posting about bitcoin and crypto generally, merit is just an aspect that makes this forum posts to have quality and nothing more than that. Which means you will need to learn more about bitcoin, check what good posters are posting, learn from them, make researches and enjoy your interaction on this forum. Your posting quality will determine your merit, the more you grow the more you will know more.

Besides all the links and pieces of advice given you here, the best way to earn merit to the best of my perspicacity will be to make posts with the intention of making someone else benefit from your knowledge without expecting anything in return. Your posts should come from a place of comfort and ease with research marks on them.

On the other hand, I'm one of the few who believe that merits aren't completely bestowed as a mark of post quality in the general sense because what makes for quality to User A won't be for User B or C or D. So, every individual user has what constitutes quality for them. It's a subjective issue. However, concentrate on my first paragraph and you should be alright.

You don't need to focus on earning merit as this is not merittalk.org but bitcointalk forum. You have to change your goal right now to read, study and share then meritd will find a way to you. To start doing that, read the rules and where to start. That also depends on what you wanted to learn first. I'll provide you some links to read. You can also read this thread by Ratimov https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5361262.0

I completely agree with you, a purpose of this forum is allow each user express themselves freely and share perspectives based on different exposures, thinking and mindsets on majorly bitcoin related topics and then other topics. If a user like me find your post or comment beneficial to me in some way i may decide to give you a merit.

So IMHO there is no fixed way to earn merit other than to be of benefit in your contribution to someone through original and well composed post and comments in the forum.

You are highly welcome to the Forum.

It's good that you have made your intention known *Earn Merit*
There are Procedures and rules that guide that and you are required to
Do what is necessary to earn them.
Quality post, No Copy and Paste Post, engage in activities like Signing a message,
Sending encrypted messages and positive contributions etc. will help
you in that regard.

Do not let how to get  merit to be your target if not you will lose focus . Let your target be what you have to offer the forum.

The common question which is asked thousand of times before. Better to read previous topic about Merits by using search Function :).

Btw in one world to get merit Efforts are playing a good role. The more you give efforts the more chance of earning merit. So I would suggest you to first read all the rules and take a about it, then try to spend your time to give efforts on which you have good knowledge. :)

Hi 11Revenger11, welcome to the bitcointalk.org family.
Already enough has been said on how to earn merits and rank high here. I will add my few cents here, never lose patience if you are not getting merits. Try to post quality contents and for that best is to read and analyze posts that are getting merits. This will definatly be a big help. Good luck

Thank you for your quick response dear. I tried to search those topics using search bar but it takes long time though. Thank you again for sharing these!

Please make your replies in one post by using quote. You just posted 5 times in a row which is considered as spam. Seems I didn't include the thread about how to create a high/good/constructive posts and proper quoting. You can start by stopping what you just did and learn how to use bb codes. The guide is in the post above. Hope it's helpful.

BTW I m trader since a 6 years. So could I able to make TA analysis for other here ? If yes, I can do a best job.

You have focused on merit since joining the forum and I take it positively. That means you are willing to rank up your account. This desire will one day lead you to a higher rank.

1. There is a limitation of sending PM to other members.
2. You can't post an image.
But these are the temporary limitations. When your rank goes up this limitations will be disappeared.

Can you link the posts you're saying? Coz its not true, your account will be red tag for merit abuse if you get caught. Well, it's easy to check if the merit is voluntarily given or bought, lots of users here hunts for those users buying/selling merits.

No, but instead of making a new post on every reply, you can make a one post and quote all the one you want to reply.

OP did two bad things

• Making multiple posts in a row that breaks the rule #32 of the forum (see the quote).
• Quoting inappropriately. Most of times, poster should not quote all the post to reply to another. Because, usually a poster will only answer one or a few points in a post so please quote exactly the point you want to answer or discuss with
• I reported those posts and I am sure that moderator will merge them all

Read and watch.

• Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0)
• Post formatting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NHfaViknzM) (Steamtyme)

Yeah, he was blindly following the forum rules. So blindly that I did not understand that plagiarism on the forum is prohibited. Therefore, all his claims about the ease of obtaining merit are no longer relevant. Since this user will soon leave this forum for plagiarism

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg58020523#msg58020523

Thank you for all the information.




I will post here the link if I found it. I saw this in a telegram group. They have packages like 1,5,10 like this. I will share the info for sure. Give me sometime to find it.

You should avoid those people especially if they are selling merit because once you get caught you will be red tag just like what @bL4nkcode said. I'm pretty sure they are trying to sales talking to you on how you will rank up easily if you bought merit from them. If you could put the link here or the screenshot of what they are actually doing then you are helping the community.

Just read all of the suggestions and the sticky those are the unofficial rules that would avoid you from trouble in the future. Most newbies I've seen here posting like nothing like copying an article without giving the credit of the author ended up banned forever.

Earning a merit is very simple and also hard due to the ability of the user via communication and research, because here i noticed that what impress another forum user to award Merit to a post can as well make another user to dislike a post, so from what i detect via earning a Merit come from basic strategies of the person meaningful post's because no one can award Merit to a post that Lacks potentiality and also been valueless, i think i have made a post that stipulates this before, but nevertheless a quality of post is what warrantee Merit.

Everything you write is lovely, but would you mind putting a full stop at the end of your sentences from time to time?  ;)
With sentences that flow into each other, sometimes you find yourself going back to reread a sentence just to understand it better - it's quite irritating and breaks the flow of the story for me.

It seems to me that for some newbie members, participating in this forum has become a kind of job and earning opportunity, which is a completely wrong motivation, and in the long run it will lead to their expulsion from the forum.
I used to run merit giweaway topics in this beginners section but I gave up because I would get at least a few messages from newbie members each time asking me to give them merit.
In fact, it seems to me that we talk too much about the merits here and that we should talk more about how each of us can contribute to the forum, help other members etc.
Everything else will come naturally if we have the right attitude and are willing to help others.

I am also a novice with the same problem. Since joining the Bitcoin forum, I have learned that I should study hard first instead of thinking about how to earn merit. I will be very happy when I get my first merit.

A contribution to a post, a quality post, avoid plagiarism, spamming.
Keep the forum rules at your finger tips.
Learn from the best, and best believe you'll be next....it only takes time to attain all of this.

I am also a new member so your post is very usefull for me. Lot of thanks to you for your authentic and good information. I hope every member will benefit from reading this post.  kindly continue keep it up for every new member. Every senior brother is as like gardian for us.

You know quite well that no one is encyclopedia of knowledge or an island of knowledge, if you notice any mistake from any forum user i think the best option is to message the person personally, even though it involves grammatical errors it's the same to correct a mistake, i adhered what you said, and i applaud you for corrections and observations you made.

First and foremost, welcome to the Bitcointalk forum. I highly suggest that you should take time in reading the rules of the forum before you start your journey.

When it comes to merits, treat it as a bonus. You can’t expect members to give you merits for every “high quality” or “helpful” post that you’ve published. Also, you must not have a mindset of “I’m gonna keep posting so that I’ll be getting merits” or something like that. You will get pressured for sure.

However, if you post with passion or enjoying your time here on Bitcointalk without thinking of the merits, you will be surprised later on that you are given a merit by someone for a helpful post or reply that really “impact” them.

Welcome to Bitcointalk I believe the first thing you should do is to check the forum rules first, I believe that's the first thing you should do and if your post is really meaningful and useful to the forum members then you will definitely get merit but don't plagiarize. And there is punishment for useless post which is ban or negative trust. Thanks are you are welcome once again.

I am not interested in PMing you. The point I made about your grammatical errors was well intended. You can accept this criticism and say thank you, or you don't have to. Your decision.

HOW TO EARN MERIT?
it's a question I see frequently in the Beginners & Help section.
If we search for this question with the search feature, we find many solutions and answers for every user of this forum.
Repeated question, with the same answer.

if the OP is able to survive and grow then getting merit will be very easy. But if you just give up on a few posts maybe he will quit and quit.

Take advantage of your Local Borad to discuss or exchange opinions so you can explain every problem and question well. Merit will come to your account if you are qualified. believe it.

The way the system is now is not welcomed by me.Merit is no longer based on reasonable and quality posts anymore.One will compose a very unique post,but at the end of the day,zero merit is what he will have.

Giving of merit is no longer based on how quality your posts can be or how good your post is,it is now based on the number of persons that knows you in the forum and in your local boards.

He may not know what a quality post is, maybe 5 lines or 2 lines posts. Alot of posters mistake the length of the posts they make to mean quality and i do not think that is it. Some write to fill the length required to meet up with campaign requirement and end up not writing much meaningful things. To earn merit will mean to write something you know makes sense and meaning to you.

I’d say that many other factors weigh-in, although some affinities may exist over time due to style, frequency of encounter, and content preferences (as can happen in the opposite direction). Bear in mind that there are often topics that are rather recurrent, and normally the early bird gets the worm. People’s criteria changes over time, and so do their awarding habits invariably.
 
On a side note, I’ve taken a look out of curiosity at some of my ratios, and over 76% of my posts have not been merited. Granted that it’s still a good ratio overall (and even more so by comparison), but it doesn’t mean that the said percentage of posts are pointless.

You might need to step up your game from what I can see from your post history. Try to engage more in discussions, because most of your post are direct reply to the OP.
You do not need to be multiple liner poster to earn one, so don't overcomplicate it too much.

The length of the post really means nothing.
It is similar to politicians, you can say a lot without saying anything smart and useful   ;D
When I give someone a merit, it’s always because that particular post helped me in some way, because I learned something, got new information etc.
New members, who do not have enough knowledge and experience, can always research a topic and share the information they find.

If the long post is not on point nor doesn't contributes on what is discuss on the thread then those long post is totally nonsense.

That's why its better to create a low length of post but on point and we can see the simplification of the answer given on the thread for sure its merit worthy. But its also good not to think about those since if we think about it more we will struggle since we will be force to spam for thinking that each of our post will get a merit to the users here.

I'm first timer here ,willing to learn,just doing  my best i can contribute here,some discussion if someday i can learn more knowledge  ,so i can earn MERITs,by studying,reading,and understanding,every topic they share.

You don't need to ask this in the first place and instead of asking about how to earn merits? I believe you should also explore the forum and besides, this has been asked multiple times and the answer is can be found in the forum as well. But I think this has become important to us now, maybe to rank up but the most important is we are learning here which we can share with others to those who have misunderstood crypto and those who think negatively.
Merits will come momentarily even without asking it.

Not really, there is no guarantee that you will earn merits for all your good post which is worthy because even an extraordinary post/thread maybe buried under spam but yeah it is the way and don't expect the merits for your contribution. Let the contribution of you to bitcointalk and one day the things will come to you which is better than chasing it.

Think how to make good post and how to contribute to the forum. If you make merit your priority you will loose focus

Nowadays, newbies are hungry for merits- like the first thing that they do is to create an account and open similar threads like these. It is noteworthy to mention, however, that contribution will most likely increases the chance of gaining merits but newbies should deviate from this mindset and view.

When you create an account on this forum, change your perspective about these 'merits'. Instead, focus on creating actual threads that promote discussion and knowledge. Avoid asking questions that have been asked already and create threads that spark interest and focus on the topic.

No focuse is being lost if you want to make or earn a Merit, to earn a merit will enable a user to go extra mile into research in order to ensure that what's he or she portray is at positive side of the community of bitcointalk which is know as a quality post, meaningful contributions attracts merit, and a reasonable topics created with a constructive terms also attracts Merit award, so it's base on personal creativity, and also about an ability to read meanings into what you think is commons and are not common.

Honestly, you can read a lot of threads similar to this...
To earn merit is not our priority why we are here, it was just a reward for giving an informational and quality post but this is not the thing why the community grows. But I'm not stopping you you think that because that was your right and newbies are hungry for this in order to rank up.

I understand your situation but you should not have to think about it first, it is rather to improve your posting habit, and being active on the forum will help you for achieving your goal. It just needs time and most especially hard works.

Hello buddy, welcome to the Bitcointalk forum. To earn merits you just have to be an active member and always try to write constructive topics. Do not just learn from other members, try to share something that you have, you can also ask a positive question in case you do not have something to share. You will earn merits if you do that, simple!

See i would like to advise you to explore the forum to the extent you can do and find the best suitable guide for you that could lend a helping hand in earning merit.

There are some ways by which you can earn merits easily like there are some newbies merit giving thread on which you can complete the requirements and get merit as reward such as by @OgNasty and @Ratimov and you could probably find them on 1-2 page on B&H section.You could also try this test (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5361462.msg58004544#msg58004544) if you wish to do so and others but search for them.

Second and best option is to do make quality posts on the forum as this is main point of this whole system by @theymos and this could be achieved with knowledge and healthy discussion.

But you have made very few posts in these days and out of them 2 are bounty related submission and all rest are reply to your this thread.But if you are dedicated to earn them and learn on forum give time and your focus on acquiring tips and knowledge from senior members.Merit will come afterwards automatically.

Some members have explained and shown how to get (merit).

in my opinion it's easy for you to get...!
I give an example:
Have you ever been in elementary school to high school, I think it's common for everyone to go to school.

Here comes the question again, have you ever got (rank 1/achievement) in school, if ever what you did, studied, knowledge, creative ideas and answered all the exams given by the teacher, didn't you.

So, in this forum it's not much different from what you do in school, you're smart you get (Merit) you're not smart you don't get (Merit), do you understand what I mean, if yes, that's great and if not, I don't know what to say to the OP.

Good luck to (Merit).

Merits aren't that difficult to attain, just go through the forum's rules and ensure to keep them....
Try posting frequently and make your post as interactive as possible.


Nonetheless, you shouldn't center your mind on just earning merits, also think of ways you can give out informative and timely informations to the forum with this, you wouldn't be loosing focus but gradually and unconsciously attaining your goal..
Welcome💝

Oh that's why you only got 1 merit since October since you didn't think that getting merit is harder than you think  :D, Anyways getting merits is not about only like that since there are several thread or information posted without acquiring any merit. Sometimes you need to be humorous or shall we say on point when posting something so that you can get the merit what you want.

But maybe its not good to focus upon hunting it since there are only few members here actively giving a merit to anyone who post their personal opinions so maybe focus to learn new things or gather information on what you want to focus on venturing on crypto.

Merit hunters will be there as long as merit system is in practice so we should adapt to these kind of threads. :D

Maybe there is chance of a legit newbie to have such question in their mind but when someone is having the intention of gathering knowledge will try to research as much as possible before creating such questions.

I recall when merit was just like "freshly" implemented back in 2018, and Meta was like under attack with those "merit fishing" thread like just generic thoughts of newbies to merit. From the past months, from what I observed, merit fishers are now attacking this board with "yet another plagiarism" or "yet another merit" thread.

I see threads like this, my eyes stay pinned on your merit, post and activity series with an expectation that, at least your activity and post count must have been way up to constitute a issue for the author but, have been disappointed a few times like in your case. They are low, your account @Op was created an hour before you made this post, no doubt ther is a possibility of an introduction and telling what is what but, coming the next minute to create a thread talking about earning merits makes it look like your just trolling and that doesn't help so much.

Abolish that idea and stick to learning, contribute positive ideas, bring new information to the forum and be you! Then the merits would come!

probably they just target the boards where most merits are shared but they never realize that only the real discussion will attract people to make some discussion and thought sharing situations.

Irrespective a quality post, its the reader who reads and accepts that that is a worth post giving information and being a quality post, give a merit to it. At times a quality post is not read by many and that goes off unmerited. But yes as like, every other platform, consistency will pay off. Yes, a quality post will one day be acknowledged irrespective of where and on what board its posted.

Sir/ma i will like you to be calm and study, understand the forum very well and at least know what this forum is made of follow the rules and regulations after that you will understand what is it to get merit.

The way merit is given here,I don't really think it's base on how quality your post is anymore,it's seems it base on   how people know you in the forum,I said that because,one can post something that is of good quality,a post that deserves merits,but because he is not known by people in the group or forum,he will not be given any merit.
Where as it wasn't like that,it was how good your posts is,that can make can guaranteed of your merits.

It is partially true. There is no perfection on Earth and there are loopholes with which people use their sMerit inappropriately just as likes, supports or lazily dump their sourced sMerit to complete their sMerit distribution.

Again, it is partially true but if you make quality posts consistently, you will do receive merit. Additionally, there is multibilateral compensational effects.

• Some of your quality posts might not receive merit, like you said
• Some of your quality posts will receive merit, and receive a lot, more than it deserves.
• Net-effect: if you make quality posts consistently, you will still receive good amount of merit

Hello, im a new member too and the information especially in this topic was very useful for me because im still looking around in the forum and achieving information about things like merit.At last now i know what it tis and how to achieve it. thanks

I have seen so far that the more your knowledge is, the better you will be able to write, according to that you will get merits. Accordingly, your rank will also increase. You can know more about by visiting these links.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0

Welcome to bitcointalk. As a newbie i advise you get yourself familiar with the forum rules and understanding the things to be done and things not to be done in the forum before you think of ranking up. To get promoted to higher ranks you need to create a quality posts and contribute to the forum while avoiding plagiarism and along the line you may earn merits but its not guaranteed though.

Tap the following links to know more
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0

Welcome to the forum mate. To earn merits, you need to contribute to the forum, good posts will normally earn merits because merit sources will likely give merits to post which are deserving to earn. As a newbie, you need to learn more, so start with reading, read, read, then you can do post, post, post after. Good luck, don't hunt for merits hard enough because they will just come as long as you follow my suggestion highlighted above.

Bitcointalk forum is indeed a very wonderful place to be in, I will first of all congratulate you because I assure you it will be well. Merits come when you give contribution in the forum, answer some questions to guide other members of the forum. Also sharing some vital information to update the the forum members.

Just have five basic review which newbies have to consider first to do for earning a Merit.
• Observation
• Read before posting
• Carry on a research for innovation of the forum
• Post to the area ( board) you understand
• Don't post in a hurry (relax and found cogent points) before dropping.

Scope of merit is not restricted to only newbies and we all need to keep some rules in mind before making any posts.The good post will always be appreciated like sometimes i don't agree with the post but the quality of post is good and it has initiated good and healthy conversations on forum it deserves merit then.

You have pointed out some good points but you also need to exchange knowledge which is the most powerful tool to rank up for all of us and gain merit.The focus should be quality posting only and merits are secondary or say complementary with the good posts.So work in that areas and you all will see ranking up on forum.

Actually you are right because a good quality post is what fetch merit,  in the aspect of exchanges of knowledge, no objections, because anyone who found he or her ways in bitcointalk community and also engages in the interactions of bitcoin conversation or communication is obviously exchanging knowledge, because their is no way you can respond to chat without understanding the point of a writer the process reading it and in same vein understand it you are exchanging knowledge and obtaining wisdom, the only thing that backslide many newbies not to continue is by not earning merit like others, so the strategies to earn merit is all this things we point out.

Maybe it is so in the local sections of the forum if there are not enough members who can give merits but I think it is not so in the English part of the forum.
Personally, whenever I see a quality and constructive post, I will give merit and I will not even look at who the author of the post is, because it is completely irrelevant.
I'm sure that most other members of this forum also reward with merit every quality post regardless of who the author is.
Perhaps the problem is that your definition of quality post does not match the definition of quality post by most members of this forum.

Merits are basically rewarded numbers offer to independent forum users for their contribution towards the forum to enhance the value, information, and knowledge of other users.

Merits can be received by contributing to the forum by own experience and knowledge. It completely depends on the community, how they take it for granted and offers Merit for information published on the forum.

Knowledge of any specific stream, including years of experience, can be easily identified by content published on the forum.

Great understanding and great explanatory content are always great. It gives higher values to other users of the forum.

Collected merits always show the user's credibility towards forum contribution.

Should it be required to give credit to the OP or any of replies if you have let's say at least ten... when replying, that way Merits would circulate more!

Sharing knowledge and if that's is found informative and useful,a merit is given. Not all would give merits and not each informative, useful and quality posts would get a merit. It depends in who reads and how attractive it is to the reader. Many good posts are either skipped or not watched. But yes keep up posts informative and to the point.

It would be counterproductive, and actually disincentive people (with a certain amount of available sMerits) from posting, were they required to Merit when replying. Merits would actually circulate less as a result.

It’s quite usual for accounts to rack their brains early in the game, on how to get more merits flowing in the system (I did after a month and a half or so (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2979766.msg30623623#msg30623623)), or devising ways to set a higher focus on lower ranks. After some time, one will likely see things in a somewhat different way, and whilst the more the merrier could be a thing, there is that factor related to the content that people post that should carry the weight, and to a highish degree it does. That is where the focus should be on, and if it becomes evident that tons of good posts go unmerited, then there would be a clear call for racketing the brains on how to move things along.

As things stand, there are many chances to earn some Merits here (post revision threads, signing messages and guessing games for example) that give an exceedingly easy entry point to earning Merits. But that should not blind people from the fact that the focus of Merits is on content, and that takes some effort to align with Merits.

Having said that, I’m all in for "the more eyes on the table the better" thing, but not forcibly imposed, and change driven by evidence rather than perception, in general terms.

To earn merits you need to be a quality member it's not all about how long you will reply to a thread it's all about the content as long as this content might help other people and the whole community for sure there's merit will come. People always come here on the forum and ask frequently how to earn merit because they know there's a chance to earn but after they know the merit requirement for now they already abandoned their account. I guess this can be locked.

Report it to a moderator if you think this thread deserves to be locked as only then can the moderator act on it immediately.

Being a newbie in this forum seems very difficult because most of them keep asking the same thing on many occasions. They are always advised to do a search for the problem they are having as there may have been many threads about it in the past but in reality this always end up in vain. I'm sure this won't be the last time a thread like this has been created by a newbie.

Real merit are earned by Knowledge, that is the easiest way to Knowledge.  Without knowledge you can't earn merit . Getting knowledge is obtained by spending time to learn and make research , this how to alway earn merit. Seeking for knowledge always will always bring merit.

Do you want merit? Work for it by posting qualitatively. To be merited by someone can't be foreseen when or by the kind of post you made. Being merited by someone comes when you least expected. Contribute and suggest meaningfully to post been shared in this forum. Then expect to be merited by someone

You are right on the part that knowledge is essential for obtaining merit on the forum but it should be reflected in your post and then it should be liked by some members who can then give you merit.Keep in mind the main goal is to share good information with members like someone has asked a technical question and you know the answer for the same then you should explain him in detail the process and help him and for that you can get merit from other members who liked your post.

Gaining knowledge and learning is continuous process and you need to evolve yourself with time and make quality post that don't have irrelevant information and be on topic that will help you to gain merits.It always come with time so make sure you are dedicated towards it.