I have just joined bitcoin talk for a while. Although I just go to see information and do bounty, but I still do not understand how to get merit and how to get it. please explain to help me understand this problem. thank you all.
A quality post will reward you with a Merit once it's noticed by a Merit Source, there are many merit sources around here who spend their valuable time in reading the post and giving Merit.
So just keep posting and you may never know that you could get merited on a post surprisingly, just have patience and wait for it.
Good luck.
I agree with the above observations and suggestions of OcTradism and suchmoon.
Additionally, merit sources are not the only ones who have smerit that can be sent to other members, as we know.
Anyone who has smerit can send them to other members, and accordingly, for every 2 merits that are received by any member, the merit receiver will earn 1 sendable merit for those 2 received.
We also know that a large number of sendable merits were airdropped when the merit system was implemented on January 24, 2018. Some of those members who received airdropped smerits have not sent all of their sendable merits, so any of those members could become motivated to send smerits to any post(s) that they determine to be interesting or helpful in some kind of way.. usually, bounty seekers are not going to inspire others to send them smerits or even to be the kinds of threads that attract the receipt of smerits (as has already been stated).