I think every newbie should have a kind of startup merit, maybe send able or personal or even both so as to navigate in this space.
You don't need merit to navigate through the forum my friend, all you need is your data connecting and your mobile phone or a laptop. Merit is awarded to quality post based on what a merit patron deemed fit to be a quality post for him or her. Merit is never what can make you navigate the forum, look beyond that and if you try and learn and be productive on the forum, you will get the merit.
Good and sound advice and I second this.
There is another interesting perspective that I want to share about merits and ranking up. You need to forget about about merits in order to get merits
. I know it sounds quite paradoxical but it is true. Especially in the initial days, your approach has to be learning-centric instead of merit-centric. They forget about forum is not built for that matters since there's lots of stuffs we can enjoy more rather than engaging our self on more stressful things on early part of their participation in this forum.
People can learn a lot here like
Mining
Trading
Bitcoin long term investment
Also they can get lots of crypto freelance work if they have skill.
That's why they better stop chasing to rank up and do crazy things since there's only few bucks to earn on signature campaigns. If they focus to get lot more knowledge in this forum for sure they could earn a lot more profit from their future crypto gigs.