OK I'm gonna try to give you some helpful advice: stop posting what you think other people want to hear. Post your own, original thoughts. It helps if you can contribute something useful or original to the forum in general... in other threads (not this one). Maybe you look at other posters who have learned how to get merits here by saying the right things and you're trying to be like them -- don't. Its annoying and I will never merit them.

One time I gave 20+ merits here to an account I thought was here out of their own general interest... they joined a signature campaign within a week, and later it turned out to be the 5th alt account of a banned user (they got their ban removed and are still posting here under at least 2 other accounts, but that's not the point).

Since then, I almost never spend merits on any account less than a Hero in here. If it seems like they are just posting here to get merits, forget it, I will never help them anywhere.