Topic: Merit is not a limit for success? - page 2. (Read 718 times)

When you consider that getting merits is not necessarily down to your high knowledge in bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. Rather on your desire to learn, interact and contribute to the forum. And not just trying to earn through the forum.

Join discussions, read posts, take notes, contribute where you know you can be helpful.
Don't post or make unproductive threads in an attempt to get sympathy merits, it might work, but it does little for you especially when you return to spamming.

This thread was bumped today, but it's worth to note that OP last posted on the day theymos introduced the Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements.
No signature earnings from spam = no more posts!

What a good picture to show the newbie that this forum is for cryptocurrency discussions and not for getting merit for one to join bounty campaign and then spam. I can't imagine why bitcointalk "forum" became a business for many. I do believe that users with this kind of attitude will likely to fall its right place.

Anyway, I still do believe on some newbie's out there (not this typical type) for joining and learning in this forum about cryptocurrency.

It really is time we had a list of noteworthy new members. I'm sorry that I haven't had time to work on my Snow Eagle site, but I have had quite a few issues to resolve recently, and that includes a failing clutch on my van, hopefully that will be replaced tomorrow. I'll try to start listing qulity members over the weekend or early next week.

In the meantime, if anybody else wants to start a similar project, then we could pool the lists.

Once again we are back on the bandwagon "merit broke my life sir!" that coming from a newbie.

Correct, but that what does that have to do with the forum? This is not college entrance test.

You get merits when people give you merits. If they dont feel like you earn merits then they wont give you any. If you are generic shitposter or a bounty spammer you wont get any merits.

Good example of a thread which is wasting people's time here is this one itself. Better lock it before you face more trashing from other members.

I believe that if you have the knowledge and you know how to use it, then you have every opportunity to get the long-awaited merit. However, the problem of those who aren`t able to receive it is precisely the absence or lack of cognition. If you really own interesting and useful information, and share it with other participants, your efforts will be appreciated. Therefore, it`s not entirely clear to me how knowledge may not entail merit.

Nice dought. Why are you asking this if you know the answer? No, having a high rank of course isn't necessary. You can post or read this forum forever as a Newbie or Junior if you wish. A higher rank is necessary if you want to earn from signature campaigns as you can't earn anything via campaigns because as a newbie you have no signature, and you can earn more from bounties as a higher rank, but that is the only reason people care about them. If you don't care about them then great: happy reading and learning.

Haven't you heard? Topics saying that "merit isn't important" is the upgraded version of topics that complain about merits!

There's no limit per se, it's just that the same topic has been posted for like a bajillion times already. I'm pretty sure you already noticed that.

Seriously.  I think this is the last post I'm going to make in Meta for a while, and I'm thinking about putting the whole section on ignore temporarily just so I don't have to see all of these garbage threads.  Not that I don't have anything to say about all of this, but all of these noob posts from members who've probably never even read anything in Meta before are driving me nuts.  And the blatant merit begging is also starting to wear thin.

I said earlier this morning that I was going to go easy with putting new members on my ignore list, but that's already sailed right out the window.  I've probably put 25 or so people on ignore in the last two hours, and that's after reviewing their posts here and their post history.  I strongly believe that most of them aren't going to improve because there's too much of a language barrier and that they have no business expecting merits for posts in a language they can't write.  I'm not even talking about minor garbling but straight-up murdering the language.

Hopefully Theymos added some merit sources on the local boards.  All is not lost and as I've said before, I don't think this change is going to be as bad as everyone thinks.  It stings for some Jr. Members who got busted back down to Newbie, but they'll just have to step it up and improve.  I'm all in favor of bitcointalk becoming more Darwinian and not awarding a participation trophy to everyone who makes a post here.

Yes, right. Knowledge is better than ranking, so let this rule function as it is. There are still many jobs out there that can provide benefits.

Please, don't turn Meta in section like Bitcoin discussions. We have enough sections clogged with "discussions" like this. If you think that knowledge is more valuable than merit, then go learn some new stuff instead of starting threads like this.

Today many are disappointed with the new ranking rules, including myself. However, after I think about it, merit and ranking are not everything. Knowledge is more important than merit. With knowledge I will get more than merit. What about your opinion?