I think the underlying essence of this post/thread ball down to the same thing merit begging, since you did not add anything meaningful to this content and I see it as unnecessary, you can still learn and adjust your posting habits in silence without creating a thread to narrates your story.
Dead silence, except of course for whatever constructive posts OP is trying to make in order to rank up. I'm not sure if I see this as a merit-begging thread or not (though I've been awake going on 56.5 hours now, and the input from my eyes sometimes gets scrambled on its way to my brain and back to the keyboard), but the observation that other members getting more merits than he does, ostensibly with the same post quality, strikes me as a bit juvenile.
I asked what they did to make it so easy for them to get it.
I had to skip to the second page of this thread to see if you'd posted anything about what those members told you, but I guess that's going to remain a mystery, though if any of them told you you can merit yourself without employing an alt account, they're full of shit.
1. Positive support.
2. Merit and sMerit functions.
3. Mastery of expertise.
4. Be self aware.
OK, now we're definitely in merit-grabbing territory when those silly lists get busted out. I will refer back to Wiwo's comment about staying silent and just doing your best without all of this blibber-blabber.