Maybe no one was taking
how serious he needed merits so those multiple threads all saying the same thing was his way of showing it.
No, there were plenty of answers. Please note that the two merits received were for creating a topic about merits. Two kind people took pity on him, and thereby he received merit. Now it's like the "Pavlov's dog experiment." What happened once will be repeated in the hope of the same result (no offense to the OP for the comparison). But unfortunately, beginners often resort to such tricks.
By the way, do you know many newbies who don’t need merit today? But they don't write about it so openly.
