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.
This is absolutely true! I tried to do some research here to answer some questions with the best quality I could pull out but it is not enough to get a merit point because in the end they will still be the one who to decide if they want to share it or now. This points are really hard to earn but we need to leave with it and just keep on posting a quality post, you will never know unless we try and try.