Topic: How can I increase my merit? - page 2. (Read 873 times)

Why the hell you need to worry about your merit? You have only 14 activity and already 3 merit,just handful of people are able to achieve it, so just continue what you are doing. I just quick check the your post history and I can tell you, you have some potential.

Hard is the life of the newbie...
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
If we want signatures shall we not get it? 

Basically, what the answers here tell us - if you want merits, post quality posts, and forget about merit.
Great!
Like telling hungry people - forget about the bread.
Homeless - forget about the money.
Lonely - forget about the sex.
 

But I do get your point.

The conceptual principal is to be as objective as possible when awarding merits. That is, if you have real friends here, but their posts are not really any good, then they should not be merited. Of course everyone’s objectivity has at least a spice of subjectivity, meaning that one may be more prone to some groups of people than others, or at least to some types of posts than others. It’s kind of human nature, but the objectivity principal should try to prevail.

Merit abuse is really more down the line of meriting each other for the sake of giving each other’s accounts merits. Now the forum has seen plenty of cases where one (allegedly) merits his alt accounts (which is considered unethical). That sets a precedent, and there are people that look for connections between accounts, being merits a possible strain of feasible proof. Of course, other may get caught in the crossfire due to these precedents, so the more prudent scenario is to always try to be as objective as possible.

One thing to consider is that merits are not moderated, but they are traced. Historically, some cases of very blatant abuse have been undone by @theymos, but the more usual derivative is that of getting sender and receiver potentially tagged (Trust tag, with negative review and rating). This is an on and off thing, and not everyone agrees to this use of the Trust System , but it does happen with more recurrence than one may think.

The question sounds annoying, asking how to earn merit is not something to post about, all you have to do is keep posting something good and helpful then you will be given merit, you don't have to ask for it

I'm just a little curious about this issue, what if these people know each other, they often give each other merit? How to prevent abuse. It is like asking for merit 

You’re kidding right? The following query on Google retrieves an overwhelming amount of results (the forum’s search function brings back a tremendous amount as expected, and you need to play around with the filters to get a well focused set of results):

That is how it (often) goes. Nevertheless, one of the non-written rules is not to ask/beg for merit. It’s actually rather counterproductive to do so (or at least you need to be a bit more subtle about it).

Thanks for that mate, I need this one, even though I am a beginner here, I already want to know how will I earn from it, because it will motivate me for making some quality posts in this forum. I have been looking for the right answers for too long, and you answered me so well, so I am thankful for that.

I have searched about merit in this forum, but no result shows, so I thought there are no posts about this yet. As what you have shared about that link, there are already three posts to have merit in this platform, and based on what I have read, they are all saying that I need to stay here for too long and keep creating quality posts, so if someone finds it is so helpful or useful then they might give me merit.

What OP meant was, how can I increase my merit earning? Which many gullible forum members has just analyzed to what can make him have more merit and rank up.

Gaining knowledge is easy here because you will find all and complete information about bitcoin, altcoin or any crypto project or gambling sites etc. Earning is not and should not be the primary motive here. Also you need to rank up in order to earn from campaigns unless you have some skills for which you do not have to wait for ranking up. You have got 3 merits and will continue to get more as long as you posts are interesting or helpful to others.

I guess its better for you not to think about gaining merits just behave normally, communicate with other members normally, help them if you know the answer to their questions. Create useful threads but use search button first before creating a thread it might already exist, you can also help your local members at local board. But those are not required to be a good member of the forum. Also, be knowlegeable about forum rules. Merits will come your way don't be pressure about it.

By stopping to think about it.

Just be useful and helpful. People often intend to misinterpret having merit and having a good post. Some posts were just funny and still meritable. Some do makes no sense but still meritted because some users found it to have some sense.

Therefore, never motivate yourself with earning merit. But instead be motivated helping other users!

Do not expect to get merit on every post you make, no matter how good it is. You might be surprised that the post that some of your posts that seem not too worth awarding merit to, might end up getting. However, learn more to provide help to those who are in need of help on the forum or if you think some information is lacking on the forum, you can decide to provide such.
Give yourself to serving than being served. By so doing, you might end up getting so many merits than you can imagine.

Forget about merit, it shouldn't be your goal, right now for a newbie like you the first priority should be learning about crypto. Once you become knowledgeable enough, you can start earning merit while just sharing your knowledge. But if you'll try to jump straight into "earning merit" you will fail, I see a lot of newbies try to do so by copypasting from outside sources or creating guides that were written before them countless times - obviously no one will give you a lot of merit for that. In worst cases you can even get banned for plagiarism or text-spinning.

You already have some merit, which is a good sign to keep working on this forum, although I don't understand why you get the merit for that post 

Instead of just posting threads like these - How can I earn from this forum? or How can I increase my merit?, focus on posting quality threads. If you post quality posts on this forum, you would receive the merits automatically and increase your rank.

As @UserU said, once you achieve a Member rank, you can join some signature campaigns to earn money.

Based on both of your topics opened, it's obvious you're simply trying to join for the sake of money.

Now bear in mind that while it's not impossible to start earning here, you have to integrate yourself with the community, rather than post for the sake of posting. Be helpful when it's needed and don't make posts along the lines of "gimme Merit plz". I was like you back then because getting paid to post was something new, but over time, I learnt to treat the forum as a casual hangout space and enjoy spending time here.

So assuming you've attained sufficient Merits to join a campaign, which is at the Member rank. Currently at the time of posting, you're 7 points short so your journey might not take too long. There are many signature campaigns out there, but many impose strict conditions, such as minimum character counts of 75, posts not counting in several subforums and such.

Once you've decided to apply for one, the campaign manager will look at your post history. Merits earned within X days might also be considered. The moment you've been accepted, you're good to go, but remember the rules and don't come off as a spammer of a shitposter.

If you've any doubts while joining the campaign, always contact the campaign manager. While there are various degrees of leniency, usually all it takes is 2 strikes and you're out.

TL;DR - Don't treat this forum as a money-making machine and you'll do fine.

First thing you need to do is to read this guide created by Lauda https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/newbies-read-before-posting-1689727

After that try to be more reconstructive and post a helpful contents so that you will be notice by users and you will receive a merit for that. Remember the more helpful post the more chances for you to get those merits.

And also be true to yourself here and study on how the forum works since this one will help you.

Goodluck and welcome to bitcointalk.

If you really want to increase your merits then I will suggest, don't create thread about merits unless you have unique analysis or something similar. So many guidelines have been created by senior members about how to earn merits. So please learn how to use search button before you make any new topic. Sometimes your new topics would encourage spammers.

However, there is no alternative way to increase your merits except contributions. As much you contribute your knowledge & experiences, you would get more merits if posts are really worthy. So don't give up, try to contribute yourself and don't look for merits.

Just read, answer, create topics and the like. It's a very general answer yes, but that's really the only thing needed to get merits. No amount of "guides" could help you earn them. Why? Because it's all entirely dependent on how you face the topics and threads you participate in. Just like how English is naturally built up over time, knowledge, as well as proper formats of replying and posting (so that you aren't a bother to the rest of the members of the forum), takes time, so well, just spend a few hours in the forum participating and reading.

There's also the factor of you taking in experience from just reading like learning grammar based on various answers made, learning proper formats, learning how and when to quote and the like. Though simpl answering the question you asked, well, it's time.