Your performance is what will make you have merit in the forum, merit is like something that is being given to you by the members of the forum to show appreciation for your hard work or for making a good point when you post or quote someone, you are a newbie and I think you need to learn a lot before talking about merit, although we know that it is very good for a member of the forum to have merit to grow he or her account so that he can perform in some activities in the forum as a newbie if you don't learn more about the forum or know the kind of post you will do to earn a merit that means you are just wasting your time in the forum.

Merit is not easy to get but putting more effort and making a good post in the forum will help you to achieve merit that you can not even imagine getting because you might reply to a post and make a good point and someone will love it and give you merit for what you are doing and that will also encourage you to work hard and get merit if you have known much about the forum then you can go and read many threads and make a good post but if you haven't know much I will advise you go and learn more because if you don't know much about cryptocurrency or anything discuss in the forum that means you are not going to have merit as you think.