Yes this is a problem which every newbie is going to face if they are coming to this forum only to get paid with bounty shitcoins and giving no importance of how this forum's ranking system works. Eventually you will be yearning to rank up because of the bounties and will end up in this frustrated cage in no time.

However this is no quick fix to your problem. You have to visit the different sections of the forum, read the topics and see if you can give your insight in the threads. If your posts are substantial some merit source might be kind enough to grant you some merits.

I would loved it if there was no specific sub-forums for this, but point is that some subs are more engaged with merits sources are therefore chances of getting a merit is higher there, at the cost of the fact that majority of the threads there are going to be a tangent to your head.

Well as long as you remain a bounty spammer you wont be getting any.