Knowing the forum rules before posting helpful information, good content, high quality post that is good for contributing to bitcointalk forum is the first objective.

While i'm checking this thread I saw two threads that is based on how to earn merit or how to get merit in one page and one of the two threads I saw was this thread. I suggest that you guys set an agreement on which one of you lock the thread and post it to one of the thread that is not locked so that the spam posts will decrease. Just my opinion.