Can I add one more tip ? Just make a thread about merit in meta section and hope for merits.
Edit : This is sarcasm which some members failed to get as I see after reading comments.
This is like a half-joke to me than a sarcasm. This contains half-truth -- based on the current statistics, Meta board is one of the boards that has high rate of giving merits.
I hope that there will be sufficient merit-givers (merit source?) all across the forum (on all the boards). So that the bias of posting on one thread just to earn a merit will be removed.