Topic: Releasing of rank in yearly (Read 677 times)

I think this "flaw" is easily to be solved.   You just have to make a rule that the account must be active for at least a certain period of time (say 6 mos?).  Hence, those old accounts that are inactive will not rank up.

yes that is true, you said it all we can now spend time to see the diference which i can make to put a change in this forum or to increease the learn system. i know that many are so bordered about the merit system one things is make we make a difference from others to keep forum standard not buy spaming and doing all such of inrelevants discussions.

thanks you so the impactation
i m willing to make a change and keeping standard.

If you have been posting regularly here for six months, and you haven't received any merit, then I think your posting restriction interval should be doubled. Upranking for making consistently low value posts won't improve your posting habits. Restricting your posting frequency may encourage you to make an effort.

well i have nothing much to say about this rank of a thing because i m sure the system have been designed for a specific purpose, so we need to make some quality post in this forum.
now how much quality post do we have to make for our rank to increase or what else can we do it to rank up. i truly know that this system of merit will be open a day. as it's said "destiny maybe delay but it can never be changed" one day will all rank up the higher level.

They are only a handful, compared with the number of people who post quality posts per time. There are many times I have wanted to award merits to a very good post, but my merits have been exhausted. And the post goes without being appreciated.

Nothing hinders you, will join the team of people who know each other very well and to receive from them merit. Bitcoin enthusiasts are always welcome in our forum.

Your assassination is wrong and prejudiced. When you make such conclusions, you should be prepared to back up with facts. Merit system is working and people here reward quality contributions. It does not matter if such persons know themselves or not. What counts is the quality of the post.

You're absolutely right and when people try to point this out, older and higher ranked members will always try to suppress it with the notion that they also merit posts that are worth meriting. The merit system is human driven and humans by nature don't give freely they only give to their close pals or people they find doing their bidding. I think the system should be revisited and reviewed. It's not about stopping shit posting. I have always been of the opinion that merit should be done by the forum itself not individuals in the forum.

The only thing you can do to increase your rank is to keep contributing to the forum and hoping maybe someone somewhere finds it attractive or worthwhile and merits it. Your rank can only increase as your merit points increases to the stipulated amount of merit required for each rank. Keep posting, contributing and hoping for the best.

It has been really interesting to read the complete thread.
In conclusion, there are two different types of person in here:
- Forever Juniors, or Forever members: people who actually just post in their bounties, trying to digging the forum and receive some bucks. I guess most of them actually dreams with ranking-up do they can earn more money.
- Seniors and people seeking knowledge. Yep, there are some newbies earning merits in here, too. But, usually, they are not asking for them, but trying to create some good posts, to help others, and so.
Even if you are wearing a signature, the compromise with the forum must exist. There is not just a place to earn some bucks in the shape of a crypto, to copy paste everything you feel that is going to give you some underserved merits or to complain about the system. Yeah, you can find a "job" in here, maybe, but this is not excluding at all that you need to use the brain in each post you write.

The "meritocracy" Jet Cash was mentioning is the best way to describe the forum. Notice there are millions (!!!!) of users in here (maybe much less are actives, but, still, that's is a lot!). This is a very competitive place, and merits are made to make a difference between those who actually "shine" and the rest. Notice there are many users, even some that registered their accounts after the OP did, who have earned tons of merits. Why? Simple. They didn't come in here, joined a bounty and began to spam the forum with their reports and their "Good, thanks, sir". They just came in here and made the difference, by tons of effort, by teaching us, the seniors good and new stuff, by refreshing the site with their mere presence.
So the merit system is just showing up those users willing to make a difference through their hard work.
The rest, well, if you are not willing to make a difference, to learn, to read, to create something new, to tell us just something we can think about, to improve your attitude, you will become a "Forever Junior" or a "Forever member", if you are lucky enough and opened your account about a month before the merits system was implemented.

There is not "an easy way" (as the one you suggested) and this is not our duty to ease anybody's way. Besides, it will be truly unfair to ease the way now that many good users have spent time and dedication to rank-up and succeeded.
You have to choose: you can change your mindset about the forum, begin to learn, read, and try to write properly, try to, at least, say something that makes the people think, or, on the contrary, you can just still doing the way you are, with all those bounty reports and similar staff. If you choose the first, then you probably will rank-up because of your own effort; if you choose the second, you will remain as a "Forever Junior".

Think about the system. Is not far fairer this way? You can participate in here, you can also earn in here, as you are doing, with no effort, with no reflect, without contributing to the forum. You can, and you are doing this. And also, you can make contributions, if you will, you can write your thoughts, your relflections, enrolled into a gread debate, learn a lot, and, step by step, gain some merit as well as recognition from other users. Also, I strongly believe that now is far more easy to win some merits, for instance, now I merit newbies if I consider they have quite a good posting history and some effort in the merited thread. Before, I used to look for a great post, now I merit just good posts, for they are more rare and rare to say every day.

It is just your choice, mate. Just that.

hy all
sorry to interfair for this, although i m new here but i want say that merit is meant to given at the end of the year or some months interval that is mid year. that is a very good idea

well to my greatest supprise about this merit of a thing, with what i m seeing best idea is what you just said about this yearly stuff. at least upgrade once in a year from Jr the rest Rank should be upgraded once they hit a in the forum without waiting for any merit this will multivate user to post and work harder than just merited once.

Spamming is frowned at by the forum moderators and often leads to ban. So I do not think this idea is bad. It is very frustrating to realize that you can never rank up irrespective of what you post, as it is looking like now, because the powers that be prefer giving ranks to friends and associates and not for quality posts.

This is the best idea so far, I think is the right they looks about merit stuff to see how they can upgrade someone.
Thank man

Thanks for pointing it out! What I meant was - Only full members and higher must be affected by the new ranking system if it's only a single account user who doesn't use VPN or another IP, if it's only possible.

It doesn't need to be stickied as it's already been put in other stickies. I'm not sure what you mean by full members should be the only one to deal with merits. I think the current system which allows anyone to send sMerit as long as they've received some themselves is a fair enough system.

On my opinion, merit system was implemented to stop people from making a new account for:

1. Selling high ranking accounts.
2. Abusing signature campaign with different alts.
3. Stop making people think that they could go from zero to hero in due time with their sh*t posts.

For your suggestion, maybe I could add something:

1. Newbie to Full Member ranks will be a long duration of time ( I won't do any math here).
2. Only people with Full Member rank and higher must be dealing with merits in order to rank up. (EDITED)
3. If those above mentioned is impossible, why not make it possible for users with only one account?

TBH, merit system made me read some of the posts or threads here, and high quality posters must be valued somehow.

But don't lose hope, this thread is not yet stickied! - hope is lost!

Are you sure what you're posting are quality posts? I checked your last posts and 95% of them are on Spam mega threads. Don't get me wrong, I also post there (requirement for signature campaign of course), but if you stop posting there and post somewhere else where posts are actually being read, then you might have some slight chance of getting into member, and even Full Member if people think you're really helpful.

Nope. If you really get the whole point of this Merit system then this is also an advantage for newbies. Why? Being a high-ranked member despite of getting caught in this merit system means that you're a well-established member. And if you're a well-established member, you'd be respected and be trusted by many.


Uhm, another nope. Let's say these multiple account owner have been doing this. Eventually, they'll run out of sMerits to give and still resort to contributing to the forum for merits. Also, if you look at the merit stats, merit sources, high-ranks, and even some medium to low ranks are distributing their merit very well. Well deserve posts will eventually receive merits.

So I'm waiting for something to finish downloading, I thought to use this time to tell you that you're wrong. It's gonna be a good one tho.

It's not. With those posts, probably not. On this forum and no they're not.

It's not, works 99% as intended. Give me usernames of those users. Because altcoin discussion (just as bitcoin discussion) is spam.

Because most have no posts to be merited on. No it's not and what's the purpose of merit then? They won't and they won't.

Not write posts like that, mainly.

It's nonsense. What? That's just make account farming available again. What? That's because most of them are in for the bounties or simply spam. If they are not ready to improve themselves, well... bad news for them.

Yeah, I can see that. It works just as intended, you're just salty. "so much" still something, right? Probably will if you're not ready to improve and accept the fact that merit is here to stay.

Oh c'mon, you've got merit so you know you can write good posts, even I have merited you before for helping me out. It's a bad idea btw. He did, really? This one's fine imo.


You're here for one month. So what's stopping you?


REALITY CHECK: You're all just greedy and want everything right at this moment without any effort. None of you are as good as you think. Merit is working as intended. Improve and think about what you're posting. There are no shortcuts here, your posts just don't stand out at all and have no significance.

Also, I still have some sMerit left (keeping it for cases like these) to prove you a point. Reply here or send me a link of your post that you think deserves merit. And here's the catch: You either can't find one at all, it's not worth merit or it's actually worth some merit. Now, if there's anyone who gets merited from this post, that'll prove to you that it's possible to write quality posts and rank up.




sorry for the long post, everyone.

It is a good one idea,100% i agree with this! Those who have efforts while participating the bitcointalk forum for a long time period,they will have an assurance of ranking up even it will takes a long time.