Topic: Full Member thanks to the Merit system. - page 2. (Read 1164 times)

That's it. That is what newbies should do first when they join the forum

Another reason why newbies or even Junior members (who are not experienced, knowledgeable enough) should stay away from bounty board.
Yeah, the forum is a good place for learn-by-mistakes learners.
Exactly! There are lots of knowledgeable, generous, active higher ranked members who are readily to share their knowledge, skills, experiences to forum's newcomers.
Like this one:
BBcode Lessions & Tutorials
Lots of shit posters complained that merit system only supported by higher ranked members due to the system mainly protect priviledges of higher ranked members. I don't think so, and the above topic demonstrates that fact. They are readily to help lower ranked members to move up, to get money legally, and to make the forum better place.

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

I'm mainly posting in the altcoin mining boards so, this may be a reason why I am seeing such low merits being sent around there.
Maybe things will improve after a couple of merit sources are assigned there.

What about the merit distribution? Did you get merit naturally for your posts or did you "hunt" for it by posting in review threads?

I've been away today and I am surprised to see the thread so active.

No need to answer to every each of you but I'll try to summarize what I think after reading all those comments.
First thank you guys for the support.  For those who think that only two guys manage to rank up, I will disappoint you. While looking for merit abusers found at least two more guys already ranked up to full members, unfortunately I don't remember those names so I have no proof, just my word.

There are many new Members, tho. I guess you will say that 10 merit is not so big obstacle, well it is for most of the newbies, trust me. When you see a newbie or Jr.Member with 0 Merit you won't pay so much attention to his comments as if he had 1 Merit. I've already seen this and I'm trying to change it. Getting your first merit is not easy, especially if you are posting in sections like Mining and Pools. Well, I see that the situation there is a bit better now, you see some merited posts from time to time.

Some of you are asking for tips or how I did it. I was a bit surprised when I joined here. It took me quite some time only to get oriented in the forum structure. Asking for help, got couple of posts deleted as spam and then I started reading. I learns about the bounties /did't knew when I joined/ and got involved in a scam project. Learned my lesson and moved on. Been reading a lot only to get to know the system in the forum. Then you meet some hero/legendary commenting around and it start to be more interesting.

As you go deeper also in the history and you find satoshi, Hal Finney, Gavin and many other founders /reading a lot/, and you see the forum is just one big family, DTs (DT1 and DT2) gather in camps and fighting in between, some accusing others of being scammers, pedophiles, being on pills,some extortion attempts or some sort of this, everyone keeping their interests, it is really colorful here / especially reading nullius posts, damn he has sense of humor and quite some knowledge/. Then you see the other side, the quite shitposters gathering activity in the dark corners of the forum /the off-topic and the bounties, quoting every week report just to provide better life for their families, sir/. They are just silent participants in the ICO generator machine spitting new and new useless coins and tokens /well,some can be useful for sure but this is very rare/ unaware of the merit system, they pop-up from time to time in the Meta with their broken English(*) to ask why they are still Jr after they reach the activity, and finally how the merit system broke their life.

Then you start understanding how everything is working here, you start find things which you think are not right, missing or just not logical. You ask why this has to be like this, and how to make things better, is there any way for me to help to improve this ecosystem here? How can I help with what I do? Then you reach the point of being a member in the real meaning, a member of this crazy family. The merit will come eventually.

This is what I have been trough for those :  
And I don't regret a single second that I spent with you guys.

Ups,I’m afraid I got carried away! (*) Apologies for my English tho, I'm just an NNES.

At least I know that not only Nullius ( the Genius ) is lined up for a promotion ( not being sarcastic ). Since we all knew him for quite sometime, I thought he is the only one who can only Go rank just by waiting his activities to follow.
Good for you and it is a good fuel for some of us to continue what we have started here, thanks bud. I may tell you that it is quite longer for the next line but let us make this journey worth it not just for our own but also to this forum. I am loving the forum just like I love my home now. Hopefully, I can stay longer here until I turn into a beautiful butterfly. Hoping that this molds me well.


Of course we are unique individuals and that what makes us more valuable. You just have to express it in your own way. If you are really into cryptos, I think you could put up your own motivation to make your own journey here as exciting as you can. I am not that good of a writer too and I don't get rewards as frequent as others and that is because I have School days and classes on weekends, I lack knowledge and time. But I expess my interest as hard as I could, not just to get rewards but to actually be a part of something big and it feels good to be here.

Congrats! I've been telling people here to not post just for the sake of merit and to unleast read once what they've wrote to see if it makes sense and merit will make it's way to you.
You will get merit if you deserve it and if there are posts that do deserve merit but did not get merited, that's good because that shows that you can write quality posts. Cheers!


Well that's because there's the least spamming and nonsense posting in this section. Just compare it to the Bitcoin Discussion section and you'll see.  

You nailed it. You made a lot of constructive and useful posts. It seems like ranking up now isn't easy like when it's my first time here. Merit helps me to become a good poster. I need 9 merits to become member? That's it?

When the merit system first started, people were giving them out freely. I rarely see posts with merits on them anymore though - I guess most users have distributed everything they had to give and they've run out.

This subforum is pretty much the only place still giving merits out.

First of all, congratulations bro. Looks like you were given what you really deserved. There's no doubt that you're a good poster. I checked your posts and I'm amazed by your posts (very informative posts) and makes me feel so sad and jealous. I don't have working brains like yours to make posts with such a very informative posts. That's why I felt jealous, if you will look in my posts all you can see is trash compared to yours. I'm already a Full Member but I believed that my posts activities are the reason why I ranked up. If merit system has been implemented long time ago. I will never made it to Full Member. I know I can, but it will take a long time before it happens.

But, although my posts are not good as yours. I never spam (did I?). Because whenever I create a post. I always assure that I'm not breaking any rules. Hehe sorry, My emotions brought me here. By the way, all I'm trying to say is Congratulations and I really admired you. Keep up the good work bro. I'm pretty sure that you will reach Senior Member rank and up in time.

That's really good man !!
I didn't see that coming so soon to be honest ! I just check your post quality and its is definitely good and you deserve every inch of your success . With all the merit abuses going on I thought that this would get difficult for smaller ranks to get the level up . But that is incredibly good . I See the hope for myself now !! 

Merit system is no joke. It reminds me of stackoverflow where you get rep for good answer/question.
Congratulation to OP :>)

120 days and 100 merits, constructive users can surely get them. Of course, user can not get one merit each day, some days get, some days don't, but in general they will get 100 merits or more over 120 days if they are really construcitve users in the forum.

Firstly, I'm not sure if that statistic is accurate. Secondly, the old activity based system requires 120 days to get to Full Member and the system has only been in place 56 days. So however many have managed it they have done extremely well. We'll have a better idea how it is working in another couple of months time.

Does only two members being able to reach full member after the merit system supports your claim ? I am not saying that merit system is bad and it should be taken back, but there is a lot of scope for improvements. It is good that the admin has focused on reducing the spam in the forum by introducing the merit system. But do we have enough merits to reward good posts as well ? If merits are less in circulation, it will still serve the first purpose (discouraging spam on the forum). But what about encouraging new members making quality posts ?

Agree with you, TheQuin. I think that merit system can not stop or slow down the ranking progress of bitcointalk users. For example, to reach Member rank, users need only 10 merit points and 60 activities. That means they need 10 weeks to reach 60 activities and I really believe that 10 weeks is long enough to earn 10 merits. To reach Full member rank, users need to collect 100 merits during 5-6 months, I think it is possible too. Only sort of spamming users be stucked due to merit system.

That's a very good point. If you look at the time it takes to get the activity to rank up then anyone getting an average of 1 Merit a day will still rank up on the same schedule and others will just do it a bit slower.

Looking at the latest data from LoyceV https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.32604134

Taken after 56 days 294 people had gained 56 or more merits and going down to half there are 738 with 28 Merit. A total of 11775 had gained at least 1 Merit.

nope - lies.. Shitposters will die and the forum will flourish with less time wasters like you

dont worry, i think merit is leading this forum to death, i can hardly imagine a forum can survive that people can get profits from the rank up while its difficult to get a rank up, people are losing hope now, especially those who have much activities who make a great contribution to the forum, i think merit must be changed asap

Yes, it's true, ranking up is a lot more difficult nowadays compared to what it used to be.

I see you have sent a lot of merit to people doing good posts so, you're on a good track.
Although, I have seen a lot of legendary members (that weren't affected by the merit system implementation) which are not involved at all in the spreading of merit. This is just sad.

I disagree fella, you have achieved 28 merits, and I assume you have just continued posting as previously. so what are we 8 weeks into the new system? you are averaging the equivalent of 50% of the previous ranking system. now imagine if you had put some effort in?

once the shitposters are gone we will see less posts and therefore people will be handing out merit more freely

Congratulations OP, whilst it’s great news for him & the other guy who have managed to rank up via the Merit system it does prove how difficult it is to do so learning that only 2 people here have ranked up since the Merit system was implemented.

Whilst great news for us OG’s it is obviously really tough to rank up these days, glad I’m not a noob. I don’t think I’d be a good enough poster to ever see Hero/Legendary status the new way.