Topic: I need honest advise concerning this. (Read 677 times)

Don't get discouraged so easily, some things are difficult to achieve but there is always a possibility if we keep working hard and do the things in the right way.
I have checked your post history, and I must say that you are doing pretty well, I didn't see any one-liners or off-topic posts, so you are on the right track, just remember that you need to continue learning and improving over time, and always be yourself and write what you think will contribute in a discussion.

I'll just give you a small suggestion that I noticed isn't present in your posts. Whenever you are posting a link, try to post it as a hyperlink which means you should write a text and then add the link under that text so that it looks better and gives the post better readability.

Ahan, mate do not feel demotivated as I can see you just have posted only 29 posts in your account if you lose at the beginning point how you will grow furthur? stay active and keep making good posts and participating in the discussion actively doing this you may get merits on your deserving post. But after reading your post I came to realize that you are motivated at your initial stage and this thing disappointed me. If you stay active on the forum you may see many other members who do not get much merits they should get you even they have made a lot of posts then you will feel that you are far better than them here you have two merits. You can get more just by doing quality posts.

Do not run before getting merits rather run before quality posting your merits will come whenever they come. Stay motivated on the forum if you want to stay here as it is just your beginning point. If you feel low at this point then your journey is way much more difficult for you so never feel disappointed or discouraged.

Actually you are actually right about what you are saying, because at some point, most of us in this forum has experience such in the past which made some of us discouraged, and most times some even quit, but it's a good thing that you stood your ground and you have not gave up.

What I would suggest to you is that, in this life that we found ourselves in, it's very necessary that if you are doing something and it's not giving you the desired result, you just have to pause a little bit and look at your performance and the performance of those that have gotten such result you are craving for, so In this forum, I suggest you look at the post of those that have merit on it, so you can know what you are doing wrong and correct it. After doing that, I believe that the merit will start coming in.

The first thing you need is to stay on the forum and always be updated whatever it is. If you read diligently and are smart in understanding various issues or things, I think the increase in merit will be fast and your account will automatically move gradually.

Maybe at the moment there are only 2, but if you focus diligently, I'm sure that number will continue to increase, where in the future the value of your future efforts will be paid off and will really be felt. The important thing is not to hesitate in writing, in asking and giving your opinion, I am sure that as long as it is polite, organized and has beneficial values, it will be noticed by our seniors here like @PX-Z and other friends.

If you can go through your past posts, you will discover that you are not standing in the quality post and for you to grow your account fast in this forum you need to develop quality post for people to know that you have learned from old members from the forum. If you want to be in a hurry to grow your account in this forum, I think you will miss it at the end because there are some rules that governed merits abuse which some scammers use to collect money from newbies to over merits them and their account will be affected negatively. I will advice you to exercise patience with your current position in the forum, because things will not remain like this forever, all those old members you see in this forum was a newbies but they endure to get to where they are today in the forum.

I really appreciate your kind gestures, I'll take your advise seriously and work on my mistakes, I think I have to go through your profile and learn from maybe I'll get a clue from you concerning the boards you recommended I should focus more on and how to go about them, I see you're a Hero member which means you've got lots of experience on here, experience they say is the best teacher and I'm open to learning from yours to get more ideas about how to go about this space.

 Also I appreciate you for being the first source of the merits I've earned so far, that would serve as a motivation for me here, to be honest I've not been stable here for some days due to certain circumstances but seeing the merits I got put a smile on my face and I'll try as much as possible to do better and earn more. Once again thanks for your motivations, fo the encouraging me to do better and also for the merits.

Enjoy your first merits from me, this is to encourage you to post more and be active if you want to get more merits.

A piece of advice, don't stay longer on opinionated boards and threads, you won't get any merits there. Instead go on technical, services discussion and forum related boards where fact and experience based answers is seen/read. Once you provided answers to those who are asking questions based on facts (of course with proofs) probably you will get more merits.

Yes you need to be merited before you can grow on the forum here, but from the way you are posting, then you might end up not growing. It’s just obvious that you are here because of merit, and most people that are here because of merit always end up spoiling their account. Because most of them do crazy things just for the sake of merit, but they won’t end up receiving the merit. If you want to post here, then post freely, and you will get merited. You can learn from higher rank, and they can always motivate you to make quality post here.

You are not the one that’s suppose to determine if a post worth merit or not, people reading your posts are the ones to judge if your post worth meriting or not. And some people will have the intention to merit your post, but they won’t have smerit, so because you haven’t received merit doesn’t mean you are going to give up from posting here.

You need to understand that getting merited in this community is competitive now not like before that you could write some couples of rubbish and start getting merits even when your posts do not worth it. That phase has gone because we have more newbies here than the old members. This is competitive and you will need to keep writing good posts for you to get merits.
 I don't know why it looks like you are too much in a haste, you will need to calm down and do the right thing for you to keep getting merits from other serious forum members. You don't expect to write something that has been frequently seen in the forum and expect to get merits. It won't happen unless you do the extra ordinary thing.

Apt! here is to source informations on various cryptocurrency projects or news. participating in discussions allows us to stay updated on the lastest trends and development in the crypto world.

Merit is not the only thing that you need to rank up and group you also have to be active on a daily basis and write some posts no matter how good are they just try to be yourself. Write whatever comes to your mind. Slowly slowly you will get the experience of writing quality posts.
When you write post that really matters to other then the merit is for sure to come.

When You write posts you gain activity points which are also necessary for ranking up so just try to be active and keep posting on daily basis.

I should believe everyone have this same instincts of you that they believes that they have created some constructive, quality and interesting posts that has or could contribute to afford solutions for the forum which certainly, the forum users duely believes that the post most on ko account fetch them not less than 3 merits but all to the South side that they can not even get a single merit from that expected post.

This happens not just to you the newbies but also the ranked up members here in the forum. So OP, don't be devastated over this because you are not into this alone.
You must know that you could feel you are right while you are just totally wrong meaning to say that... You may think your post is being that so interesting simply because you are the writer, creator or the poster and definitely you would always feel that your efforts and contributions is one of the best meanwhile there are lot of people that are more qualified than you are but yet they are not recognized.
That's just how life in a nutshell could be.

You would feel you are right and will never be right until you are right.


OP, keep up to your grinding of helpful and quality posts here in the forum and then the merits would come from where your posts are deserved for it.
It could also be that some forum members who found your post interesting and feels it deserves to be merited does not have Sendable Merits to merit your post (s).

So just stay focus and learn about what you are primarily here for which is your acquiring and bitcoin and related courses of discussion.

Exactly. Merits are not the sole basis of growth. You can grow in the forum if you consistently learn new insights and valuable ideas through reading and participating in such discussions. You grow in the forum if you have learned from the experiences of other forum members. And lastly, you grow in the forum when you are now able to create constructive and quality posts that you can already leave an impact to other members. If you are seeing these things in yourself, believe me those merits will eventually follow. Don’t chase for merits, but look forward for additional knowledge in the forum, that way merits will be raiser for you to achieve.
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Indeed knowledge is the most vital part of our growth here in this forum, without the knowledge in the first place there is no growth in any form here in this forum. Then after which you have acquired the knowledge, the next thing is to start making good quality posts, and that alone would prove that you have acquired enough knowledge, though writing is a skill and we must know how to express ourselves to have a good communication and share our thoughts with others. And not every quality post gets merited, but when you have more quality posts, you stand a chance of getting at least 1/3 percentage of your posts merited.

Don’t be discouraged, but the answer to your first question is a simple one, which I will tell you: never downgrade yourself, so consider what you are doing wrong in order to know so that you can get merited. First, I will say you are not getting merit depending on your post pattern, which is one of the main things. If you could check your profile, you will see that you are not even up to effectively 2 months, so when you are patient, all you need will definitely come to you peacefully, so I will assure you that you are not doing anything wrong, but you need to continue the struggle and give yourself more time. If possible, you should engage in research that will help you answer more questions, and in the process, you might earn merit.

And again, you can be merited on any board as long as what you are writing is still on point, but when you limit yourself to other boards, you will be at the same point. That is why I say you should always do research so that you can spread your posts to other boards, but the main discussion is that you still need to learn and forget about how to get merit, because merit is luck no matter what you do, if without luck, no one will still merit you. So to me, I will say you should change your priorities on ways to get merit and focus because there is a lot to learn. 

It shouldn't be a thing of concern to you because is not easily scaling through this forum but then merits shouldn't be your major target to me every place has what make them move so freely, what I am trying to say is that when you focuses more on self development then your growth comes immediate without the need to keep crying on growth or how to earn merits because your post must surely give you merits. You should also understand that people has their own ways of evaluating post, meaning what gives others credits might not give you any causing you not to gain any merit but you might think it doesn't count when someone who love your comes across it he might be triggered to give you merits but do not beg for it instead just keep posting naturally.

Achieving merits on a forum isn't overly complicated if you focus on meeting the expectations of fellow members. This entails consistently delivering high quality posts and engaging in meaningful discussions through comments. By adhering to these practices, you'll gradually notice merits flowing your way. Many newcomers struggle to advance their accounts because they fail to grasp concepts thoroughly before participating in discussions.Consequently, they often contribute content that lacks substance, making it challenging to attract merits. To truly enhance your account's rank, it's essential to take a step back, invest time in learning, and gain a solid understanding of various topics. Once equipped with this knowledge, you can actively participate in discussions, offering valuable insights and perspectives. As a result, you'll naturally accumulate merits and experience the satisfaction of seeing your account progress. Therefore, patience, dedication, and a willingness to learn are key ingredients for success in building merit on the forum.

Exactly. Merits are not the sole basis of growth. You can grow in the forum if you consistently learn new insights and valuable ideas through reading and participating in such discussions. You grow in the forum if you have learned from the experiences of other forum members. And lastly, you grow in the forum when you are now able to create constructive and quality posts that you can already leave an impact to other members. If you are seeing these things in yourself, believe me those merits will eventually follow. Don’t chase for merits, but look forward for additional knowledge in the forum, that way merits will be raiser for you to achieve.

You should first indicate your gender in your profile because people here don't like very much members trying to deceipt other members by lying or misleading people about their gender, especially men trying to show them as women. Some people are trying to do that, sometimes in order to get merits more quickly because there is way more men than women here, so they tend to encourage them to stay here, I'm not sure it always works though, but they think this way. So you should clarify this point first IMO

Everyone has experienced and felt that way before, but for me there’s only one way to make it happen, be more active in the forum and be serious in reading and understanding everyone’s shared concepts and insights. Eventually you will learn from their posts in time. And never limit your reading inside the forum but always find more reliable sources that can give you more relevant information. So that when time comes that you want to participate in discussion, you will have something valuable to share that will attract merit sources to share some of their merits, once they have seen meaningful posts made by you.

You are not doing the wrong thing. Merits serve as encouragement to every forum members that wants to grow in the forum, and merit will signify that you are a good and quality poster and not shitposter.

Looking for merits desperately is bad because it can lead you to copy and paste which is refers to as plagiarism; because when you are desperate, you will tend to copy people quality posts from internet and decided to share it here just for merits which is very bad as a beginner.

If you wants to grow in this forum, you need merits, but you can take it step by step through been active user and sharing your contributions and ideas in any reasonable discussion in the forum.

The person is right for saying that but he is not completely right. The reason why he advice you not rush is that you will probably want to take shortcut to learn things that might later hurt you later in the future like using AI to make posts because you don't understand anything about crypto, plagiarism other people's work because you have no idea about what was been discussed and what to reply, these will be find out later by some prominent members of the forum that hunt for people that violate these rules.

However, if you are a good and a fast learner, you should go beyond anything that is been taught you but make sure that you don't break any forum rules, learning and putting your reputation in line and doing your thing will cost you nothing in this forum and lastly, be a thick skin person here if you want to last and don't get emotional when someone attack you, that's why here is called a forum.

What is your purpose for registering on this forum? You don't even hide the fact that your goal is to get merit. Then I have a second question: why do you need merit and what do you know about it at all, since you want to get it so much?

The space is broad enough to grab the significance of doing the necessities of the system. You should be more concern with engagement of topics and also making improvements in posts made, all these attributes will contributes to the status of your accounts, though it will not just happen now because it takes lengthy time to hits. I know how painful and discouraging it can be for a newbie to grow accounts in Bitcointalk forum, however, the eligible quote to emphasize on when in the space is " No pain, No gain" this alone will make you push harder in the system.

Well I have been where you are and I think the fault was actually from me because I focus all ma energy on trying to get merit instead of trying as much as possible to actually write and get involved in some discussion because that's the only way that you can acquire anything that will be helpful to you. Knowledge is power and what you don't know is very bigger than you so get involved in discussion by writing and not writing gibberish so that when a merit source or other members here come across your merit they can merit the work.

You're absolutely right I think the mean reason why we are here is to share different ideals and thought,and also to know more about cryptocurrency. I know there are some people in this platform who has full knowledge about cryptocurrency,and also investment strategies,this are the things one really need to know before looking out to any other things.

If you have it in mind that you wants merit by all means, then it will be delayed.

If you learn and get more knowledge here, you will achieve your aim of learning in this forum, but if you are here for merits, then you need to tighten more and write quality posts.

My advice to you for now is to focus on learning and growing your bitcoin and cryptocurrency knowledge and make good contributions to the forum through answering some questions and sharing some important information about bitcoin and cryptocurrency to the forum.

There are users that have been in this forum for years, and they don’t have merits; some of them are here to learn whatever they wanted to learn and move, while some are here to spam the forum. But if you have target and you are dedicated to the community contributions, you don’t have to worry about merits because when it is time, you will get enough merits.
Keep calm, learn, and ask questions; merits will come.

It's not that people are not sharing merits; people are doing it, but for the posts that are worth meriting, or maybe all your posts that are worth meriting, nobody with merits has come across them, and that's why they're still unmerited. However, a lack of merits should not discourage you from your learning here. Keep it up. Merit will come. You are still a newcomer, and I can see that some of your posts are in the gambling section and the economy, including off-topic. You just started posting in the bitcoin discussion recently, and I think those three boards where you are active will not fetch you enough merit because there is a low distribution of merits in those boards.

So continue creating meaningful, educational, and helpful content for the community members, and your posts will be merited. Everyone you see here started like you, so don’t see someone with enough merit and think he got it easy. Work hard, and you will also achieve the same thing. Because as long as your post is on point, regardless of your rank, you will be merited. 


Check other people's posts that got merited and learn everything possible to be able to create meaningful content. Just know that you are still learning, so putting merit in front of you will make you feel discouraged. Keep on learning, and you will earn merits. However, post on a board that suits your discussion, which will also give your post more recognition. 

its not always merit that is needed for you to grow in the community, making a good post, and topics are way to start, once those things are inline you don't need to worry about getting merits it will come naturally without you knowing, also learning things with others post simply adding up to you're growth, new members will immediately want to rank up so fast gathering merit as fast as they could, some people just want to learn because information in the forum are everywhere.

Exactly. We are not having a competition here that those who received early merits are better than the others, of course one should not think that way. Merits are earned, and that will only be given if you are deserving enough. By being deserving, I mean if you have reached the point that you become a model already to others and that majority have already been learning from your post and benefited them. I believe this is not hard to achieved if you focus on your self-growth and development.

The forum has got you everything. You only need to be more patient and more motivated to learn so that you will not get tired while you are in the process of learning and developing your best potentials in the forum.

If you get too bothered and carried away from the main aim of joining this forum and just want to focus on merits, you’ll spend longer time ranking up here than the expected them you might have assumed or set for yourself to be ranked up. You are a newbie with 24 activities and posts, I have seen some others who have more activities and post than you and still are not complaining about their rank. If you want to rank up, check the comments on others people’s account that where merited to get insights and understanding on how the meriting of posts works, just maybe you’ll understand better when making your next post on the forum.


Your posts don’t look that bad and you’ve only got two of your posts on off-topic discussion which when looked into averagely on your total number of posts, it’s still good. Asking on which board to post on to get merits is one kind of an improper question because even if you’re told a particular board, without having a knowledge of the discussion in that board, you’ll want to spam it with something that is different from the topic or expected reply of the discussion because you want to get some merits which doesn’t make any sense. You can get merits from any board if you engage in meaningful and informative discussions on that board, no exception of any board except those boards that their discussions are mainly of a rotary viewpoint.

A growth in this community is into two type but some people does not know because what they always focus on is someone who is earning merit why the knowledge will acquire and the reason why we are here is to learn the comprehensive relative of cryptocurrency entirely, many people today has ventured into cryptocurrency and don't understand the total concept of cryptocurrency so for you to grow you have to understand cryptocurrency.

But some people always think that growth in this community is by earning a merit why the purpose of here is to learn the technology and also share your own knowledge that will help to enhance the development of cryptocurrency... so for you to be recognized as someone who has acquired a knowledge widely of cryptocurrency especially Bitcoin you have to be a solution provider by being innovative and the milk some theories that has not been reviewed by any forum member... a quality post is one of the things that shows that you have learned and understand the system and with the gravity of your quality that will also help you to elevate for the forum by earning a merit through your knowledge impact to other people and also acquired from other people's knowledge

First of all, growing is not really going to depend on your merits since merits are just needed for you to rank up here in the forum, but still, the most important thing is you are learning here in the forum and gaining knowledge that you need on investing in Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency, etc. But if you are really aiming to increase your rank here there is no other way around it but to make a quality post, something that is going to be useful here in the community. I mean getting merit is still going to be a chance because it wasn't going to be guaranteed merit every time since you need other members to give you merit in order to get one that just means that you need to make them think that your post is commendable or merit worthy post, so that they would probably going to give you merits because of your quality post. I mean you could check most of the topics here in the forum that get a lot of merit and you could observe that most of these topics are useful topics, especially here in the forum, or some kind of tips or probably instructions, etc.

Still, I wouldn't really going to motivate you to actually aim for merits, You just continue your journey in the cryptocurrency space, and then in on way with that, you could use this forum as a guide and at the same time as you learn things on your way you could share as well most of the helpful things that you learn as well here in the forum, and for sure your going to rank up on your way as well, the same time as you learn and gain knowledge which I think is the best way to rank up here.

It's a bit contradictory to say it's never wrong to make long posts and then to assert it's boring and tiring for other people to read them. Forums are a place whose purpose is to exchange and to communicate with people about one topic. So the way of communicating and expressing yourself is very important and certainly the most important thing. It's ok to be a layman, to not have relevent content and informations to share, and to want to learn from other people, but your communication should always be efficient and smooth, in order to respect other users.

When I first came to this forum, I was just trying to provide something useful for others. I started with local threads so that it was easier for me to give my best writing. I also saw some senior members who continue to inspire me today. Maybe you can also do like me. The best thing is to keep reading to gain knowledge whether in the forum or otherwise. So that your knowledge increases and can share with other users. It's not easy, but I'm sure if you work really hard then it will be easy.

I don't think you are doing anything wrong. I get that merits seem cool, but don't let them distract you.  This place is for gaining knowledge first and  if you try too hard to earn merits, you'll just get annoyed.  Instead, share ideas that fascinate you or ask thoughtful questions.  Comment when you truly have something meaningful to add to the conversation.  Merits aren't supposed to be handed out freely - theyre for real value.  But don't write just for the merits either.  Write because you care.  If you do that the merits will come in time.

You do not need to chase too much with the merit, try to make yourself things up about getting a quality post if you think you are still enough to have it try to observe how higher merit counts received their post, their posting habit, and their contribution by that you can get a knowledge and strategy to gain merit, keep learning and contribute the knowledge do you have those can be key to gain merits, you focus too much in earning merit which is not because you can receive this over time once people see your contents helps a lot.

Sometimes when you focused too much on earning merits, they will never come, reason being that your posting pattern might not be as natural and a representation of who you are. This is the problem many people have growing in the forum, I faced similar problems too. My account was registered long time ago, but when I imagined the huddle I have to go through to grow the account in terms of earning merits, I was discouraged so I ran away for a long time. But somehow I find my self back to the forum as an observer, never knowing what to post to impress people. It was after a while I realized that the best way to grow in the forum was to be myself and feel free to join conversation based on my level of knowledge, not struggling to impress anyone but sharing my knowledge and asking relevant questions, not forgetting the rules of the forum. This was when the merits started coming effortlessly. So you see, you are not alone, many of us passed through that same long process of confusion and frustration but perseverance will help you over come.

it's a little tricky to get merit, because it doesn't just require a good post, but also how you convey it or how you can provide the best solution to a problem clearly and easily understood. or if you feel that your post is quality and should get merit, you can bring the post to your local board, usually there will be seniors who give merit for quality posts, you should be able to find the thread easily.

so don't immediately give up when you don't get merit, because there are many opportunities you can get to get merit. just focus on developing your account.

Go straight to the point in every topic you decide to discuss with. Focus on the relevant information that you want to relay, and spare off from those unnecessary information that will only make your post longer. While it’s never wrong to create longer post, but forum members will always find it more readable if the post is only short but precise, compared to longer post because admit it or not, it’s so tiring even just by looking a long post ahead.

And lastly, don’t be obsessed with getting merits. You will eventually reach that point once people have seen confidence in your posts. Focus on acquiring knowledge and reliable information, and never stop learning from those reputable members in the forum.

I have quickly look at your posts and I think you should avoid to post in sections widely spammed such as the gambling section if you want to receive merits and add some links or pictures to your posts more oftentimes. In addition you should increase the typography and the formating of your text, especially when your post is long because people won't read it in full if it doesn't look appealing.

I took a look at your post history and I think your posts are all decent. You’re well on your way to getting the merits you desire. Don’t rate your contribution base on your post count/merit ratio.  Just keep engaging in forum discussions, I would suggest you keep your activity in bitcoin discussions higher than gambling discussion. Merit sources do not frequent the gambling board. Also gather more information so you can contribute to topics in different areas of the forum.

You’ve obviously observed very correctly especially with particular reference yo how it affects you and the way it’s been able to affect your forum participation.
The forum is a very large place and have got millions of users across all culture but despite its population, it’s also been able to note those who standout amongst others. It doesn’t really matter if your just a newbie, besides not all newbies are newbies and to avoid aiding in the growth of some existing users account that would be used in spamming the forum in months to come, users have learned to be very careful on how they merit I think.
Ensuring it’s very deserving of whatever is been give out.

Instead of learning how to earn merit which would t do you much good, that’s because, the reason you’re here or should be here is to discuss the Bitcoin innovation and cryptocurrency idea. Once your purpose and intent aligns about this point, you might get noted for the contribution you bring and the forum goods will follow.

If you are desperate Looking for merit, it might be difficult for you to get merit, because if some members notice you are posting for the sake of merit, they will end up not meriting you, so if you are posting, don’t have it in mind you will be receiving merit, just post because you want to learn here, or you want to make make impact to the forum. Some of your post might be useful to some people, and they will want to merit it, but if they don’t have smerit, then it won’t be possible for them to merit you. You might think some of your post are worth meriting, but it might not worth meriting to people, but the best thing is, stop thinking about merit and post freely.

You shouldn’t be discouraged by you not getting merit, all what I have to tell you is that, keep on putting more effort, and everything is not about creating thread, even when you make quality reply, then you will be able to receive merit. The only aspect I know you are getting it wrong is that, you are desperate looking for merit, which is not suppose to be like that.

don't think too much about merits, a lot of newbies worry about not getting merit and it is one of the prevalent reasons that I see why a lot of them create threads talking about not getting merit. just be active, join discussions, learn new crypto-related things, share information, etc... that is the main reason for this forum, merit will eventually come to you if you are here long enough.

try reading this thread Bitcointalk posting etiquette, it might give you some tips and ideas on how to improve the way you post.

AVE5 started to point in the right direction of what I was about to write...


...but puloweh555's post sums it up quite nicely. Do not focus on collecting merit, you likely will fail with such a fixation or it will be a long unhappy grind.

I'd rather focus on being able to learn,  participate and contribute in topics that I'm interested in. Participation should mean you add some value to a topic or discussion with your posts. Try to contribute something that's missing in a thread but stay on-topic and don't hijack threads with your own off-topic stuff, that's usually not appreciated well. If you can't, don't post, just read more. As a newbie you also don't necessarily need to open new threads, many "newbie topics" have been opened already and before.

You may find out that this needs some learning about certain details. Do read and learn, your knowledge will grow, your ability to contribute to discussions will grow, quality of your posts may grow (learn from good examples)... then without need to think or focus on it, merits will come.

Don't chase merits, it will ruin your forum experience. But if you came here with a focus to develop your account to participate in signature campaigns, then, well, good luck with that.

OP first of all, I will sincerely tell you that you are not doing anything wrong and should not be discouraged because nothing good comes easy. Don't also feel that your post is not seen and recognized, your posts are actually seen by some merits source but maybe any of the merits source might not have merits at that particular time to dispose.

keep on reading the threads of the high ranked members and also see how they create their topics and try and understand the difference between their post and your post and take necessary correction for improvement. i will also advise you to continue making reasonable contributions and have it in mind that one day merit will come as expected.

lastly, try and navigate the forum and find a particular board that you understand more and be making a quality contribution and sometimes you will start a topic to try your strength and don't hurry to post in all the boards because the forum is very vast for you to know all in a short time.

My advice is to change your mindset about how to get Merit, because if your mindset is like that then you will not develop, there will only be despair. believe me, everyone on this forum all started from newbies, nothing is instant. You just need to keep reading and reading in order to gain extensive knowledge and insight later, when you understand and start to understand more about crypto, without you realizing it, you can already make quality posts by sharing information that is useful for other users, then Merit will come by itself.

The point is, don't focus too much on Merit, but focus on self-development so that it is useful for other users, and there are also several threads that give users the opportunity to review their posts by other users. If your post is quality they will give you Merit. Keep learning friends, don't give up and keep trying to contribute to this forum. I'm sure you will get Merit, as long as you change your mindset about this forum.

From my own experience two things are involved in getting merits, firstly the quality of your post maters because nobody is going to merit a shit post that doesn't add any meaningful contribution, the board and the thread you are making your post are also important, because some boards and threads hardly get  merits expecially from a merit source, my advice is that you should look at those that are getting merits, the kind of boards and threads they are visiting and the meaningfulness of their post and arrive at your own conclusions about this , just do this and thank me later, because I did it I believe you too can do even more better. I also felt same way when I started it took a month navigating the forum before I could get a merit. Given up is not the best options you have to strive harder never given up, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a step you have already made the step by joining the forum so you shouldn't give up now and probably regret later on.

You're primarily not here to acquire merits nor to grow your rank but you're her to grow your bitcoin and crypto related investment knowledges. You can also take an advantage to advance your everyday life in both economy and societies.
Dear mate Op, while you're here and currently a beginner, I'd advice you to stick to create quality and constructive posts. Especially posts that would either serve for solutions or something kind Worth deliberating. Then you can obtain merit if your post interests any forum users who has a Sendable Merit to appreciate your post.
If I may ask Op, what's your aim of being here in this bitcointalk discussion forum?

 It can be a bit annoying when you think you are doing the right thing but aren't getting the expected results. Most newbies who come to this forum hope to get acquainted with the place, quickly ingratiating themselves here by following the laid down rules but when the merits don't come flowing, it can dampen the courage of some. I just feel you should continue doing what you do, coupled with the advices of the other users . Even if you want to check on the post patterns of other users that got merited, try not to lose your originality simply because you are being desperate to get merits.
 Some of these merit sources look for something peculiar when doling out merits and as such will want to take their time. Another thing I've observed is that  sometimes these merits come when you least expect it so just continue doing what you do.

First off, I'll like to say thanks for your honest reply, I've observed the replies from everyone on this thread and I've taken note of my errors and would work on them, cause I believe that's one of the purpose of joining this great Bitcoin forum, which is to learn and impact knowledge in anyway I can.

 However, your question of why i insisted on getting Merits is very funny, it's just like asking a student in college why they need good grades, or asking a farmer why they need manure or fertilizer to grow their crops, if I'm not mistaken we are all here in the forum to learn as well as impact knowledge in any way we can and also grow while we're in the process.
 
 Well, according to the forum, one need Merits as well as your activity to grow on here, if you had asked why I'm in a hast to grow, I think it would've been understandable but then. Well I see you're a Hero ranking Member, Asides your activities if you didn't receive Merits how would you had gotten to that point?

Growth takes time and patience. Everyone has their own set of preferences and expectations. It's a learning process, and you'll get better with time.

What you can do is engage in meaningful discussions, share your thoughts, and contribute positively. Identify the boards where your expertise or interests align. Contributing to boards where you can provide valuable insights increases your chances of getting noticed and receiving merits. Merits often come from participating in meaningful discussions. Share your opinions, ask thoughtful questions, and provide well-reasoned answers.

This is all I can say; Rome wasn't built in a day. Patience is key, focus on consistent, quality contributions, and over time, you'll likely see the recognition you deserve. It's not just about the merits; it's about the journey of learning and contributing. Stay positive and keep improving.

Disregarding the 2 posts that have been deleted from your posting history, I don’t really see anything wrong with the post content you’re creating, although I’m not familiar with the meriting ins and outs in some of the boards you post on (i.e. Economics, Gambling, Politics & Society for example). Posts in Off-topic are not likely to be merited (not sure if you posted there by choice, or the thread was moved over there at some point).

If it’s any use, I too around a month and a half to receive my first merit on the forum, which is the current age of your account. So there’s that …

Receiving merit is not from your own end to judge whether a post you made is quality or not, it is in the best of interest of those coming across the post and how they got convinced that your post carries a lot of thoughts and its deserving to be merited, if they have smerit, they will give you and this is applicable to all members and the merit sources as well, you don't have to write a full page before receiving a merit, a single line or half can generate you merits as long as it contains the accurate quality standard of post being on point.   


Nothing, but you're missing the quality standard of what makes others to receive merits.


Maybe you will also need to answer the need to why you insisted on receiving this merit.

Don't rush like trying to do short cuts on learning important, but rather be aggressive to learn a new information everyday which can help you to last long and compete with people who's earning some good fortune from the opportunities they can see here.  But actually you don't need a merit on regular basis since anyone can get earn if you are skilled enough to do some task. Only those people aim to join in a campaign want to get that merit since they want to rank up so that they can get more higher pay rates.

If you aim to get merits then try to post something valuable that can help other people to understand what are been discussed in the thread. Also just stay relevant and consistent since you can naturally earn those merits .

I can’t say that your posts are bad; you are on the right track. I see that you are ready for discussions and try to answer as fully as possible. You can also show a list of your posts to the source of merit; somewhere here in the newbie's topic, there is this topic. Or in the Nigerian section, as far as I have heard, your compatriots are successfully published there.
The only thing I can advise is not to lose heart. You are waiting for your first merit. This happens to probably every newbie. But after that, you just need to forget about merit. Just by communicating and reading, you will certainly be read by others, which will bring you a lot of merit.

First of all dont aim for merits at the start of course youll be named as merit earner or something. Dont try hard just be natural. Many newbies thought that posting a long post or a huge wall could give them merits. Maybe it is but its case to case basis since most users have their long post with sense but if youll just joined with an empty knowledge and just going to post for merits then nothing will work out. Make sure to build content or topics that are worth noticing if no idea just read some references.

For you to grow is different from for your account to grow.

Which one are you here for? To grow your crypto knowledge or to grow your account?

Because many newbies are too focused on growing their accounts by earning merits, they fixed their mind in this and it makes them failed miserably.

That's because they are too concern about what doesn't matter, merit isn't something you can rush out, you need to be active and learn then engage in discussions to be merited.

But isn't gaining knowledge about crypto should be the first priority of every new crypto investors? You won't get anywhere chasing merits, spend time to learn first.

Change your posting habits.  I  had a glance on your history and, to be frankly, was not impressed. Politics, Economics, Off-topics are not the boards welcomed by merits. Learn some technical stuff which  would intrigue  users for a while.  As the song goes, "all learners travel so hard", and it takes time, but, it  will be more than pay for itself.

Chasing merit is not one of the best way of getting them. If you which to get merits quickly then you must make quality post that is helpful to someone. I remember when I came to forum, at first I felt bad because it's just obvious that I wasn't helpful to the forum, but when I began to learn and create informative and helpful contents, the merits started coming in. The best advise I can give to you now is to forget about merit and focus on learning. You can even track some quality posters and learn from their inspiring contents to build your knowledge, and when you give out your knowledge the merits will definitely come.

The best suggestion for newbies is to take time out of their busy schedules to study a lot about this forum before expecting anything from some of the users. Because your leaning and quality postings will determine the merit you can get in each of your posts, and because every rookie understands that merit is the best path to growing here, instead of viewing some of the hold threads, read them so that you can grasp how they appear before they award them the merit.
Whatever you do, never get disheartened about this forum if you truly want to be like the other members here, because that is what occurs to many individuals. Many people have been introduced to this site, but their impatience has led them back to where they started. Staying active and persistent in this forum can help you avoid discouragement and earn merit for every of your posts.

Your posts and their quality decide you will receive merit or don't receive merit.

If you didn't receive merit so far, your post quality so far is not good enough. Improve your posts and quality, you will receive merit.

With newbies, they don't need to post too much. Reading and learning will be more helpful for newbies.

Merit & new rank requirements
Welcome message (Merit, which is gained by making good posts.)

Regular basis?
You don't have to post regularly and don't need to receive merit regularly.

I believe that the best thing you can do now is having patience, i too am a newbie here with no merits but i would also love to give my opinion,my best advice to you is to be patient, keep learning and reading more about the forum to understand better or you can go to other boards and try them out,i also believe you have done nothing wrong
Just like i am hoping to have merits,my only option is having patience and getting to know more and understanding how it works

Yeah true that you need merit to rankup, and there's no magical way to earn it. Merit given base on one choice, so there are some high quality post out there that still endup having no merit , all that really matters is how Impacting or contributing your post is to the individual that may Found your post  interesting or helpful (they may consider meriting you).

One thing am also aware of more you are in eager to earn merit, reduces the chances of you earning it because when one is eager to earn merit may lead to them posting low quality post. Sometime some  high quality post may not earn you merit instantly but as time goes on someone may stumbled upon that same post and found interesting and merit it. So don't be discouraged just focus on what the forum offers which is impacting good knowledge concerning this space.

Hello mate Good day,
I came across on your account and take a look and I found out that most of your post came from off topics, economics and gambling which pretty sure that there are only few merits distributed on that boards. Anyways you can try to visit other boards and try to  see if there are a lot of distribution. Actually you are not the one who actually experience on that first merit is hard as We thought  but once we got one then we got motivated and improve our  techniques and style of posting.

You can also check the topics created by people that are getting merit and also be checking what they are posting. Continue to learn from them and you will understand what are necessary to earn merit. Be reading from the good posters than posting for now. To earn merit on this forum is not hard at all, but many people just do not understand it until they understand what they do not know that is causing the lack of merit. Post useful information, read people's post and quote them like you are having a conversation with someone.

A simple way to understand how you can earn merit is, taking a good look at posts that got merited, what kind of information did the person pass that made him or her get merits. Its that simple if you understand the quality of information that made people merit, then you will start learning towards such quality post so you too can get merit.

But sometimes it's not all about merit, you should crack your brain and see what you can really do, or instead of discussion regularly issues like your previous post you can just focus on learning how Bitcoin works and after learning once a topic is raised concerning that you will be able to speak sense into the conversation, hence if merit worth you will get one at least.

I'm also a newbie like you but luckily I'm ranked up in merit but it doesn't mean I know anything but this is just a simple way I found my way out without too much questions, I believe it could also work for you.

 I've been advised that as a newbie i shouldn't rush but to learn from old forum members and grow. But then, I've seen that for one to grow over here you need to get merited and on a regular basis, well i believe at this point i should've been able to acquire some merits, despite the fact that I'm still a Newbie but then i don't see the Merits coming, even after some post i felt could fetch the Merits. It makes me wonder if my posts are not Merit worthy or Quality enough.

 Though it almost got me díscouraged, however instead of being discouraged, I'm open to learning ways or how to get the Merits and grow on here, my questions are what I'm i doing wrongly? How can i improve it and also where is the best board to write on if i need these Merits coming?