On this particular thread, he did not get merit only on other posts and he deserves those merits
To be honest, I don't see much difference between those posts he got merit and this one as its the same old type of advice topics we saw countless times before. Sometimes it works, sometimes don't. I stopped giving to newbies who create threads specifically for newbies how to get merits, the one who deserves to create that kind of thread are members who can generate 50 or more merits every week and which pass the newbie rank, I frowned on newbies who has the nerve to do this, rank up first then when you can organically get merits, then teach us how you do it.
Situation in that regard is much better than it was year ior two ago when these kind of topics were getting way too miuch merit. I guess people finally learned to recognzie merit fishing, or at least majorify of them while some probably don't even care and just give few merits. 
