As i had experience with the other forums too like Cryptotalk and now i am on Bitcointalk where things are too much different as on Cryptotalk its pretty easy while on bitcointalk ot complex, so i am still learning about this forum, the problem i am facing here are followings,
1. What is activity
2. What is merit
3. What is the criteria of rank system
I have seen many threads but no one has explained it in easy ways.
So these are the most common problems for the newbies.
And the one most important thing that how are we gonna earn from here???
1. Activity is pretty much what it says, it increases slowly by participating in the forum (i.e. posting) but the progress is capped by rank in order to curb abuse such as burst-posting or spamming in order to rank up.
2. Merits are like upvote points which are given out to contructive or informative posts. Both merit and activity go hand-in-hand with the ranking up here. So for instance if you earn 1 Merit, you become a Junior Member but you have to accrue 42 Activity points beforehand for the rank up to take place.
3. Pretty much explained in points 1 and 2.
Actually there's a sticky on the above posted @
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0 which you could take a look at.