No new tricks.
They are pretty much the same: exchanging knowledge, and find your peculiar way of doing so!
There is no magic recipe for the merit gobbling!
Yeah the trick is simple that you share something useful or exchange knowledge with others on the forum and you will get results in form of merits but the thing is this ranking up pipeline maybe different for all of us like some may climb it fast or some little slow but growing up is the main part on which we should focus.
In the beginning I was also not getting merits because was not enough passionate and dedicated to learn about bitcoin but once I decided to learn, it reflected in my posts quality and merits on my profile and then there was no looking back.So just be patient and exchange knowledge on the forum and this thread serves as a motivation to all to rank up on forum.
Frankly speaking, he's incredible and a motivational writter that's is full wisdom and great experience not only about Bitcoin and its related things but also in many areas while looking at his Threads/post. The very first time I came across this post by then I was either a Jr.member, So I first all went through his profile to examine his thread and post in order to get a graps of how he actually made it this far , indeed it was really amazing to me looking at the year (February 18, 2018) when he joined the forum and compare it with other people in his level , I saw a tremendous success and consistency from the beginning till now.
So you have managed to make good progress as you are full member within four months on the forum while some members are here for long and it's hard for them to earn even a single merit so best wishes to you for it.
I also advise members to read @fillippone's post to take some knowledge from his extensive guides apart from this one also to acquire knowledge about bitcoin stuff and rank up on the forum but knowledge is the key success for it.