Topic: Merit & new rank requirements - page 155. (Read 167726 times)

I would agree but that doesn't really matter because it's too late to change it now and the one person who's opinion does matter doesn't agree.

While introduce in merit system, every rank person is set to the lowest merit score in that rank.This is unfair.it should have prorated according to the activity at that point of time. Agree?

These are not the only reasons to be pointed out in determining why you're not gaining Merits, but this will suffice as it covers the general reasons.

1) Some members don't make very high quality posts but they gain Merits. Nope there are no competitions here as we treat everyone equally, if a person deserves to be Merited then so be it, if not then improve yourself.

2) First of all, the number of posts doesn't have to do with you having more chances of gaining Merits. If you scale it, 1 Merit-worthy post can outnumber a 10 posts (shit posts).

Being active is obvious, but I don't know about being creative. It depends on your own preferences actually. Some members are just giving their thoughts or sharing some information. Images, graphs etc. any other tool are just props, or things that can make things more clear than expressing it into words.

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It is because as stated in the Ranking System by the new System: The higher your rank the more Merits you will need in order for you to rank up. So its pretty stable and balanced. Its obvious that a Junior Member rank will only need 10 Merits to rank up into a Member rank (less Merit); so as a 100 Merit requirement for a Member rank to achieve Full Member rank (more Merit). The number of sMerits will be dependent to the number of Merits received, so even if you're still a Member rank, you can gain even 100 sMerits (assuming that you're a Member that haven't yet achieved the require Activity).

Your thinking too much misconceptions, I suggest that you study more about the system.

First did you try to recover that account by following all the required steps.

Now regarding this behaviors that you mentioned is something related to expecting merits from the member to who you are giving. I am not a senior member or one with any friends here but I think that human emotions may compel some people to do so. One should still ensure that the merits are being sent to deserving posts only. May be the admin makes changes to the system so that new members can also earn merits easily.

Like I said previously, I login Bitcointalk.org everyday to sell misc. digital items I have. Now instead of ranking up to be a "trustworthy" member of the forum, I now have to get 100 merits in order to accomplish this. I feel like I went to a auto auction, won a car for $1000, then had to pay $1.5k in fee's to get the car :/ What shit

in a way this system is good to prevent spam. but i would make some changes to this system. like stated in another post above,  i also think that is hard to achieve the merit ranks, especially for the newbies. i would bet that an old member would give more merit to older members than to newbies. this is basic psychology and also in the endgame, a older member will expect more merit from an older member then from a newbie. why? simple. a full member has lets say 200 merit and 100 merit to give a way. a newbie has 10merit and 5 merit to give away. so what do you think of whom you will have greater chances to receive merit?

and btw this is not my original account. my original sr. member account got hacked so now I am a junior

Really? I started on 250 Merit as a Sr Member so I need 250 to rank up to Hero. Since 24th January I've got 147 of those so only another 103 to get. It takes 8.5 months to get the activity required, so this isn't going to slow people down at all, let alone make it impossible.

This made it virtually impossible to level up.

Even if I write a really high-quality post, maybe 100 people really like it but only 2 of them have spendable merit because they used it already.

I don't understand how this system is supposed to help anyone level up?

Instead, it just makes sure that the people who already put in the work previously, will be rewarded for it.

It's virtually impossible to gather 250/ 500/ 1000 merit scores if you don't have the rank yet.

The chances of getting merit are only enhanced if more people read the posts, that's not necessarily increased by posting more. Engaging in debate is far more likely to result in that than simply more volume.

To get new rank you need more 90 Merits.
It's quite a long road to your goal now...

I never meant that one should compromise with the quality of posts while making those posts. I do agree with you regarding new members spending more time to acquire some knowledge first. Once that part is done and if a member is able to give sufficient time, he can post frequently. He will no doubt have more chances of getting merits than a member making less number of posts of same quality. It is just my opinion though based on my personal experience. I am not active on this forum for all seven days of the forum though as my other works do not allow me to.

And this post is the reason why quantity of posts has nothing to do with the quality. If you are not even able to read the opening post in a thread (or one of the hundreds of explanations in here) then you are not qualified to increase your rank...

(At least you found the thread with the answer to your question, now you just have to read it [Hint: it is in the first post]...  )

hello admin,
My post activity is 126.But still in the member position can you please explain me.

No, it's proof that a lot of people are stupid.

You must know the quote:

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

Eventually, after shitposting relentlessly they'll work out they need to do something other than more shitposting to get merit.

But since people believe more posts will increase their chance on getting merrited, isn't this proof that this system is not working? I believe it is.

I do not want to ask for sMerit on anyone and also to my customers, I just want them to give sMerit to me with their own wishes without having to ask me. I will continue to follow this stream and continue to learn to be better. Btw, thank you very much for all who have given input to me in the previous post.

That is terrible advice. Spend 10x more time reading and learning from the forum than you do posting. That way you stand a chance to gain some knowledge and then make a valuable contribution when you do post. Over-posting just to increase activity was the very problem the merit system was brought in to solve. Making more posts if you have nothing to add to the conversation will certainly get you noticed, but only as a spammer.

Have you analysed the reasons why you are having hard time getting a merit:

1) Are you making the required effort: I went through some of your old posts and it clearly shows that they are not of very high quality. Since there is huge competition for merit points, you will have to defeat others in terms of quality.

2) Are you making enough posts: The number of posts you made so far are also very less. The more posts you make, more are the chances of getting noticed.

Finally, you also need to active and creative to increase the chances. For instance, some members are getting good number of merits for images they created.

Dont be confused about merit system be confident on your self and make a quality post to get merit. every person in this forum is start in newbie rank like us but now many of  them  had a high rank. they read a lot about this forum and knowledge everything.  thats the way they get  their rank if you really know everything about how to increase your post they give you a merit. so keep moving and read more about how can you get merit..

Nothing wrong in expressing your opinion or thoughts about the merit system and you are free to do so. But have you made any post deserving enough to get some merit. I mean if you have made some good posts and not got merit, then this complain is more valid. Looking at your posting history: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/br0-1257750 , it does not look like this. Most of the posts made are bumps on the service you provide.