I'm on the forum not so long ago. I live in Ukraine, and although my country is not the last in the issue of crypto currency, many people have no idea about it. I learned about the world of crypt last winter. At first I did not want to register on the forum because I do not know English. Then I was interested in the crypto currency and the opportunity to make money. Everything was fine as long as there were no new rules for changing ranks.
That's why I have a question for everyone who is older than the rank. How can i get a merit if the forum has a huge number of newcomers who write something every minute. Now I go to the forum and see a lot of different information. Even if I want to write something useful, it's always on the forum. How to raise a rank in such a situation?
I can agree that forum has vast information and whatever you want to write is always there but still forum has large number of newbies having question so you can still show them the way to the correct reponses , thread and boards.
You are somewhat misguided that users are getting merits because they are writing every minute. Users are getting Merits for their writing ability and skills.
Users like Ddmrddmr get merits for statistics analysis, Piggy got for sql tool, isaneko got for his thought for forum improvement , CryptoCoolvator and ICOEthics for busting scam ICOs, Coinlocker$ for Alt account busting, bitmover for creating some good articles and so on. You do not need to be Bitcoin developer or crypto coin developer but you need to something productive, useful for community and if it is somewhat unique than it might open the gold mine of Merit for you.
You need to think what is not in forum and you can use your skills to create it or something existing that you can improve it. Certainly it will look painful but there is old adage "No pain, No gain".