But there are some users with quality posts that are not much different from my quality, but they are already ranked above me. I asked what they did to make it so easy for them to get it.
@OP, earning merit in this forum is not measured my how long a user have registered your account but it mostly depends on how active you are in the forum and how good quality your comments or topics are, for example, I try so hard some week to make sure I am on the first page of comments on topic I find interesting and some times I luckily get merit on the first page. When you are so active on the forum and known by the level of good comments you make, you luckily will be earning merit, even if not every day but at least two or three merit each week. Also sometimes, if you are not so active, you could miss out some topics were your reply is supposed to have earned you merit but before you even get to see the topic it might have gone down the board.
I might be totally wrong be but if you stay so active on the forum, you will easily get to discover some thread were you can be earning merit and you may also have a favorite merit fan that can be giving you one or two merit when they come across your post.