Topic: Am I actually doing it right? (Read 698 times)

Actually if you can understanding about forum working its easily how to raise the higher level with your account, its not matter how many your pots and small merit receiving actually depend with bad or lower post qualities and then you not find the right board with large opportunity to get many merit points. Check with meta board discussion and looking there user have raise the higher level and checking their merit received source.  Learn and understanding well with their post habit and which one board more active receiving merit, its simple ways if you want get more merit in bitcointalk forum and first important thing need to change your habit post.

Don't miss opportunity active in local board because many merit source there each local board, I think you can start and looking the user in this forum more active sending merit then check which one their interested board for sending merit. Start your post there I believe you have chance to receive merit from merit source.

Yes, that's right, as stated by Games.Bitcoin in the forum, we must also have a role, where we are not only members of this forum who see and read posts resulting from someone's thoughts, we must also be able to prove that we are also capable of this, but with terms and conditions. where what we will convey is clear, directed and if necessary it is conveyed in accordance with the factual data that is currently occurring. There are many rooms that you can visit and participate in if you have sufficient requirements and are able to do so.

As much as you seem interested in improving the forum and contributing positively that is really appreciated. It is important to avoid plagiarism by following the complete rules. Eligibility of the forum depends on the estimation and relevance of your contribution. We all engage with other users' posts and ask thoughtful questions. We all make mistakes so should always strive to make meaningful contributions. We will definitely not be disappointed by the number of merits. We will make progress over time. But the effort must continue.

I looked at your post history, and most of them are on your local boards.
Just so you know, there aren't a few merit sources that are giving merits to the local board although there are some merit sources that are giving merits on their local board, I don't think that there is a merit source that gives merits to the Nigerian board. This is one problem why you aren't getting enough merits. Most of your posts are in a section that rarely the merit sources visited.

You aren't doing anything wrong IMO, and what I expected when I visited your post history is that you will be like one of those low-ranked members out there who are posting their proof of authentication on the Bounties section. If that's the case then you really will not earn merit but it wasn't so there's still a chance.

To answer the text I bolded, IMO, you aren't doing anything wrong. It's just that you are posting mostly in a section where merits aren't distributed that much. I started as a Full member when the merit system was implemented, and luckily I'm not a Legendary member, and you can look at my post history to know where I post the most. It took me years to achieve Legendary, and faster for those who are more knowledgeable than me.

What will I say to you OP if you want to earn more merit is that watch documentaries, and read articles so that you can share something here.

Never think that those who earn lots of merits have gained it in just a short period of time. They’ve worked hard for it since from the beginning and have waited for long before they start receiving merits. Never lost your hope but increase your motivation instead. If you think you’re not good enough, then improve your posting habits and learn from the legendary and reputable posters in the forum.

Reading can do a lot of myth. If you are patient while reading their posts, then you will learn a lot from them also and apply it when you make your own. Increase your knowledge so you that you can also share a lot of reliable facts in the forum.

If you are not breaking any forum rules, then you are doing the right thing. Not getting merits do not mean that you’re not good enough, you’re good but you need to add more facts and relevant information every time you post so that other members will see the content value and appreciate your post. Just do your due diligence to read and research more and don’t stop learning everyday, you will get numerous merits in the future. Learning takes time, as much as waiting to earn merits requires patience.

Thank you guys for your response on this thread, I have gone through all of it and I have seen a few of my mistakes. Based on your response and advice I have been doing a lot of research and now I know better (not an expert yet, but we learn everyday)

What do some people take the forum, because I can't understand why will a newbie just send a random to users based on the fact that they are of higher ranks, this is a wrong approach to the whole thing, because most of the higher ranks have newbies on ignored because of the default forum setting and restrictions on new accounts.


Secondly again,  if you can read and make use of the search feature of the forum, you should have a whole hand full of resources that will help you to gain knowledge and experience that will help you contribute to topics of discussion on the forum and being on the topic, I don't think you even need to rely on your mentor so much as long as he already gave you the basic intro.

I'd say - everyone's time ticks differently... When I started, it was way too off for me at first -  i can recall having only 16 merits for months without a single top up... That actually encouraged me in some type of way - it made me realize that it ain't just so easy to rank up!

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OP, you still got alot to do in here... Merit is only given as a form of an accolade for a problem well solved or a theory well proven; weren't there times I'd read myself up, as late as anyone would wanna take a nap atleast for the day's strenuous activities?. By 4am? .. my hub be like - what you doing awake up until now for Christ sake? ... DEDICATION MY FRIEND!!

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

Reading is a source of knowledge, if they are still beginners and are lazy to read then they will not understand what to do in this forum. The bitcointalk forum is a forum with a more dominant text base and requires you to continue listening to what other people have to say. If they are not used to it they will not be able to interact on this forum. You will gain a lot of knowledge about crypto, being a beginner will be a choice to be consistent and you can improve to become an expert in the crypto field and level up if you have good contributions.

Don't message anyone yet but you can message them about a post or perhaps something you don't understand and you think they know it better, nobody is senior here or ahead of one another, the only thing that differentiate us here is the rank and reputation, you can literally learn anything you want without going to anyone DM. Just like you ask now, you can always ask more questions but not often, make use of the "Search" bar, you will get anything you want in this forum about rankink up.

Your post history don't quite centered on Bitcoin, your discussions are newbie discuss and doesn't get the attention of people that want to merit you, improve on that and you will see that merit will come when you don't even expect it. A quality post is always recognize from far even by merit source or anyone that has Smerit to give you.

Forum is not as difficult as you think. You friend/brother that introduced you to the forum can't give you all the necessary information, he can only give you some tips but you can basically learn everything by yourself if you stick to the etiquette of the forum. As a beginner who is finding it difficult to understand the forum, start by reading
Newbies- Read before posting.


You have made 100 total posts and more than 50 of them are from local board which is Naija board, not every merit source will find your post helpful or understand what you write as your information is only limited to Nigeria discussion and because Nigeria board has just 1 merit source with a limited number of merit(less than 50 a month), the merit can't always go around. I Wil advice you engage in more active board like Bitcoin discussion, trading discussion, meta board which discuss things about the forum.


Sending messages to people might look like begging, it's better that you made the post public so that other people can give you more contributions and advise instead of been directed by one person. You might likely not have what you are even looking for and begging for merit is totally bad here in this forum. Improve your post and be active, it will help you rank up.

Just keep being positive in the forum, avoid breaking any rules and spend most of your time learning from experienced an knowledgeable users here, so far as you make quality posts no matter how long it takes it is going to be Merited one day what matters most is your ability to be active in the forum rather than looking for and easy way to rank up. Ranking up isn't an issue but what contributions are you making towards the betterment of the forum? so make good and quality posts also be informative like relate information you know can be of help to the forum besides we'll are newbies and since we are new to this platform we ought to learn more than we make replies as with time we will get used to the forum and of which achieve our various ranks accordingly.

 Never send a PM to any high rank members here as doing so might lead you to making some mistakes that might cause you your account being damaged because not every high rank member would take it lightly as soon can even give you negative trust or neutral tag so if you wish to stay longer in the forum, never think of sending a PM about merits to anyone.

Exactly that is my observation about this merrit , that means one must be up and doing in putting down quality and informative post inroder get this merrit. Though as a beginner is still cheerish the idea as it also stand to be a guide for people to be creative and pass information that is helpful not junk is a welcome one. If not of moving to another level I never reason the merit aspect as my major concern is to get more information and how to be creative and good investor and trade well in this Bitcoin, I gave my self out for reading every pin post and better links conveying helpful information. But my request to our senior boss them is to see how to will still help us to Alliviate us from this not receiving this merit as expected.

The answer to this is really obvious and free to everyone to see and use. Those accounts you see getting merit, you can check what their comments are saying, pay attention to how they sound and also try to be good at responses and posts you make. Just do it with the mindset of trying to be better, and then eventually maybe merits will come too. In all, don’t be too cut up chasing merit. Just make quality replies and post.

One thing you failed to realize is that,
You ain’t here to impress no one but to better yourself. It doesn’t really have to be just about your Bitcoin or crypto investment choices and how you manage it but, your life as well. Without asking specific questions as in OP about how to merit fish because, this is just how I interpret it, you @OP having to try and correlate your post to merit in a ratio, that’s a statistics available on BPIP.org but, doesn’t really work in a particular way, you just have to build yourself to be a better writer.

Do your thing and when your not getting the feedback your expecting, be more conserved and ensure each time you have to say something, you see the utmost necessity in it and have it written in such a way that, it’s easy to understand. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be a little figurative in your writings but be on point.

Don’t make your posts yo be particulate on merit, these tricks are easily discovered and distanced.

I believe spending five months here in the bitcointalk forum should have been enough time for you to start understanding things better in this forum, especially about the roles and regulations that guided the forum. Instead of even asking your brother about do or undo, you should have just created a thread and asked, and you will get the answers here correctly.

It is not about the number of posts that you made that can determine the number of merits; it is all about the quality of your post. There are some accounts here with a very small number of posts but have received enough merits, so if you want to contribute something great to the forum, you will receive a good number of merits.
 
In fact, why are you eager to rank up your account? Or is it because you want to participate in the signature campaign? Yes, nothing bad, but I will not encourage you to hunt for merit around the forum. If that is your plan, you will later regret it because you will not learn properly here, and that may even affect you when you get the opportunity to participate in the signature campaign because you end up spamming and lack good knowledge.




If it's all about learning here, I don't think sending a personal message is the proper thing to do; in fact,  why will you even think of sending a personal message to someone? It will even be better to create threads than personal messages because it will take time for some members to read and reply to your messages.

Hmm, seems like there was a mentor for you before but honestly most of the time we get to know about the system by interacting with it and that is how I grew to this point, you should explore by yourself and ask questions & answer this is how you'll get about the system on the same time there's nothing wrong if you have fewer merits, because mostly people merit threads, and natural engagements.

I'm not able to directly help you but here's a tip for you make sure to participate in new topics in early time and make your posts full of engagement points and discrete/useful information. participate in discussions actively and share something unique in your domain it will help you get the mods, and merit sources at the same time best way to grow on the forum is your local community which can support you well in learning and growing on the forum.

Meanwhile, you got enough response regarding this thread, but let me share my opinion too.

You should spend more time on reading than writing to learn more about Bitcoin, blockchain technology, and everything. I said not every post got merits too which you missed to read or you didn't take that point and jumped to the conclusion that if you made a quality post then you should be rewarded merit but it doesn't work like that. Someone has to read that post and if they think it is helpful for them or someone else then they will send you merits.

You are free to post on every board but I excluded from posting in most sections where spammers invade and keep beating the dead horse like in discussion boards or economics but I do read where I don't post and get the insights if I find it helpful.

Another factor, engage in the discussions, don't just post and then move to another thread.

I will tell you not to be discouraged with the forum. You are even lucky to have earned a merit this early considering you are not coming from a tech background. Many of us that joined this forum for the knowledge spent months post and never earned merits but we were not discouraged.  I have left this forum on several occasions because of the frustration of not being able to make sense woth posting, however, I always found reason to return because the knowledge and information repository of this forum is beyond imagination.

My simple advice is that you should not despair because with time you will be able to meet you objectives here and the forum will begin to make sense to you. If you have the ambition of earning so soon, I will suggest you drop it and first build yourself with the right knowledge to be able to work for the pay.