For newcomers like me, it's hard to get merit. Everyone in my Local Boards uses the merit to sell money, so, as you can imagine. Merit has become commercial in nature and has no money no Merit.
So you can experience the despair of a newcomer to the next level.
I have some suggestions.
Maybe you can refer to some of the bounty threads. Each week's post has the word count and quantity requirements.. You can get a certain number of Merit if you meet the conditions. Weekly statistics and issuance.
Or any other way you can think of, but not totally dependent on anyone to get the Merit.
I think it will be fair, let merit not be out of reach. Everyone can get it through their own efforts,as long as you meet the requirements, conditions, rather than need 80% of luck and buy.
The above is my suggestion. Thank you very much for reading.
Best regards.
Getting merits appear difficult now in comparison the situation we had when merit system was launched. This might be because members had used most of their default merit points and we are dependent on merit sources only for merits. The number of new members is increasing at fast pace here and merit sources are not adjusted accordingly.