Now back to your OP, I highly suggest you not to put your trust in bounties as most of them today are, unfortunately, scams and a loss of time. If you find a project you like and think has potential, go for it. Support it. But make sure you do extensive research: find out about its team (if it even exists), whether the coin is a copycat or not (which turns it into a shitcoin in an instant) etc. Sometimes, the research can be as simple as going for a web search of "X scam" - where X is the name of the project.
Secondly, don't look at BitcoinTalk as a source of income. It's not, and if you treat it as one, chances of getting in any good bounty decreases together with the chance of getting in any signature campaign over here. If you're interested in cryptocurrencies, listen here: learn, learn, learn. If you don't like the forum and are only here to make money, without willing to offend you I'll say you can already leave - it's not going to work. Or if it will, one day you'll get busted.
You may think getting merits is extremely heavy. As a beginner, it is. However, it doesn't take long until you'll have enough knowledge to have a strong point in a reply or to help someone out and you'll be rewarded for it.
As soon as you're having fun here, it's going to be a sweet journey.
Good luck!
