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Topic: Comprehensive guide to Bitcointalk. Newbie friendly + calculator and infographic (Read 3996 times)

newbie
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thank you for this info... Smiley
newbie
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I am a new comer here. Thanks so much for such comprehensive guide. This is the most user-friendly forum.
newbie
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Thanks for the valuable post to share with us! Smiley
jr. member
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I appreciate this post, it helped me understand how things work. I know this was posted in 2017, but I also saw you updated it several months ago.
Thank you once again for keeping this up to date and a wholesome source of information <3
legendary
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Just a 2 years bump. I see the calculator is still active Wink
jr. member
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Great guide, particularly liked the infographics!
legendary
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Q: I want to know more about the Merit Points System
A: You have to follow the Merit & new rank requirements link below, it's a long discussion there.

* 130 as per 21.05.19
Because of the bump from ChibitCity, I found that the figure of total merit sources in OP is incorrect. Please update it when you have spare time.
Temporarily, there are 98 merit souces in total.
I have my thread: Merit source observations
If you think that thread is helpful, I hope it will be included in your OP.

Thanks for the note, there are other things that need to be changed too but this requires more time in front of the computer like the new trust system and some new restrictions. I'll update the correct number of merit sources and will add a link to the number of sources to the tranthidung's thread, so from now on I won't keep a track here in the thread if there is already a dedicated thread for it.
legendary
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Farewell o_e_l_e_o
Q: I want to know more about the Merit Points System
A: You have to follow the Merit & new rank requirements link below, it's a long discussion there.

* 130 as per 21.05.19
Because of the bump from ChibitCity, I found that the figure of total merit sources in OP is incorrect. Please update it when you have spare time.
Temporarily, there are 98 merit souces in total.
I have my thread: Merit source observations
If you think that thread is helpful, I hope it will be included in your OP.
legendary
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Great post that would be even more helpful if pinned. Coming here as a newbie I was completely lost. Wish I had this to reference.. Deserves a bump.
legendary
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The number of merit sources updated.
Some small changes, typos and wrong spellings corrected (found after so many months). If you spot anything let me know.
legendary
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Nice guide you’ve got there @Iasenko. I see that you try to keep it up-to-date, so just to let you know that the Q/A relative to Merit Sources currently shows 79 as the number of profiles with that role, instead of the running 119 (awarding up to 22.045 sMerits every 30 days).

One general confusion which I often find is that newer people tend to think that when they Merit someone, they are actually sending Merit from their Merit counter and not the (not so visible) sMerit counter, being the Merit counter one that never decreases (safe for a single exception in the past that I’m aware of whereby some merit TXs were reversed due to clear abuse).


Thank you , I always forget to update the merit source numbers, as they change not so often.

I started this thread long before the merit system but what I had back then was only the rank-up calculator, and a simple explanation how the activity system is working.
After the merit systems came in place, the calculator was not so useful anymore so I added some extra info I found during that time.

Edited: Exactly one year ago I started this thread. Celebrating 1y anniversary today:)



Updated the number of merit sources, I think I'll keep a track here in this thread.


A little bump to remind me to update the Trust system in the near future.
legendary
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There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain
Nice guide you’ve got there @Iasenko. I see that you try to keep it up-to-date, so just to let you know that the Q/A relative to Merit Sources currently shows 79 as the number of profiles with that role, instead of the running 119 (awarding up to 22.045 sMerits every 30 days).

One general confusion which I often find is that newer people tend to think that when they Merit someone, they are actually sending Merit from their Merit counter and not the (not so visible) sMerit counter, being the Merit counter one that never decreases (safe for a single exception in the past that I’m aware of whereby some merit TXs were reversed due to clear abuse).
legendary
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Merit: 3134
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This thread would help newbies and also older members. Topic title style guide
Too often users abuse the tools available when starting threads, and this reduces the quality of the write-up.

Good one, I'll add it to the General Forum Q/A or maybe to the link section;
Thanks, if you think other info should be added let me know.

Updated, I've added it to the Forum rules and guidelines subsection.
member
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This thread would help newbies and also older members. Topic title style guide
Too often users abuse the tools available when starting threads, and this reduces the quality of the write-up.
legendary
Activity: 2184
Merit: 3134
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Made some updates now. A bit more explanation about the DTs. Also included new links in the resource.
Hope to get an update of the infographic too with accordance to the new rules.


Yet another update, added new section and some steps you have to take as a newbie to secure your account and to avoid being banned and fixed the infographic as I informed 8Habits that his infographic is outdated but is offline for over a month now.


Another small changes are made, Add some extra info in the General Forum Q/A. BTW if there are any other interesting topics you think I need to cover, let me know Wink
legendary
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Just open a new sub-section Learning and Courses + external links in Additional useful and entertaining threads

I'll be happy if I can gather more info there with your help. If you see a valuable info that can fit into my list, drop a comment here so I'll add it Smiley
legendary
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Another bump here.
Please suggest threads to be added to the lists. I'll try to keep it up to date:)
legendary
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Interesting thing is if you have posts over the limit from the previous cycle, with the first comment in the new cycle you get the Activity points from the old posts you had in the previous cycle.
Example:  I had 28 Activity points and 33 comments before the end of the cycle, with my first post in the new cycle my Activity points went up to 34, the same amount as my posts.
In this example you are saying our extra activity will be counted instantly with the first post after two weeks period.Is that means our posts are not going to wasted and still count as activities for the next two weeks period?

Yes, but note that you have to have at least 1 post in the two weeks time span in order to get the 14 activity. If you don't post during the new two weeks period you will loose the 14 points for this period.
Hope it's not too complicated.
full member
Activity: 196
Merit: 172
Interesting thing is if you have posts over the limit from the previous cycle, with the first comment in the new cycle you get the Activity points from the old posts you had in the previous cycle.
Example:  I had 28 Activity points and 33 comments before the end of the cycle, with my first post in the new cycle my Activity points went up to 34, the same amount as my posts.
In this example you are saying our extra activity will be counted instantly with the first post after two weeks period.Is that means our posts are not going to wasted and still count as activities for the next two weeks period?
legendary
Activity: 2184
Merit: 3134
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OK got it. But what about missed fortnight cycles, I mean if didn't post and then started to do so a month later, could I receive 28 activities of previous month in one week?

If you don't post in this two weeks time span you miss the 14 activity.
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