The truth is that there's no easy way through it concerning merits, just click the beginners board all I could see is merely post concerning merit. Is like you guys are forgetting the purpose of this great forum it was created for Bitcoiners or cryptocurrencies lovers to interact and to gain more knowledge about cryptocurrencies. You guys should hold from the merit and focus on learning because if you continue with this getting of merit quick it may lead you to spamming which can affect any chance of you getting any merit. Just focus on the knowledge the forum already have for you with time eventually we will all Rank up. Those higher rank you're now where ones newbie they where patient enough to learn.
I agree with you, I have also seen tens of topics created by newbies asking how they can rank faster and how they can get more merits while some are asking what merits are and why they are important. I am not saying they should not ask such question because by asking questions people learn more and the same advice as this one are given to those who have questions about merits.
They should ask questions and I think they ask because they might not have some idea about it and it is a valid reason to ask. Other than this, your advice is also a good one and we all should focus more on creating useful posts and should avoid spamming.
Even I have seen many posts that look of no use to one but are given merits by the other one for whom this post is considered as useful. Merits can be given to any post as it is possible for first users who considers one's topic a great contribution while for other who know that this op had copied the whole thing and did not add any creative thing to it will prefer to give no merits but to report it.