This is the third time when I decide to describe my own story in this forum.
The first post "about myself" I wrote here after winning the first merit ever
Short story about being merited….51 days later, when by some miracle I was promoted to full user rank, I wrote another (though significantly shorter) post about my own story
„Self made” Full member thanks to Theymos? Not exactly, but in a sense…Today, another 4 months passed (although in fact 2 because between 27 November and 23 January I hardly looked here) and I managed to achieve the rank of Sr. Member.
The last days have been particularly kind to me, although actually i should say not days but some users, and in particular several merit sources who strongly boosted me in the field of merits.
Ok, that's enough of admiring myself, so I'll get to this what's really important. If any of you have read any of my previous posts, which I mentioned above, you know that I really came across this forum hoping for easy and quick earnings thanks to the bounty. Changing the rules of promotion (at least 1 merit to become a jr. Member) "forced me" to start real activity and contribution to the forum.
After receiving the first merit, it turned out that getting merit is not impossible, what's more, there is a real chance to get at least a few of them. A few days later, I found out that even if you are not a professional crypto player, you can get a lot more Merits and it is not impossible to get promoted to the next level. I understood that what is really important is to contribute to the discussions and be active in it. Nevertheless, at the beginning I tried to create posts "that are supposed to get merit", but later I focused on the contribution to my local (Polish) board where we had a real lack of posts and our board was overlooked even by our local users. It turned out then that even without hunting for merits, only by focusing on the standard posting, the merits appear themselves.
What is the most important i'd like to show through this post (especially for low ranked users who think, that they are not able to get higher rank):
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A PROFESSIONAL AT CRYPTO FIELD TO GET PROMOTED EVEN WITH THE MERIT SYSTEM. I am the best example - being still an amateur who was not afraid that he would never reach the rank of jr. member (whole one merit!) in 171 days I managed to get here ...
Finally, as in the previous post, which I wrote after promotion to the rank of Full Member
„Self made” Full member thanks to Theymos? Not exactly, but in a sense…, I would like to thank several users of this forum:
Firstly I have to thank @Theymos - although he did not help me directly, his decision to introduce new rules was the catalyst that mobilized me to work.
Secondly but much more I want to thank all of you who have read, criticized, discussed, sometimes even quoted but in particular rewarded my posts with merits.
Sepecial thanks to:
@DarkStar_ for giving me my first merit ever and also the hope that I’m able to get any
@TMAN for giving me as many as 12 merit for single post
@DdmrDdmr for
Bitcointalk Merit Dashboard ,
@Piggy for
Tool to run online SQL queries over Full Merit Data and
@Vod for
Announcing BPIP - The Bitcointalk Public Information Project! - all of them have created great tools for merit and user analysis which helped me a lot to get many of my merits
@wwzsocki and
@Tytanowy Janusz for their efforts to improve the level of discussion on the Polish local board
@BitCryptex for inspiration and encouraging me and many other polish posters
@suchmoon,
@o_e_l_e_o and
@dbshck for boosting my promotion
and
@adamvp,
@bitart,
@BitMaxz,
@bones261,
@cabron,
@cornl,
@Direwolve735,
@Don Pedro Dinero,
@DooMAD,
@Faper,
@Farul,
@Flangler,
@Foxpup,
@guybrushthreepwood,
@Heisenberg_Hunter,
@Hexah,
@hilariousandco,
@iasenko,
@JayJuanGee,
@Jet Cash,
@Kemarit,
@kotwica666,
@krogothmanhattan,
@LFC_Bitcoin,
@loughlin,
@LoyceV,
@LTU_btc,
@malevolent,
@marlboroza,
@nid125,
@pawel7777,
@poptok1,
@S_Therapist,
@Sheme,
@stingers,
@stompix,
@STT,
@taikuri13,
@vlad230,
@Welsh,
@wgd for rewarding my posts with merits.
