Member for 3 1/2 years. On and off active in a couple forum areas. All of 3 Merits. Almost a jr member.
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Getting merit does seem not all that easy
The Merit system was created to stop account farming spammers. You're not a spammer, so in my opinion Merit shouldn't be holding you back from ranking up. I've taken the easy approach and doubled the Merit you received from others.
Feel free to post in
Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source in the future.
Of course, this is not the place to ask for merits
Posting here helps to get some attention. If a spammer does it, he'll be checked for plagiarism. If it's a decent poster, he gets the attention he deserves. I normally don't visit the boards ruber1 posts in, and if I don't see the posts, I can't Merit them.