I am so happy to know about this forum and I am so pleased to be here, I registered to learn, later I will contribute. Few days ago I googled about how to earn bitcoin and I read about this forum from three online sites. I have tried faucets and pay to click but they are not good for earning at all. I now decided to join bitcointalk, I have not posted yet but I have learnt few things and I now know that this forum is also very useful for information. Anyone on this forum that will be scammed or handle bitcoin wrongly will be a fool forever as all information needed to be a successful bitcoin user is already here and I have seen few.
I have read the rules and regulations and I am pleased with it, it defined me how this forum will have good qualities and makes me to respect all members. I will keep to the rules and regulations as the punishment for spamming and plagiarizing is ban.
I hope you are having a good time and still learning more in this forum. Things would seem to be quite hard at first but as long as you engage yourself in this forum through different topics, you would be more familiar each in every day. Just keep in mind the Do's and dont's, and you would do well without getting into trouble.
So to address your concerns furthermore,
Questions
I have known little about the forum but there are still some questions that bothers me.
First, my merit is zero while I see some members having more than 100 merits or more. How can I earn merits?
Those members probably have earned merits already from interacting to this forum by creating topics, and sharing opinions on different threads in this forum. You would earn merit if other users will give it to you. They nay give you merit if they find your topic or post interesting, informative or is making sense. There are also DTs which are giving often as well as other users. So just be patient.
Questions
Second, I also noticed some members are well ranked, how can I be a ranked member?
Ranking up depends on your earned merit and nunber of activities. Each Rank is determined by a specific number of activity and merit. So technically, in order to move up, you should meet the required number of merit score and activity.
This is the guide on the number of merits and activity to be met on each of the ranks a user could be.
Feel free to visit this thread:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.28856522Rank | Required activity | Required merit |
Brand new | 0 | 0 |
Newbie | 1 | 0 |
Jr Member | 30 | 1 |
Member | 60 | 10 |
Full Member | 120 | 100 |
Sr. Member | 240 | 250 |
Hero Member | 480 | 500 |
Legendary | Random in the range 775-1030 | 1000 |
This chart I think is clear enough to be understood. And if you still have questions, feel free to hit me with a message.
Questions
Third, can you please tell me other things that can help me?
Aside from the things that other users have mentioned already, I would suggest reading about bounty projects, trading, and investments because that is what crypto is all about especially at this moment wherein it is not yet being mainly used as a digital currency. I mean, it is being used in transactions but more people found it more useful in order to generate profit.