I believe that people who try to find best sections to earn many merits, who try to bribe high-ranked members or just copy and paste somebody else's content and gain merits are doing nothing but wasting their own account here.
Those types of merit hunters are very easily to detect. Their post histories are full of bounty reports, and suddenly they join to discuss or simply make a long post and ask why I did not receive merit. Copy that post and search, then we mostly end up with plagiarism proof.
You've got an opportunity to be here, between a lot of knowledgeable people and an ability to learn through their experiences, gain them and be one of them one day. Most of the high-ranked members today (who have earned merits on their own) don't focus on merits at all but they just do their best, like what they are best at and then they get merited. I believe you should focus on improving yourself a bit every single day and let the merits come your way itself.
I totally agree with you on this. I am talking from my experience and it should be not right for all people. I did care about merit when I am newbie. Who don't care about merits because without merits you can not rank up to higher ranks. Months ago, whenever I wrote a post (I of course always try to stay on topic, and decent contents), I would go back to check my profile and that post to see it receive replies and merits or not. That's take my time for other meaningful things like reading and learning more. Now, I stop doing this but maybe because I have been a Hero member already.
Looking back, I see what you said is true.
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