Well, as a beginner at bitcointalkz, or for you who just started new, you've gotta try as much as (basically everyday) to keep sharing contents or making eligible posts with also commenting on other people's contents in order to grow your status.
As a beginner here you have to read as much as you can inorder to learn much faster. This is the reason for the cool down time between posts, which reduces as one advances in rank.
If you keep churning out low quality posts, you only add to your activity and maybe add yourself to a couple of users' ignore list.
When you share your contents here and it is very valid and formidable, people begin to ask questions that could lead to them commending your efforts or contents, by so doing you earn merits from encouraging people.
If you've not learnt anything to share, you would only create spa mega threads and earn no merits for that.