Topic: How do I get merit? (Read 663 times)

Overtime, users will become familiar with merit system. They will stop complaining, moaning, crying; starting to use their sMerits.
Don't worry. You will not be tagged by moderators if your threads received merits long time after publishing. Only merit exchanging immediately will be consider to punish. The fact is no one stay here all the time to wait your threads published and give their sMerits away to your threads immediately. That's weird if happen repeatedly, right?
Agree! Those boards covered by tons of shit threads.

You can get merits in everywhere boards here as long your post have enough quality and not out topic post.
But I have seen many quality post at some boards that's doesn't get the merits, maybe some members still confused with this new system,  and I found the problem with this, if you get merit from members which you are gives merit before, you can get accusation or some DT member suspicious if you trading merit and playing the system.
I think because of that if so difficult to find merit at some boards, like at bitcoin and altcoin discussion boards.

That's it!
Lots of users mainly think about how to earn merits with their threads; hence they don't concentrate on their flow of ideas, threads' logic and don't spend too much efforts to sharpen their threads in terms of coherence and cohesion.
They simply focus on how to attach several words inside their threads to call for merits give away; which usually lead to side-effects instead of getting merits, lol.
Moreover, threads need time (might be long span of time from the point it was published to the point it receive merits). After posting threads, don't pay attention about whether it get merits or not, at which time; instead paying attention on your next threads and their qualities.
Agree! Bumping old topics like this also annoys old topics' authors at somewhat extent.

There are bunches of available non-sense topics related to merits and how to get merits. So, highly recommend do not start  new topics on merit issues. I will call someone do this is new-adapted spammers!
For this English issue, I also give link to TMAN's topic:
TMAN's guide to getting merits
Agree too! Over-quoted, over-used infographics and images will mostly result in negative side-effects. Don't over-use them when composing next threads. It hurts my eyes and my fingers; then that sort of posters should be responsible for my medical bills.

If you hope to get merits for your posts, then stop and think before you post. Think about the thread, and  the reason it was started.

If it's an old thread, ie. more than a couple of months old, then don't bump it. If you have something meaningful to add to the topic, then start a new thread, and link to the old one. Merit awarders are likely to put you on ignore if you cause them to waste time by re-reading and out of date thread.

If it's a technical topic. and you don't understand it, then stay out of the thread. If you need basic information about the topic, then start a new one, but don't try to derail an advanced discussion.

Don't start another thread about merit. Everybody understands merit now, even if they pretend not to. If they don't, then there are so many explanations now, that  they can get all the information they need from those.

Don't add meaningless short phrases in a thread. post like 'great idea' or ' I'll check that later' just annoy people reading the threads.

Don't requote a post without a comment just to up your post count.

Don't translate a quote into garbled english, and post it pretending it's your original creation.

If you don't have halfway decent English, then stay out of the English threads.

Don't quote long posts. You can snip the relevant bit for your reply, or use one of the snip shortforms - . ~~, or >..<

Don't include large images or infographics in a text discussion thread.

Always remember that if a merit awarder puts you on ignore, then he will never see your posts, and won't award any merits for them. Those are just a few points, I'm sure there are more that I should have mentioned.

perfect and so helps a newbie as me, I appreciate it. thanks for that !

How do I get merit?
give the best you can do.
if not, better not at all!
you will get a standing applause

I also want to know how to get merits, it seems no one will send other people merit even people make high quality posts, they will just send merit to their own account since many people have more than one account

Thanks. Now I'm posting some good quality post. Don't talk for merit, talk for a good quality post. In posting feel freely so that your post will be constructive as well. Just go on with the topic and not to become a spammer in somehow.

The feelings will be great if you even get one merit. but the rule still holds, make post that are worth merited. learn from others and think of merit later. merit is not gotten on a silver platter. so stop talking about merits because that will earn you non.

get merits by posting not for merits

RIGHT. When you post means that "You are the one , who knows something thats are useful for forum"
Only then you will be blessed by MERIT . .
honestly study and gather knowledge from every where from forum.
god knows whats on my luck.

One thing I realized for sure - one can't just get merit asking how to get merit...

-Done
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- Not yet Done
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- Trying so

Hey merits can you see me ??

Not all noobs.  I'd say nullius got a lot of love, and got it really quickly.  If you're not getting your posts merited, the quickest, easiest, laziest, most self-deluded reason to reach for is that everyone else sucks, and that you're being discriminated against somehow, or that people who have merits and rank and trust are part of some cabal, some conspiracy to keep the bitcointalk noob down.  But that's really not the case. 

The truth is that so many new accounts here are either 1) Alt accounts of shitposters, or 2) New accounts made by people who heard you can make a decent living posting here, and these are usually the ones who can't write for shit and who probably aren't qualified to do much else than tap their thumbs against their smartphones. 

And hey, you can keep complaining that you're not getting merits, but merits are supposed to be a reward for posts people like.  If you're not writing anything people can even understand, why do you think anyone is going to reward you for that?

Lol, so what you are saying is... noobs aint ever getting love on this forum again. Makes sense.

I think you need improve your writing style and try to avoid participating in signature campaigns. That is why the articles are not rated for quality.

I reached a conclusion about Merit. Merit is a topic that will automatically come when you will be able to get it.
 And I go to the profits of those who are getting Merit, and I see why and how they earned their Merit.

You are far too lenient TMAN

I think this one just didn't want to let on how they got their Merits. A quick look at their Merit page and trust wall reveals they have an alternative way to get Merit.

You seem to be confused like some other new members as well. There are some members here who have got more merits in comparison to their activity. This translates to more than 1 merit per post and thus you can say that all their posts got merited. Do you call this luck ? If you give them an opportunity on any other forum, they will be able to replicate the same results as many time you want. Now question is that do you have the dedication to improve to that standard ?

Do you seriously believe that your posts count as quality posts?

By doing quality posts you will get merit but you will have to be very lucky because all the quality posts dont get merited only few one

You need to post with the high quality.they now that merit its hard to get so may you have to realize it.

You tried to post your "achievement?" What exactly does that mean? Getting merits is not an achievement - but it might be for those shitposters who are trying hard to catch the eye of merit sources.

The problem with 99% of the forum members is that they think this forum is place where they can spam to get paid. Now the concept is that if they post asslicking threads about merit in Meta they would gets merits. I wonder how long it will take them to get rid of this delusion.


If it is frustrating to you then you need to go on a vacation from this forum (eternal vacation would be good for you) otherwise come back to the forum after a month.

It can be frustrating not getting merits here but members who are not much active here should not expect a lot. You have not even made 30 posts here and came to this conclusion. Some members are playing with rules and involved in merit abuse but others have got merits for posting quality content.

Is it senseless? Read carefully mate. If you can't understand what he means then you can also get nothing like the OP. That's the problem of you newbies, whining all around for having nothing then what? Instead of getting knowledge you keep posting shits. That's why we're also giving your shits back to you but its doesnt mean that we're just doing the same as you. We give shits ina way that it has a sense.

Posting about merit in order to get merit is not a way of getting the merit. Just try making quality posts. Keep trying until you get what you want... Just never give up.


The merits I got so far for my posts were sent from the members whom I don't have any connections. It will also be much appropriate if I say that "I don't have any connections with any member in this forum".
What I try is to make quality posts, on-topic posts, meaningful posts, I ignore mega/spam threads. But I never seek for merits and I never asked a merit in any merit giveaway threads. I believe I'll never do it to get merit.

It's true that some high ranked members wasted his/her merits by giving a large number of merits to a single post, if they had given 1-3 maybe I think that was enough. But it's their merits they can use how they want to use.

If you think that connection is everything in regards to merit then make connections with other members, make friends, build a strong relationship with the community. Later you will be able to observe the change may be.

Lol this is the problem with every person on the forum. The tidious rule that have no meaning.

Never
You have to make connections with upper ranked person, and then just have to begging for the merits. Majority person who get their ranked up only by this method. The few who actually got quality post merits is only due to they are lucky of getting merits.

I WANT TO GIVE YOU 5 MERITS FOR THIS MATE!
but sadly I run out of sMerits so I'll just qoute your post
NICE OPINION!!!

Anywhere you want. Merit is subjective.

Depends on the receiver.

Correct. However may I ask why you are making the same type of "Merit Discussion" thread here? This is the n-th time I have to repeat the same things over and over again because you people never learn to read before you post.

Dont expect to be a crybaby in the Meta section to get some merits on you posts ass-licking the merit system. Shame on you all.

Check this thread  for this kind of questions: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/faq-everything-you-need-to-know-about-forum-activity-account-ranks-and-merit-2766177

For master degrees on Bitcoin and blockchain technology, here you go:
https://news.coinify.com/10-universities-blockchain-courses/
However, honestly I don't think users should master those things, and get master degree in particular, to earn merits. Learning from the forum can help. In the forum, we can find dozens of good topics, and there are lots of knowledgeable users who readily to help and share their knowledge.

-Get a college degree (a way to get smarter)
-Play chess (another way to get smarter)
-Educate yourself about bitcoin & the other crypto currencies so you'll know what you are talking about. (Finance education helps too)
-Read these books "The Internet of Money" and "Mastering Bitcoin" (this one is for serious people) from Andreas M. Antonopoulos.
-Be smart

+Share what you learned.

Then merits will find you.

Totally agree with your recommendations on how to get merits. Answering questions with in-context threads. Someone jumps directly to answer questions of topic creators, they don't care about whether the questions in the OPs have been already answered or not. In the case, the OP problems have been answered by someone else in the forum; those threads of hurry users mean non-sense, which so-called as off-context ones. Those off-context threads make readers feel annoying, and really hard to earn merits.

Make constructive and informative post. Don't post harsh and bad words. Don't be lazy on posting. Post as many as you can everyday.

I've tried not to post my achievement, but until now I have not got the reward, so I do not know how I feel if I get the reward, I've tried to climb to a tall tree and walk on a branch, but I have not been able to get it

Some people really can get Merit point so easily, luckily they post how they can get Merit point so easily, try check this one, probably you can pick one or two tips from there

Why don't you search your own? Didn't you read the instruction how to get merit? Since you're a newbie, i suggest you to read the thread which leads to how to get merit. Don't post such thread like this. You will not get merit by posting this.

Several things should do and should avoid to get merits.
Should DOs:
- publishing high quality, creative (original), constructive threads.
- helping other users to solve their problems which they raise in their threads or topics.
- contributing to topics with on-context threads.

Should DONTs:
- spamming, both threads and tooics (of course, and very important)
- exchanging merits (will be found sooner or later) because putting accounts under punishments.
- posting low quality threads in sense of English proficiency.
- posting threads off-contexts.
- plagiarising.

On- and off-context threads will lead to different cases. Keep it in mind when you compose your next threads.

Its not the forums fault mate. Its them, for not reading. We don't have to make a solution for them to understand the new system unless we will make them prohibitrd from posting. As they can only reply on threads and not on creating threads that may lead to spamming. Let's just report them to the mods and have fun from raising our accuracy on reporting

You can get merit only on this forum. You can get it by posting quality content here.



The feeling of earning a merit is just awesome. When you get it from a senior member, you feel more happy that your work is being rewarded by experienced members. Whenever I see a new merit in my profile, I check the post for which I got the merit and the member who gave me the merit. Those buying merits must be having good laugh on how easily they cheated the system but they must also be in a fear of getting caught always.

Looks like this will be a problem to newbies. There are lot of newbies that still didn't know how the Merit System works and keep asking about it which is already prohibited in the forum. . Hmmm I think we should think some ways on how to prevent this Newbie Problems like this. There must be some way to fix this problem because I'm sure that every new Members will also come up in making threads like this.

To OP,
There are lot of threads here which only needs some of your time to take a look. Just try to visit them if you want answers for your questions.

yeah, topic author should lock the topic and try learning how to use search in the bitcointalk forum.
Here is link to useful available topic which was published by a constructive user. If interested, please spend a couple of minutes, visit there and learn from it (if he/she has not know how to use it)
Tips – Guides for forum search
More things he/she can search by him-/ her-self.

I think that you already had your answer.

This question is repeatedly ask. Yes your correct that If you receive 2 merit you'll be 1 sendable merit. Don't be worried about that merit because you'll receive it you are worthy to be merited. Having a good post is the way to get merit. Don't buy merit  because that's not allowed nor not prohibited by the administration. Stop begging merit you'll receive it if you are really deserves to do constructive post.

Hint:  You will never get merit if you are too lazy to search.  This question has been asked/answered dozens of times.  :/

Stop posting about merit and you will get merit.
Someone will courier for you and when you will receive you will have a great feeling.

Where can I get merit? What's the feeling of having merit?
Merit is the point given to if I had made some constructive and useful post. sMerit is when I receive 2 merit I'll be having 1 sMerit? Correct me if I'm wrong.