Topic: Race to 10K Merit club..... (Read 1549 times)

Of course, I would never have expected it either. I think 8 rank so far is enough after the merit system was introduced, but if the merit system is not required for rank up then adding a new rank is not a problem. I'm assuming hundreds of thousands of users are still very difficult to rank up to Legendary due to lack of knowledge, so let's just say that the few users who managed to get 10K merit more are dedicated users on this forum. So if some of these users are given special badge for their contributions, then I think it's better than adding new rank for users.

For every user who made it to 10K merit, congratulations on your success. I hope more users follow you in the near future.

Two of biggest requests on forum recent years

• New rank
• Reporter badge
• [Userscript] Unofficial Bitcointalk Reporter Badges. It's unofficial and I did not know about it until today. I guess very few people know about it too. If BPIP team can add it to their tool, that will be very helpful
  
  • Quote locked threads, 120-day merit total, custom themes, and other good stuff. Please consider to deploy it.

About a new rank (above Legendary), will it cause side effects?
It depends

• Especially if it is simply a rank, without additional income from that rank, it won't bring anything bad.

IF the new ranks have to do with activity, there is little you can do to grind this measure but to continue contributing to the forum.
I am a low-activity user, and I probably wouldn't get access to those ranks too soon.
But you are right: there is a lot of fun in the forum without ruining everything for merit/activity!

I personally wouldn't like to see new ranks introduced as I am perfectly content with my current rank and don't need this feeling of having to farm something endlessly in order to have fun on the forum. Imho, people take this forum way too seriously and new higher ranks would only make things worse in that regard.

Merit and activity is the key, because there are people who registered years ago who've barely made any contribution to the forum, and there are members with tons of merits who haven't shown a dedication to being here that members with a lot of activity points have. 

I think adding a rank that recognizes both, something along the lines of what LoyceV suggested, would be great:

And yeah, if ranks were added for those levels of activity/merit, it'd take most people a long time to reach them.  But wouldn't it be nice if there were actually ranks like that to aspire to?

And congrats to everyone who's at or anywhere near the 10k club.  I'm limping along, but I'm sure if I don't die first I'll get there eventually.

We will do our best to help @ddmrddmr too!
He deserves a little push given the amount of merits he is used to distributing!

Thanks for pointing it out and mistakenly quoted you instead of @ShowOff but now corrected it.

We don't need a manual list for the same as we can clearly see it on BPIP as you have already said with the updated data.

With @Ratimov climbing up the ladder to the next club of 8k merits now the number is three and soon @DdmrDdmr is joining the club with only few merits left.

Another member exited the 7k club, and entered the 8K club.
Keeping those lists updated could be a cumbersome task. Why should you if there is BPIP.org already keeping track of everything?.

There are 3 members in 6k Merit Club now. I won't keep a list, BPIP does that alread.

Please fix your quote, I didn't say that.

These are more of badges set on BPIP for each member and you can check them for yourself also as they are not official one's just to demonstrate your forum stats but the above one is some sort of unofficial appreciation certificate from my side to him for completing the 10k mark.

The pizza 🍕 badge he has on his profile is another one of his achievement on forum with winning this year pizza contest so you see he has lot on his name and all earned within these years.

You are just left with 63 merits at current for entering the 7k club even after you have taken your foot off the pedal and have earned 143 merits in past 130 days so I think you still have another foot on the accelerator mate   and at this pace also you will see good growth on forum.



There is update in these clubs as members are getting merits at much faster pace and now we have :

7k Merit Club:3 members
6k Merit Club:2 members

The group changes will happen soon as @Ratimov is left with 20 merits only to enter 8k club and @El duderino_ with 50 merits to enter 9k club.

When merit system was introduced we have Meta section spammed up with lot of threads and there was mixed reaction among members but there was impact for it as quality members managed to earn merits while others left the forum or still the same.But now if we have new limits it would be hard for many to reach the new limits and maybe @theymos has this in mind or we may see some rank adjustment as we have new merit clubs being unlocked on forum with time passing.

But I firmly believe that if a new rating is introduced then there must be pros and cons later. Not many users could reach 2000 merit, it would definitely take a lot of time for most of them.

Based on this data, surely not many users will be able to achieve it any time soon.

I’ve taken my foot off the pedal since the bull run ended due to obviously having other priorities. Some of you guys are merit animals.

Regarding the bolded, I am at a much slower merit receiving pace now but I will be at that milestone in a couple of weeks.

Kudos to the 10k+ guys, incredible.

That's been discussed before, amongst others in Evolution of rank names and What if Theymos added new Rank after Legendary?

I'll repeat my suggestion:

Since this was years ago, by now maybe we need a few more ranks: 2000 Merit/Activity, 4000 and 8000. That's going to take a while.

I don't think future ranking adjustments are a bad idea. I imagine that every 10 year old Legendary on this forum could be given a new rank in the future "Legendary II or something" especially if they have achieved a certain number of activity and merit. That rangking should be achievable for every loyal Legendary user to be active on the forum, but it might be hard to expect it for the current forum but more likely to be integrated in the new forum later.

Maybe some adjustments in the ranking could be made in the future when more and more users will get the legendary rank.
I think the rank should be tied more to the activity in the forum, with, of course, some ties to merits, but what defines a user as legendary is the resilience in posting in the forum valuable content, so I guess being activity more difficult to grind rather than merits, should be taken in more focus.

I think theymos should Introduce a new Rank called Legend Pro Max. For the 10k merited Users then you can go on.

Other then Ranks i think in the Profile there should be the Ranking of the profile with respect to activity and the Posts. JJG is going to Hold No 1. Meanwhile Chart Buddy can replace him in Future.

In addition to the certificate that you created specifically for him, then I think he already has a complete certificate for his contribution to the forum since February 2018 until now. BIP has dedicated it to him, @fillippone is a user who ranks third as Most Earned Merit & Most Merit. Congratulations for him again. 

So was bit busy and didn't get the time to make updates in the thread and now we have one more member finishing the race and just came to know about this in the morning and was really very happy about it.

So congratulations to @fillippone on achieving this milestone after @LoyceV and @o_e_l_e_o and hitting the 10k merit mark on the forum after them and this happened very fast as @Ratimov helped you with 39 merits to complete this achievement and when I am writing up this post your record is already shattered with additional 14 merits but still congratulations to you as you was waiting for this moment from long time and finally now you are here and going to the next 11k club with them.

So just as a appreciation gesture from my side I am presenting you this unofficial certificate of appreciation on reaching this mark :



So once again congratulations to our Italian bitcoin geek @fillippone for this new achievement on the forum in such short span of time and now go ahead for the next mark helping others man.

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So now report for other members on the forum is here and the this is graph showing the merits left for remaining contenders of this race :



So now you are left with 8 members in this race and will now update the charts once in a month as only @theymos is close to the mark and rest there is big difference so once in a month is fine for me and hope you all do good on the forum.

After 65,535 merit it overflows and then the forum explodes.

Still 5 more months to the 4th anniversary of merit system and you guys have earned more than 6k to 11k merit.
What will happen next 10 years? 50k or 100k merit?

In future, when new members join forum, they will look at merit-earning beasts like merit rich gang. Even you guys stop posting, you will continue to receive merit from your past good posts.