The fastest way to increase rank is to contribute to the forum, and to help other members.

Now what is the slowest way? To come to the forum to hunt for bounty, and to give nothing to the community. To ask what is the fastest way to uprank, in order to suck more bounty pyments out of the community. You then need to ask about merits after you have read the stickies and your friend has already told you about them. We don't want your bounty hunting spam pollution in this forum.

You have started down the second path, as I have put you on ignore, and you won't getr any merits from me ever.