Topic: How to earn Merits? (Read 757 times)

You are right on the part that knowledge is essential for obtaining merit on the forum but it should be reflected in your post and then it should be liked by some members who can then give you merit.Keep in mind the main goal is to share good information with members like someone has asked a technical question and you know the answer for the same then you should explain him in detail the process and help him and for that you can get merit from other members who liked your post.

Gaining knowledge and learning is continuous process and you need to evolve yourself with time and make quality post that don't have irrelevant information and be on topic that will help you to gain merits.It always come with time so make sure you are dedicated towards it.

Do you want merit? Work for it by posting qualitatively. To be merited by someone can't be foreseen when or by the kind of post you made. Being merited by someone comes when you least expected. Contribute and suggest meaningfully to post been shared in this forum. Then expect to be merited by someone

Real merit are earned by Knowledge, that is the easiest way to Knowledge.  Without knowledge you can't earn merit . Getting knowledge is obtained by spending time to learn and make research , this how to alway earn merit. Seeking for knowledge always will always bring merit.

Report it to a moderator if you think this thread deserves to be locked as only then can the moderator act on it immediately.

Being a newbie in this forum seems very difficult because most of them keep asking the same thing on many occasions. They are always advised to do a search for the problem they are having as there may have been many threads about it in the past but in reality this always end up in vain. I'm sure this won't be the last time a thread like this has been created by a newbie.

To earn merits you need to be a quality member it's not all about how long you will reply to a thread it's all about the content as long as this content might help other people and the whole community for sure there's merit will come. People always come here on the forum and ask frequently how to earn merit because they know there's a chance to earn but after they know the merit requirement for now they already abandoned their account. I guess this can be locked.

It would be counterproductive, and actually disincentive people (with a certain amount of available sMerits) from posting, were they required to Merit when replying. Merits would actually circulate less as a result.

It’s quite usual for accounts to rack their brains early in the game, on how to get more merits flowing in the system (I did after a month and a half or so), or devising ways to set a higher focus on lower ranks. After some time, one will likely see things in a somewhat different way, and whilst the more the merrier could be a thing, there is that factor related to the content that people post that should carry the weight, and to a highish degree it does. That is where the focus should be on, and if it becomes evident that tons of good posts go unmerited, then there would be a clear call for racketing the brains on how to move things along.

As things stand, there are many chances to earn some Merits here (post revision threads, signing messages and guessing games for example) that give an exceedingly easy entry point to earning Merits. But that should not blind people from the fact that the focus of Merits is on content, and that takes some effort to align with Merits.

Having said that, I’m all in for "the more eyes on the table the better" thing, but not forcibly imposed, and change driven by evidence rather than perception, in general terms.

Sharing knowledge and if that's is found informative and useful,a merit is given. Not all would give merits and not each informative, useful and quality posts would get a merit. It depends in who reads and how attractive it is to the reader. Many good posts are either skipped or not watched. But yes keep up posts informative and to the point.

Should it be required to give credit to the OP or any of replies if you have let's say at least ten... when replying, that way Merits would circulate more!

Merits are basically rewarded numbers offer to independent forum users for their contribution towards the forum to enhance the value, information, and knowledge of other users.

Merits can be received by contributing to the forum by own experience and knowledge. It completely depends on the community, how they take it for granted and offers Merit for information published on the forum.

Knowledge of any specific stream, including years of experience, can be easily identified by content published on the forum.

Great understanding and great explanatory content are always great. It gives higher values to other users of the forum.

Collected merits always show the user's credibility towards forum contribution.

Maybe it is so in the local sections of the forum if there are not enough members who can give merits but I think it is not so in the English part of the forum.
Personally, whenever I see a quality and constructive post, I will give merit and I will not even look at who the author of the post is, because it is completely irrelevant.
I'm sure that most other members of this forum also reward with merit every quality post regardless of who the author is.
Perhaps the problem is that your definition of quality post does not match the definition of quality post by most members of this forum.

Actually you are right because a good quality post is what fetch merit,  in the aspect of exchanges of knowledge, no objections, because anyone who found he or her ways in bitcointalk community and also engages in the interactions of bitcoin conversation or communication is obviously exchanging knowledge, because their is no way you can respond to chat without understanding the point of a writer the process reading it and in same vein understand it you are exchanging knowledge and obtaining wisdom, the only thing that backslide many newbies not to continue is by not earning merit like others, so the strategies to earn merit is all this things we point out.

Scope of merit is not restricted to only newbies and we all need to keep some rules in mind before making any posts.The good post will always be appreciated like sometimes i don't agree with the post but the quality of post is good and it has initiated good and healthy conversations on forum it deserves merit then.

You have pointed out some good points but you also need to exchange knowledge which is the most powerful tool to rank up for all of us and gain merit.The focus should be quality posting only and merits are secondary or say complementary with the good posts.So work in that areas and you all will see ranking up on forum.

Just have five basic review which newbies have to consider first to do for earning a Merit.
• Observation
• Read before posting
• Carry on a research for innovation of the forum
• Post to the area ( board) you understand
• Don't post in a hurry (relax and found cogent points) before dropping.

Bitcointalk forum is indeed a very wonderful place to be in, I will first of all congratulate you because I assure you it will be well. Merits come when you give contribution in the forum, answer some questions to guide other members of the forum. Also sharing some vital information to update the the forum members.

Welcome to the forum mate. To earn merits, you need to contribute to the forum, good posts will normally earn merits because merit sources will likely give merits to post which are deserving to earn. As a newbie, you need to learn more, so start with reading, read, read, then you can do post, post, post after. Good luck, don't hunt for merits hard enough because they will just come as long as you follow my suggestion highlighted above.

Welcome to bitcointalk. As a newbie i advise you get yourself familiar with the forum rules and understanding the things to be done and things not to be done in the forum before you think of ranking up. To get promoted to higher ranks you need to create a quality posts and contribute to the forum while avoiding plagiarism and along the line you may earn merits but its not guaranteed though.

Tap the following links to know more
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/faq-everything-you-need-to-know-about-forum-activity-account-ranks-and-merit-2766177
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/unofficial-list-of-official-bitcointalkorg-rules-guidelines-faq-703657

I have seen so far that the more your knowledge is, the better you will be able to write, according to that you will get merits. Accordingly, your rank will also increase. You can know more about by visiting these links.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/unofficial-list-of-official-bitcointalkorg-rules-guidelines-faq-703657
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/faq-everything-you-need-to-know-about-forum-activity-account-ranks-and-merit-2766177

Hello, im a new member too and the information especially in this topic was very useful for me because im still looking around in the forum and achieving information about things like merit.At last now i know what it tis and how to achieve it. thanks

It is partially true. There is no perfection on Earth and there are loopholes with which people use their sMerit inappropriately just as likes, supports or lazily dump their sourced sMerit to complete their sMerit distribution.

Again, it is partially true but if you make quality posts consistently, you will do receive merit. Additionally, there is multibilateral compensational effects.

• Some of your quality posts might not receive merit, like you said
• Some of your quality posts will receive merit, and receive a lot, more than it deserves.
• Net-effect: if you make quality posts consistently, you will still receive good amount of merit

The way merit is given here,I don't really think it's base on how quality your post is anymore,it's seems it base on   how people know you in the forum,I said that because,one can post something that is of good quality,a post that deserves merits,but because he is not known by people in the group or forum,he will not be given any merit.
Where as it wasn't like that,it was how good your posts is,that can make can guaranteed of your merits.