Indeed, there are different kinds of beginner in this forum and the number 1 is the greatest one compared to 2 and 3. As a beginner, you should know that everything will be hard for you because you are not yet familiar, so do not give up, do not let this things let you quit from participating in this forum because if you quit you will never succeed. Having struggles is normal especially for the beginners but if you all overpass it, you will see how goo you have done.
1. Actually I don't know much about activity but sometimes it increasses depends on your posts.
2. Merit is really important in this forum, it will show how good are you in this forum.
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And the one most important thing that how are we gonna earn from here???
On the other hand, I want to remind you that this is not cryptotalk. Totally different from cryptotalk, and very hard to rank up here if you think it's a forum like cryptotalk. So first give the pressure on learning before earning. Good Luck
Indeed, I have tried the cryptotalk and most of the posts on that forum is all about earning money, they keep on asking on how they will earn from the forum, there is no some useful information you can read from that forum which is really different from this forum. You should mind first how are you going to learn things from here not how are you going to earn money.