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You had in those replies all the information and all the counseling about merit and how you can get it, if from 80+ replies you weren't able to understand how merit is earned and you still thought even for a split second it's some quota then I'm sorry to say but probably its' time to stop thinking about merit altogether.
OP only focused on earning merit, not about how he could deserve it.
But thinking about the number of posts needed is beyond the requirements that are needed.
Looking at some of the OP's posts, he said that he has Data analysis skills,
Skill: Data Analyst, SAP MM and PM Analyst
Even I don't have such a skill, but if he does have it, it should be easy to get merit with the data analysis ability for this forum.
Create a thread that may have a technical discussion about forum, crypto or some data analysis that has never been discussed.