The more people use cryptocurrencies means the more people are getting attention about cryptocurrencies. Like can you imagine that you have a friend that doesn't even work but he can buy a lot of expensive things, of course, you have some curiosities about what he does so that he can buy a lot of things without work, then you start asking him, and then he explains you about this forum. And now you start joining this forum. I think that's why a lot of newbies in this forum, just like me. And the more people use cryptocurrencies the more cryptocurrencies value increase, cause the more investor invest in cryptocurrencies.

"I think it is really good to eliminate negative posts to help the community growing up" I do agree with your statement, I think merit is good for the community, with merit as a requirement to rank up means there no way spam people can rank up easily.
Answering your question how to increase merit? I think the only way to increase merit is to give all your best to make a good post and let the other people do the rest, I think all of the members of this community is a smart people, which is mean if you make a good post you will get your merit from the people who think your post was good and helpful

I am a newbie too, but I think to work on this platform effectively all we (newbie) need to do is read all of the postings that can help us to develop and also we can ask other people that have more experiences to give us an explanation about this forum. I think if we do that we can work on this platform effectively probably