Because most of your posts are in ANN thread. Who will check thousands of posts for meriting only?
Also, you have a habit of quoting the whole posts and sometimes quoting some quotess which make people bore to read a post, at least it happens for me and I believe so does for others.
You're right about not removing useless quotes. I mostly do it when on cellphone as it become a pain not to mess up what I actually wanted to quote. Guess I should take the habit to clean the unwanted stuff.
You characterized your post history as "decent contributions," and personally, I would take issue with your characterization, even if you might well be capable of making decent contributions, you may need to study a bit more into how other members are receiving merits, because receiving merits does not seem to be beyond your abilities.. You just need to spend some time actually making decent contributions, and for members to get to know you and to appreciate your contributions... that recognition is generally not going to come through threads in which the vast majority of participants seem to be engaged in pump and dump get rich scheming - those folks may not even have any merits to give... so there are a lot of other threads in which you can actually participate - including reading some of the prior posts in order to engage with current and relevant topics of the thread.