To earn Merit you need to be useful for the Forum and members of the forum. This will make the forum only better. For example:
1. Simply links to interesting posts or accounts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3247259.0
2. Table for selection and Bounty and AirDrop https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3270775
3. A member of the forum shares his experience of how he earned Merit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3306385.0
4. Directory of the most useful forum topics https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3534750
It is worth thinking about than each of us will be useful to the Forum.