IntroductionEveryone wants merits, including those who pretend to not care. However I keep hearing that earning merits the usual way (by making good posts) is too hard. There must be an easier way.
User NameLet's start at the beginning - your Bitcointalk account. Does your chance to earn merits depend on your username? Absolutely. First you need the username of an appropriate length. The median length of a merit-earning username is 9 characters.
The username itself matters too. For example, usernames starting with "m" or "s" earned 10 times more merits than those starting with "q" or "u". That's not all. Usernames having "o" or "a" as their second letter earned 50 times more merits than those with "z" or "f" as their second letter. Here are the best letters for all 9 positions of a median-length username:
Post LengthNo matter how good your post is, it won't get merits if the merit-sending person falls asleep halfway through it or the post is so short it just scrolls by in a blink of an eye. The median length of a merit-earning post is 549 characters.
WordsObviously the content of the post matters too. Here are the top merit-earning words (after removing stop words such as pronouns and conjunctions):
bitcoin
merit
color
member
post
users
new
btc
thread
people
like
time
yang
wallet
url
forum
get
use
trust
code
see
coin
size
make
link
good
mining
bounty
first
blockchain
address
even
need
account
crypto
think
many
list
know
signature
system
network
full
campaign
want
block
bitcointalk
using
miner
work
ConclusionSo there you have it. To earn thousands upon thousands of merits, all you need to do is:
- Create a user account named "maeaeoane".
- Make 549-character-long posts using the word list provided above.
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Edit: The original version of the post mistakenly claimed that letter "l" (lowercase "L") sucks bigly as the second letter of a username. It does suck but not as much as I claimed (not 50 times worse than "o" or "a" but only about 3-4 times). My apologies to the "l" but it's her own fault for being too similar to "1" (number one). It's been replaced by "z" in the example.