Topic: Feeling more comfortable while integrating into the forum community (Read 527 times)

That is very common newbie`s mistake. Someone who is new at the forum, who has little confidence in himself, thinks that copying some idols, imitating their activity would help him to become smarter and more interesting to the community. The logic is that you do exactly the same for what others are being appreciated and recognised, for what others are getting so much merits. Although I see why it is easy to believe in such logic, I feel the need to emphasise that it is not how it actually works here. The only similar thing those "idols" have is their originality. And that is what every new member has to find in himself.

You took a great deal of time yo deliver this price just as it’s felt and came to you and that’s made it better. Something you said though and something I took a particular interest in is, trying to imitate others or idols.

It’s something that lost beginners look to have on the forum, someone go look up to, someone to use for a motivation, to follow their style and hope that, they somehow gain the recognition they need.
How do you become popular over something that lacks originality?
Of course you’re a unique individual with unique ideas and that’s why, the forum values originality.
Everyone is always in the search for new things, new information, new ways of doing a particular thing, a perspective other than there’s and you don’t get to come with some similar act from a famous user, you’ll get neglected.

Have confidence in yourself and be rest assured that there are people, standing on the sidelines and watching to have you grow. Be yourself, come as you are and have yourself transformed to what you want to be. That way, you’ll be so real to everyone and have own style which would add value to you.

Thanks The OP for sharing your experience and encouraging newbies on the right steps and mindset to follow in order to be focused in the forum and be confident. I picked some points that you made that we should not imitate others in the forum, we can be original and learn from them, we should learn to take criticism and learn from them. We newbies should know that ranking up in the forum takes time and hard work, we should concentrate on learning first before rank up and merit. Thank you.

All what you have said is actually true and we are a victim of that.
1. Immitation is not a good way of success if one should imitate it should be don in another dimension. You are you, I am me. And I can never be you. So this statement implies that making a difference is by doing your own thing your own way. But if you see that your way is not encouraging you can Still change until you see the best in you and focus on a particular Style. Sometimes people fail to understand some sign of how to make a difference. Some old members have use there style to make fame. and copying them is like duplicating there image. So sometimess when you see the previous post you made and see the merit you've gotten from them, you can easily identity quality post from shitpost.

2. I have seen many newbies chasing merit souce and the funny thing is that merit souce know who is hunting for merit. That's why they skip post made by newbies who are sopos to be Asking question in biginers and help rathar following legendary to discuss a topic they know nothing. I have tried severely to follow merit souce if they can give me merit but I discovered that they know who is hunting merit so they rather give the merit amogs themselves rather than given to the newbies. Because given merit to newbies in such situation is a form of encouraging them to hunt the more. So i decided to stop because they might even tag me as shit poster or a Merit Hunter. When I started to focus on writing meaningfuly about what I know, I started getting Merits so its bad for newbies to chase after merit because it has led to many detrust from newly created account.

3. Rank up takes time. because we must need to make quality post in other to get merit and upgrade to another level. But failure to do that, it will lead to spamming or even requesting for merit from some legendary which is against the forum rule and it might also cause problem to us. Rome was not built a day so good things takes time and not a platter of gold.

4. Low rank is not a course but it's just a name position attached to a person in the forum which doesn't mean we are not contributing. Most low rank member are stuvked to that position due to there meritable Post was not notice or perhaps never submitted it to a meritable thread due to lack of information. Because most people are in the forum but don't know some secret place of growing.

5. On no account should one thinks that he/she is inferior because everybody was not born at thesame day or time. Your class mate is not your age mate. Some people activities shows that they have contributed enough to the forum but were not lucky enough to receive merit due to hard luck but that doesn't mean they didn't contributed meaningfuly but had a hard luck. Someday someone might recognise there efforts and decide to merit there post and they might even surpass the old legendary. So overtaking Is allowed. Thanks

Honestly, I think that the only thing that can discourage someone who aims to learn from contributing to the forum is lack of true desire. I know that the atmosphere here could be rough and even unfriendly, but that mostly applies to those who disobey rules and ignore the way everything works here. I mean the worse way in which someone could be treated.

Everything depends on a person, of course. Someone could perceive criticism, even constructive one, with more pain and offence than the others. But sooner or later everyone face it, because you can not protect yourself from such kind of behaviour from other people. You just can not control other people's behaviour. You can only adjust your own reactions and become stronger.


Sure, it could encompass other things and it does. But since the forum is mostly about verbal, written, textual communication, those aspect are the most relevant when it comes to the image of the user. We don't know one another no other way apart from what we are posting here. We can build out expressions about users mostly based on what they write. That is why I believe this is the first criteria you should pay attention to while analysing a member.

The OP is right and you're also right but the focus of the OP was on newbies just joining the forum so he's more right when he said your image here revolve around your posting (post history). When you have a good posting record you can get merited quite easily when someone finds your post interest and of quality, there are high tendencies that your other posts will be looked at especially when you're a newbie therefore you should never underestimate the power of having a quality post history.

If I was to review a users post history and I meet more of generic contents in his post history, I won't go further but when I find his writing captivating and of quality then I'll drive further to look for more contents that probably were missed or didn't get enough publicity for members with merit to award merits to the post. A newbie should concentrate on giving the forum the best he has to offer before thinking about anything else to build his reputation.

Notice those newbies that ranked up in rank quicker did that by been known as quality contributors to the forum. Automatically their posts tends to attract meriters due to the value their posts contribute to the forum. As a newbie focus on delivering quality contributions to the forum to build your reputation here.

It's never easy to be a newbie... If you could look beyond all vises, you'll definitely realize it was worth it... Most people in here don't even have that ability - I've seen several threads where newbies complain of being molested by high ranked members, and that has devalued Thier motivations...

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The one thing that could possibly make a difference is if you abide by the rules of SPAMMING;  the reason why the merit system was created was to reduce/eliminate spam, shit posting and account farming...
your image in here could encompass so many other things apart from your Post history.. take note!

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

Like I said earlier, I've got great respect for this piece you wrote here as I find your observations are really on point and manages to detail what most beginners pass through on this forum.
 On this tip you outlined here, I find it quite relatable to what this user is trying to pass across in this post here . Some of them feel they'd be "attacked" if they make a post simply because they are newbies and as such, it discourages them from contributing to the forum. For me, abiding by the rules, making meaningful contribution and basically being yourself will help you integrate better here but I guess it's not all beginners that share this mindset.

Even if using poor grammar is still tolerated in the forum, but we should not be comfortable with it since there will really come a time that the forum will strictly impose correct usage of grammar or correct spelling, otherwise you will be out in the forum if you ignore improving it.

The forum makes an effective outlet for learning, not only about bitcoin and the crypto market, but it also encourage us to use specific and appropriate words so that the main thought of one's post will be carried out well.

The problem with ignoring advanced grammar parts lies in the fact that it remains that way forever. If someone gets used to being understood with poor grammar, he won't have any motivation to keep improving his language skills. Because why do that if it is ok the way it is? And that's lead to stagnation, when nothing is done for the sake of further development. I don't support such an approach, that is why I am convinced that grammar is of a high importance.

Yep I agree about this, most of people said that we can completely ignore grammar as long as our writing is understood, but if the basic level grammar of the text is wrong the sentence will tend to be missunderstood and the information will be altered, so we should not completely ignore grammar especially the basic level. The advance level grammar however, like infinitive, gerund, .etc, could be ignored as long as the meaning is delivered and understood.

I agree with you on this. Sure, not everyone has to speak English. However, I don't really understand the logic behind such kind of behaviour, when someone comes to an English-speaking forum (mostly, of course, we won't take local boards into account during this matter) and thinks he can write something completely unreadable, because he has an excuse of being fond of crypto but not being a native speaker. How exactly he expects others to understand him? All of this leads only to miscommunication, irritation and ignoring. And makes no contribution to the development of the forum.

Depending on how poor the writer's grammar is, it can sometimes be a pain to read and generally doesn't look good in a post. I'm not expecting everyone to have a proficient level of English, but you need to be able to get your message across. In my opinion, English not being the first language isn't always a valid excuse; certainly, I don't blame some for not knowing English, but my point is that there are a few effortless ways to improve our posts. There are numerous free grammar correctors that require no installation whatsoever. They can be of tremendous assistance in these cases, in order to sound more fluent. I also use QuillBot from time to time, especially if it's large text.

Poor grammar creates the ground for the fact that the meaning of what is written is often incomprehensible. And this leads to the fact that readers begin to think out what the author did not mean and interpret what was said in their own way, which is why the thread of the discussion is lost and spoiled. Therefore, grammar is an extremely important component of quality communication on the forum. I'm not a native English speaker either, but I advocate for users to improve the language as well as the quality of their posts themselves.

I was on this forum before the "merit" system was created, so I know quite well how many spammers and account breeders pollute this forum. The "merit" system makes this forum more organized and also cleaner from spam, so that every discussion created is more constructive and far from spam or out of topic. When the "merit" system first appeared, there were quite a lot of members who complained and even traded merits, fortunately the DT team was able to suppress those illegal activity. This forum is very great, lucky people who succeed in getting benefits from this forum.

The grammar part can be ignored as long as a person is able to make others understand his point. Not all of us are native English speaker. We have much lacking. We don't have enough collection of vocabulary or grammar knowledge. But, yes. correcting grammar is a good thing. Even though, most of us don't maintain this. Even me. I try to be but not always. I only use Grammarly or Quilbot only when making an official own thread. But apart from that, I'm always writings English as I see fit. 

I would even say, it ia not only about merits, but it is also not only about sharing and gathering information. From some point forum becomes just a place for your communication. I get that everyone here is anonymous, and I have no clue who is sitting behind the screen, however, I find it more and more interesting and tempting to come here everyday just to talk to people I feel I know. This is about the community, and I guess, this is how it was designed in the first place.

OP, I see this piece of writing as good advice to many of us here, when I was coming up as newbie in this forum I wanted to go the wrong direction, but some of our senior colleagues here help me in different way, the criticized me but I learnt a lot from those criticism, the criticism reshaped me and made me to do things differently, this forum is informative, as newbies, we have to learn first, this determines our future here, setting a goal is also good but don't be hasty to achieve it, I know as newbies, we different goals that we want to achieve here in the forum, if this must come, then we have to do the needful by learning and contribute to the growth of this forum. 

this is so true. You can't effectively express yourself based on your experience and your level of knowledge if all you do is fishing after merits. The reality is that the idea that might not go down well with one individual might be what the other person needs just to understand a particular concept that the person has been struggling with and that's the reason it is very important to make your contribution in the forum as real as you would have done if a reward was not attached to quality content. Like what happens on Facebook, people just see a topic and will give out an indebt analysis and explanation to it knowing fully well that no one is paying them a dim or rewarding them a thing for there contribution. It is what make the forum a reliable place to source for information when you see that forum members are offering there wealth of ideas to those in need of it.

The problem with some newbies is that they are very impatient. When they see the merit some members have earned they assume that it was received in a few weeks. This will push them to begin to devise means to acquire their own merits. In the process, they want to create posts they feel will earn them merit. This is why we are seeing threads created by chatbots increasing in the forum. The reason for the use of these AI tools is to create posts that they don't even understand to get merit. They want to skip the process of learning and understanding the forum and the workings of the crypto space. If you want to enjoy this forum, you need to take a step per time in your adventure don't claim to know what you have zero or little knowledge about.

The bottom line is, it's not all about the merits and you need to understand that the more stay in this forum, the more you learn about the crypto community in the right way. I managed to acquire solid information from this community and one of the best parts of being here is you can ask them every question related to crypto which you don't really find on other sites and you can be assured that they provide you with the right one because if not, huge numbers of users will correct them and that's the uniqueness of this community from others.

Thanks Buddy! It is absolutely awe-inspiring and refreshing to read through the lines of this topic and learn from it. I will also like to mention the fact that all your points resonates with some of my feelings, at a point in time, on this forum but the bulk of the whole thing is for you to improve your knowledge and understanding on how the Bitcoin technology and crypto world operates in general.

At a point, when I joined this forum, I was filled with the euphoria that comes with the spirit of a newbie and I wanted to always impress X,Y,Z even when I barely know them, thinking that my writing skills could fetch me some merits. Little did I know that was merely fallacy and I was practically being untruthful to myself.

This forum requires mammoth time, efforts and consistency to fit in and these are not hard-lines to drive anyone away but to further solidify the true nature of the forum, which is a thought-provoking informative platform where a mixture of students, deep thinkers genius and experts from different places and climes meet to discuss brainstorming ideas and problem-solving issues.

Like I mentioned earlier, few weeks after I came into the forum, I thought my writing prowess would help me gain accolades but if I did not take my time and efforts to acquire the knowledge, I can't get to solve problems or spring up thoughtful ideas. All thanks to the bosseson on here.

Although, my intention was not vested on the rewards or merits that will emanate from this forum, but more of writing posts and topics that will make sense to the general public. Hence, I didn't take the route of chasing specific threads in the name of getting merits.

My advise to other members here especially to the newbies and low-ranked members is to remain original in engaging this forum. Create posts and topics that will solve problems and drop personal opinions on issues discussed. I won't advise anyone to be pressurized by the ranking system thereby bring about the subjective thoughts of impressing one merit source or the other. The merit sources are well experienced and know when and how to reward efforts with merits.

Nobody knows all and if you think you know all that means you’re still confined in a place where you can’t seek for knowledge and assume that what you have is enough for you whereby the world keeps evolving and new things come out everyday. If you remain low key, you will always have a lot bunch full of information coming to you since you’re open to learning new things but the day you claim to be better than the rest and wants to raise shoulders amongst the higher ranked and more educative forum members, you will begin to lose important informations and your self entitlement of being the best won’t allow you to accept new things even when you know it is the truth and right path to take to find solution to what you’re seeking for. Just be humble and seek for knowledge in this interactive and educative forum.

Yes, that`s what I was talking about. But this is rather hard to do and even understand in the first place, because newbies and even higher ranks as well are often bump into advice when you should analyse what members with lots of merits do and just do the same, follow their lead. It is suggested that by doing so you will find out, how to write more noticeable and quality posts. Although I find it useful, I also think that only you can realise how to improve the content of your posts, how to make them more interesting and valuable. Nobody else would give you a proofed instruction, you should come up with it by yourself.


It was not made for it initially, but we cannot deny that those things are widespread right now. Ranks, merits, bounties - all of it creates the field for competition. And forum members don't want to find themselves overboard. It is hard, but it is also a motivation for many to become better and develop themselves.

You know, even if you know you have a lot to share in the forum, just don't act like you know everything. It's better to stay lowkey and continue to accept and learn from all the significant post from other members. Know that everyone has its unique ideas, so always appreciate everyone's post. And always be mindful of every post you make. It's good to be honest but by being straightforward sometimes, you will end up offending other members especially those who are in the higher rank.

Although there's no rank distinction here as everyone is fair when it comes to expressing your own ideas, but always maintain a healthy relationship with other members because the forum is not made to create competition but to encourage everyone to create an informational and interactive learning.

 Have your own originality in the forum. Regardless of your rank or position, you can establish your own identity through the content and authenticity of your post. You don't have to underestimate yourself because you are just a newbie, everyone started from a scratch. You can still be reliable in the forum if you know how to build your own name through your genuine answers and ideas that you share with the rest of the members.

Honesty and transparency is the key. Even if you can't give the best idea or suggestion from a single thread, that's okay. No one will criticize you for that as long as you give your honest and genuine answer that everyone can relate. Getting merits is not actually giving the best ideas in the forum, sometimes its more on relating with other people that they become satisfied with your desires to give them the most honest answers.

This may be a good reason in the eyes of some, but I do not see it as useful in reality. Why would I need to evaluate my post if my purpose is to participate in discussions according to my knowledge, especially since I am participating for the purpose of learning and not for any other purpose?
I reiterate that the purpose of establishing a merit system is not to evaluate posts, since any member can send merit points to any post he likes, even if it is worthless. The system was designed to make it difficult to upgrade membership, which was generating a lot of spam.
If everyone views the matter as important, this does not necessarily mean that it is true. Each person has his own vision and evaluation.

Topics guiding newbies how to earn merits for themselves are useful to the entire community and not just newbies but newbies are the ones finding ig difficult to earn merits because they don’t do so the way they should, they are always earger to earn merits thereby making all their efforts go unnoticed. To earn merits here you need to be well familiar with the forum ways and when you pass through the learning process it would be even more easier for them to earn merit but they always want to skip the learning process. Also things can be more easier here when you are well comfortable in the community.

I have always come to understand that everyone has their own style here and what works for you might not work for me so you should rather improve on your own style. Also our knowledge and interests vary so trying to imitate someone would only make things difficult for yourself and end up creating low quality posts which in the end you will be criticized for making such low efforts.

Everyone have areas they are interested in more and areas they are good at so instead of trying to delve in too many areas why not just improve yourself on the few areas of your interest and focus on making quality posts on them and that way your efforts will easily be noticed and appreciated. It’s good to have mentors or idols you look up to but you still need to pick an idol who has similar interests with you so you can learn easily from their work.

Doing this will only make them lazy to work and create quality contents of their own. Most of the threads created by merit sources regarding merit giveaway newbies are the ones who flood them with replies the most even though they are not qualified or meet the requirements. Doing this will only make them be placed on ignore list by merit sources. Ranking up or earning merit’s doesn’t require you to impress anyone, when you stick to making quality posts people will appreciate your work and gradually you will increase in rank.

Running ahead will simply cause you to break certain regulations for which you will undoubtedly be held accountable, therefore there is no reason to run. However, newbies do not want to be delayed because they are eager to get the legendary rank, which is why they are the most implicated and banned accounts on the forum. Newcomers must recognise that learning will be the most beneficial to them in the long term.

Mostly merits become a subject of interest because of the reason you mentioned. However, they also are treated as a criteria of a self esteem, I would say. Everyone pays attention on the merit number, and it creates the situation, when every single users begins to understand his value on this forum based on a merit number he has. That is why even if you are not that interested in participating in signature campaigns, you would care about merits. Just because everybody else do so.

Why Earning merit is important for newbies in Bitcointalk?

The people most interested in obtaining merit points are those who aspire to upgrade their membership in order to join one of the active signature campaigns. In addition to this, not obtaining merit points cannot prevent any newbie from benefiting from the forum, and no one is required to contribute to the forum. You can navigate the forum just to learn.
Merit points are a gift you will receive in exchange for your contribution to enriching the forum by joining discussions and sharing your experiences/knowledge/skills with the community.
The purpose of the merit system is to maintain healthy discussions among members with as little spam as possible, since before this system was established, it was easy to promote membership simply by publishing.

Of course not. There are many other criterions, but merit cannot be put aside, as most of the forum members and campaign managers keep an eye on it. I won't agree with your statement about whenever your posts are good, you can get higher payments than someone with +4000. I have seen a lot of situations, when users agreed to lower rank payments because the competition was very high and there were no enough place for the members with a high rank and a lot of merits. And I would rather say that the situation when someone with not enough merits gets higher payment is rare. Although those situations happen as well.


Cannot agree with that either. I personally don't consider merit as the objective reflection of someone`s value and influence on the forum. However, most users do. And they will look at your merit stats to draw their conclusions an judgements about you.


I believe this feeling of yours will eventually fade away when you realise that you are ranking up as well.


I am sure that grammar is of a high importance, because the purity and correctness of the language must be saved, even if you are not a native speaker. I get that most of the users here don't recognise English as their mother tongue (me as well). But, in my opinion, even good, quality thoughts don't have a right to be formulated in a bad grammar way. Because it will only provoke the meaning to be lost and misunderstood.


Actually I was talking about higher ranks being sarcastic and rude toward newbies, not the other way around. I don't see many newbies being sarcastic toward higher ranks, because usually they feel some kind of a dependence on them. Because higher ranks could give newbies merits and they would rather not do so, if they are traded the wrong way.

I agree, I reached Legendary just because of the contributions I made in my style. I was bearish with my charts when everyone was bullish and I am bullish when some of you are still thinking.
Maybe it's my chart reading skills which make me different than the others (in terms of my contribution to the forum), but I am glad to get the opportunity nevertheless.

So, stay loyal to your words, do not get influenced by anyone here no matter their rank, and the most important is to keep a healthy conversation.

I agree with what you said about some newbies being sarcastic but we can't also blame the user that did that due to the level of abuse that was done by some newbies.
I know those who are innocent shouldn't pay for the mistakes of others but the point is that we all have different understandings and patient reactions to things happening around us but I think this forum should be more welcoming for newbies to question despite how it makes them look stupid sometimes.

Regarding the first one, you don't have to worry too much about the grammar part too much, as long as you are doing you're getting your point across then you're doing just fine, maybe consider grammar if you're an active participant in a lot of discussion, it helps but it's not a voluntary thing for you to be grammatically perfect, being perfect might even get you scrutiny for using an AI because of your too good to be true posting structure although it's not a taboo to use a grammar tool like Grammarly. Number 3 and 4 is going to be difficult for newbies to do because let's admit it already, a lot of people that have recently joined this forum aren't just here to learn about bitcoin and anything related to that, they're here to try and make money because they've probably heard that someone has been in this forum making money through stuff or they have a friend that's been in this forum for a long time now and they want to get into too and try it but then find it difficult to do because of the merit system.

This two points remind me of the thread I stumbled earlier here made me to realize that it's not about the rank but the person behind the account. Seeing how both high ranks and lower ranks rubbish that thread and correct the op made me to believe in your number 5 point. Believe me, even at this moment, I find it hard to interact with most of the high rank accounts because I always assume they are far better and I need to be careful with them. And of course, some of these high profile are gurus but some are not in any way different from the rest of us but were lucky to receive the airdrop merits back then. This thread is necessary for those having the same feelings and finding it difficult to feel free in the forum.

Nice thread btw. Its really good that someone might open up about their opinion, and others should read it and see what they think about. Its not like you are totally on the opposite side but you are more broad when it comes to explaining things. It might be confusion to others but if we reread the thread we could something valuable in good terms. Keep it up, and I do hope newbies find your post as "meant to guide" and not to intimidate them.

It is true that you need +2000 merits to get higher payments, but it is not a guarantee. Whenever your posts are good, you can get higher payments than someone with +4000. The system may not be suitable for everyone, but I do not think that merit is the only criterion to say that this account publishes high-quality posts or spam.

Since you do not need a university degree to be able to earn an income, there must be other ways to say that this person is worthy. The merit system may be one of them, but it is not everything. Signature campaigns aim to get the highest amount of clicks and gain trust even if you do not use the service. The easiest way to do this is for an influential person to advertise for them. Be influential and you will not need merit.

I think you got my post wrong. I haven't said that newbies should behave in a certain way, it is exactly the opposite. I was just sharing my own observations and experience, and based on it, I can claim that there are some unwritten "rules" and "behaviour patterns" which could put a lot of pressure not only on newbies, but also higher ranks. Counter productivity of such discussion is a questionable issue and it is up to a particular person to decide if it is helpful or not.

All you said is very relatable. You've taken the time to point out information that has been shared before, but this time it's less aggressive and more explanatory, making it more understandable for your targeted audience. At least you've shown that you've experienced all these things during your start on the forum and have provided a way to navigate the ups and downs for new members, helping them feel more welcome. What you appreciate the most is how you encouraged them to be themselves. This is one thing that many new members tend to neglect. Once you become natural in your words and share your thoughts and feelings, the next person reading will understand and relate to what you've shared. But when you try to mimic someone else, you start going off-topic.

This point I love the most in this entire episode of wealth of knowledge that can help a newbie to propel them through the forum, Number 5 is very important because I have seen a newbie writing an interesting posts, highly exceptional and intellectually accurate,  and also have seen a legendary who writes a hit worthless posts.


So the difference between each member in the forum, is in the level of the quality of content that they write each day that makes up for the posts history, and not the rank of a member.

You are right. To be honest, getting merits is not as easy as it is because sometimes, a user can even make good posts but may not get the desired merits and may feel it's not about making good posts alone. From what I've seen too on the forum of how some users get merits, those who dole the merits may do it for reasons best known to them and not mainly on the fact that the post being merited was good alone.
Thanks for the push up, I really appreciate this gesture...cheers!!🍻

Yes a lot of newbies here are after chasing merits as most of them even rush to comment on threads that are receiving more merits, these ideas of chasing merit will not do them any good because they will find it difficult to focus on the fundamentals of why they are in this forum.

As a newbie, it is important to learn more than comment as it will help you to gain more ideas and understanding about the forum and bitcoin related information.


Most newbies that registered on this forum have that narrative that this platform is all about making money, so this ideology has made lots of newbies to focus more on deriving merit rather than passing information or getting information from the forum, of a truth we all know that this forum has aided lots of us financially but that shouldn't be the basis as we also need to contribute towards the betterment and development of these forum as time goes on.

Are you not overthinking things, when you start following "guidelines" and "guides" on how to behave/be yourself in a discussion forum, you are already not being yourself. I don't think all these guides for newbies that i see in this board is necessary, let people behave how they want to when they join the community, as long as they don't break the rules, time will decide if they would learn and become net positive to the forum or not.

This is just a Bitcoin discussion forum, threads like these are actually counterprodictive and i think they even put more pressure on the newbies that they have to behave in a certain way. Just discuss about Bitcoin and other whatnots in the way you can!

It is good to read these reminders like I would like to call them once in a while. It serves as a refresher for the Old members of the forum and a guide to the new members on the forum. As you have written I can say someone really that there is no right or wrong way to be a member on this forum if you abide by the rules and be respectful of others. The most crucial when newbies should note is Patience. You got to be a lot patient on this forum because the destination is not attaining the highest ranks, it is increasing your knowledge about Bitcoin and the crypto space.

Many users won't agree that getting merit is simple. I wouldn't say that either because it is like diminishing the efforts of those who receive them. I would rather say that it is not as hard as it seems in the beginning.

I have never done this before, so you will be my first user I will help with the merits left to the next rank. Congratulations!


I am not drawing an illusion that my advice will change something entirely. I just hope that someone who needs to feel more comfortable here will have a chance to do so, knowing that he is not alone in his worries und anticipations.


A lot of users are being sarcastic, especially in local boards, where you can feel it even more, because your language skills are higher to notice that. I am not saying that they have no right or reason to do so, but for newbies it could be too much pressure.


It was implemented to reduce spam, however it has its own flaws, first of all, it is highly subjective. That i why merits are often given to those users and posts which already have lots of merits. Of for something funny. But there is no objective rules, common for everybody which regulate merit distributions.

Considering campaign managers, I would say the rather make a focus on merits, because every good campaign offers higher payrate for those users, who have 1000+ or even 2000+ merits. It has recently become something like a "new rank", which is higher than Legendary.


Because of the reasons I mentioned in the OP. They want to be perceived as equals. And of course majority of want to be accepted in a signature campaign with a better pay rates.

Newbies should focus more on learning and reading to improve their knowledge and not all about chasing merits and ranking up as this might kill the purpose why the forum was created, which is to exchange ideas of what you know so that others can benefit from you.

Newbies are misled by whoever introduced them here that this place is a money making forum and they didn't tell them what is involved before you can get to such rank that can enable you to participate in signature campaign, and I know that some of those people that found here on their own will have the knowledge that you can join signature campaign as they just registered but later on. Life is one step after the other and don't be in a haste to get merits rather improve yourself and only contribute on topics of your interest and you will see the merits coming in.

Why is Earning merit important for newbie members in Bitcointalk forum?

If they join here to learn about Bitcoin, merit is not their target initially.
If I am their tutor, I will only advice them to read two threads
Welcome message
Newbies - Read before posting
They don't need more as newbies.

[SUCH GUIDE] Guaranteed method to earn many merits, statistically proven. suchmoon did not update it since 2019 but such a guide to earn merit.

Just feels like going through my own initial days in this forum, I appreciate the OP for making things so clear without and jargons and this will indeed help the newcomers and few more things they need to consider like avoid falling for any random scams one could find people advertising new projects every day under Altcoin discussion with catchy phrases but need to do due diligence because I have seen mostly newbie gets carried away with get rich quick ponzi schemes and there are a lot of such campaigns here and also don't indulge into any activity which goes against forum's rules like account farming and selling the Bitcointalk forum account though farming is not easy nowadays thanks to merit system. Don't think this forum as a cashcoe rather think this as a place which will help you gain knowledge about crypto world which will help you achieve financial freedom and it does takes time for sure.

There's a certain class you will be when you're learning and being a newbie, during this period, it may be hard on you and you may finds it tiring, boring and a difficult task before going through the entire forum to understand what it's all about, then you now also proceed to your journey in learning bitcoin, it may take some while but you're definitely improving in learning and getting more exposure to everything.

Just as you planted a seed and continue to water and weed the surroundings till it begins to germinate after some time, then you will have to wait also till it gets matured before fruiting or harvesting, we all need to pass through some rigorous stage in life before we can become whom we want to become, this community has varieties of opportunities but you can't benefit from them until you know what you're doing.

I do not think that anyone is sarcastic about the attempts of others to learn or even gain merits. We all learn daily things that we did not know, but some make fun of alt accounts that create specific topics to obtain merit, such as Help me it is my first topic, or My story with buying Bitcoin.


Merit system was designed to reduce spam, whenever you feel that your writing style will lead to spam or say something that you do not understand, you should stop posting in that board. Learn and share what you have learned and you will not have a problem with moving up. Some campaign managers don't focus on merits, it's like a cut-off where you have to get the minimum but more of them doesn't mean you're better if your posts aren't good.

Be yourself without inventing anything and without overestimating your knowledge if you don’t have any; similar advice has been heard on the forum for a long time. Sincerity, honesty, patience, and genuine interest are all that a beginner needs. Unfortunately, the advice will again become a thing of history, and tomorrow you will see guides from beginners with information that is not entirely correct, or maybe copied, and new topics like: Hello, here I am! Tell me—that is, transfer everything to this topic. There will be a lot of information in the forum.

 A good piece this is I must say and things like this don't come everytime but I just hope it reaches the intended audience and they abide by them. You know it becomes hard to get originality sometimes from newbies if their only aim of coming into the forum is to rank up and possibly join a campaign. They'd may, in their bid to quickly achieve that aim, miss out on some of these minor but necessary steps probably because slow and steady is not what they are looking for.
 Don't blame those who cozy up to these higher ranked users so they can get one merit or two because maybe to them thats the only way merits can come their way and some even lose "appetite" to stay or even contribute when their plan doesn't work.
There's no quick way to success but if there's consistency and determination, the goal can be achieved but not all of them know this. It's not bad to have someone you admire in this forum for their style of writing or the way the act in general but some tend to lose themselves simply because they are trying to emulate their idol. Getting merits is simple. Just be unique, post good, informative posts and try not to put having the merits in front when making your contribution because that can put a damper on one's mood if the desired result is not gotten.

Thanks a lot for this piece of advice. Sometimes we just get carried away with the whole merit stuff and that affects how organic our write-ups become to a very large extent. The originality in the content you post in the forum will gradually reduce when all you do is to chase after merits and will result in not contribute positively to the forum

It might even stop you from contributing to some threads you feel won't get you merited and even when you see a question you can offer a reasonable answer to because your mind has been fixed on the whole merit-chasing mentality, you won't see the need to air your view.

Within the few moments I have stayed in the forum, the merits I received were mostly a product of the organic postss and contributions I made out of my ideas, curiosity or contribution to an already created thread. I know that the urge to rank up as fast as possible is always there but I just like to follow things the way they come and I strongly believe that by moving just a step at the time, we will get to the top one day.

Kudos to the journey thus far!

Many topics are created to explain and guide newbies on their way to earning merit. And although I consider such topics important and useful, because receiving merits is of great interest and concern to those who take only the initial steps on the forum, but I also consider the question of how to feel comfortable in this community more important. After all, beginners often face stressful situations for themselves, when they do not fully know what and how to do, and how not to lose motivation when some users responds sarcastically or even rudely. And this happens, it's a fact.

That's why I decided to share my experience. My recommendations aren't that extensive and comprehensive yet, because I still don't always feel confident sharing some of my observations, even now that I'm creating this thread. There remains this feeling of a newbie, as if you are surrounded on all sides by heroes and legendaries who are just waiting to tell you that the questions you raise have already been discussed and resolved a long time ago. But they are new to you! And I want to share them, ask them, discuss them, and at the same time not feel detached and stupid. That is why I want to share some tips on how not to feel this, but on the contrary to find your niche and not feel a lot of pressure.

1. Do not try to imitate others. I will start with a piece of advice that can be perceived as very unpopular, because from all corners we hear that it is necessary to take an example from those who have achieved success on the forum, analyse how, where and about what they write their posts, and based on this to improve quality of your own.

But! Their style is not your style. You may not share their interests, and you may not understand (yet) the topics they write about. And that's normal. Instead of writing low-quality posts where your "idols" write them, it's better to focus your efforts on delving into the issues that interest you. Just write in the way you feel most confident. With respect to grammar, of course, and without violating the rules of the forum. Do not adapt your thoughts to some imaginary and subjective constructive templates.

2. Do not chase the merits sources. I often see newbies writing in threads where a lot of merits are given away. Although they do not understand these topics, and therefore their posts go unnoticed. But they draw the wrong conclusion from this, and continue to attack various topics with their posts, without receiving merit, and without learning anything. It is better to write something what you understand and will be confident about. Sooner or later, sources will notice you if you focus on the content of your posts and not on impressing merit sources.

3. Ranking up takes time. Just accept it as a fact and stop dwelling on it. You won't be able to run ahead of the train, and there's really no point in doing so. Perceive the time while you gain merit and activity as necessary to increase your personal level, not your position on the forum. After all, if your motivation is to study and improve your knowledge and skills, then this time will only benefit you.

4. Don't worry that you will be perceived worse if you have a low rank. I saw a lot of members and even junior members who wrote interesting and useful posts, and they were treated with no less respect than a hero or legendary. Your image on the forum depends much more on the history of your posts than on your rank.

5. Do not think yourself that you are worse than heroes or legendaries. Don't flatter them just because your rank is lower. Knowledge and interesting ideas do not correlate directly with rank. Your thoughts can be just as original and in demand as someone`s else. Be yourself, don't lose motivation, and you will definitely find your place in this community.