Topic: Earning your first merit (Read 781 times)

Not having a finite way to qualify a post simple means, a quality post is what a user defines it to be. With the way the forum has placed it (@quality post), Its more like the law which is subject to interpretation based on what the law Court at any instance says it is. Thats how infinite the determinant of a quality of a post can be. So long as it helps a person or user in a way or goes about to bring about the understanding of a concept or a contradicting view and perhaps adds to it in a way, it could be seen or regarded as a quality post.

There is every possibility that, a supposed quality post might not be merited while some undermined post gets not just merit but merits. In as much as this is possible, it doesn't mean a user would go about meriting just any posts as he or she pleases. Especially in large amounts, it raises suspicion, could be quarried and prosecuted. In essence, merit abuse isn't allowed.

That's to say hard works pays. Merit is a result good and constructive post..most is a thing of joy when it's giving to one

Hehe nice!
Still looking to earn my first merits. But I am very new on here.

I actually have to agree with you.
Each of us is different and has a different definition of what quality is.
No rules can be made about which posts deserve merits and which don't, it depends on the understanding of each person.
Some people have more available merits so they don't have to choose which posts to reward with merits and which don't, but some members have very few available merits and therefore have stricter criteria for giving merits.
Also, some parts of the forum are read and followed more and therefore more merits are shared there.
Of course, it is not the same if someone writes in the English part of the forum or only in their local language.
There are a lot of factors that affect the obtaining of merits.
I think the most important thing is to actively contribute to the forum and that will sooner or later be recognized by the community and rewarded.

That's what I see now that there are many quality posts, so many give opinions about what is being discussed, even this tends to provide insight where they will know better than what has been posted.
And that's what we have to use often once we find a better post then it has meaning from what I know, I know seniors are doing this right and they continue to contribute to what they do.
But there are also few posts but it deserves and is given merit I see it's a lot and they do it right what he knows.

I just want to add about quality posts and appropriate posts. Quality posts are certainly posts that have many benefits and attract members to start discussing and giving their opinions. A quality post is not just a forgotten post, but a meaningful post that discusses several problems and the various solutions provided. that's the purpose of why you have to post quality. Post quality rules are not explained in detail.

As for the appropriate post, it is a post that deserves to be discussed and is correct in grammar and writing as well as the content of the post that does not offend anyone. Inappropriate posts will not be accepted and will be deleted by moderators because they are considered SPAM.

Quality can not be used to quantify a post it either a post is good or bad, there is nothing like a quality post, the whole merits thing, is just how people react in their way since we do not have the React and Likes button merits is the only way people react, I have seen some low post being merited and somewhat seems to be a good post being ignored.

Congrats OP for getting started with your merit journey there is way more to go. You can now become Jr member and then member, full member and so on. It also shows the fact that if you post quality contents then you get merit and your repute increases. Stop buying and selling merits everyone just focus on quality contents.

congrats on your first 'merit'...

day to day getting 'merit' is not an easy thing, for 'newbie' they have to really make good posts in order to get merit. keep making good posts, learn from legendary posts, so you can continue to rank up.

In my opinion, there's a difference between quality post and merited posts. If you ask for what quality posys are, I can't give a definite answer since the forum didn't define what quality posts are. But when you talk about merited posts, they are posts that are contributing positively to the discussion at hand.

These posts must not be agreeing to the topic been discussed, it could be a contradicting view but does has meaning and quality to it. While the level of your post quality depends on the users with the smerit that doesn't mean any posts that don't get merited isn't quality.

Some just lack the exposure needed for meriters to see. Providing you're contributing positively to a discussion ongoing and aren't spamming or posting generic contents you're good to go as your post could be considered quality by a merit source and get rewarded.

What you should keep in mind that certain boards in the forum are better places for merits than others. Even if you make quality post in some boards, you will likely not get any merit, this is either because there are no merit sources for that particular board or because the board is so spammy that no one notices your threads/posts.

The meta section or various local boards are usually great places for merit, while the gambling boards or the whole altcoin section aren't.

If you think one of your posts is lacking merit, check this thread: [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source

Wow.. I am so so happy for you bro. Because I ones had this exciting feeling few days ago when i got my first merit. So what you have to do now is work more on your activities, so as to rank up as a junior member soon..
So you are welcome...👍👍👍👍

Quality post is not all about the post you said. It is all about the sender of the merit as long as the post that will be merited is not a spam, shilling and much more. I have been merited because I wanted to help but not to get merited just because I wanted to earn merit. Your knowledge in crypto is not base on how many merits you received.

What do you mean by a Quality Post ?
Most of the quality posts are ANN threads, services. I like offtopic way more.
But im not that smart to enjoy those “TLDR” posts like most of you guys sure do about all the hype, and layer 2 segwit decentralised consensus hardfork PoS etc etc.

Exactly, as you begin to advance in the forum you'll begin to careless about the merits you receive mainly because you'll begin to understand it isn't always about the quality that attract the merit to you. If you begin to observe your post that get merited you'll see what I mean.

Most times your post that you must have felt deserve to be merited due to the quality and usefulness of the post might go unmerited. No this doesn't mean it doesn't deserve to be merited but it could be meriters (both sources and the average user with smerit) haven't seen the post.

This though shouldn't discourage you as all good works most surely get rewarded one day. I have received merits for my posts made years back. Just keep contributing positively and let fate do it work.

Merit is fine and needed. But focus more on the quality of post you are making. When I was a newbie I wanted merit by all means. But now I don't care much for it, I know that it comes when you deserve it. Do you own work and merit will come to you. Congratulations for your first merit and I wish you more merits to come.

Earning a first merit is a remarkable thing in the lifes of beginners on bitcointalk but such that, they always and I mean always forget to note it down. It means a lot and it goes about to redefining merit for beginners as a thing that could be actually gotten or reached from hardwork and consistency. Many see merit as one of the most difficult asset of the forum because, it really doesn't go out of the forum and it is indeed your way to ranking up so, you gain motivation at this point.

Earning a single merit simply means more are yet to come. All you have to do is to keep putting in work and in time, you would get as more merit as you wish for. Time is just the definitive factor here.

As Daniel91 said before me, I really doubt any member here would actually award merit to anyone with that kind of behavior. I would be really interested to see if you could actually post any kind of proof where you saw that happening (the fact that you don't have any merit should be a tip for you regarding your vision towards "merit begging"). Thing is, at least from what I can see from new members is that they post to get merits, and not by simply wanting to share / take part into the forum discussions - and when they see that their post/point of view wasn't given any kind of "merit" they have low motivation to keep on. That is, however, the wrong mindset here because you shouldn't participate in the forum just because you want to get merits - you should participate in the forum just to participate / share opinions / absorb knowledge - merit's are just a bonus that will be awarded to you sooner or later.

If you have the right motivation then you'll not succeed here - you'll end up forever stuck in a lower rank because you won't be able to progress until you shift your mindset towards your behavior / activity here.

Best of luck in your journey here @Iphomme. Let's see if we will be around here in 10 years from now (similar to the thread of OG) and we'll see where we will all be.

I advise you not to do such things on the forum.
Most members disapprove of this and don't want to receive spam from newbie members.
That is the fastest way for you to end up on the black list and get a negative trust.
This is one of the reasons why I have personally given up on launching merit giveaway topics on this forum, too many begging and spam messages from newbie members.
The basic rule for obtaining merits has never changed and is very simple.
Write a quality post, quality content that can help other members or contribute to the forum community.

Sending messages in forum will not get you anything but total disgust on you from those you sending the messages to, especially when you don't have anything quality before sending the messages for merit, road to merit has shortcut, breaches but one thing am sure of is there is no long-term achievement from doing all that.
How do you sustain the continuous messages some members will ignore your account, merit is gotten by doing right, that which will get you merit.

Well I hope he manage to stumble upon this thread, in case he really wants to "exhaust" his sMerits.
[self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source

Yep, and it is annoying that sometimes I miss out on awarding it.
Good thing that they don't randomly take the "Free" award. It is their way of advertising their coin anyway.
I never bought any of those coins. I am not that really that much staying the whole day in the platform.

this is motivation and a good point that you should develop here, you should give your best for the community in this forum, you should get more than you ever get.

Your struggle to get more 'merit' and higher rank, still a long way to go, do better in the future, you will be happier to see it.

Those free wards are good for our Karma so no point keeping them. Plus, they expire after 24 hours :p

Like I said before merit is given based on feelings and individual differences, what I see as quality might be a shitpost to you and what you see as quality might be shitpost to me. If I see a post that makes me laugh and brought out some good memories of me I'd merit such post without thinking twice.. You have the right to use Smerits as you want as long as you are not trading it.

How you manage your smerits depends on you nobody cares about it and keeping it is also against the forum rules because it adds nothing to your account so why keep it

Keep up with quality and accolades would set in. It's a dividend of good work. Merit goes to who truely deserves them. Congratulations and maintain the pace of quality and high standard post. With quality more merits would set in thereby increasing your passion and making your hunger for cryto knowledge increase as the day goes by. Congratulations once again

send message in forum and earn merit

That's the scenario i really wanted @Mistafreeze to comprehend, because the word exhausting merit really shows that his merit is really giving out or award without proper qualification, so i think such impression have to be corrected, so that the younger once that's new to the system will not adopt such a policy thinking it's worthy to emulate, so in summary we have to understand while merit is innate to the community and the methods we have to apply for awarding merit to avoid miss management of our Smerit.

I've been both here and Reddit, and most of the time I see merits as like the Award system.
Most of the time I award Silver award at that site. Here in the forum when I choose a post to merit at, I see myself awarding that same award.  I don't just give it away because I like to "exhaust" my sMerit as well.

Merit values can never depreciates provided that the community is concern, so the values of Merit system is what determine the elevation of evey members, so portraying the fact that merit is valueless, it will reduce the internal motive or the mentality of the newbies to starting thinking merit is trader by better, and it's been awarded base on charity or mutual relationship between two parties, so it obvious that awarding merit is base on quality and constructive post

Bro in normal circumstances and protocols of the community merit is not been giving because you wants to discharge or exhaust your smerit, it's only meant for user whose contribution is meaningful and also add values to the community, so with such concept, it's the major reason people have to research and bring more procedures that will enhance or render help for solution of cryptocurrency in any form.
So the quality of post, merit will be awarded to a such user, and it's not necessary that everyone will award the Merit the same time, because it's differs for individual understanding via the post before awarding of merit.

Merit has no value nowadays so don't let it defines what you want or how quality you post as it does not count towards quality, sometimes I merit a post just because I want to exhaust my smerits and I found a post funny or interesting. Sometimes it not all about quality but feelings. Anyways congratulations and keep it up.

Congratulations on your first merit. You’ve just taken the first step on how to become a valuable and helpful member of this amazing community.

If you really wanted to get merits naturally and organic, you need to do the following:

1. Remove your mentality in posting just for merits.
2. Always treat merit as bonus. Never expect that all of your helpful posts get merited.
3. Create helpful topics and advice for the community.
4. If you’re alert of the latest news being posted and wasn’t shared here yet on Bitcointalk, do share it along with the source link (always give credit to the original source when sharing).
5. Do crypto charity or humanitarian stuff (I believe that a lot of posts showing crypto charity work w/ pictures get merited)
6. Hunt down scams and expose them here for us to become aware (make sure you follow the format when reporting it in the Scam Accusations section).

Most important of all, just put it in your mind that there will be no guarantees that your helpful posts are gonna be merited. Just focus on being a valuable member by following the rules and not gonna spam, etc., and merits are just gonna come by a surprise.

It's a good motivation to have your first merit and continue to get merit, it's not really easy now to get merit I've seen a lot of good post coming from newbies post that doesn't get merit when it deserves to get one, my only little piece of advice is just to do things naturally and merits will come naturally, I seldom check my merit I just make it a point that all my posts are within the topic.

since UserU already said what you should do in order to earn merits, I suggest reading this Newbies - Read before posting. that thread will help you get accustomed to the forum and I reccomend visiting the forum rules thread(which you can find on that thread) the forum rules will help you know what to do and not do in the forum.

my personal opinion is that don't get yourself too wrapped up in earning merits, there have been a lot of members that have gotten discouraged since they don't get merit even though they are posting consistently.

Hey gagika,

You gain Merits from contributing posts that are deemed helpful/ informative by the community itself, like scam busting (exposing scams), interesting facts and figures, giveaways, etc... you get the idea:

List of scams exposed by Rikafip. 130+ and counting!
Updated List of Bitcointalk Hidden Pages/Post

An alternative, albeit harder to come by is to post your contributions on Merit giveaway threads such as this one hosted by nutildah. They help lower-ranked members to earn their recognition:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-bitcointalk-urban-achievers-merit-scholarship-program-5338649

Merits are implemented as a barrier to ranking up or an incentive to contributors rather than shitposters because previously many members rose the ranks solely from Activity (time spent on the forum). This in turn also helps campaign managers to pick choice candidates for signature campaigns (get paid to post).

Hi! Newbie here ive read that you can earn merit by doing some activities. Is there any other way to earn merit, and whats the purpose of merit.
Thank you for the one who will answer

Im trying my hard to learning this. What type of posts will take me to get merit..

Now you got two so don't see the hundreds as an impossible tasks, we all started from somewhere with some little motivation and we earned our way to be among the tops. A quick review on your account and it was looking decent. Thought I'll come across the typical newbie account that's flooded with bounty tasks, but no yours is different although need improvement.

Just keep working on yourself and improve on your engagement with posts that's quite educational to members of the forum and in no time, you'll start getting the recognition (rewards) you deserve for your contribution.

Ps: Feels good to be back where it all began, having more free time so my engagement on this board will increase and hopefully I can find worthy posts to award merit, I'm back.

Congrats, but don't look into it too much. Merits are just another way of saying 'good post'. Some people might find it useful, some people don't, so it's really a subjective thing. Rather than just posting, try posting useful crypto-related stuff that will be of value to some people. And don't worry if merits don't come, just keep on delivering good content and good things will come.

Congrats, but from where you have earned merit it isn't a difficult thing. you only have to send a signed message from your Bitcoin address. That's not actually hard to do it.

Anyway, If you want to earn 4 more merits by doing another easy task then go to this thread [Merit] Hey Bitcoiners! Can You Send Encrypted Messages?

It will help you to achieve member rank. Good luck

its really hard to earned merit, your felling got first merit its happen to me because when i created my account back on 2014 there was no merit system  but luckily i already become hero member

and rejoined crypto industry this year

There is this joy that comes with merits. And there is something about merit. Merit comes when you least expected it. That is to say, you might spend a quality time on a post in order to make it quality in order to attract merits, but by the end of the day, you will see no merit.
On the other, you can make a post you didn't expect merits from and you would be merit.
So, it is important to make a quality post always.
Congratulations

Getting the first merit does have a different impression and of course we might not know if the post we can get merit.
I also experienced it too.
And, getting merit for the first time could support me to work better, learn more actively how to make good posts, constructive, informative, not out off topics, and also help answer questions with helpful information.

ANd from this, we can learn that actually getting merit is not as difficult as we thought as long as we really do the good posts.

I think he's just happy with his first achievement here in this forum especially that merit is not that easy to gain.

It is good to celebrate your achievement and we're hoping that you will not settle on that kind of achievement.

Help yourself grow and achieve more merits by making quality and informative post that we will all benefit.

Congratulations on your first merit OP. I'm sure it was a pleasant experience for you. I wish I feel the same soon.

Congrats!.... That's the reward for a good job , which means that anything you find yourself doing, you should do it to the best of your ability , wish you well .
And smithing that can cause or attract Merit is base on proper research and personal knowledge which can be impact into one another without misleading them, really merit is been given through hard work of users because it's a reward that showed that you as a user is developing in different ramifications of cryptocurrency related information or messages.

The first step is always the hardest step, and that's what many persons fail to understand, but for the fact that you have taken that first step to contribute to this forum, you shall achieve the same results those who did same long time ago did....

If there is one thing expensive thought me in this forum, its the fact that, once your good, you would be recognised and appreciated. Again, its no longer the era when merits are actually difficult for newbies as most ranked up users are rather patriotic and always willing to help newbies or beginners rank up. Its more like a way of keeping beginners but, the good once motivated. You know, the criteria for meriting are actually stepped down a lot except in the case where an account is suspected to be an alt. Trust me, you could sense it but lack of evidence is what keeps the account in existence.

Another thing you should know is that, once you've got at least 1merit, quite a few more would follow. Keep up the good work and your sure to archive your goals. Win with the forum.

Merit is very important on this forum as it signifies that someone is contributing quality posts on this forum, that is why it brings good feelings especially when you first noticed a user that merit one or two of your posts, but as you continue to receive the merit, it will later be normal to you, although it will still bring good feelings always but you will not be as surprised as you were the first time you received merit. If you continue to contribute quality posts, or post something that can make another user merit you, you will continue to earn more merits.

I was like you once. Saw people with hundreds and thousands. And that was after the ranking overhaul because back then, ranking up was way easier before they were implemented

Thats huge success fir you. I was also unaware of Merit and used my BTT just for earning through bounty and Airdrops but niw i aware that i can seek and gain best knowledge of cryptocurrency from here. Now i read constantly seniours thought about market. My English is not so good but i believe that when continue ti share positive thing , one day i will got merit .

Newbie here and no merit yet. Pretty crazy and daunting seeing people with hundreds of merits.

Well, better late than never coming to this forum! Crypto is still young, hope to learn and contribute.

That's just fine in my opinion. That means op did try his best to sign a wallet for ognasty's thread even If op just joined this forum not long ago base on his profile dtae of registration . Compared to before I was a newbie, earning a merit didn't come as fast as newbies nowadays since I joined forum on 2018 and few days later the merit is implemented by theymos so  I don't have knowledge what it is until I learn it later. Let's hope that the first earned merit will encourage op to engage more forum discussions and contribute to the forum without expecting something in return.

Even though this is not from your post and I see the merit comes from a signed wallet, so this is not a problem I still congratulate you, I hope this can be the beginning where you understand in terms of these merits.

You will know-how in the future to stay active in this forum and provide quality posts with good discussion about bitcoin, this is not easy but I am sure you are really looking forward to being active in this forum.

The Jr.member target has been reached just waiting for the activity to increase your rank.

Hello, OP.
Congrats to your first few merits!
I just would like to suggest that if you're wanting to have more "opportunity" or likely to get more then you should probably don't just abandon the threads that you're making.
I just looked up to your post history and it seems like you're not active to each threads you made. You haven't made any replies to anyone that comments to your thread. :/

Congratulations now get used to if you work hard you would get merit and pick up from there, I didn't feel to much excited when I got my first merit maybe because I just did my best without even thinking about merit,
Newbies can learn from that, your amount of appearance of topics with quality puts your profile in the way of merit, figure out a way to make yourself available with meritable post and not relenting on one or two merit, always turn up the energy, appearance, quality you give.

A bit beyond the scope here, if anyone is wondering which post they got their first Merit for, when, and who awarded it, I’ve drafted a Google Sheet with the information for every non-banned forum member:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_I7WfxSnzOe7wvjE9dJ-aqH59PnfsMnKSVzycYljrx0/edit?usp=sharing

The link within each row will take you to the associated first merited post.

You’ll have to search for your name on the second column of the Sheet by either scrolling down or using +F (you may wish to delimit the search scope to a specific column, otherwise you’ll also see the entries under column Meriter Name – where you were the first meriter to a given profile).

Note: Data as of 21/05/2021

I also experienced the same thing when I got my first merit from someone. We should be the role model of the newbies who recently joined in this forum and to encourage them to post more constructive post or whatever post that will benefit all of us then those newbies will get encouraged to do so what we advised them to do. Keep engaging more threads and read more. Earning your first merit is the start of your journey.

When I first entered bitcointalk, there were no merit system yet and you can rank up through the count of your activity. I find it effective that merit was introduced because it made sure that everyone would post reliable and knowledgeable comments or topics in the forum. When I first recieved a merit, I was so happy and I felt like I am doing my part here in the forum. I felt like I am doing my role to share my experiences, wisdom and tips specially to newbies. I am glad I was able to earn more as time passes by and I would advice you all that instead of pressuring so you can get a higher rank, savor your moments here in the forum and be glad that other people are learning from you.

One of the most memorable parts of the forum is when you received your first merit by that you want to crave more merit by continuing having good content good luck to your journey this will serve as a stepping stone to you.

Again you don't need to push yourself just to achieve a higher rank immediately take time to deepen your knowledge by that it's easier to you to rank up.

wow , I was like you when I first started in bitcointalk, it take time when I get my first merit, because when I first started I really dont know wha to do, merit comes very unexpected way, some people gives merit because they like the post, or helpful to others ans community, keep it up, my suggestion is don't think of merits while making topics and reply to post, because without thinking of merits you can create better post and topics.

Congrats, its a first step for achieving more of it also don't forget to follow the forum rules since this is the most important and also be humorous since there are people hate toxicity and  sometimes you can get a merit fron that but also don't troll any platform since it can make you placed on bad situation also your effort will be wasted if your account will get a red trust.

Congratulations on your little success but it is important that you understand something.
If you write on this forum with the goal of getting some merits, you will not have much success.
However, if you want to help other members and contribute to this forum with your knowledge and experience, then other members will appreciate you and reward you with merits.
If you keep this in mind, you won't go wrong 

Newbies excitement always like that mate. But it's fine if it's once or for a while, we can't negate those feeling they are sharing instead encourage them.

Merits isn't all always being creative or something helpful. Sometime senders like humorous or funny response. Depends on the users. But you are right majority of merits comes from quality one aive just reiterating that it's not all for that.

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Good luck OP, this is a start so keep it up.

Congrats but you don't have to make your topic as announcement for your first merit

Creative posts don't mean they are good posts. Length, creativeness are not contributors for your post quality. New ideas are not creative posts. If you don't have new ideas, creative posts can not help.


Again congrats for your first merit.

Having my first merit. 
 
     
 I've been posted yesterday night before I sleep. When I woke up and open bitcoin talk and check my post I'm shock  2 people merited it. This is my first merit  I cannot figure out my emotions when I saw that they give it to me.

Its too hard  earning merit from the word itself (Merit) meaning the quality of being particularly good, especially so as to deserve praise or reward.

But nothing is impossible you must  take time to the forum and post it all of your heart  other people will give you merit.

Thank you for sending me I really appreciate you and I assure that I cannot stop what I've started.