I have been a newbie for so long now it's almost a year,
Some help me get merit and upgrade
you are really a strange member, if I give merit to you then I am considered a con artist.
how could anyone dare to take that risk, there are several ways to get merit, at least be involved in scientific discussions in the forum and provide useful opinions.
Scientific discussions... now we know where are the merit sources.

The right way to get merits is by the quality of your posts, if you don't share your knowledge with the system you will not get merits at all. Bring some good quality posts, a good lecture to the users and voila, there you will get them.
Lol at the scientific discussions.

There is no secret here, prior to the introduction of merit system, there are a lot of quality posters already and they did nothing, same posting habits and same debates/discussions.
The problem with newbie is that they really need to bounty hunt, then get out of the community without going around and learn some new things. That's why they can't engage in a proper discussion today because in the first place, they don't have the knowledge even if they have been in the community for the past 2 or more years. And that is why they don't get any merits at all.