Topic: How to earn merit (Read 469 times)

Of course, he's the one and only Pharmacist we know hanging around

You have earned some merits and there is the answer to your post.The merit system was introduced here on the forum by theymos to encourage the members to enhance their knowledge and post quality content and restricts members to abuse forum for posting anything which is not relevant and this has helped a lot seriously.Getting merits is not a tough task if you are capable of it like making quality posts and sharing your knowledge and thoughts with fellow members here.So follow the forum rules and try to make some threads sharing useful and new information and giving effective contributions to the forum which will help you to achieve your goal.I think you already have started the merit journey so try to keep it and try to contribute in healthy discussions as well.

I like an old post you made at the beginning of the 2017 runup.

I gave it a merit.

I also merited this thread.

worldofcoins :

Be meritorious, be lucky, be helpful, be informative, be this, be that, do this, do that. . . . . . .

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Today I feel like saying be yourself, and do not focus on earning merits, I had a taste and its really addictive.

Tomorrow I might mistakenly consider this as a merit-fishing gimmick.

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Are you the last of your kind?(this is a compliment so you can maybe do the same for me.)  

I enjoy reviewing post history, it says alot about people. I just did to yours, you're not spamming that's all I can say but if you want to receive more merits then you have to do better than what you're currently doing, that's improve. I have seen what others have said so I'm choosing my words carefully to avoid repeating. I went through your merit record and found out I merited your posts in a board not many visit to look for meritable posts, that's to say if you keep writing merit worthy posts you'll receive them in no time irrespective of the boards.

Already you're recieving merits so you won't say your posts aren't been merited but if you need the large numbers of merits then you have show reasons for it, make very outstanding posts basically to pass knowledge to the community and the merit reward will come. Chances are, if you're just after the merits, it won't come your way.

When threads are been created, even without much thinking you can easily identify those topic that were just created for merit hunting, don't make such posts, make yours to either be informative, educative and not basic things overemphasize in a way to look very important.

I'm just responding to this thread because of the caution or the topic sentence, it's obvious to the forum that the only possible measures a community user can earn a merit is through research and it's more especially been innovative to the community by creating a topic that is not related to any topic in the community that are meaningful and educative to bitcointalk old user and new users, the major reason while some people stay stagnant via earning merit here is the inability for them to be creative, creativity is the pathways of earning merit using Ratimov and Charles Tim as primary example.

IMO if someone can get enough merit to become a full member (100) in a reasonable amount of time, they will eventually get enough merit to become a hero or even a legendary member without too much delay. The issue that I have seen is that some users are not able to rank up on a timely basis, so there are full members, and senior members with much more activity than needed to rank up to the next rank.

Already two pages of members advise you, how to do the best to get Merit, of course it all starts with hard work and sincerity.

With your sincerity and honesty in making this topic I give you (1).

Just a few reviews:
I think that Merit is like someone planting a young plant: planting, starting from seeds, watering, fertilizing, being cared for and does not escape the knowledge that someone has.
For that hard work will produce good and sweet plants/fruits.

You need to do the best of the best.

That user was right. If you do not post quality posts, your merit expectations will not be correct. You can contribute to the forum in different ways, and if your contribution is really beneficial to the forum members then you can get merit from the merit source.

So you have to make helpful posts according to your talent, and if those posts are acceptable then you can get more merit than you expect. There are many new members who are constantly contributing to the forum and they are getting the merit they deserve.

It's not just Legendary rank, but we can discuss all the ranks that got airdropped merits, and then they didn't justify it in any way - which is the best indication that they would never be able to achieve anything in the current system.

It should not be forgotten that for some members all airdropped merits were not a fair move - because why did I get 1000 merits as a gift and someone has to earn them in a hard way? What people forget is the fact that the forum existed long before the merit system, and that the rules were completely different - so everyone was rewarded with the amount of merit for their current rank, which in some cases proved to be a justified move - anyone who earned at least as many merits as he received as a gift definitely justified his airdropped merits.

I sincerely hope that theymos is not considering reducing the amount of merit available for merit sources.
It seems to me that the need for merits is great and many merit sources do not have enough merit to reward every quality post.
I think it's important that there's always a balance between the number of merits available and the number of quality posts and right now I'm not sure if that's quite the case.
Of course, only theymos has all the data but obviously some merit sources are inactive and on the other hand we have a lot of quality applications for new merit sources here.
I personally hope that soon we will see new merit sources and that those who are inactive will be removed as merit source or at least have their number of available merits reduced.

I doubt drastic changes will be made to the requirements for ranking up. And it wouldn't be fair for those who had to put in a lot of effort to get from newbie to legendary to one day wake up and see an announcement that the legendary rank now requires only 500 or 100 merits when they had to earn 1000. Of course life isn't fair, but if we have a system in place, and it works, there is no reason to change it.

There is already plenty of drama regarding old legendary accounts who received enough airdropped merits to become legendary and then were never rewarded any sMerits by other members. But more drama would certainly increase the traffic.    

Well yes but if someone manages to make it to 200 merits then they are pretty good with writing posts that others think are helpful to the community, and it’ll be easy for them to advance in ranks since they’re already in radar of the people who merited them before.


Yes that would be good in climbing the ranking ladder, but like i said above if someone manages to make certain amounts of merits then their probability of getting more increases because they know what kind of posts leads them to earning merits in experience wise.

But I don’t think theymos will implement any changes to the merit system, I am sure he has already done the math as to how many rank ups are possible with present merit sources, if he does implement the change then i think he will reduce the refill merit amount to the merit sources.

The unmerited good post thread is pretty helpful in making the merit economy in this forum much more active and more diverse plus the Merit Sources will have their time cut short in terms of looking for a good post since they can just stay in that thread.

IMO the required amounts in order to rank up are a bit on the high side.  The amount of merit required to rank to the next rank is 1, then 10 (10x), 100(10x), 250(2.5x), 500(2x), and finally 1000(2x).

I think the amount required to become a full member is probably too high, and if it were to be adjusted down while keeping the multipliers consistent to achieve higher ranks were to remain the same, the merit system would be improved.

How come did you get to Senior Member rank and yet don't know how merit are gotten? I advice you read through the forum rules again.

Honestly, I think if you are following up on the forum, like reading threads, I think even if you have been making overlooked quality post, your spent time on the forum should avail for you, like you connect with threads on the forum, some of which can earn you merit, when you are active, so I don't know what you have been doing so far, but it's one thing to see you deserve merit, and another for potential meriters to think you actually do.
I won't lie to you, and if you have been in here, and actively you should know, this post won't be digested well by many, don't hit the accelerator to your crash by trying to make merit post such like this.

Removing the merit would be a disaster because it can easily be abuse by the members and It is a big issue in the forum in the past years, because members can easily rank up a lot of members abuse signature campaigns and bounties here in the forum.

There was no guide about how to earn merits since the merit needs to be given by some other members here in the forum, You cannot guarantee merits even though you have a high-quality post. Some of your posts are posted in sections where merits are not commonly given like games and rounds, off topics, etc. so I guess you could focus on other sections where you help members like Beginners & Help.

The best way to do it is just to continue your journey in cryptocurrency and then share your experiences and answers some questions here in the forum in that way you are helping the forum to grow and at the same time, your gonna have a high chance of getting merits.

The thing with attention is, In my childhood, I was seeking a lot of attention and was bad at jokes...I mean very bad unless it's observational humor.
Then in later life, I stopped caring about attention and i was getting lots of attention when I didn't want it!, it's strange when I had a thought about it.

After some time attention became annoying and I was used to Death Stare people away because they'll expect something from me obviously as it has been till now and I'm bad at refusing @least IRL to the people I know, Fuck the sob story.... 

Then I came to know about Occult [Sounds/Vibrations/Mantras that affect certain parts of your body] and found it to be true through experience by experiencing Consciousness, Energy moving within chakras inside the Spine, It was basic meditation on the pineal gland but then i did something wrong with the energies and stuff some stuff happened... (Which is another story)

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So attention, I dislike it even today and it's very easy for me to make friends IRL, I can talk about the majority of the subjects and it sucks when people ask for advice and can't do it on their own, They ask specifically "What I should do", how in the world should i tell you what you should do??, If you weren't able to do the task then you'll get yourself into trouble and i'll blame myself for suggesting something to you that you can't do.

So seeking attention for fun is go go but when someone tries to get close to you because they like you're able to get attention easily then it's a no no.

Wow, I wrote that BS above while talking to me and the mess is so big for me to press the post button thinking, "What the others will say" then I'll think after some time,
Whattt I'mm Gonna Doo [Ft. Carlos Matos] , But then since I'm anonymous I'll continue posting B.S thoughts I've in my brain atm.

Here's a thread of Carlos Matos i happened to create a week ago: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitconnect-meme-still-alive-ft-carlos-matos-5344296
Enjoy the Songs 

Yesterday, in another thread on support for rank up, I liked one post that said:

You're doing the right OP. You are not like those newbies who, by hook or by crook, beg for merits. Your posts may well be deserved, including posts written with humor.
Make a name for yourself, feel free to create threads. Just look around, many younger than you on registration have already fulfilled all their standards for a long time, being able to present themselves correctly.