Well.. Being a junior member of this forum, How can I proceed to the next level without merit? What are the basis? How can I gain it? Is there anyone else could help us for what to do? Thanks
Merit is a new system and it will probably take time to earn merits. My first advice is Never to buy merit points from other users because this will results you getting banned from DT members.
Here some tips that can help you get some points:
- Create new meaningful topics with high quality and keep it updated but not with spammy posts.
- Have to know how to use the BBCode functionalities to make your posts look better and easy for readers.
- Read other replies before adding your comment to make a meaningful/useful post.
- Always check your post for spelling mistakes and try to always developping your skills in english if you are not a native user.
I found this post so helpful for you (and me as well)
Briefly, I have 5 important advices for you. Hope you like them,
In order to receive merits and sMerits, you should do the following things:
1.1. Be as helpful as possible in the forum. Be helpful not equal to try being helpful. They are very different. Be helpful means you are ready to help others to solve their problems when you see it by chance. You should not pretend to be helpful, it won't help you.
1.2. Keep learning to get more experience. In IT area, particularly crypto-ecosystem, everything passed so fast, therefore you should keep learning continuously till the day before losing your last breath (just exaggeration).
1.3. Improving your post quality a little bit day by day, post by post, topic by topic. Over time, maybe one or two months, you will see big achievements (your posts might be more informative, more succinct, etc.)
1.4. Improving your English skills (even English is your native language). It is due to the fact that if you can not comprehensive understand what others wrote, you can help them; or if you write your threads in broken English, no one can understand them; then your threads will be likely useless.
1.5. Keep doing those steps continuously to form good post history, which can also help you to increase your opportunity to earn merits for good posts. Mainly because some users dont want to send their sMerits for someone who only write one good post but have bad post history with dozens of shitty posts.
Maybe more, I will update the thread with more details when ideas light up suddenly
And herea list of threads discussing how to earn merit points:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-of-threads-giving-away-merit-points-for-quality-posts-2832127