I was introduced to this forum by a friend of mine a couple of months ago. I joined it for gaining information about bitcoin and just weeks before I created this account and thought of starting to ask the questions related to bitcoin myself. I almost got answers to all my questions prior to the merit system but there were a lot of meaningless posts and I had to surf to pages and find the appropriate answer. But after this merit system, it has made it easier for people like me to get the perfect information or reply we need and also has opened gates to the people who actually are great posters and hold knowledge!
Merit system has been doing great in making the forum clean by removing most of the shitposters and forcing the ones who stay to make quality posts. Ranking up really is not a big deal unless a user has the sole purpose of earning from this forum!
If a user still has to rank up on this forum then I think the best ways for achieving it is that the reply must have considerably good English and should be on point. It should not be too fancy or lengthy as it is not considered as a quality post but a reply which is on point irrespective of its length is definitely a quality post!
Happy bittalking!