GUIDELINE ON HOW TO EARN MERITS IN BITCOINTALK.

1.Other people give you merit.
Why would they give you merit?
Because you write something worth giving merit to.
If you receive 2 merit, you'd have 1 sMerit (sendable merit)
this sMerit doesn't add to your merit, so it's only useful to give to other people.
So, therefore there's no reason for people not to give it away.
However, people only give merit to posts they think are good and important to them.

2..If you write good or informative posts, you would likely earn yourself some merit at some point. Personally, i got mine only by making good threads and participating in discussions.

3..Engage yourself in different areas. There are sections for technical discussions, general discussions, economy, crypto and much more. There's even sections for discussions not related to crypto at all(such as Politics & Society).
There's an endless count of very interesting threads discussing all types of topics.
My suggestion is that you discuss with other users!

Once again, you can't buy merit, but you can earn it.
Often times, newbies (babies and junior members) posting quality and important threads are more likely guaranteed to receive merit, but only if the person is constant in posting quality post and prepared to work to improve the quality of posting on the new member boards on Bitcoin Talk.

Final Note, posting solely to earn merit isn't a good idea, I don't think is a good way to go about it, it's pretty obvious when people post only to receive merit.
Instead, start engaging in bitcointalk! However, always do well to look out of forum discussing all aspects of Bitcoin and cryptos, there are quite a member of them on net.

So, stop chasing merit, start engaging and contributing to the forum by posting quality threads ! Once you do this, it might just come..