For reference, I'm the person that responded to the question
I think for that post specifically it was just timing. For me personally, I'm in the US, and it was posted at 1 am my time, so I'm not going to see it for at least 8 hours. And if you don't sort the board by first post, that's a lot of time for it to get buried by replies in other topics.
The question you posted before, in contrast, was posted at 9am my time, when more English-speaking forum users are likely to be awake, probably being why it got more responses.
I don't think it was a technically difficult question. Granted, I'm a computer engineering major, so I knew some of the basic stuff about ports and connections, but I still needed to look things up as it related to Bitcoin. I think anyone who would take 5-10 minutes to do some searching would have found the answers pretty easily, regardless of previous technical knowledge.
Thanks for giving us lower-level members some opportunities to earn merits! Hopefully it also helps the other members see examples of good quality posts/responses in a more visible manner