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.
The forum is bitcointalk, the first priority is to see how a member engages on bitcoin discussions, because that's the reason for the creation of this lovely community, every other things are secondary aside bitcoin discussions being the primary, so i will expect a newbie to concentrate on how they can be able to acquire the knowledge on bitcoin first before any form of an additional pursuit from here hence.