Topic: Need advice on getting merits (Read 1312 times)

I have to agree with you, being active regularly in the forum will help a lot in establishing your knowledge and personal experience in the forum. Hence, one cannot expect to acquire merits if he is not present or does not post most often as the more you engage in the forum, the bigger chances you will improve your potentials as a quality and valuable poster. If you fail to do that, you might also fail in your goal to earn merits knowing the people around may find it hard to acknowledge you if you don’t consistently post in the forum.

Is already obvious that before one can earn merits in this forum it depends on your knowledge and contribution and being active in the forum that will make someone to earn merits and grow account, because once you just make a quality post that would what merit once our high rank members go through it and see that you are making sense and they have (Sendable merits) they are going to merit the post.

And secondly following merits source is actually good because they always have s merits,  but for someone to earn merits from them is for you to be always active and always contribute on their thread once you can be able to convince him on his post them you can start earning merits from them.

In exactly this section of the forum is the sticky thread by Lauda Newbies - Read before posting

Have you seen it? Have you read and understood it? It's no rocket science, seriously. There are also two Merit related links in Lauda's first post there. Did you see them? Did you follow those links and read further? C'mon you're not a toddler anymore, I hope.

Anyway, Mayor of ogba has already taken the liberty of giving you an answer in condensed form.

You shouldn't care too much about Merits but rather learn how to search information and answers in this forum. A lot of questions have already been answered here, but it's sometimes not the easiest thing to find them. You can also search this forum on https://ninjastic.space/search. Some people prefer to be spoon fed, some people grow up. To which camp do you want to belong? 

Merit is a reward given to users of this forum who are providing useful information that will help and guide users who are not getting a clear understanding of something or how things work here, just the way you want to know what merit is all about. Merit also shows how good you are in this forum. With merit, you can achieve different ranks in this forum if you can earn the required amount that will make you achieve a new rank here. If you receive 2 merits, you will have 1 sendable (sMerit), which you can send to another user of this forum. Another reason for the merit system is to prevent users from gaining new ranks by just posting shitposts. For you to get this merit, you need to be active and help users get answers to their questions.

I am new to that forum.  I don't know about merit system yet.  But I am interested to know about it.  I want to know how this merit system works.

I didn't see anything wrong with your question, and based on what I could tell from your post, you seem to have interest to learn. At first, when I read your post, I thought that if a full member would ask a question like this, the account should be suspicious. But after looking through your profile, I discovered that you have been a member of this forum for a years, is just that you haven't been active. Back then, the merit system wasn't as it is now, it was easier for members to earn merit than it is today.
The new merit system rules make it more challenging for newbies to concentrate on their learning here because they know they can't rank up to the desired level without the necessary merit and that creating a quality post is mandatory for receiving merit. This should indicate that producing your best work is an important for ranking up.

The only advice I have for you on how to gain marits is to contribute to the forum positively (meaningful and quality posts). You have already pointed out certain areas where you may get merits, but it is tough to earn merits in the gamble section now.
Avoid forcing yourself to respond to every post if you don't have anything meaningful to say. If you do, you'll end up adding nothing of value to the forum, which won't help you gain merits. So focus on what you know you're good at and avoid becoming frustrated trying to achieve merit instead, let the merits chase you.

You're right. Learning should be the focus first. There is no merit if we have zero knowledge. No one wants to grant our post with merits if all the posts aren't valuable and meaningless. We also need to understand how to make a constructive post with appropriate words and correct language rules. This is not something that we can do easily without learning.

Agree. If we are too focused on hunting merits, we will forget about the fundamental aspects in this forum. We also probably forget to improve our knowledge because we think it is not really needed anymore.

Whenever I see a comment like this from a newbie, I am heartily glad that there are still people out there who are more eager to learn and I have often seen people with that mindset succeed.

Greed is something that can't keep us focused for a long time to do something even if that greed is to get merits here because when we do not find our meaning, we get tired of that work and we leave that work or we develop negativity about this thing. Only desire to learn and understand is something that keeps us engaged with anything for long and it is the only thing that can make us very successful in life.

Just as a diamond is known for its brilliance, gold is valuable for its utility, so educated and experienced people become popular and desirable because of their experience and knowledge. No one knows how long the accounts and this forum are there but the knowledge and knowledge learned from here will stay with you forever so everyone should try to learn something from here.

Getting merits actually takes time because you need to secure your learning first by being active most often in the forum. And when you think you have gained sufficient amount of knowledge and experience, that’s when you will see getting merits come so easily after they have acknowledged your posts because it’s helpful and meaningful for them.

Don’t focus on hunting merits first but rather give full attention on what you can learn in the forum. That’s the best possible way so you can maximize earning merits as well as maximize learning in the forum.

Why do you care for merits? Your account's rank is "Full member" simply by it's age. You only gained 1 merit point since the inception of the merit point system. Well, that on itself says something about the value of your postings.

But again, why do you ask how to get more merit? To read and post in the forum, you don't need to care about it.

If you're interested in signature campaigns, I can tell you that your account and forum interaction habits are not interesting for signature campaign managers and those you pay for signature campaigns. You opened this thread, gave one additional reply and are know inactive for more than 200 days. From nothing, comes nothing, simple as that. I didn't dig deeper, why should I.

Merit is in one part an appreciation token given to user's whose contributions add value to forum's content and other users. If you can't add such a value with your posts then I'm sorry, you don't deserve to get merit points.

From what I can see, you have been in the forum since 2017 and the last time you login to the forum was 2023 which shows that you are not an active and regular person in the the forum.  You will have to be regular in the forum for you to keep getting merits. If you have been active since when you write this post, it would have been quite okay and people would have seen the need to give you merits. You are not active and you are not in any signature campaign, it could be difficult for you to get merits since you don't write nor try to make good post that would make people find you as a regular and good poster.

I won't say that I feel jealous seeing other people's merit because when I joined this forum I was already told that it is very difficult to get merit here so I never wanted it. If I post or comment here, I will get credit for it if I deserve it.

The main reason of joining this forum was to gain knowledge in many things that I am getting. The rest of the things you mentioned in your post that you are not an expert in them, so I am also not an expert in them, so that means I will never be able to get merit, but I feel like getting merit once I'm knowledgeable enough. So there is no need for all these things if you are capable and your writing is good. The senior members present here will definitely help you because once they were also newbies and they also know very well that those who work hard deserve support.

One thing you need to understand about the merit system implemented in forums, merit flows automatically in quality posts, there is nothing that can prevent merit from flowing in quality posts that you produce because this system is not moderated directly by the forum. Choosing the right topic/post content such as containing information and knowledge for other members, is one way to improve the quality of the topics/posts you make. You also need to pay attention to the forum rules which strictly prohibit copying and pasting. This prohibition needs to be avoided to keep your account's reputation clean.

Be a quality poster if you want to get merit, I know you will get bored if you stay in the same rank for a long time. You have to rely on yourself to reach a higher rank, merit assistance from other members will always come to quality posters.

I see you created this post last year and I don't know your status or position then but judging with your present position now, I will say you are not suppose to be talking about how to earn merit you are already a full member, you should be advising newbie what to do not the other way round. It's not compulsory you must have tons of merit before you can succeed or be successful here. Well for your question, try to post threads that will affect the forum positively and stay active.

Thanks @DdmrDdmr I now realize that I've done a good deal of research and that merit is important in this situation if you want to actively assist the community. It functions as a gauge of a user's reliability. You can improve your reputation by receiving merit awards from other users for your exceptional contributions to a post or topic. It's a kind of acknowledgment that draws attention to your accomplishments and increases your standing in the community. By improving your poster quality and earning merit, you can also move up the ranks and take part in different activities with distinction.

Most time it isn't that easy for newbies to make quality post. This is why they have to learn from others with high rank. There is different between having a good topic and developing it well.  What I do most time is to save any user I see that it's activity and gotten merits are closed or a user that rank up within few months. I will try to check most of such users post to learn and also develop myself to write good post. These have in many ways helped me to the level I am on the forum presently.

Op you can also earn merit if you post properly quality and informative. I would like to give some advice like you should never chase merit because later you may get into trouble. If you can post good and high quality posts, merit will chase you.

Maybe younger than you, you don't regret seeing them earn merit, they are wiser than you. That's why merit is getting gifts. If you post correct and advanced, quality posts like them, then you can get merit like them. The more education you gain from this forum, the more knowledge you gain.

Merit must be earned to increase one's rank and to earn that merit a user must create good quality posts. If the user creates good quality posts and his posts are very informative and other members learn something new by reading his posts then he deserves merit. You may post to the forum but not all posts will be considered eligible for merit. If you think your contribution is to gain merit then you can't make your post very informative but when your aim is to post good quality and informative post in this forum then you can post good quality. If the post is of good quality then surely you can earn merit. The first focus you should have is that you must post good quality.

An interesting exercise to do is to go through all the threads under the "open" section of the above quoted topic, and see how many are still active … none. Most users that run those threads either are no longer active on the forum, or have locked or abandoned those topics.

There are a couple of threads that are way more recent than those listed in a 2018 recompilation, and that are still active on the forum, but I’ll let others search around for them if that is their need.

Note: OP hasn’t been active on this account for over two month now. Not likely to be really actively looking for advise.

Your suggestions can also help increase motivation for members who find it difficult to get merit. Reading all the embedded threads, especially those related to the rank up guide, can help increase motivation to abandon their old habits by turning over a new leaf to become a member who can produce quality posters.
The merit system is not moderated directly by the forum, each member is free to send merit to quality posts, not to posts they like. Merit is not something that is difficult to obtain, as long as you are able to produce quality posts, seniors will help them by spending merit on their posts.