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.
I laughed reading your post man. This is very positive.
Many are like you saying here including me. Your age is younger than me including those who are still very active, but until now we still haven't reached the rankings like you.
Regarding quality posts, I would like to convey a little based on what I understand. I'm sure you're willing to set the record straight if I'm wrong because I've been very blunt and need to read a lot.
1. Every quality post, worthy of merit.
2. Quality posts that I understand are posts that can benefit others.
Of these two things, what else is the standard of quality post quality so that someone can receive and give merit in your opinion if the two things I mentioned are contained in a post?