getting a +1 merit here is harder than winning the nobel prize xD
Earning merit is very simple if only you follow the rules and regulations, there are many new users who gain merits over here in the forum so you can still try your best to post and gain it for free.
...and yet at this point in time, you have exactly four merits after twelve hundred and eighty-eight posts.
It looks like someone hopes to earn Merit with his generic post in Meta. I was just checking his history:
Please don't advice people on how to earn Merit!
It's quite simple: if you use the forum as a forum instead of an ATM, you can stop creating useless posts so your Merit-to-post ratio will improve.
Here's yours: