Topic: Attaining legendary rank - is that the end? (Read 1228 times)

About this, I think Imamusma has answered you.

Regarding ranks and merit, only members below Legendary would still need merit to rank up where the required requirement was up to 1000. For the rest, you'll probably know that every merit they get is an award they receive for contribution and the quality of their useful posts. But I think you already understand that.

Some Legendary might care about the amount of merit they get, it's some kind of race or just fun. But honestly, I don't think they will post for merit even though some of them want to get it ^{[non-merit source]} to distribute to other users. However, they also need to maintain the quality of their posts even if they've rank up to Legendary. I've reported a lot of bad quality Legendary posts, that means even Legendary should still care about post quality.

I remember a post I talked about this, But a lot of high ranked members comes against me, they felt I was being disrespectful, personal I've seen a lot of low quality post from high rank members, but they all agreed that I was wrong, just few people have different opinions, but I'm glad, I'm not the only one who has observed this on the forum.

Like loosing activity, when your posts are deleted, users should lose merit when they havent received new for a long time. This will stop "I am legendary, I have achieved everything, I can rest now" kind of things.

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I'm just curious. How will you address members like o_e_l_e_o and LoyceV who've earned over 10,000 merits on their own? You'll call them, "Grandparent Legendary" or something in that line? 🤔

I think the ranking system has to do something with the purpose of the individual- like does he want to rank-up in order to get higher payment rates in signature campaigns; or does he think that ranking is immaterial in his/her overall stay in this forum?

Users like LoyceV and others who attained thousands of merits have one (1) common purpose- which is to contribute to the overall experience and knowledge about this forum. So I do think it boils down to the purpose of the individual on why he/she joined in this forum in the first place.

"legendary" rank receives the highest amount of merit on the forum, due to the fact that those guys provide valuable contents,

There's also "Double Legendary" where you have the 1,000 airdropped merits, then you earn an additional 1,000 merits through hard work and determination thus reaching the nominal "Legendary" status with 1,000 earned (instead of airdropped) merits.

What I’m curious about is that only a few legendary guys are always active in the forum and providing lasting solutions to questions posed in the forum. Others that are active only post to complete their signature posts. Does that imply that after getting to legendary rank, making posts or comments to be merited is not necessary again?

What exactly is the reason behind ranks on this forum, I cannot predict exactly though.

Wait, are you saying the merit system has done more harm than good?  I can't tell if this is a misunderstanding due to language or not, but if that is what you mean I'd say that the really good posters should be well on their way to Legendary if they're not at that rank already.

I won't argue that the merit system has made it harder for everyone to rank up, but it was a necessary evil.

You weren't around in 2015-16, but you were definitely here before the merit system so hopefully you remember how bad the shitposting problem had gotten.

What exactly is the reason behind ranks on this forum, I cannot predict exactly though.

But the merit system has succeeded in preventing more users who deserve to be in the highest rank than giving all users the right to rank without high quality posts.

The purpose of ranks from the forum owner or website owner is mostly to make the rank holder feel proud and this contribute more on the forum or website. It is obvious on many sites.

What exactly is the reason behind ranks on this forum, I cannot predict exactly though.

It's actually funny when I see alot of peeps in the same line of thinking; legendary is merely a rank, just like every other ranks. Yeah? I know for sure that experience matters alot though but, it all depends on Which.
We have alot of members here that are legendaries but they don't even get a glimpse of the cryptographical part of Bitcoin; how trnx are made -- hashing -- encoding --p2p -- merkle tree etc. They don't even feel comfortable when such discussions are made cus they barely have anything to offer right? Now, if we're taking experience to be a guarantee for knowledge (coupled with the stress and time wasted on getting an account grown to such a rank) why are some left behind the normalized technical processes? Was there a time they left and didn't post but still received merits? ( I'm aware that merits were airdropped so, that's not where I'm thriving at)
That'll make you to understand that varieties of things can be done as a contribution for an account growth -- take a look at donators for instance --
Legendary ranks ain't the highest; to be honest, this whole rank stuff is -- to me -- just a mere formality if, and only if the OPs empty. It's sometimes assumed as flatteries.......
To every title, they must be an entitlement. If it's ridiculed, then, the routewise ain't launched wide, wide enough to get a bull's horn stucked.

Sandra 👩‍🦱

Cus you're an ancient advocate,covered on the face by some bibliophilic essence, furrowed on the chin with some grey, hairy stuff (atleast as a sign of profoundness) and a massive protruging tommy , filled with golden-tainted potential, tryna Ameliorate/ solicit just to save the asses of the black Bunny-rats;

So they just tryna fix a SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE.

Legendary rank on this particular forum is way, waaay more than just a flattering title. 

--and the shitposters who were used to just having to post and wait in order to rank up now were scratching their collective retarded heads, wondering how in the holy hell they were going to make posts good enough to earn merits.

They still haven't figured that one out.  Probably never will.