Hello friend, merits are given to members that are very helpful and are posting very informative and those who help the community, its is a reward by any members of the community to the contributor of this community, what i mean is you post something that is helpful and if anybody recognized it, they can give you merit for me, but for me, never mind it for now, you just need to be active and follow the rules and post something nice., nevermind about the money which you can benefit from here, and everything will follow later on, just be happy for being here in this community.