Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for taking my time to read my post. Cheers!
You should always post according to the questions asked and you should always impress other people with your answers i.e. good posts and better posts are always taken note of. You can also pay some users the amount they require some time, for example, if a user needs 10$ in Tron and he says it will give you back in USDT, then you should make a post about it with the transaction hash, and also that should be look whether it is some real user or if a person is scamming. So, in this way, you should always be aware of scams. Another way of earning merit is to write from yourself, don't try to copy or change paraphrase, etc., in this way your account may be banned and you will be not allowed to post again. Taking care of these factors your post should be genuine.
Sometimes its hard its frustrating for other for not getting those merits but if they just post something have sense to read then provably they will get that since there are people actively giving merits to the post they like to read.
Also they also need to participate on several forum events since to many people give them some merits for appreciation of their task done for said threads. There are also generous members posting to give merits to review their quality post so they should follow the rules set by these user so that they will be notice and review if they are eligible to receive the merits coming from those guys.
But overall we shouldn't stress ourselves about getting merits since this is not everything in this forum since what's more important is the knowledge you can acquire and what you can share to other people.