Topic: Promotion with merit system and new rank requirements. It's possible. (Read 1078 times)

I totally can relate this story when I am reaching Sf. Member rank that time and this time it is another journey from Sr. Member rank to Hero. I believe that I can do it since I saw it with my own eyes that I achieved this rank through hard work and it bear fruit just like you. I have seen your rank before and this time I am shock to see that you achieved a new milestone not too long. This is inspiring achievement that as long as we care for our posting style and prefer the quality over quantity. WELL DESERVED.  - NAKAMURA12

I wrote the topic when I was just ranked up to Senior Member. My feeling and experience described in OP can be fitted with Full members who are in-progress to Sr. Member rank.

It is my story and matches with your rank, your current difficulties. So spend some time to read it.  

There is no correlations between intellectual property, field of children, post quality, merits and ranks up. If you want to make good posts, you have to prepare enough for it: from knowledge, language (writing, in particular), and time (to read, write and to scan around the forum). It is not easy, and you can not log in your account and spend 5 minutes per day. Such short time is a big barrier if you want to make good posts and contribute something to the community.

I agree with all of you, it is currently very difficult to rank up in this forum. Many people cannot increase their accounts even by promoting intellectual property. It is a very difficult and difficult thing, especially in the field of children. Also if you can post good quality then it is possible to increase the rank.

I’m pretty sure the original intention of the Merit System was for it to be more dynamic, with less dependency on Merit Sources for merit distribution in relation to the merits awarded by regular users.

Earning a few merits should not deem difficult. Earning a lot on the other hand is pretty demanding in terms of investing time, and obviously becomes more of a challenge the higher the rank due to the amount required to move on to the next rank.
Nevertheless, doing the maths, you need to consistently manage to earn 1 merit per day (a bit more really) in order to rank-up at the same pace as you would before de Merit System. That is, for merits to pace up at roughly the same rate as activity. OP is currently there, and probably will make it to Legendary without merits being much of an issue (at the expense of time of course). The OPs post has currently only been merited by (now) four people, and the balance for a single posts is pretty much above average.

Note: As to the negative feedback, you can try to PM whom ever gave it to you to see if they would reconsider in light of the changes that tool place a few months ago. The core focus should really be trade related, and I have seen some negative trust removed in light of this in other people’s cases . There is no guarantee though, and some will deem impossible even to revise, since the person who gave the negative trust is not necessarily around anymore.

There is neither luxurious rank nor expensive account in the forum. Everyone have same rights to make good posts, and contributions, from which they will get what they do deserve. To be honest (as you can see in my story), I only wished that I would be a Full Member when merit system kicked-off, but time passed and I became a Full Member around late of 2018 or early of 2019. Then, my mind changed, I thought as "I will never be a Senior Member". Then, I actually became a Senior member, then a Hero Member. Now, I moved one-fifth of my journey to a Legendary rank.
The beauty is when you contribute, you simultaneously learn lots of good things. You self-learn before finish your topics, then after publishing them in the forum, you will do get help from others, from which you will learn many more things. It's a kinda beautiful mutual contribution.

• Ask others > Learn > Good
• Ask yourself > Self-learn > Compose & publish your topic(s) > Learn from others > Great!

Congratulations for breaking the most difficult barrier in achieving what seems to be impossible but hindsight, but manageable once you get the hang of it.

I actually stumbled upon your profile and there became a point wherein I used your comments history as my reference in-order to gain merits myself. Basically, your account became my point-of-reference in terms of gaining merits! I'm still far in achieving the luxurious Hero Member rank, but I'll get there soon!


Well the beauty behind creating quality threads is that you contribute to the forum while at the same time gaining merits to yourself! There is this relationship that forms that harmonizes the posts you create and the merits you earn. The core of earning merits stems from making quality posts and contributing to the forum. Merits are only the by-product of that contribution or a reward.

People don't use the system properly and have dormant merits sitting in their account. The people that do award merits do not get given enough to be rewarded. Look a the very post for example. You got some merit from a few people but nothing substantial. The only one was the 20 merits someone gave you. If you never got that you would only have a few merits. I do not think a post like this deserves only a handful of merits it deserves much more. That is my problem with this system. All you need it to get neg trust once from someone that doesn like you and it all goes to shit. You cant even work your neg trust off or anything. Ridiculous.

I updated OP with the point #7, from theymos. Admin clearly emphasize that post quality does not soley depends on your post-length and your English. They are componental factors, but minor ones. Ideas are more important, and writers have to put decent efforts to read, learn, have their own collections of good posts, threads, categorize them for later use. If you see a good posts, threads, but you don't note them down, next time you will have to search and it takes more time to find them (sometimes you don't remember exactly keywords should be used to search)

- You are noobs, newbies (lack of knowledge, and experience), so what you think are constructive most likely unconstructive in reality.

Reading back on some of my posts over the years on older blogs - Yeah. Definitely.
Still coming across as more of a student, I'm sure - however, trying. Probably should have been posting back in 2013 instead of lurking.

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?

I am thankful to all of your compliments, @jademaxsuy and @nakamura12. In fact, I ranked up to a Senior Member rank months ago, that actually faster than what I expected at the start of 2019, honestly. So, my target for the end of this year changed a little bit, and I moved up my desired rank to Hero Member rank. I hope that I can hit this line before the year of 2020.

Congratulations OP in achieving your goal. If you can do it then we can do it too as long as we think positively that we can achieve our goal like you did. I have seen you as full member before until your senior member now. All I can say is that you really deserved on what you have achieved. Your efforts on helping forum users in this forum is fruitful. Congratulations again.

A simple and short explaination on how one will get merit is his/her knowledge and expertise. Thus, the ticket in order for one to receive merits that even if how good one to use the enlish language but still good inputs like quality posting will be the key in getting merits. If one does not have the right qualification, then one can't write quality posts and neither can get merits. It os very simple that most of the users here or the merit source itself will favorable on givimg merits to a post like this one OP that requirez good knowledge about the forum and cryptocurrency.

It depends upon your original main purpose when you joined the forum, and your current main purposes. I say past and current purposes because people change over time, me too. Maybe at my first days in the forum, I did not have intention to contribute anything, but over months, especially with merit system, that changed me a lot. I am not proud of myself, but I thought I have changed, and become more constructive over months.

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For your question on promotions, and money-making, oh, I don't think I can answer this. It's your question, and believe me if you didn't have answer for your question before you raising it here, you would have not raised such question.

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You have nearly reached your quota today, 15 for now, congrats!

There are different ways to describe the process of growth in the forum.
For example:

• grow up
• mature
• promote
• rank up

Choosing one of them for your words, I don't see issues with any of them.

Nope, you won't if you keep posting bad posts with poor grammar and spelling mistakes like these.
Please come back to improve your English Writing first, before posting again.

Finished!
Today, I updated the OP with the six point, on English requirements to effectively join the forum.
I think it is one of the first priorities of forum users when they participate the forum.

Hi Kakmakar,
Appreciated your good point contributed to my topic, as I saw it shed a light to add new point into the OP.
I will edit OP tomorrow with one additional point on English.
The forum is designed for reading and writing, they are two means for discussions here.
Hence, in general, the ability to join discussion will decrease if users don't have good skills in writing and reading.

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I am non-native English speaker, too.
So, your compliments motivate me a lot, but I do know that my English is likey come from third world sometimes.
I can not write perfect English as native English speakers, but at least I tried to sharpen it e ouch to express my ideas, almost exactly what I want to describe.

One thing that counted in your favour was your good writing skills in English. A lot of forum members struggle with the communication skills in English and the sub-forums for their language has a much smaller audience.

English is also not my first language, but I work very hard on my spelling and grammar and making it easier for other people to understand my posts.

So, my advice will be for people to work harder on their writing skills in the most common language that are used on this forum, because it has a much bigger audience.