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You now have s strike of three posts in a row that are not bounty reports, all from today. That is a start, forced no doubt by the change of rules. I took nearly two months to get my first merit, so things are not necessarily swift. On top of that, a posting history composed nearly solely based on social network reports does not help.
Rules and merit are a hot topic, and therefore on the radar for discussion where good posts may or may not be merited. Nevertheless, the spectre of options is ample here, so its a question of finding yours, and being applied to creating content that is of interest to others, well versed and thought through. Time and though are basic factors to throw in.
I know Rules & Merrit is a hot topic.
However, it does not help to build knowledge of bitcoin&cryptoccurrency at all. It seems odd that more Merits are awarded to Rules & Merit than knowledge of cryptocurrency.
I am not talking about changing the rules. It is strange that the postings about Repetitive Rules&Merit receive a lot of Merit.
I think many people seem to be just concentrating more on Rules & Merit than on constructive discussions.
Of course, I also wanted to write constructive posts, so I searched for the Merit posts in this forum. The result is above.