Many people are asking for merit to rank up but they have forgotten or do not know the two "MISSION STATEMENTS" of the forum. Which are:
1. Learning: you are here to learn bitcoin, after when you have learnt then you can make contribution to knowledge. With your contribution to knowledge, other users will merit you. Read other threads, ask questions where you are confused.
2. Educate: the second mission in this forum is to educate people what you have learnt from Bitcoin. Once you educate people with quality and good information without plagiarism then Merit will flow on you post. That is you have to be merited for giving such quality information. That is called meritocracy because your post merited it. For a student to score 100/100 in examination, he or she has to understand the question of the examiner. For him or her to understand the question without writing anything is 50% and when she or he writes what they have understood from the question is another 50% and that makes up the 100%. So you have to understand the forum before making contribution and that will make you perfect.
Those are the two basic Missions that I figured out in this forum. And once you have them in mind then you are good to go.
I will want you to read more from here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.49267880
Merit is given by your contribution and how you are acting here in community.