Topic: Merit System Evaluation - Can You Earn a 1000 Merit in a Year? - page 2. (Read 479 times)

Link to piggy's bot isn't working in your post. I don't know if you  did that on purpose.

Congrats btw, I've read some of your comments before and noticed that you usually don't "go with the crowd". Nice personal text.  

In the next couple of hours you'll get ranked up to the hero member status and that's a milestone worth celebrating so i most congratulation you. Also for reaching another milestone of 1000 earned merit you too have to be celebrated as it's not an easy task because not everyone can boost of that. The merit system was introduced to highlight quality post at the same time to highlight quality users separating them from the average users and spammers. You're one of those quality users so congratulations once again.

About your tips although your intention were genuine others are free to interpret it in the way they deem fit but as for me it's just common knowledge (sense) as there are more advantages you get from spending your smerits, been friendly and helpful. We're mostly humans here so we can't denied the fact emotions controls our decision making also doing so make you a good forums user therefore it is recommended.

This is fine if there is no immediately obvious right/wrong answer to the question, for example in cases when the user has a technical issue and may need to try several solutions before arriving at the correct one. Offering some advice or potential steps to try is usually helpful. However, in cases where there is a right answer, nothing annoys me more than users who obviously don't know what they are talking about chiming in with some vague rubbish, obviously only to boost their post count. When someone does post the actual answer, it gets buried amongst several pages of nonsense. Posting when you don't know what you are talking about is more likely to earn you an inclusion on someone's ignore list than it is to earn you a merit.

Given you need at least 775 activity to be a Legendary, and the maximum you can earn is 1 activity per day, the earliest someone could have registered and be a Legendary today is a little over 2 years ago, so around June 2017.

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.

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. 

I know at least 4 persons who can be a Legendary by now even if they just registered last year.

Point number 3 is probably subjective. I don't give a fuck on whether you use your smerit or not as long as you bring something to the table. However, I don't like people who write an essay when saying yes or no is enough. So I guess, post what is required, don't make a very long post that will make you get ignored by me (or others who share the same views as me).

I've ignored more than 3 members because they did that.

 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.