Topic: Finally! 101 merit and 84 activity!! Celebration Post! My thoughts on merit. - page 2. (Read 1358 times)

congratulations @bitmover
i am looking my merits too, and your strategy is very good, thanks for share
i send more 1 merit for you 

Congratulation Man.
Your merits are well deserved.

You deserve to get a star, man. The amount of merit you get now is a reflection of your quality. You have given me precious enlightenment, I must imitate what you are doing now. You are not a merit pursuit, but merit is chasing you now. Congrats !!

Thank you and congratulations to you too!!


I think that when you build a good reputation and people see that you know what you are talking about (that you are not some random shitposter), you are likely to get more merits, as people will trust your opinions and analysis. This happens in real life as well, so no problem with that.


I think that if you like mining, go ahead. Do your research. I know very little about that as this is not my main interest. You probably know a lot more than I do. After your research, make some posts in Beginners & Help or Mining board with what you have learned. As someone said above, you will learn while writing a new post.

Engage in discussions about mining, and avoid that price discussions if you have nothing to say.


Thank you both for your kind words. I am very glad I'm joining this community.

Because you stated that this is a celebration post, then let me congratulate you. Congratulation man, wish you have more merit in the future and your knowledge about crypto increases. Dont want to ruin your party, but i will rank up too in 2 weeks more, cant wait for it. 

Thank for advises , you wise and patient man. This good example for beginners who dont know how get merit.

Congratulations! This post of yours should inspire others, especially for those who have been struggling (and complaining) how hard the merit system is and how it prevents other users from ranking up. The tips you have provided may serve as a guide for those who have been whining about how unfair the merit system is since they don't receive any merits. You're genuine passion for cryptocurrency has been key to your success, which has been lacking for those who have been desperately begging or fishing for merits yet fail to do so.

after i read this i was thinking about something. what do you think?

could it be possible that users who are recognized have it easier to receive merit? you dont just have to write valid post. you have to write valid post and through that other users realize that you exist. and if you have something special - like a sig or an avatar you will be recognized later and the change to receive further merit is higher.

even if the OP may be an exception

Great post! I like your optimism and fun attitude! I didn't realize that having a post in a megathread or a "spam thread" still had the possibility of being merited.

I've been getting the impression that it's frowned upon to post in spam threads, no matter how great a quality your post has.

My low key goal is to get 100 merits too, before 100 activity, but I'm not really seeing that happening. I've been busy as of late with work, and so I haven't had enough time to devote to researching and writing a stellar bitcointalk post. But, I'm part of a sig campaign, so I'm still required to make a minimum amount of posts per week. For the past two weeks, I've found that I've been simply finding easy topics to reply to and just post something that's slightly thoughtful and not generic. I've been feeling a little guilty about htat, because I noticed I've been repeating myself about, "ETH TA BEING $360!!!" in more than two post replies.... eh... I felt like a broken record, lol.

I think the reason you've received so many merits is that you really put a lot of genuine effort into getting to know more about crypto, and posting about what you've learned so that others can learn too. That's definitely meritable, in it of itself.

I've honestly wanted to research mining crypto, but with my technical shortfaflls, it's such a headache. I've wanted to participate more in the mining boards... but yeah, I just am not too competent in that field.

Thanks for providing these merit insights, though! I've created a merit guide myself, but it's gotten its fair share of both critics and fans.

Props to you, OP.  I've not read any of your other posts, but you seem to be the kind of member who should be allowed to rank up, i.e., not a spammer or a scammer.  Hell, even Theymos merited your post here.

Nice to see the merit system working out, because while OP ranked up, there are thousands of people here who didn't and shouldn't ever rank up, and it's thanks to the merit system that this is the case.  So to all the garbage posters who start threads whining about how unfair it all is, that they're being discriminated against for being....whatever....this is evidence that creating the merit system was a good move.  A brilliant move at that.

Points taken.  Hope there would be a lot of newbies that are frustrated and already lose hope that they will reach higher ranks in the forum that will read this and be more inspired and motivated like me to make posts with good contents. After all, the main goal of this forum is to share knowledge with everyone but this is being overlapped by the fact that most members here only wants to earn money for themselves that's why they are creating countless accounts just to spam the forum with useless topics for the sake on earning.

Good Read. And you know what creating a good history of quality posts works. Just like what I do in Reddit, I often visit those Redditors who have the most up votes or who currently have been doing good posts lately as I know they have the most to contribute in the community, I always give them an up vote in return. There will come a time where Bitcoin users will do the same. As if they see your name almost often you will receive a merit as you are reputable for contributing good posts.

Thanks everyone for all these kind words =D

Thank you! You will do it sooner than you expect!


This is what I tried to explain. You do not need good posts with few replies (which are scarce). You can go to not so good ones, with few replies, and provide a great answer!  Most topics with 5 pages replies should have been locked already, no need to reply them!


English is not my mother tongue, and I find that this was good for me!

I translate some of my posts to my local board (portuguese) and I find interesting discussions there as well. In my local board we have a completely different forum. There are other demands there. People lack of more technical discussions, and are eager for basic crypto knowledge, such as recovering forks, what is a SegWit address, what is an Adblock... Those topics are not demanded here.

This forum is improving my English writing skills too!

Yeah, this is pretty bad for the forum, and if we continued down this road nobody would be making money anymore, as there is no reason to pay for spammers signatures. As soon as companies realizes that (I don't know how they have not realized it yet), campaigns are gonna be a lot different.

impressive performance. You can be really proud of yourself 
with english as your mother tongue it is easier than in sub forums but of course far away from easy.

nice example how it can work but clearly the exception.
keep going 

You rocked it, man!!
But, also, you're one in a million. This is really obvious you are a crypto lover, in the good sense. Your topic review makes anybody interested in crypto world feel proud of your efforts.
Sadly, this is really difficult to find here. Even when I totally agree with your advice about how to earn merit, few are going to understand them or even read it. Few are willing to make a research, they are only here seeking how to earn money instead of knowledge. I believe the forum has been placed as someplace where you can do easy money, and that's why we all have too many newbies with such a goal.
Anyway, people like you through light into the forum and I am really glad for you to be recompensated as you deserve.
Congrats, and thanks for all those amazing posts!!!!

Congrats, and I'm such a sheep that I gave you a merit as well.

For me, your most important point was the one where you suggest posting in threads with few replies, especially if the title looks interesting.

Thumbs up! Not an easy feat and another example of how it can be done, although not many make the breakthrough easily now.

Unmerited users really should look at posts from guys that make it to understand the hows and whys of things.

Well, really good for you, probably other users can learn from you. Though, in as much as I don't really care about the whole merit thing that much, its still a good thing to see that the system is working genuinely.

As for looking for topics with few replies; its most times tough to see good posts let alone good ones that have 'few' replies cause most of the posts you see are repeated posts that have been replied to many times. I think one has to be online 24/7 to catch up with good post and I'm personally not good at keeping up with it.

Everyone should read this thread instead of begging for merits.
It's a fact that this merit system is not bad at all.
And why it seems so bad? because we made it look like "it is bad".
We can learn that anyone can get merit if they're qualified for it.
You are a good example for us. Thanks for making this thread.
I've opened up my mind to this merit system.
And Congrats On Your Completed Task

Creating a topic will likely further your learning also. Sometimes when your learning a complex subject you may get something wrong, and by creating a topic related to what you've just learned and going into detail will likely have mistakes, and the community can further highlight any mistakes you may have heard. I'm not saying to create a topic every time,  but it certainly helps further your knowledge at certain subjects.

Good job on proving that the system is working. It's refreshing to see someone eager to learn about Bitcoin and it's technology.