To cut this story short, if you really want to rank up and have a good reputation just do the opposite, stay active, learn more and expect nothing.
These are my mistakes, and I hope you won't do the same so you can be more successful here. Right now, I'm only learning with my experience and hopefully, I can give something more helpful in the future.
Being active is one of the most important aspects of growing or ranking up in this wonderful forum; you can't expect someone who has no experience with the forum to get merits; you must be very active, make your contributions to the forum, and help others, and you will see your rank rise.
Some of us approach the forum with different perspectives, which is why, once you start with bounty, it always appears very difficult to rank up because your threads are full of bounties; the best thing to do is to be very active and contribute to the forum.
Not just active, you know why? Because many users here in the forum who is active many years ago but still did not rank up. The main reason why other forum members experience an easy way of ranking it because of their contribution here in our community and this is the main thing we should have to rank up higher. Gaining more achievement is based on our hard work so if we want to rank up we need to make a quality and helpful post.