You mean "activity".
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All true stuff, glad you pointed it out--and this thread just keeps getting better as it goes along. I was actually surprised to see a "how I earn merit" thread in Meta after all this time, because we had a great streak going where such turds weren't being cranked out.
Most of your posts are in the Altcoin Section (aka the shitcoin subsection). You’re not going to gain many Merit’s posting in there because the people who hand them out don’t post in there.
If I had any piece of advice to give an actual newbie, it would be to avoid sections like that where not only your post but the thread it's in is going to get buried within a matter of minutes. Even if it was truly merit-worthy, it's not likely that the post is going to be seen by someone with merit to give in a section like Altcoin Discussion (or Bitcoin Discussion, Economics, Speculation, and probably a couple other sections).