First of all, welcome back from your break and hope you enjoy your stay here in the forum. Secondly, remember that this forum is not an office. It implies that you are not here for any kind of work other than reading other's opinions and offering your own ideas and suggestions where necessary. Thirdly, the moment you finished creating your account here, you have become a member of the forum and you can kick start your journey. You don't need merit to become a member of the forum. Finally, publicly requesting for merit is not a welcome idea in the forum and you should desist from doing that. You can earn merit by making useful contributions through your post in the forum. Members who have smerit can merit your post if they are merit deserving and besides we have numerous merits source in the forum that merit quality posts when they see one.

Although, your account was created as far back in 2020, but I think you still don't know much about the forum and it would be helpful to you to take a look at this welcome message and also this rules and guidelines because they'll guide you through on how to stay here.