OP, since you are so hard at work on this subject, let me add a little tip.
Please note that there are violations on the forum, such as transferring merits to your alternate account. Probably many
So many newbies is not aware that exchanging merit to alternative account is similar to someone who plagiarised or paraphrased a work, someone can violates the law of the community unknowing if note properly gone through the protocols, procedures, rules and regulations of the community but it's not an excuse, it's very necessary to calm down and understand the reason while some rules are innate or enshrined to community more especially the new users, majority of them is concentrating on plagiarism as the major rule that can restrict them not to operate here, so it's good to study and also know the implications of plagiarism, exchanges of Merit system, and paraphrasing.
Unfortunately, lots of newbies nowadays are focusing too much of ranking-up where their post quality suffers.
Before you think about ranking up, it is essential that you share or create a thread which engages conversation and discussion about a certain topic. It is also advisable that you remove that kind of mindset and just focus on contributing. In that way, instead of you chasing the merits, it will be the other way around.
Newbies, always remember that post quality >> post quantity.
I think one of the major reasons while newbies are inquisitive to rank up with immediate effect, is because they want to join a signature campaign, because i think that should be their first mindset, some of them work tirelessly to earn a merit that will guarantee them or uplift them to another rank, the problem is that if they secure this rank which they desperate to ascertain without knowing what the community is all about, what is going to be their benefit in future, see i denotes some person's are here to learn and some are here also to earn bitcoin which totally wrong from my perspective, knowledge first before any other things.