Not to take anything away from Greg, but one thing that could help is being known in the meat space, and fighting/working in the right direction, including the mere fact that many of us will be inclined to send a merit when we are able to get information about inside or technical happenings that might be a bit beyond our skill level... which surely is appreciated in this space..... at least speaking for myself....   

Sure, being known in the meat space likely has some of its downside too, in terms of pesterenings in the real world. 

On the contrare, we have some members in this forum who are also well known in the meat space, but they have gotten into a certain level of distraction into nonsense projects like bcash or some other baloney like that don't seem to be attempting to build on bitcoin, and I don't really see any meaningful problem having disagreements and even vocalizing some of those disagreements with passion and intensity, but some of the bitcoin naysaying or alt coin pumpening ends up rising to the level of destruction rather than constructive disagreements, and going to be more difficult to earn merits for those kinds of destructive peeps who at least do not try to work towards making bitcoin better rather than printing their own seemingly get-rich-quick-wannabe scheme coin, seems to me.