Some people on this local board are earning merit. Look at their posts too (with the English boards) and you will understand better. Making posts useful, informative and educating will help to ranking up. Do not come for money, come for knowledge and you will be surprised.
The reward for labour is wages in relation to the forum, the reward for our posts is merit which will in-turn fetch us some cash in form of signature campaigns.
Now I have been in the forum for sometime now. My activity has grown to the level where I should be in the member rank but merit has limited me. I have been coming across some threads where one can appeal for merit but I discovered that the thread is always closed from replies not until a particular date i was lucky though to apply from one of the thread but no result till now. I'm using this medium to appeal for thread where I can make further appeals to rank up. I have been tolling like Peter in the bible without fish I need some reward to compensate my little effort.