Indeed, beginners should not mind first on how they will be going to get some merits in this forum, the thing that they should prioritize is "how they are going to learn from this forum", that should be the thing on their mind because knowledge is really important in every aspect of our life especially in this forum to be familiar about cryptocurrency.
If you have knowledge about cryptocurrency, if you keep reading and understanding some posts in this forum it will benefit you in the future because you will use all of that to gain money and to help some other beginners.
If someone join this forum only for enriching knowledge about Bitcoin, Bitcoin transaction, Bitcoin mining, Atlcoin etc then I will say merit is nothing for him. But if someone join this forum for earning money then I will say merit is everything for him. You can see this in Signature campaign.
Nice, very accurate, merit will only be important for a person in this forum if they want to make more money because as far as I know, the higher the merit the higher the rank and if you have higher rank you can make more money, but for me we should always mind the ways we're going to learn from this.