Every user is serving a different purpose on the forum and you don't need to engage all the discussion but if you are serious about that then give it time and slowly develop those skills which can make you capable of that to take active participation on each topic.Those members you are taking about have not developed those websites and data collecting in one go but have taken their time and have technical knowledge of coding.So you need to learn such programming languages like phyton,c++,java and some frontend languages like js or CSS and then have logical building to make up some sites or solve complex bitcoin problems and suggest some BPIP.You have to master that things and that will take some time.

But if you talk about other members who are not so technically sound but still gaining merits is because they have contributed effectively on the forum and created useful threads for newbies and helped the other members with their knowledge.So they get merits for the same.If you are having some useful information about bitcoin and want to actively participate in that discussion just give your some legitimate and original ideas or good thoughts to enhance the discussion and no need to have any kind of technical knowledge for the same.

The forum has many boards like bitcoin discussion,B&H ,Political, Economics,Trading Discussion and some local boards which doesn't require any technical bitcoin or cryptocurrency knowledge.But only thing required is knowledge and you can gain it time to time from different sources.Sometimes we are in rush to take part in everything which can be harmful because jumping into topics with half or less knowledge could ruin your image.So give some time as you are doing good on the forum already as there are members who have not gained any merits from long time but you have managed to gain enough so enjoy and keep posting the same or in more better manner.

Rest if you are interested in learning then best choice is to read Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos that can give you enough of bitcoin knowledge that is required at most cases.

Some books we need to read

Bitcoin books and libraries by Ratimov

Try to learn as much as possible and give it time and you will definitely reach your goals one day and become effective member of the forum.