Recently, I became a Full Member on 5th March 2020. I was waiting for that moment and was so happy
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. I started my journey 19 months back. Previously, I was not that active in the forum. From the Mid of 2019, I actively started posting in the forum.
My journey was not that easy, I struggled a lot for every single merit. I have posted many quality content and created many useful threads. One day I realized that we can get many useful topics on Bitcointalk and we are missing out on many useful threads. If a newbie joins today, he will not know what was posted earlier and what are useful topics on this forum. So I decided to collect most of the useful threads that we are actually missing out. I started a thread called -
Missing Out The Important Topics!! and tried to collect the useful topics and I am updating that thread regularly.
Also, I have started a Merit Giveaway thread -
💥 [Merit Giveaway] - Post useful threads and earn merit 💥, where I have asked the community members to post the useful threads of this forum. Once I collect those threads, I will update all those on my list.
On this occasion, I would like to thank everyone who helped me on my journey. A special thanks to those who criticized me when I created a thread called -
Inspired by the stories of forum Members and Heading towards Full Member Rank. Many of them criticized me when I created this thread, saying that you have created this thread for Merits. These critics actually boosted me to post more good posts and to achieve this rank.
Suggestion to Newbies: Try Try Try until you succeed. I know gaining merits is not that easy but your intention on this forum should not be focused only on Merits. You can learn many useful things on this forum. Also, you can share your knowledge here. Not only on this forum, but there are also many useful topics you can search and learn from that and share it here if it helps others also.
Not everyone would have captured this moment, I was so excited when I reached 95 Merits and I was eagerly waiting to achieve 100 merits.
@maxreish was the one who gave me 6 merits as an encouragement to reach that rank. I touched 101 merits and was so happy and I took the screenshot of that.
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This is not the end, there are a lot more things to achieve. I will continue to put my efforts and contribute good content to this forum.
**Last but not least, I am not writing this post for Merits. I wanted to express my thoughts about my journey in this forum.