I am new to this forum, but as far as I know it is not difficult to rank up. Because if you want to get merit, you have to use your own knowledge to help others or give good knowledge. So that they benefit a lot. Then you will definitely get merit. But if you post on altcoin board, you can never earn because it is spam side, to say here, everyone's post quality is same. So you have to post Bitcoin discussion, meta, economics, mining etc. If you post in these, you will definitely get credit.
Welcome to the forum, I have seen your merit history so it is true that there is nothing difficult to achieve merit to increase rankings, there are many opinions that we remain focused on improving post quality and sharing something useful for others, so often our post time will rewarded for getting some merit. So the main goal is to contribute to the forum and share important things to increase knowledge in the forum.