Topic: Finally! 101 merit and 84 activity!! Celebration Post! My thoughts on merit. (Read 1290 times)

I believe that it is precisely the interest in any business that is the basis for success. I remember once I read a book about talented people and geniuses. And one brilliant musician said: “I don’t think that I have any innate talent. In general, I don’t believe in talent at all. What people usually call talent is the result of hard work and continuous practice. Enthusiasm and interest is the driving force. After all, if you love something, you just can’t not to do it. And constant practice leads to an increase in skill".


I`m sure that you can create interesting and useful content only if you recognize it yourself as valuable. Each of us perfectly knows how much time and effort he has spent on this or that research. No need to deceive others and even more so - yourself. If the information is of no interest to you personally, don`t you think that others will like it. People are drawn to sincere involvement in the process and the personal interest of the author. Only then they can look at the content created by him with the same genuine interest.


Our efforts are always rewarded. Perhaps not in the way we thought about, but they always pay off. The students have a good saying: first you work for Transcript of Records, and then it works for you. Before we get anything, we have to invest. But we always get a remuneration, even in those moments when we don`t expect it at all.

Congrates mate! I simply love your statement so much. It totally reminds me of Seasons of change by Jim Rohn. Your rewards do not come in just one day after planting the seeds. You just have to keep going and the rewards will come naturally. You lose only when you decide to stop of give up.
Never give up mate!

Congratulations, you really deserved all these merits. I have seen your posts and a lot of them is a good read. This is true that if you keep working on your posts and improve your posting skills, then finally one day you will be rewarded.

Thanks for the advice to post on new topics with few answers. I did something opposite and searched for large topics because I thought that there are more people involved and many more users watch this threads. I was wrong and now when I read your post this is so obvious to me. If you post in such a big thread your post got lost between hundreds of others. Such a big thread has a few pages of fresh content every day so if your post isn't special or original enough, nobody will see it.

OP accomplished something impossible by accumulating so many merits in a short time. I really congratulate and admire. I hope to take advantage of your valuable advice.

I started too with 0 merit and now with 17 merits.  I was really love this system because it made me become a good poster (but not enough  ). Welcome me to the club.
The only way to do are post freely and don't expect for merits.
My motto here is : Don't talk for merit but talk for a good quality post.

Merits = virtual grey hair.

Thank you for this post. It's an aweking for someone like me. I was about to beg to have merits and move to rank "Member" or maybe I'm just too lazy to learn it the hard way.

Impressed on the Bruce Lee quote:

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer"

A good composition to attract readers with your patience.

Try to explore more, you will learn a lot specially the challenge of merit system.

This is so great advice for us that would like ro rank up.

Even me I would like to move into another rank someday but it is so hard to attain because of having a merit. However after a month that I've been started posting I thought that it was not a time for me to hurry to earning merits because there are so many members like me that dreamings to rank up. So they also striving and waiting to be awarded or get merit all of them.


Merit is a good implementation of this forum because it makes a good way for discussion of each thread. And because of the merit of quality posters existed. And merit one of the key to having a creative and knowledgeable members.


Always keep believing in yourself that you could
move into another level. Keep waiting and don't lose hope.

This is the spirit I love, which others agree to have flooded you with merits and I will be joining them soon. Your advise is nothing short of what I earlier advised. Complainers about the merit system are just not doing something right. When someone complains about not getting enough merit or how the system is targeted towards some set of people, I visit the thread to see if the claim is justified but unfortunately, a lot of them don't even worth a fraction of 1 merit.

This is a lesson for everyone in the above category that the community is not perfect, but the we also human beings that appreciate hardwork when someone is giving and even though its not coming, someone will definitely spot it at some point.

Congratulation man. I give you +1 for this post.

I also learned from nullius about PGP/GPG.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.33414470

After that, I try to make a tutorial of PGP/GPG into my language (Bahasa Indonesia).
So I hope that members who come from Indonesia can also learn it, and here is the result :
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.33504187
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.34348109
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.33746061

Thanks you for the pizza BTCforJoe!!

I am very grateful for the reception I had in this community 

I’m just here for the pizza, but looks like everyone forgot to bring it.

Jerks.

Oh, and good job, bitmover; I always light up a bit when it comes to reviewing your posts on a weekly basis, and to watch the progression of merit growth for your account has been pretty phenomenal. I’ve said it before and I will continue to say it: this forum needs more members like you!

Here’s to the next 100 merits!

I completely agree with Astargath.  I could care less if a person is here solely for the money--I, myself, would probably post less if I wasn't getting paid, though that's debatable.  I usually go way over the number of posts per week that I actually get paid for.  Nevertheless, we know exactly what the result is when people are paid to be here, don't speak English, and are required to write what amounts to a high number of posts per week in English.  We get shitposting.  And it doesn't matter if the campaigns increase the character count minimums, because then you just observe padded posts which are still garbage.

It's the effort part that's lacking in these people who are here solely for the paycheck.  If I was living in a 3rd world country where a signature campaign could pay my rent for a year, I'd sure as hell put a lot more effort into my posts than something like this:


These examples are all from the first current thread of Bitcoin Discussion, and any number of these examples would be easy to find.  These are complete crap, and my guess is that these individuals are not here to have a friendly chat with people about bitcoin.  They don't read replies, and they just post post post.  That, my friends, is the problem.

Thanks for your advices. I will do my best to have a quality posts and I'll do what you says. And congratulations to you, you'll deserve that. 

You’re clearly a really good poster (OP) , congratulations for ranking up seemingly quite fast. You’re an example to all those newbies complaining about how difficult it is to rank up & gain Merit. We need more posters like yourself here.
I left you 1 Merit point.

Lol this is pretty cool, I liked that!!! Thank you!


I think almost 100% of my post here is clean, except for one or 2 posts regarding some airdrops, which I don't participate anymore, I think they are useless and not free (you pay with your personal data, KYC).

I didn't participate in any bounty, just some signature campaigns, but I am having problems being accepted (too crowded). A campaign that helped me a lot was Joe signature campaign (which i am wearing a signature now). This campaign was a good incentive cause I knew someone was going to read my posts.

I don't have any interest in Twitter or Reddit bounties because I think it's too much effort and you will learn nothing along the way. My recommendation is to stay away from them.
Translation and article bounties I believe to be better, as you will learn something along the campaign, and they will pay you better. I never participated in any of them either, and I don't plan to do so.

On the other hand signature campaigns are pretty cool as there is no effort, as I will post in this forum anyway.

I post mainly  in these boards: Local, Bitcoin Discussion, Bitcoin technical Discussion, Meta, Alternative Cryptocurrency, Economy, Politcs & society, Serious Discussions, Beginners & Help....

Take a look at Where the Merit Pours?.

To some extent I agreee with you here, in cases where people learn and then pass knowledge on and when posters provide value to the community/ecosystem. The real issues lie with people who make little effort, if the shitposters actually tried to better themselves and the posts they make then there will be few people here who would moan about them.

Since you're undoubtedly very successful at cracking the system a couple of questions for you.. did you participate in bounties in this journey or was your post history completely clean helpful posts so far?  I wonder sometimes if it's my posting style that has made me hit a merit roadblock or if it's the fact that my history has about 1/3 bounty replies.  I've tried quite a few things similar to what you've said where I'm answering garbage questions on the first page and quickly without much success.   Was this stuff that you mainly did in the Beginner's forum or was it scattered throughout? Also, I had the exact opposite experience where I got my first 20 merits almost immediately and have been in a drought ever since. Still though really an amazing accomplishment and I hope to see your next post at Sr. Member status soon! 100% Jelly.

Wow! Thats a great achievements to you. Lucky i read this post of you and now im inspired to do research more. Some members thinks Merit is a wall that they cant climb but you show us that nothing is impossible if we just keep on trying to achieve our dream to rank. Well done!

That's nice dude, I honestly don't think there is anything wrong with people that come here exclusively to get paid from signature campaigns as long as they take it seriously. If you think of it like a real job and you try really hard I don't see any problem.