Topic: How do you feel when someone gives you MERIT? (Read 768 times)

I saw some unique responses and your responses are also different from the others and it adds to my insight in taking an idea or conclusion, therefore I can't equate my guess at each person's response with others. because there will always be someone who has a special or unique response. like you. like a feeling of emptiness. feeling flat or empty.

even the majority of people mention happy. but actually it's not the same. The fun has its own level. like you are happy but not smiling widely, some are happy to smile broadly, some are happy to grow more spirit or motivated (booster), and some are happy to the extent of gratitude and gratitude, some are even happy to feel the whole day, and some are happy to make them feel proud of themselves, and some are happy and want more so they keep trying harder to improve quality in order to get it back. and many more that cannot be mentioned.

As for myself, I am among those who are happy to receive it and become more excited.

How do you feel if your question or answer recieve good number of upvotes in quora?
How about when your karma increases in reddit.
How do you also feel when your post on Facebook recieves many likes, I meant when you maybe update your profile picture.
How do you feel when your tweet is trending on twitter.
All these things might not mean any serious thing for some persons, but for an average user in all these platforms, they feel happy, honored and recognised by the community.
In general, I feel nice when I receive merits especially if I create a topic and merits lands on them in numbers, it makes feel that I am a good user of this forum.

For sure those top ten merit earners of all time from the beginning of this forum will be so proud of their achievements. Cause we all know that nowadays,  it's hard to get merits if you your self did not contribute well to this community. And also it's hard to rank up after the merit system was implemented here in the forum. And those knowledgable and good contributors here will be recognized and will be known .

Similar to how some have responded, I was more enthusiastic about it at the beginning. Now that I know I have the necessary merits to reach Legendary, I like it, but it is a much more routine feeling than before. I guess that also happens because I am not and will not be fighting in the top ten of earned merit, which I guess those who are there feel differently.

Hmmmmmm None at all.
Because of investing, I became emotionless already. F*ck investing.

Kidding aside, I don't feel anything at all. I'm not a top-tier poster, but I can't consider myself as a shitposter either so if somebody gives me merit then I'm grateful but not to the point that I'll be happy or smiling (even though I'm using many emojis in my posts). I'm just sharing my opinions here base on what I know and if somebody sees it very useful or helpful and gives me merit then I'm grateful to them.

Frankly, I am pleased to receive merit. This was especially true on the way to the next rank. At first, every merit evoked pleasant emotions. On the one hand, this meant approaching a Sr. member rank that I really aspired to, since it seemed quite achievable for me and required relatively little merit. On the other hand, it served as a marker for me (actually, this is still the case ) that my posts were appreciated positively and someone liked it and even turned out to be useful. Now, after some time, I perceive merit more calmly if they are given to me, but I worry if I don't receive them for a long time. This serves as a signal that my posts are not that good and I need to work on their quality.

Always happy I am always when I am gifted with a merit. When one appreciates the effort and contributions you gave in a particular topic, it gives you joy of value for your hard work. At the same time you feel bad when you're not merited enough for a particular post or contribution you've done. It tends to kill the moral of doing more next time. But whether merited or not just have in mind that you're here to learn and learning never ends. You’ll be  soo appreciated more  one day beyond expectations.

If you work hard on something, it's a good feeling getting acknowledged and rewarded for it. On this forum, the way to show appreciation to someone's efforts is to merit their posts. Merits have more value than likes on social media and they are not the same thing. You can like every single post on FB, if you want to. You can't merit posts here unless you have the needed sMerits to do it. And you won't get merited unless you contribute in ways that others will like and appreciate.

If someone merited our post we feel so exciting's to do more work hard and make quality post or let's say once we got merit we are motivated.
Because if we got merit meaning of that we are finally contributed to this community. And also when someone rank up to the next level beginners will get motivates as well they do what are going to do as a begginers to gain merits and reach what others already achieve.

Good thing I've got dynamite quads!

Huh. Never heard of it.

although I'm not really looking for "merit", I certainly feel happy if my post is given "merit" because it means someone is satisfied with my post...

I immediately imagined what would happen if the un-merit feature was installed, then we would see a lot of accounts with spam posts going to "give up" lol.

maybe this

I don't know how to tell you how I feel about getting the merit. It seems just like you, I too was a user who registered on the forum after the merit system was introduced and it's really a nice feeling when someone merited ​​my opinion regardless of whether they don't say the quality. Happy, motivated to do better and also want to help other users to have the same feeling.

I once made a thread about my journey on the forum to reach Legendary, you can understand that as a reason that it's a great expression of how I feel about merit.

BITCOIN4X - From Beginner to Legendary in 1411 days [Achieved]

I get a brief gratifying sensation when a post of mine is awarded merit especially when I put a lot of energy into creating the post. Merits is a form of acknowledgment that the forum sees you and values your contribution. In my POV without the merit system, spammers would not even know they are spammers they would just rank up like everybody else.

How I feel when someone gives me merit?
I guess I see it as an acknowledgment that I prepared and wrote content that helped someone or contributed to this forum.
It’s much easier to show that you like someone’s content on social media than on a forum.
In this way, we inspire and encourage each other, and reward someone's effort and contribution to the forum. At least that's how I see it 
Of course, it’s not the same feeling when you get merit as a new member or as an old member who is already legendary.

You are right . I myself think this is an easy question when I see this post. but when I started to write the answer it turned out that there were many elements that I had to pay attention to, namely remembering the moment when I was rewarded and pouring it into writing honestly. and sometimes it is very difficult to put feelings into words. so the word happy is the right one.

Personally, when someone gives me merit I get a warm fuzzy feeling all over.  I'd liken it to peeing your pants in the freezing cold.  The instant relief from cold as the warmth dribbles down your legs, heating everything in it's path with no regard for the consequence.  This is what merit feels like to me. 

Even better than receiving though, is giving away that sweet sweet merit.  I enjoy spraying merit all over the boards for everyone to share in that warm fuzzy feeling with me.  I always look for opportunities to shoot merit on those who have yet to receive it in the hopes that it helps remove some cold from their day as well.  Warm fuzziness for all!

Well, I thought this question was really easy to answer, but I wrote this post for almost 20 minutes and kept deleting my sentences because I couldn't explain it! Lol. I would just answer it in simple terms: it makes you happy! That's all. It is like you have been commended by someone because of your writing or of what you have done. Mostly, I am not one of those posters here that gets a merit every day, so it is really rare. That is why the happiness it could bring me is like my parents buying me an ice cream when I was a child, but after I finish it, I will forget the happiness and want/eager to get more!

Honestly, I feel indifferent when someone merits my post, but on the other hand, I am happy, and my happiness isn't cus of the merit itself, my happiness is more on the fact that someone or a group of persons actually finds my post valuable which is why they merited it.

The thing is, it is better to put your 100percent focus on making valuable posts that people will actually learn something new from, or confirm a knowledge they already have, it is better to focus on that than to pay more attention to making posts and anticipate to get merited.
With the first, you have peace of mind, whether your post gets merited or not, and you did be amazed how naturally the merit will come, but on the later(that is when you put all your focus on making posts for merit), you will be stressed out by the end of the day, cus all day, you will keep thinking of getting merit and this will make you to keep checking your post to see if someone merited you, and if in the end you didn't get merited, you will become disappointed and also become discouraged if after making 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 different posts and none of it earned you any merit.
This is one of the reasons why we have a lot of inactive accounts especially from newbies who try all they can to get merits, and when they don't get it, they get discouraged and leave the forum.

So it is better to focus on making posts other members will find valuable than making post with the sole purpose of getting merits.

Speaking for me then back in the days when i got first merit on my post it was immense joy as @theymos introduced the merit system and to rank up we need it along with activity and it was like my goal to reach the next rank which was senior member.It took me some time to be participant of this race as stated learning more and became dedicated towards growing my knowledge and rank up on the forum.Afterwards whenever i got some merits it boost my morale and zeal to more quality poster on the forum.

A five digit number on your profile that distinguish you from the other group of people without any knowledge on the forum  and you get them in bulk cycling only.

At first I didn't think merit was important. but when I was given the merit for the first time it turned out to be a pleasant impression. although I didn't really understand how to use it at first. but after receiving it I became a little learn it.

ohh yeah i have a user on this forum that amazes me . namely those whose merit reaches 10,000 and I forget the names of those who are still in the 9000s. I saw the posts made by them. because I wonder how they can have so many. and I check each of their posts and it turns out that my curiosity is satisfied. see the quality of their posts which are indeed of high quality and deserve an award. I am motivated by them in the regularity and quality of posts on this forum. I hope to be like them in the future in this forum. if this forum still exists. but I'm sure this forum, God willing, will continue to exist.