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Having a successful career on the forum like increasing your ranks by gaining merits can be done but not with you focused on bounties. Bounties aren't a bad thing but it has been associated with spammers and might make you not to be taken seriously if you're found out to be a bounty hunter. If you want to grow, focus all your attention by contributing on quality discussion on the forum and your works will be rewarded. You can boost your grown on the forum by equipping yourself on Bitcoin related topic. Make your research and get to learn things about Bitcoin as that'll help you in your contributions on the forum so you won't be sounding dumb.
Don't be like most newbies that just start contributing to discussion on the forum without having an idea of what they're talking about. Your early days or weeks on the forum should be used for reading and learning instead of trying to engage in discussion you have no idea about. Bitcoin is different, the forum is different and bounty is also different don't mixed them all up. Use the forum in asking questions to clear your understanding on Bitcoin (that's after you have googled but yet didn't understand what you read),