since this rule has implemented it became so hard to earn any merit even if your post is meaningful, i dont think people can even easily get 100 merits from posting, it may take alot of time.
"mariayaz" since you are a Jr. Member, I don't think you could simple step into then next rank as Member because for me on my personal understanding, it will take over a year to rank up your account.
Trying hard to rank up your account just to increase a little slice of bounty stake tokens of signature bounty campaigns is pretty useless because we're too late.
You better make a couple of dozens of accounts last year while you're able because this time, don't think you could simple rank up that easily.