The new order of the day in this board now is users spamming threads with their rank up to jnr member, @OP you joined the forum in May last year and have only earned 4 merits since then, this isn't any motivation or worth posting about, I'm sure you saw users meriting this kind of threads, but those OP's actually have done great for themselves(not just with their "rank up" threads, but with most of their posts)and their threads can motivate others.
Your merit ratio is poor, as well as your post history, so sorry, you wouldn't be earning 50 from anyone
There's no need to reply a discouraging post on others achievement. It's not that valuable for you but for the person who achieve it, It's priceless considering the amount of time he
dedicate just to rank up. We are not all a fast learner but in the end once he totally understand the art of posting quality post here, He might rank up in exponential rate compared
to this one. Never discouraged a person who are eager to grow instead support them for forum sake.
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To OP, Focus on the topic that you specialized just like on gambling thread. You will have a greater chance to rank up fast if you do that. Keep up!