Well done, congratulations!
But to be honest, I don't really understand the position of people hunting exclusively merit. And setting it as a goal.
Merit was invented in order for participants to make productive posts, support topics with unique content. They also gave valuable advice to beginners.
That is, they were useful - but the reward in the form of merit will already find them herself.
It's just that if you hunt only for merite, you get the feeling that a person is only looking for profit on the forum, and he doesn't care what it's about, and what ideas are being promoted.
Your claim looks genuine enough because your account was created in 2016 and so far you are still a member, it shows that you are not really into ranking up as faster as possible, but we are not the same, OP might see this whole thing as a challenge or just a desire to achieve a higher rank, but I have read some of OP comments and contribution, I am amazed at how good he really his, not all those that hunt for merits are looking for merit like I've said, some are just pretty good at making contributions, and good contributions attracts more merits than mediocre contributors.
In no case will I accuse anyone of anything. And it's bad if my post looked like this.
I just want a forum in the first place to be a place of knowledge exchange, and not a place of work.
I have been absent from the forum for about 4 years, so I am still only in the Hero rank, although I have registered since 2016. I've seen the heyday of ICOs, the boom of scam signature campaigns, and so on.