There's no need to be hasty for us like newbies here to have merits, however it is a step by step process that we should have to learn the basics here in this forum. After learning some basics, we need to post a usefull thread or a tutorial post for newbies in order to receive merits.

To received merit or not, the essence of posting a good thread may give some usefull information to newbies and somehow you'd helped others.