Up to now, I've got 145 merits, 156 posts, and 42 activities. I feel proud of myself. Next, I tend to spend most of my time in the operation of my project, so such intensive creation might be hard to achieve.
You should be proud of yourself for that, honestly. What you've achieved within this short period is no mean feat. I do not begrudge you the self accolade you gave yourself. Well done. Though you've to make your post as short as midgets could be but well packed with relevant content. Oh boy, I meant having effective way of writing concisely.
But my little unpopular advice to you is that you shouldn't let Merits drives you wide it's dangerous to think about ranking up while writing a good article
Ranking up is a growth thing. It's like humans passing phases of life, so to say. I believe that's why it (different rank levels) has been here once the forum was created, and long before the OP, you or I came in. And now that the forum has placed merit as a condition for it, I don't see why OP won't be in a glee noticing his posts are getting merited. He has many topics under his belt, figuratively speaking, already within a short time and I think that also came with pains of writing and research.
