You have really explained problems of many newbies here as most of them are unable to express, many would have the same questions and would try to gain merits by the evil ways you mentioned, but yes it is more easy to gain it by putting useful content in any post I think anyone would surely notice it and respect your work on the posts and award you merits.
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Thanks
Also hope that they are reading a lot on this board as well because if not, your post might have gone in vain. Either way, if you want more merit, you also better consider studying more about bitcoin and crypto.
I'm sure it will vanish but maybe some Newbies will read it - I think that my example is more likely to understand than short theoretical posts about way to get merit...
Reading what you posted above shows me two things:
1. If there is no change in the rules, you'll probably never care about contributing to this forums at all.
Well I'm not proud of this... but being honest you're probably right.....
2. If there is no change in the rules, you'll probably never visit meta or read many threads. In fact, you're thinking to buy merits, which makes me wonder, have you ever read the merit description before?
Yes I did read about merit before but as I write in the post i thought "Im not a specialist in blockchain area, there are thousands of users who are better than me and for sure they can write more than me so I have no chance to be given even one, high ranked users probably exchange merits between themselves (sorry for that! - but I thought so)"
I hope you'll continue to be contributive, and not only focus on your translation business.
Either way, if you want more merit, you also better consider studying more about bitcoin and crypto.
I will do my best....