This forum is not about creating posts of how to earn merit, it is becoming too obvious, this thread should be locked because it can not have any meaning posts. Please, lock this thread.
Somehow your right but there are newbies who's struggling to get a merit and some of them leave because they get a hard time to rank up and those links given by OP is indeed helpful since they could start to earn by participating on the threads provided and fill the requirements of the thread creator.