I've made almost a hundred posts and yet I have only few merit, what am I doing wrong? Are my posts not quality enough? If yes, please I need corrections and guidelines to grow my account. I truly need words of encouragement and affirmation that am on the right track to enable me step up in the game and I also need you guys to help me point out some of my posts that aren't so good, if there are any, so I can learn from my mistakes and do better.
You only create three threads: two on your local board, which is the Naija local board, and the third one is this thread you created. However, merits are not given to low-quality posts, and you are only active on two boards, which are the beginners and help board and your local board. All your posts on the beginners and help board are not worthy of merit, and for your local board, nobody from another local board will come to your local board and send some merit since they also have their own board, so for you to earn merit here, you need to work for it. And currently, you still have a lot to learn because your posts are still lacking in quality, so I think you should go and learn and have your own post style. The reason I said you should go and learn is because you are still learning and active on only beginner and help boards, and one board cannot give you merit all the time, so I think you should focus and learn and stop thinking of earning merits.
as a newbie that I am, I know most of us will tell me about rules and regulations, plagiarism, spamming, but y'all don't have to worry about that because am a rule keeper and I avoid plagiarism and the rest of it like a plague.
Are you still a newcomer here because your account has been registered since September, which I think is enough for you to understand everything about the forum. All these things you mentioned are against the forum rules and regulations, but what you need to understand is that obeying the forum rules is not what will make you earn merit, but creating meaningful, helpful, and educational content for the forum members to achieve something from what you write is what will make you earn merit