Topic: Gazeta's reputation thread: 5000 merits in four years - page 2. (Read 769 times)

Congrats mate, you got what you deserved. If some contribute to the forum then the forum can give back something like merits. It's not an easy task to earn merit nowadays and seems your merit ratio is quite a good comparative with your activities. I can't recall how much merit I had earned in a year, but all of my merits by earn. You proved once again earning merits and rank up is possible for good contributors although it's hard.

By the way, the reputation thread shouldn't self-moderate and merit doesn't relate with reputation.

Congrats man, although sometimes your posts tend to get long, they are very informative.
Also hats off for the work done on translating the important threads.
All in all, it's well deserved.

Thank you eddie13!


I thank you! And I'm glad if this story of mine motivated you. I'm encouraging you to keep contributing to the forum and the results will appear


Thank you 1miau! I really appreciate your kind words! And I also have to thank you for the help you offered me in this journey. With the merits you just gave me for this topic you became officially my best merit fan with 102 merits! Which means you gave me 9.7% of all the merits I earned. That's huge


Actually it's not I have 46 days, 2 hours and 24 minutes. Man, this logged in time raises very hard!


Hehe, no worries, whenever you have time. If weeks will pass though I may poke you from time to time to not forget, if you don't mind

Congratulations and well deserved!
I really like the effort you put into writing unique articles and as well as translations to your local board (Romanian).
I don't know about your total time logged in but it must be far more than my few 60 days / 5 hours. 

And I've still to respond to your PMs about your recent translations to Romanian. I can assure you, that I'll respond soon ^TM (this term is well known in shitcoin industry  )

This is the motivation i've been searching for all this while being a jr member oct 2019 and today you are 1000 merit up,
this is a class act and a good example to follow i'm really hungry to do more after reading this reputation thread. thank you
and more success on the forum

Congrats..

I created this account on November 6th, 2017. For those who don't know me, GazetaBitcoin is the account of one of the few Romanian crypto news websites. Unlike the spammers of the forum, I never used this account for shilling Gazeta's website nor I will. Actually, the account was almost never used until October 2019. And that was because I used to read the forum while being not logged in. Only since October 2019 I started to be active here.

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At first I was interested in Bitmain coupons (I still am). Regarding the coupons I can say that I was able to make some successful transactions with some reputable members of the forum (including philipma1957), which were kind enough to leave me positive feedbacks after finishing the deals.

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But I also started to enjoy the idea of sharing my knowledge here, of spreading here also Satoshi's word (I also did that on Gazeta's website) and, of course, to learn as much as I could from more experienced members. I was and still am very passionate about Bitcoin and crypto history starting from (even) pre-Cypherpunk's era and I tried to document several important moments from crypto history. I think the following ones are my best essays here:

            Historic threads

• Libertarians -- where are they now?
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - We all should read it
• The dream of Cypherpunks, libertarians and crypto-anarchists - this is my 1000th post - also translated in Romanian
• The call for Julian Assange || The WikiLeaks Manifesto - We all should read it
• The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto - We all should read it
• Governs try to limit access of public to information and freedom since ages
• Phil Zimmermann's thoughts about PGP - We all should read them

            Educational threads

• Bitcoin - a bloodless revolution - also translated in Romanian
• 12 years later and people still don't know to use Bitcoin nor what it's good for - also translated in Romanian
• Governs are coming for the traders - also translated in Romanian
• Cryptocurrency vs digital money issued by the state
• Why reputation is essential on the free market

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Merits-wise, on October 25th, 2019 I earned my first merit at 1 week after I became active, during the 10th Anniversary Art Contest. Mitchel was so kind to promote me to Jr. Member. Thank you Mitchell!

2 weeks later, on November 7th, I earned already the 10th merit necessary for becoming Member, thanks to Cyrus, which merited a post of mine from Romanian board. The post was linking to a translation I made, in Romanian language, for Wendy McElroy's book The Satoshi Revolution (obviously, with her approval). At the moment, Gazeta Bitcoin's translation is still the only Romanian translation of this book.

15 days later, on November 22nd, suchmoon gave me my 100th merit, necessary for ranking up to Full Member, also for a post from the art contest. Thank you suchmoon!

On February 11, 2020, philipma1957 was very kind and gave me my 250th merit, necessary for being Sr. Member, in a topic where I was suggesting some common sense rules for signature campaigns. Although my activity didn't allow me to rank up, I was happy to know that I reached the merits for being Sr. Member in only 109 days since I received my first merit.

While being still a Full Member, on April 5th, 2020, fillippone awarded me with my 500th merit! It was for a translation I made in Romanian for his topic Everything you wanted to know about BTC futures but were afraid to ask! Grazie fillippone! It happened at only 163 days since my first merit here.

Finally, on October 16, 2020, 357 days after receiving my first merit and while still being a Sr. Member, nullius made me a huge surprise, giving me my 1000th merit for my 1000th post! I think it's the nicest way I could ever think for earning this merit. Thank you nullius, for promoting me to Legendary member!

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I'd like to state my deepest respect for:

1. those which ranked me up - Mitchel, Cyrus, suchmoon, philipma1957 and nullius

2. my merit fans


3. all the other forum user which merited me.

Thanks to you all, I am the 116th most merited member! At the moment I have a merit vs. activity ratio of 2.6 and a merit vs. posts ratio of 0.6. I am the second Romanian member which becomes Legendary after the merit system was implemented (after 20kevin20) and the only Romanian member which reaches 1000 merits starting from 0.

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January 2023 update: it's been two years since I published this topic and I think I should update it with some more information.

I managed to obtain Legendary rank (almost at the upper limit of 1030 activity) and I am the only Romanian user which reached this rank starting from 0 merits. While having earned, in three years more than 3300 merits, according to bpip, I am the 59th most merited member and I am the 47th user with most earned merits! My current merit vs. activity ratio is of 2.78 and my merit vs. posts ratio is 1.17, being one of the few users which ever managed to achieve (and keep) a number of merits higher than the number of posts. I am also one of the very few users which ever sent and received (more than one) 50-merit bombs.


Since I became part of DT I always tried to make my feedbacks realistic, coherent and following the existing rules.

After months of investigative work and after many unsuccessful attempts performed by many others, I managed to find the truth about paraipan, ex-forum treasurer which held 250 BTC. Investigation showed he did not steal the coins. (Due to Investigations board restrictions I will not hyperlink the topic here.)

Maybe one of my most important achievements, I managed to change the earlier translation of Bitcoin white paper from bitcoin.org, which was a poor translation made by some illiterate Romanians which were lucky enough to have their document uploaded on bitcoin.org. However, I managed to create a new translation from scratch and, with NeuroticFish's help, the new document is now available on bitcoin.org.

During all this time I also involved a lot in keeping forum clean. With more than 60.000 good reports I am one of forum's best reporters. In September 2021, according to an announcement made by theymos, I was the fourth most efficient reporter of year 2020.

Together with 1miau, I involved in a campaign for improving posting quality for local boards. While the results of the campaign can not be quantified with numbers, the outcomes, so far, are promising.

I felt delighted to be chosen by icopress for helping him with votes counting of Bitcointalk Community Awards 2021 edition and with some more organizing of the 2022 edition of this wonderful contest (votes counting, establishing rules, suggestions, maintaining the historic quiz topic etc.).

I also became one of forum's known translators, collaborating, so far, with users like fillippone, 1miau, LoyceV, Little Mouse and others. My full portfolio can be found here.

And last, but not least, I recently launched my escrow service thread. Currently I'm running it for free.

Needless to say, I am one of the very few users wearing Foxpup's avatar and I thank her once more time for this opportunity! I feel very proud for being a part of Merit Cycling Club, where I was accepted in January 2021!

Note: all of the above were realized in under 100 days on the forum. My current logged in time is 105 day, but all of the above were done before I reached 100 days of online time.

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Issues of note:
- I know there was (and still is) a trend of users to make topics like "My road to Member / Full Member" / "From zero to Hero" etc. Most of them (not all , though) are looking for merits when creating such topics. I'm not. Reaching the merits for Jr. Member, Member, Full Member, Sr. Member and even Hero is not such a big deal. On another side, reaching the merits threshold for becoming Legendary is something notable, as this is the ultimate rank of the forum. That's why I never created such a topic until now. I'd like to encourage all the low rank users to keep contributing to the forum and to never lose their hope: obtaining 1000 merits is possible, and even more -- it is possible in less than a year!
- topic is self moderated for avoiding spam. I wish I won't have to delete any post made here, but I will, if I have to.