Not surprised you thread is been attracted (thread with similar content always get attacked) but I'm surprised the attack isn't related to your topic of creation but your previous topics why is that? You have to understand this inorder to improve yourself on the forum. You have gotten quite a number of merit in the shortest time of you been active and I have just contributed only 12  (that's poor from my end as your posts most have been of quality to get such amount of merits or the merits weren't correct).

Differentiate the advice from the envy, take the advice and work on them, truly the forum is more than just merits but that doesn't mean you should go engaging yourself in board you don't have much knowledge on. I understand why many hangout here, excluding the merit hurting game, the board is open to all sorts of discussion (atleast that's what the board has been turned to) which makes it very easy to engage in conversation and for the sake of it been a hangout point to noobs, your post quality won't be judged as much as other advance board.

Having said all that, to learn some forum skills, you can reach out to those that already have such skills. Hhampuz can testify to how many times I reach out to him for guidance because I always wanted to be a manager. My post back then revolved around having the best signature experience on the forum while learning and still been a productive users. No harm in reaching out, do so now <wink>.