Well, merit system breaks that tip #1 even you do that for a minimum of 2 years unless you are given a lot of merits for those post/ideas/contexts you made. Also faucets are massively low to give you satoshis or any crypto-currency units unless you have to earn a little to pay something like a fee for making an account or something that requires a small bit of cryptocurrency units?

This is still the only guide that is preferably helpful when it comes to newbies looking for some guides to earn something from scratch. Just don't invest into something that you didn't actually know. (take note of that newbies!).