And you should be glad. Being merit what it is in terms of a rank enabler/disabler, it also comes along with the personal satisfaction for receiving them, and being able to pass on the cumulate sMerit halvings on to others. Often I see the recommendation to ignore merits when writing, and not have it as a focus. That is true in a sense, but it should be in the back of the mind of many as a compass to try to create a content that may deem different from the mainstream on-liners.

It took me the good part of two months to get my first merit. The truth is I didn’t care for it much initially, since when I joined the forum I had no idea what I was going to do here. I joined in early January 2018, read around for a couple of weeks, then tried a couple of bounties, got bored, and then I tried posting a bit until I started getting merited. That was a booster at the time, and it helped to a large extent continue the venture.