Topic: Is it too hard to get Merit? (not a CryBaby post) (Read 507 times)

According to you:


I can clearly see great effort in your writing, let’s see more effort:



Great careless writing effort! Keep it up!

Nevertheless, demerit made my day!

For me yes its too hard to get Merit, but no work is easy' so if you work hard its not possible to get merit.. thats why you need to work hard to earn merit you need to post contructive or helpful..while you work hard you learning too.

YES,I accept it.But now I understood the point and value of merit system.I apologies for that old post.

This account is and always was mine... When i created it, I was just getting into cryptos. There were literally 0 things I could share on this forum back then and i did not want to just spam. I did not have any interest in ranking up as i was only a reader, nothing else. That has changed around January. Is that enough of an explanation?

There are many possibilities for this, but i guess the main reason is, you know, money, and probably this account has been used by different person now. It is just a maybe or an if, i dont accuse this OP to be like what i have said, but the reaction that he had 1 year ago with now about ranking up is so different. So, i am just curious too.

You joined the forum almost a year ago, so why are you now concern about ranking up?
If you had been active from August 2017 to December, probably you will be, at least, full member by now. So you didn't have interest in ranking up then, so, why now?

Just curious...

Why the blood bath - my opinion.
How to not waste time with terrible bounties - for dummies
You have received 13 merits out of your 18 only from the above posts.

It's not too difficult as long as your post have good value for the readers who have available sMerits.

I believe that the main variable is interest. That is after all what posts should aim at, being interesting. Whatever you write can be viewed in many ways by different people, depending on what each one of us is drawn to, and just as in real life, in the forum we won’t get consensus on the degree of interest a post can achieve. Interest is in itself a multidimensional variable.
Interest will be correlated to quality in general, whereby quality will determine whether that interest is held throughout the post.
Factors such as tempo, language, expressiveness and tone all conform the support of the post, contributing to the overall perception.

Then you’ve got the placement factors which give your post visibility: post’s name, heat, posting section, thread, thread size, recency and time, to name a few. These factors are yours to consider and conform your credentials to be spotted by others. Visibility is a prime factor and actually one of the most critical, since good posts can get buried easily by others in a couple of minutes or hours at the most.

Now when you’ve got a post which is candidate to be interesting to some, and placed with a minimum of visibility, the next factor that weighs in is your audience. Good and interesting topics to some, may be disregarded by others due to the content’s no being interesting to them.
Lastly, you need to have attracted enough interest for some of the audience to pocket out some sMerit as a reward for your post. This is however a secondary factor to posting, although it is obviously relevant in a system that does bare ranks, and constitutes a means of recognition.

Having said all that, the point is that the formula is really much more complicated when you give it a thorough though.
Regardless, activity is a factor to use with care. Some are really active bringing nothing to the table, whilst others post with less frequency but more though into every post. Not all posts are going to be candidates to a Nobel or Pulitzer, but the trashcan should not be an objective either.

And no, I doubt the system is going to be revised so soon (monitored yes, but no revised). A brief one day "scare" was enough back on April the 1st ...

I have got a "not a CryBaby" question for ya... Why do you want to rank up? Does bitcointalk prevents you from posting in major sections? Cuz last time i checked that was not the case...

99% of them are given merits when the new system is introduced.

If you want to "post constructive post" here you have to be a tech person, because for some reason people here hate Altcoin section, marketing, bounties, airdrops and similar.

Well, all of that is a part of THIS FORUM.

People managing this forum have the identity crisis it seems. They hate altcoin section, but still, it is a big part of their forum.

I have a suggestion, just delete every part of the forum that isn't tech part of the Bitcoin and it will make merit system righteous.

Very simple.

This is not quite right. Having a lot of activity doesnt mean you would have a lot of merits because lot of activities doesnt mean you are a great and high quality poster, and to counter your statement, there are many people that have a lot of merits but low in activity points, why dont you bring this up? Because you only see the bad sides of this system.

And no, there will be no revision in near time i guess.

Aren't you supposed to be using + (plus) in place of * (multiply) in those estimates of yours?  

To complained about merit will not help you. To belong to this forum you need to be active and you must be patience.

Somebody should tell the users that have already earned >500 merit...

lol. because of this threads many user of here threads argueng about meritsystem that how to get higher rank because of merit. by the way. just calmdown dude. your post related and similar in another topic. just make sometimes post that not related in merit. so other user well unite.  

It's actually very easy to get a lot of merits. You just have to:

1. Go back in time
2. Shitpost all day long
3. Rinse and repeat until more than thousand posts
4. Wait for Merit system
5. Voila, 500-1000 merits

If you want to collect 500-1000 merits now, forget it man, Satoshi himself (disguised) would not make it.

https://ibb.co/jAvrBn

This is the first topic I have started on this subject... Anyhow, as you can see, I have earned some merit even though I am not as active on the forum (not participating that much in forum based bounties, I specialize in translations), but I jsut wanted to discuss this subject. I get it why the Merit is here, but so fat, people are still kind of... Holding the Smerit, not really distributing it, just rarely. So maybe it just needs more time for people to gather more Smerit and change the way of thinking to share it more? Also, when i first started on this forum, I actually thought i would be giving away my own merit (and I am sure I was not the only one)... Sure, it was my fault for not reading enough articles about it

No.



I'm not a senior member or above, but I've currently been merited 138 times.



You've answered your own question. Being a junior member does not hamper your ability to use the forum whatsoever. The only reason to get angry about the merit system is because it is hindering your ability to get paid to shitpost.



Hilarious that you would berate another member for spamming about merit, when you have started multiple threads complaining about merit.

It's worth noting that altcoin forums like cryptocurrencytalk.com are practically deserted and everyone chooses to come to the Bitcoin Forum. Not because it is a sanctuary, but because they can get paid to post here.


I really don't think it is too difficult to rank up for people that use the forum for what it is intended for. It certainly is difficult for people that came here to earn money from posting about something they're really not interested in. It may slow the process down for some well intentioned people but I don't see that as a problem. Over time it will just make the ranks a little more meaningful.

Here's some numbers to illustrate my point.

2,044,505 accounts.
850,000 active accounts (estimated before this was hacked).
13,807 accounts received 1 or more merit (source).

Of that 13,807 I would estimate maybe half would be here if they weren't being paid and almost all of them would have no problem ranking up.