You have already said that you are giving too much effort. That is basically just the start. Yes given the fact that you efforted alot yet haven't recognized yet, why is that so btw?

Simple lets go on to other rules. If you helped someone get the information that they needed you might receive one. The other thing is that if you have provided a very informative post with regards to the topic then you might as well to receive one. Lastly for me is the choice of topic and timing.

Timing and the chosen topic is very crucial. You have to understand that you are dealing with other people and it really needs to be a real conversion between you and the prospect. If you are posting good information on a bloated or on a spam topics in which there is absolutely no real conversion then that could be a useless posts in the end. Then if you are posting good posts to those topics that has a real conversion yet the timing is bad because they actually don't need it or it was already posted before then again it is useless.

You have to strategize. I believe that a jr.member account or below could really learn alot from this merit system. I think it could somewhat solve the spamming issue if not abused by everyone.

Regards,