Topic: Merit System Evaluation - Can You Earn a 1000 Merit in a Year? (Read 484 times)

they start spending and then they make friends and then the circulation enters a continuum.

The number three you talked about is also the main reason why other people who post constructively don't make it up there. Why? Because they weren't so lucky like you to gain some merits in their first month or two (either they weren't recognized or don't have friends to help them with that).

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There are tips from @mikeywith, that are helpful for newbies, whom still struggle with composing their very first constructive posts in the forum.
Merit System Evaluation - Can You Earn a 1000 Merit in a Year?

Based on the above, what do you think the outcome will be if a good number of Smerit are given to those who don't really participate in the merit system?

you can also apply to be a merit source, I am pretty sure Theymos is giving the priority to local boards in terms of merit sources, so your chances or anybody else's to become a merit source in a local board are technically much better than the rest of the members who only speak English.

I know a local board in this forum where the flow of merit is very low

There are only 30 people who have 1,000 merit period, and 105 who have 500 or more merit. This is out of tens of thousands of accounts that were likely registered in the same month as you did. Granted, some of them are spammers and/or otherwise not deserving of merit.

I have seen a decent amount of people who appear to have a genuine interest in bitcoin and helping other users (and put a decent amount of effort into their posts here) that are not ranking up as quickly as they probably should. A common theme among them is they often wish to stay out of forum politics and/or stay neutral in disputes. Others simply frequent different subs in which the merit does not flow as freely.

I have seen others who are clearly posting for the merit, based on where they know where merit is given out liberally. 

On 10-March-2019 I started this thread  Zero To Hero in under 4 months

Yesterday 16-July-2019 I earned another 500 merit with total of 1000 merit in less than 10 months of being active on the forum.


Other members have probably done this way faster than I did, This should clear any doubts you have about being able to gain enough merit to rank up, despite the noise, the complains and the number of people who can't even rank up to Member rank - you should know that it's pretty doable.



1- Always participate in constructive discussions:


-Pick the topics you are interested in,  most importantly the subjects you understand because you can't possibly add into a topic you don't understand.

-Don't throw a comment and then disappear, go on with the discussion, using piggy's bot will help you with mention notifications in order for you to have healthy discussions.

-Read the comments, don't simply comment on the original post because in most cases you might not be adding any value to the discussion.

by doing the above, you will most importantly get to learn new stuff, plus you will be "recognized" and that does help a lot because let's face it, unconscious mind does exist, when other members realize that you usually post quality posts , your name will somehow appear in bold and be easily recognized, for obvious reasons the exact opposite is true, post a dozen useless shit and you will most likely be ignored in the future even if you start to post quality posts - it will be way too hard for you to gain merit.


2- Answer questions/Solve problems:


The most constructive posts in my opinion are those that answer questions/solve problems, many people ask different types of questions on different boards, provide answers and you will more than likely earn a good amount of merit by doing so.

You don't always have to know the answer, you might have better "Googling"' skills than the person who asks the question, get them the answer ( don't forget the reference)


3- Spend your Smerit:

Some people "including myself" don't seem to be wanting to send merit to those who don't participate in the merit system by meriting other members, simply because we all have limited number of Smerit and most of us would like to seem them "circulate" rather than sit in your account doing nothing, you don't necessarily have to merit the members who merit you, i personally usually try to merit lower ranks to help them rank up.


4- Be friendly to others (Don't be an Asshole)


While this is not a social club and many members publicly state that they don't really care about WHO posts what, and that they will still merit members they don't like if they post something worthy of merit, that's great and all, but I am willing to bet my horse that many members don't really do that, I mean come to think about it, if someone who thinks that you are complete jerk has 10 sMerit, what are the chances of you getting any of them when there are other people he likes that have the same post quality ?

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Notice that , depending on what boards you are active in , your chances of earning merit can vary , merit sources are more active on some sections than others, but that's okay, don't force your self to post in places you don't like/understand because either ways , you will not earn merit and you will damage your post quality.

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this is a terrible thing to do in my opinion.
one of the reasons why merit was introduced was to "highlight" the answers in a topic that are better than others. in other words should be giving merit to the reply not the person.

this is a terrible thing to do in my opinion.