You are welcome!
Nevertheless, I think that it's right time for you to lock the topic because it seems that you got enough recommendations.
For now, you should start improving yourself.

I received this pm from a senior member

Thiis is bad from a number of aspects. If he doesn't know what to do, then he isn't reading the threads, or supporting the forum. A lazy poster like that shouldn't be getting merits anyway. I was in a good mood, so I just put him on ignore, but I usually report the begging spam.

If this tops the list of what your hero member "friend" thought you, that means the friend don't want you to grow. You are quick to start looking for signature campaign, you need to study the forum and know how to make reasonably, good post.

Bounties are just a reward you get for working for certain advertisers but not the focus of the forum.

Good to see your started (almost started) your life in BTT forum with such interesting question.
However, it seems that you have several misunderstandings about what you should do in the forum, mate.

Never should do like this.
The main reasons are:
- Joining signature campaigns almost immediately after joining the forum might lead you to totally wrong directions.
There are hundreds or thousands of bounty campaigns in the forum (some of them available for newbies or Junior members), but the bounty space are abundant with shit posts, with totally shitshows from farming accounts, and you might never learn any valuable stuffs in those topics.
- One of side effects is you might fall into wrong approach, become familiar with shitshows, and changed gradually to be one of shitposters.

This point is right! I also strongly recommend you to spend your time to read those very helpful, informative topics:
1) [Tips] Guide for forum search
2) Newbies – Read before posting (Lauda)
3) TMAN's guide to getting merits
4) Full Member thanks to merit system (iasenko)
5) tbct_mt2's Guideline on some forum functions, English texbooks
(in which I give links to my other three helpful topics)

Read them, learn from them, improve yourself and rank up. After having more knowledge, skills, ranked up to higher level. It is right time for you to join campaigns in the forum. Please remember don't forget to keep your contributions in the forum through your high-qualitied threads/ topics.

Of course, it is really good if you find them (abusers)  by chance and report them to admin or moderators of the forum.
Nevertheless, I don't recommend you to spend all or most of your time in the forum to find them. It doesn't make sense.
Instead, you should spend all or most of your time to do the first step I mentioned above.

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Important recommendations for all forum newcomers:
Never beg for merits, beg for campaigns/ bounties!

Seriously?  I'd probably have to put an ad in the newspaper looking for a local bitcointalk friend with a Hero member account, and there would probably be a lot of driving involved if we decided to meet up for coffee.  How do all of you people have these friends who are members here?  I just don't get it.

I think I hold the record at 9 hours....not.

Close... 223 days, 7 hours and 16 minutes. 

Most of the top guns practically live here. Congrats on your 9 hours, but some people here have been online for 500 days and counting..

Maybe, its original intention might have been to check who's hogging system resources.  Nowadays, that doesn't matter much, but it's a legacy feature that's remained.... Now, only for use in bragging rights.   

There is no real benefits of the total time logged in here in the forum its just indicate how active you are here in the forum.

I think this was created for those peoples who dont log out and for not been hacked!

Nothing other than bragging rights.

For my part, I feel like it is super important for the future success of the forum.

Best regards

I joined this forum already 6 months. I am still learning and learning. Many read postings of people with high quality, which add insight and knowledge of people when and after reading it. I am increasingly interested and excited. I often pay attention, the people with the best post quality so easy to join the project. And get paid very high. As a beginner, I often ask in my own mind, can I be like those great people? Join great project and get paid high. So the economy is increasing. However, I try to understand it, that to achieve it is so hard. Very difficult. Especially when the rules up the rankings should get merit. And as I read, to get merit, we have to post quality posts. I tried it, but it did not work. I am not giving up. I'll keep trying it. Until it works. But I'm getting confused about the quality of good post and high quality like that. Can you show me a quality post that has got merit so I can be like a brother?

If any post deleted for any types of violation then you will loss your post count. And your activity rank and post count same than you will loss activity rank too. But if your post count is more than activity rank then you will not loss your activity rank.

You will loss only post count and activity rank but you will never loss your merit for being deleted a post.

If you got merit for a post, you won't lose it, and it doesn't matter if the post or the thread in which its in gets deleted.  That's one of the things I like about the merit system--it's permanent.  You can lose activity and posts, but you cannot lose merits once received.
And Theymos doesn't really want much action against merit abusers, since in time they should burn themselves out.  The way sMerits decay when they're given out kind of ensures that.  Yes, some people are going to rank up who shouldn't, but it's still orders of magnitude better than before.

One of DT member already answered you nicely. I think it's enough to understand whatever you want to know. I think it's better to lock your topic now to avoid spamming. Thanks.

I really like the idea of merits are permanent once you earned it, but the farmers use this method to cover their farming act and i guess it is hard to track it back for normal member, unless the tracker is moderator or administrator i guess, but once again, there are not many moderators in this forum to prove some merit farming act.

Seems like a bit off-topic but the thinking worth credit. Sent one merit on your way with a hope that you will provide good value to the forum. I see you have good humor.