Topic: Guide to earning merits (Read 1304 times)

I read this over fast and might have missed some key elements, though I'm pretty sure you didn't include:

- Having a deep brown nose will help tremendously.

and

- Follow the Merit-Sources and post where they post.

Yeah, that's pretty much the method these days.
As you can see, I only have 20 merits, so I don't even follow my own advice.

I visited the first three pages of your post history and you usually post on ANN, Bounties, and Altcoin Discussion Boards. Do not expect to get any merit from those boards because most posts there are spams. Maybe you need to read more, increase your knowledge and engage in quality discussions in other boards (see also: Advantages of engaging in quality contributions on the forum)


Find more guides in these threads:
TMAN'S guide to getting merit
Newbie's Guide to Getting Merit (Proven)


I can't believe I am guiding a hero how to get merits  

Have you seen your post history? Merit was designed to stop users like yourself from ranking up, and it's working just fine!

And judging by your Merit history, it's a good thing you ran out of sMerit too:

Hello
Want say there is very hard to get merit.I think admin need do something about it.I almost made regularly post to become legendary member, but my problem is merit.I need 1000, but don't know how get.Any suggestion is wellcome.Thanks

No need for your concerns mate... I think the OP is not this anymore and maybe he's not here anymore and this was made several months ago.

For OP, if you really care about that flowchart diagram made by topkhai then I guess you should added it to the first post. Looking by some members said that you make a long post, then the flowchart diagram can be an answer to it. I too agree that your post is too long while it is constructive and the diagram can help some people who doesnt love to read a long post.

Wow, so many posts that breach the basics of making good meritable posts.

That diagram is not much use, and is quite annoying, as it slows down reading. Quoting it several times shows what a bad idea it was to include it in a thread. If I had been in a merit awarding mode, I would have left the thread fairly early on, as the bad quoting habits are such a waste of time for readers. It would have been even worse if I had been using a mobile.

Glas to hear those kind words. No hard feelings. And i'll try not to complicate things a little. Although i would like to disagree that my reply was off topic since merits and posts are somewhat related. In line with that, i've made that reply to support your post and just noted that not all short posts are shit posts(because people often generalize short posts).

Yes 'cause the topic is all about merits, your statement can be included as off topic since one liner as shit posts are not my point. I just want to avoid this kind of posting. No hatred at all my friend, I just want to clarify things and help you to improve this. The dreamy merits that i've  mentioned to you is also i wanted. I said it to you because the intention of this post is very obvious. Just make clear things up, dont make complicated post that's all. Godbless also, cheer up!
Ps: No hard feelings to this, the personality of individuals here in forum is different.
PSS: i'll merit you since you've answered my questions and effort for creating this topic. Goodluck

Stay out of 'spam megathreads'. You are purposely picking threads where everything has already been said, to I assume easily make a post by rewording.


You should be consistently posting high quality posts. It may go unnoticed sometimes, but never 100% of the time. I checked the merit stats of the ChipMixer campaign participants, and found that most of them had earned a decent number of merits in the short time period when merits existed:

Merit system isn't fair and this post proves that, look this guy even draw a picture isn't that an effort that should be rewarded?
I will give you merit for this cause I have smerits to give, but I don't think that I'm competent to judge about poat quality, I think I can just notice who made some effort.
1.There are many topic's for picking, so many similar ones. It's hard to be unique ans original when almost everything is been said already.
2. Knowing and answering the topic doesn't worth much if your comment pass unnoticed, and that happens many times to me and to others I think.

hmmm i did not think that through, i was carried away by the hype of everyone saying i should shorten my post. Although you can earn merits through being constructive, there are certain things that would be the variable in gaining one. For now, just like you said "Based on my own experience you will earn most merits in meta. So be regular poster in meta and you will earn merit" the regulation of merits in the forum's section isn't exactly equal and the other, i think, is proficiency in language (English only sections + Local boards = more place to gain merits). Also, we could add a sarcastic step if you want! 

Why do you think there is something wrong with adding that line as step 4? You can add it as sarcastic step 
Isn't this contradiction to your topic?
I mean, more or less you said "be constructive and you will get merit" but "I refuse to post in other sections because this one will bring me merit". 

Thanks for the merit,i'll be paying it forward and i won't do shit post.

Is there something wrong with that? I post on bitcoin discussion and other sections of this forum occasionally since almost all of the threads there are getting tons of answer every minute and apparently, if i read all the replies in those threads, there's a high chance of my answer being redundant. If spams would be controlled there and merits would be regulated throughout the forum then i would love to join their discussion. But for now i'll be a regular here btw, thanks for welcoming me couple a weeks ago it made me think that being a regular here is not really that bad comparing to other sections. 

For the nth time. Thank you for pointing that out and don't worry i'll shorten my posts here on out.

Is thinking that i am doing this to fit to the standard of members negative or not? cause if it's negative, why? why do fitting to the standards of the members in this forum wrong? if not, then i'll disregard the "you can earn all your dreamy merits" since it feels like you're mocking me.

I also posted on my local board in hopes of helping others as well. Also, that reply was almost two weeks ago (january 30), replying like this feels like you're waiting to get back on me. I can sense the hatred in this post, or is it just in you idk.

PS:  I never got to answer your reply, so to clarify things up: I have read the title? yes. Do you think one line posts can receive merits? Definitely yes, why not? I said "Not all one liner posts are shit posts" that doesn't mean that i was inferring that your statement means one liners = shit post so chill. Also, one liners can be quite unique in some ways, again i'm not saying that one liners = Unique and i'm also not saying one liners = shit/common/spam posts whatever you want to call it. Stop concluding things so easily and try to open up your mind a little. Lastly, "You also need to fulfill the standards of every member in this forum and this will not fit one liner posts." i don't really know all the standards of every member in this forum, enlighten me. Does this "standard" includes not reading previous comments?

PSS: I'm rooting for the both of you. Godbless.

Thank you for pointing that out for the fourth time, i'll be trying to make my posts shorter next time. It's not necessary but can't i make long posts? is supporting the statement prohibited now? plus i stated that the post is really common-sense and highlighted the obvious answers for those people who don't like reading long posts.

Direct hit! anyway the OP seems very active at Meta I think because the merit is more regulated here at Meta Section than to other section like btc & altcoin discussion, and one more thing his activity almost reach to 120 so technically he needs 100 merits to be able to rank.

to OP: ill give you plus 1 so that you only need 70 more merits to become fullmember just dont do shit post.

OP you should add step number 4 and skip steps number 1,2 and 3:

"Based on my own experience you will earn most merits in meta. So be regular poster in meta and you will earn merit"

Having an effort for typing those common ideas makes the post so complicated and there are so many topics that is also the same with this. You know that this system is new to us and some of here in meta already posted about this. I easily get tired when i seeing posts about "earning merits", you don't need a guide in earning merits, a simple post which is direct to the point is all that matters. Your post is too much, you can explain it in 2-3 sentences.  Also, the quality of your post is important. You look like you are just aiming for merits in posting this thread. The only thing i can think of is you need to fit to the standards of members of this forum so that you can earn all your dreamy merits.

PS. you should've posted on local instead, helping your fellow citizens that is new in our community is good.
Another thing is, you've replied in my thread in local and stated that "if you can say something in a shorter way as everyone understands, why not?". Then, we should apply it here.