There is no other way to receive an easy merit! You just receive it by posting something meaningful and with a sense of course.
So work hard on your posts and make them constructive to have the knowledge they can read too !. The only really difficult for us to have merit are the people who prefer to give merit for their alts or is swapper they merit to someone else to take advantage of it.
Even posting useful information won't guarantee that you'll earn some merit. Most of users just don't wan't to share their merit, or they just don't know the rules. So it's a real headache to recieve merit and reach a higher rank.
Exactly. And most of people i know here in forums stucked in their ranks, including myself, because of this. We are no spammers. We join discussions healthy and share good ideas with others but didn't got merit even once.
I agree on all of you, this feels like a lottery for us stuck in Jr.MEmber rank. But we must also have patience and hope for getting merits even though we give good posts. This does takes time and patience so just wait for something to happen. There is no such thing as easy merit.