Topic: That feeling having your first merit on Bitcointalk (Read 664 times)

Quote from: Cryptolakshi on May 18, 2021, 01:15:29 PM

first merit on Bitcointalk ?? Grin

hopefully waiting for that feeling...... Wink

Wow, havent seen something like you before. You have almost over 1000 posts and not a single merit? Thats just insane. In my opinion even if your post quality was very bad it is also connected to very bad luck, because usually someone gives you at least one merit.

@cryptolakshi's post is full of bounty reports and it falls into the 'very low' category of posts Cheesy

to get 'merit' requires quality post quality and that requires knowledge and seriousness from the poster. @cryptolakshi you will definitely get your first 'merit' if you make a good post.

Munir575

member

Activity: 546

Merit: 10

Congratulations on your achievement, i am really happy for you. I know you worked hard and its not easy but don't be a merit freak just keep making good contributions to the forum and in no time you will be in the legendary rank.

Anguwa

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Activity: 714

Merit: 30

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Well it's really encouraging seriously because the first time I receive merit I was very happy and it gives me the strength and caurage that one day one time I will also be there. Also going through the posts on the forum I found the very interesting and I learn that it's not only bounty that it's made for but couple of activities and alot of people are really present in the forum to help on any questions. Congratulations on your merit bro.

DdmrDdmr

legendary

Activity: 2240

Merit: 10532

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain

I see we’re still congratulating a banned account on this thread (OPs) …

If anybody is interested in seeing the first merited post of any (non-airdropped) merited account, I’ve updated a file which I published some months ago on another thread. Data is now as of 13/08/2021:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_I7WfxSnzOe7wvjE9dJ-aqH59PnfsMnKSVzycYljrx0/edit?usp=sharing

Anecdotally, there are 113 accounts that were awarded 50 Merits on their first received merit TX. Going some of them is not for the faint of heart …

ali1177

jr. member

Activity: 238

Merit: 1

Congratulations dear I can understand how much excited you are because I have gone through the same phase when I got my first merit I was like flying in the sky after a lot of research lot's of hardwork I got my first merit and I will tell you should do more research so you will get more merit which will pushed you to a good rank.

Gunday_07

member

Activity: 280

Merit: 11

Don't take merits too seriously, just keep contributing and before you know it many merits will rain down on you, focus more on making good contributions, 1 merit isn't something to create topic about honestly

Luffygroove

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Activity: 966

Merit: 25

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Oh God, I can feel how you feeling because I just experienced it yesterday. It was an awesome feeling lol. All this time I usually attended threads on the Alternate Cryptocurrencies only, then yesterday I start to decide to level up my game and try to be more active on other threads too.

Apparently, I think I found a way slowly to gain merits. if I may to give one tip I can give to beginners or people like me, is to discuss on Beginners & Help threads. If we can give a good contribution by answering people needs help or offering great opinion probably people will see our efforts and give us merits. Try to find a thread with low responses and answer it your best, so higher rank people who usually give merits can see it and if they like it, they can give you merits. I'm grateful for the merits and also motivated to contribute better. I can't wait to learn more and be more confident to start to make a useful thread.

Nathrixxx

full member

Activity: 126

Merit: 128

It's quite surprising and exciting, especially when you least expect a merit and miraculously it came, to me it gives me more fortitude to forge ahead to doing better and going bigger, if someone can achieve that then I can do better, the only requirement is to obey and follow instructions.
Honestly on my first day to receive merit, i feel like calculating the number of merit I would have gotten within a month and the respective exchanges and I begin to think of the possibility of having a better future on this forum

Fivestar4everMVP

legendary

Activity: 2226

Merit: 1049

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Congratulations mate, I understand the feeling, I can totally relate, and for me, it's not just the first merit, every merit brings that same level of joy and motivation cus it's an assurance or confirmation that the content created is valued by the one or those who merited it, it motivate one to want to do even more, create even more content that are helpful to every individual that comes across it.

So the thing is that we all should strive to add real value to the forum through the stuffs we post, don't post just to increase post count but post because you have meaningful information to share or meaningful questions to ask, as long as we keep to this rule, the forum will continue to show appreciation through various means which earning merit is one of them.

Peanutswar

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Activity: 1498

Merit: 974

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It's better if by days come you have an improvement to the forum even your contents because this helps you to get more merit at the first step it's too hard because you will get a lot of negative thoughts why the higher rank got merit even a small piece of information. If your contents are more creative and helpful for sure merit will come. Always keep yourself improve I start with the merit system too but I reach this rank because of having a different helpful thread. Good luck with your journey avoid getting involved in off topics.

Ozymon

jr. member

Activity: 40

Merit: 24

I will never forget the moment when the first time I received a merit, it gave me an eager feeling to create more and more topic.

A time goes, I went vacuum because of some real life problems, and here I am, went back after several months.

nakamura12

hero member

Activity: 2254

Merit: 669

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Quote from: DdmrDdmr on August 06, 2021, 09:45:39 AM

Your current 10 Merits were airdropped (so as to say) when the Merit System kicked-off, so as to preserve the rank at the time the system was introduced. You’ve really yet to "earn" a Merit (i.e. be merited by someone), which is what the thread is on about mostly. You did manage to sent 1 sMerit though to @goku19.

This made me laugh when he/she did mention getting merit. This is quite true that this person did earn merit from airdrop merits and not earning merit through posting or creating a thread which is merit worthy. An old account which didn't even know the implementation of the merit system and just post right away stating that he/she earn merit from other forum users where it didn't happen at all. Cheesy

DdmrDdmr

legendary

Activity: 2240

Merit: 10532

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain

Quote from: juliepower on August 06, 2021, 02:18:30 AM

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Your current 10 Merits were airdropped (so as to say) when the Merit System kicked-off, so as to preserve the rank at the time the system was introduced. You’ve really yet to "earn" a Merit (i.e. be merited by someone), which is what the thread is on about mostly. You did manage to sent 1 sMerit though to @goku19.

juliepower

member

Activity: 200

Merit: 12

Having my first merit I feel so happy that day and it makes me more hardworking to post. But i feel your post quality and learning is most important. So focus on your hard work and keep learning more about Bitcoin so that your post performance get higher quality. 🙂🙏

jamyr

sr. member

Activity: 1750

Merit: 373

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Quote from: Robinson66 on August 02, 2021, 05:03:18 AM

You are a gentle person and I am very happy to see your warm words. Learn from you. Grin

If you are referring to me, I am only this warm and gentle when I'm sober.
Tongue

if you want to learn, I have nothing much to offer, but to point you in the right kind of people where you can learn stuff, just look for people wearing a Chipmixer signature coz most of the time if not always, very informational and I also look up to them to learn.

this would suck a lot if I am not the person you're referring to.

Robinson66

member

Activity: 140

Merit: 12

Quote from: jamyr on May 16, 2021, 07:27:26 PM

I am no exception of the joy and happiness it brings been merited your very first merit on the forum bitcointalk after series of hardwork and due research in the cryptosphere. Because I feel very very much happy right now beyond bounds because it's just like a dream come true finally. And I have no other way to express my happiness but to come share it with you all, because this is indeed the best forum on platform earth anybody can find his or herself, and I am very grateful to be here and promise to contribute massively to the growth of Bitcoin in the best of my ability...

I pledge to Bitcointalk to always create value to it's forum now and always. Amen.🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thanks

Congratulations on your merits. .. I think I can understand your mood. . When I got my first merit, I felt a sense of accomplishment and helped others to be recognized, and then the merit gradually increased. I am very happy and thank those who gave me merit. I will always be active in the forum and do my best to help others.

I am no exception of the joy and happiness it brings been merited your very first merit on the forum bitcointalk after series of hardwork and due research in the cryptosphere. Because I feel very very much happy right now beyond bounds because it's just like a dream come true finally. And I have no other way to express my happiness but to come share it with you all, because this is indeed the best forum on platform earth anybody can find his or herself, and I am very grateful to be here and promise to contribute massively to the growth of Bitcoin in the best of my ability...

I pledge to Bitcointalk to always create value to it's forum now and always. Amen.🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thanks

Congratulations on your first merit. Yep, it can be really euphoric and it may lead you into posting better in hopes of gaining another merit.
Merit is addictive. lol

Quote from: hd49728 on May 17, 2021, 12:11:09 AM

Come on, no offense but I don't think we can call this hard work.. 32 posts in total out of which 10 are in off-topic, 2 are bounty registrations and the majority of others are quite useless .. There's so much space left for you to grow, merits don't come from bounty registrations or useless posts!

Try to actively participate in the community with some useful stuff if you want merits. Read and learn new stuff about Bitcoin and whenever you see some newbie asking a question you know an answer to, jump in and help. If I were to count all your posts since December, you'd have about 6-7 posts per month.. that's 1, max 2 per week! How do you expect merits to come when you don't even post much at all? Cheesy

Good luck m8, but I really suggest you to spend more time here if you want to receive some merit Tongue

In my opinion, this is not the best way to encourage newcomers, as I think your comment belittles an achievement that he is very proud of. We must educate, not intimidate newcomers.

You are a gentle person and I am very happy to see your warm words. Learn from you. Grin

Kontibruno

jr. member

Activity: 54

Merit: 4

Merit does not decide your quality or your contributions. Indeed, your contributions and your post quality decide how many merits you will receive.

You're likely not a spammer so please keep up your good works and don't mind much about merit. Merit will find you.

Thanks for these last statements in your reply, they are quite encouraging to a newbie like me who is trying to understand more about the forum. I will just keep my head down and continue being as productive as I can be. Merit will surely find me

Lordhermes

sr. member

Activity: 1232

Merit: 379

Quote from: CryptoHeadlineNews on July 28, 2021, 11:59:33 PM

Wow.. I am so much happy for you, but thou, there is always a first time for everything, and you just got your first merit, which I am hoping to get mine very soon... Cheers

You will get yours in as much as you do not relent in posting and contributing reasonably to people's post.Another way to get merit is by creating threads that are not common in the forum,bringing up something unique and special to the forum will help you get merits too.

acroman08

legendary

Activity: 2296

Merit: 1063

Quote from: Issa56 on July 28, 2021, 05:46:00 PM

apart from that you can't even participate in signature campaign which is very bad because you can make extral cash by participating in signature campaign.

that's just how it is. if you really want to continue increasing your rank and join a campaign, look for inspiration, tips, etc... there are members here in the forum who registered after the merit system was introduced and is now legendary rank. if I remember correctly they have some advice to all members on what they should do to contribute to the forum and increase their rank at the same time.

Quote from: Issa56 on July 28, 2021, 05:46:00 PM

The first day I got my first merit I was very happy and I knew that was just the beginning.

had the same feeling

DdmrDdmr

legendary

Activity: 2240

Merit: 10532

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain

Quote from: Wendy Simth on July 28, 2021, 02:10:47 AM

Congratulations on your first merit <…>

Quote from: CryptoHeadlineNews on July 28, 2021, 11:59:33 PM

Wow.. I am so much happy for you <…>

One of the things to try to do is to at least skim through most of the thread (except WO and such), to get a general composition on the flow of the conversation, besides the glimpse that the thread’s title may provide on it’s own. Halfway through the second page of this thread we discover that the OP was banned, rendering the joy for the OP’s first merit pretty stale in comparison to his (account’s) final outcome.

Quote from: Issa56 on July 28, 2021, 05:46:00 PM

Seriously it is very annoying being a newbie without merit you can't really talk on bitcoin talk because people believe you are a new to the forum and your decisions those not count <…>

I didn’t perceive this, although the somebody referred to me as a newbie, it kind of felt like they’d taken me back to my teens. What’s logically true is that many accounts with a certain rank and presence on the forum will have gained specific knowledge over time that takes a while to achieve, thus helping to make their narrative more fluid on given matters. Of course, we’ll find plenty of counter-examples of illiterate high-ranked accounts, and seasoned newbie accounts.

CryptoHeadlineNews

hero member

Activity: 896

Merit: 653

Wow.. I am so much happy for you, but thou, there is always a first time for everything, and you just got your first merit, which I am hoping to get mine very soon... Cheers

Issa56

hero member

Activity: 1358

Merit: 907

Seriously it is very annoying being a newbie without merit you can't really talk on bitcoin talk because people believe you are a new to the forum and your decisions those not count apart from that you can't even participate in signature campaign which is very bad because you can make extral cash by participating in signature campaign. The first day I got my first merit I was very happy and I knew that was just the beginning.

Wendy Simth

jr. member

Activity: 45

Merit: 1

Congratulations on your first merit. Grin

I was very surprised when I got the merit for the first time. It was a kind of affirmation and encouragement.
I hope I can provide quality articles to the forum.
let's work hard together.

Kimberl2020

jr. member

Activity: 48

Merit: 24

Quote from: hd49728 on May 17, 2021, 12:11:09 AM

Welcome to this forum and congratulations for your first merit as well as the rank you have, Jr. member.

With that rank, you can post images but don't upload too much images. Some people with bad internet bandwith will get troubles with images upload and each page with images. If you want to upload images, resize them first.

[GUIDE] How to change desired image as Bitcointalk avatar size using app.

Merit does not decide your quality or your contributions. Indeed, your contributions and your post quality decide how many merits you will receive.

You're likely not a spammer so please keep up your good works and don't mind much about merit. Merit will find you.

As a newbie, I feel very warm and encouraging when I see your words. As long as I insist on doing valuable things, don't care too much about the number of merits.
If I could bloom like a flower, I am sure butterflies would all come to me.

Shamm

sr. member

Activity: 1064

Merit: 343

Hhampuz is the best manager

Quote from: jamyr link=topic=5337846.msg57553433#msg57553433 .

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I was very convinced OP is on the road to be doing good in this forum but then,

Thats why we have the rules and regulations to this forum in order to guide newbies awareness but some newbies did not read thats why the resosn that some newbies got banned.

To the newbies who read this
I suggest to all newbie that you must read the instructions or the rules and regulations about to This forum. You can post here in beginners and help then ask a suggestion or ask for help

For Seniors we are model to newcomers so that we must help our newbie if they forgot to put a link on their thread we can reply to their thread and say you've forgot the link buddy you are plagiarizing please edit your thread and gave the resources. But in a 2-3 days they did not edited their Post and then we report it. At least we try our Best to help them.

jamyr

sr. member

Activity: 1750

Merit: 373

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Quote from: jamyr on May 16, 2021, 07:27:26 PM

Congratulations on your first merit. Yep, it can be really euphoric and it may lead you into posting better in hopes of gaining another merit.
Merit is addictive. lol

Quote from: qwertyup23 on July 26, 2021, 11:38:37 AM

Come on, no offense but I don't think we can call this hard work.. 32 posts in total out of which 10 are in off-topic, 2 are bounty registrations and the majority of others are quite useless .. There's so much space left for you to grow, merits don't come from bounty registrations or useless posts!

Try to actively participate in the community with some useful stuff if you want merits. Read and learn new stuff about Bitcoin and whenever you see some newbie asking a question you know an answer to, jump in and help. If I were to count all your posts since December, you'd have about 6-7 posts per month.. that's 1, max 2 per week! How do you expect merits to come when you don't even post much at all? Cheesy

Good luck m8, but I really suggest you to spend more time here if you want to receive some merit Tongue

In my opinion, this is not the best way to encourage newcomers, as I think your comment belittles an achievement that he is very proud of. We must educate, not intimidate newcomers.

I was very convinced OP is on the road to be doing good in this forum but then,

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on July 26, 2021, 09:17:48 AM

Quote from: UserU on July 26, 2021, 10:06:42 AM

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Were it not for the fact that the OP is banned, probably for plagiarism as was stated here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.57215380

Going from being overjoyed when receiving the first Merit, to being banned a few weeks later must be a bummer. "Pledging to create value" does conflict to a large extent with copying and pasting extracts, rather than trying to provide something more authentic (or at least adding the damn reference links ffs).

Seriously OP got banned? Man, what a roller coaster of emotions present in this thread.

There are lots of newbies who tried their very best to earn and receive merit but there are others who shortcut their way by plagiarizing articles without providing any links or sources. Unfortunately, if you want to earn a merit, you have to be original. Like what I previously mentioned, those who shortcut the process often suffers the consequences- as for OP, he deserved to be banned due to his plagiarism.

That's why now I'm skeptical of meriting newbies. A few weeks back, it happened to one guy that I merited; from Jr to Member. Within the next few hours, he blatantly plagiarized the contents of a crypto term page. *facepalm*

I think the reason on why you merit someone is highly due to the fact of the post/thread they contributed and not purely because of their rank. Although I do understand it is slightly a waste to send merits to someone who gets subsequently banned, the fact still remains that they've contributed something useful and that should be the redeeming factor.

Very disappointing to see somebody who pledged to add something of value to the table then all of a sudden got the hammer for just missing citing reference. Grrrrr.

Merit must have given the OP something that felt very good that he resorted into stealing other works just for another dose. lol

qwertyup23

hero member

Activity: 2212

Merit: 786

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on July 26, 2021, 09:17:48 AM

Quote from: UserU on July 26, 2021, 10:06:42 AM

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Were it not for the fact that the OP is banned, probably for plagiarism as was stated here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.57215380

Going from being overjoyed when receiving the first Merit, to being banned a few weeks later must be a bummer. "Pledging to create value" does conflict to a large extent with copying and pasting extracts, rather than trying to provide something more authentic (or at least adding the damn reference links ffs).

Seriously OP got banned? Man, what a roller coaster of emotions present in this thread.

There are lots of newbies who tried their very best to earn and receive merit but there are others who shortcut their way by plagiarizing articles without providing any links or sources. Unfortunately, if you want to earn a merit, you have to be original. Like what I previously mentioned, those who shortcut the process often suffers the consequences- as for OP, he deserved to be banned due to his plagiarism.

That's why now I'm skeptical of meriting newbies. A few weeks back, it happened to one guy that I merited; from Jr to Member. Within the next few hours, he blatantly plagiarized the contents of a crypto term page. *facepalm*

I think the reason on why you merit someone is highly due to the fact of the post/thread they contributed and not purely because of their rank. Although I do understand it is slightly a waste to send merits to someone who gets subsequently banned, the fact still remains that they've contributed something useful and that should be the redeeming factor.

Pmalek

legendary

Activity: 2730

Merit: 7065

Farewell, Leo. You will be missed!

Quote from: UserU on July 26, 2021, 10:06:42 AM

That's why now I'm skeptical of meriting newbies. A few weeks back, it happened to one guy that I merited; from Jr to Member. Within the next few hours, he blatantly plagiarized the contents of a crypto term page. *facepalm*

You can always put the merit/s you intend to give to that newbie on hold if you are unsure if his post is original or not until you check it a bit more. Run a few sentences from it through a search engine and see if it comes back with anything. Or import the whole thing in a plagiarism checker and compare the results. If you are still in doubt, wait and see if he is still around one week or month from now.

But it's not really a big deal and it's not like anyone will get into trouble for meriting a user who eventually gets banned. If you check the list DdmrDdmr shared, you will see a lot of familiar names and many of them are high-ranked and merit sources. The general idea is to award good posts with merits but every now and then we end up meriting the wrong people and posts.

Shamm

sr. member

Activity: 1064

Merit: 343

Hhampuz is the best manager

Quote from: UserU on July 26, 2021, 10:32:04 AM

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on July 26, 2021, 10:20:03 AM

I tend to be rather dubious if I see the style of a decent post being distant from the usual type of posts made by the poster, or if the content bears complicated terms or expressions that are not common to come-across.

Of course one may be looking at a certain post, and not be remotely aware of what lies in the prior posts (or post to come for that matter). Eventually, you come to terms with the idea of giving a brief scrutiny to unknown profiles, knowing that somebody will eventually likely catch the cheaters out at some point.

I’ve only merited 6 (later to be) permanently banned users over the last 180 days, which is not bad considering (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topsendban). Can’t be too overzealous though …

Damnnn, our OG taking the lead Grin

Well, that's the problem with the newbies. While ranking up is easier for them, the same applies when it comes to (un)intentionally tripping the plagiarism flag.

Not to mention that they primarily try to grab some Merits, which they eventually leave should they fail.

In my opinion some newbies are spontaneous it comes to posting, because they know that if they can make a thread there is possible that they can earn merit . Without farther knowledge here in Forum, they post what comes up to their mind then they make a Thread with a common topic.
Then if they don't know what to do next or to put next on their topic they search it to Google then copy and paste to their thread without knowing they plagiarized already cause some newbie did not read the rules and regulations in this Forum.
then after they post their, someone reported them so that they got banned.

UserU

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Activity: 2016

Merit: 531

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Quote from: DdmrDdmr on July 26, 2021, 10:20:03 AM

I tend to be rather dubious if I see the style of a decent post being distant from the usual type of posts made by the poster, or if the content bears complicated terms or expressions that are not common to come-across.

Of course one may be looking at a certain post, and not be remotely aware of what lies in the prior posts (or post to come for that matter). Eventually, you come to terms with the idea of giving a brief scrutiny to unknown profiles, knowing that somebody will eventually likely catch the cheaters out at some point.

I’ve only merited 6 (later to be) permanently banned users over the last 180 days, which is not bad considering (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topsendban). Can’t be too overzealous though …

Damnnn, our OG taking the lead Grin

Well, that's the problem with the newbies. While ranking up is easier for them, the same applies when it comes to (un)intentionally tripping the plagiarism flag.

Not to mention that they primarily try to grab some Merits, which they eventually leave should they fail.

DdmrDdmr

legendary

Activity: 2240

Merit: 10532

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain

I tend to be rather dubious if I see the style of a decent post being distant from the usual type of posts made by the poster, or if the content bears complicated terms or expressions that are not common to come-across.

Of course one may be looking at a certain post, and not be remotely aware of what lies in the prior posts (or post to come for that matter). Eventually, you come to terms with the idea of giving a brief scrutiny to unknown profiles, knowing that somebody will eventually likely catch the cheaters out at some point.

I’ve only merited 6 (later to be) permanently banned users over the last 180 days, which is not bad considering (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topsendban). Can’t be too overzealous though …

UserU

hero member

Activity: 2016

Merit: 531

FREE passive income eBook @ tinyurl.com/PIA10

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on July 26, 2021, 09:17:48 AM

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Were it not for the fact that the OP is banned, probably for plagiarism as was stated here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.57215380

Going from being overjoyed when receiving the first Merit, to being banned a few weeks later must be a bummer. "Pledging to create value" does conflict to a large extent with copying and pasting extracts, rather than trying to provide something more authentic (or at least adding the damn reference links ffs).

That's why now I'm skeptical of meriting newbies. A few weeks back, it happened to one guy that I merited; from Jr to Member. Within the next few hours, he blatantly plagiarized the contents of a crypto term page. *facepalm*

DdmrDdmr

legendary

Activity: 2240

Merit: 10532

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain

<…>

Were it not for the fact that the OP is banned, probably for plagiarism as was stated here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.57215380

Going from being overjoyed when receiving the first Merit, to being banned a few weeks later must be a bummer. "Pledging to create value" does conflict to a large extent with copying and pasting extracts, rather than trying to provide something more authentic (or at least adding the damn reference links ffs).

Shamm

sr. member

Activity: 1064

Merit: 343

Hhampuz is the best manager

Congratulations man for your first merit and you must Thankful for Ratimov for sending for it. Hope you motivate your self to work hard. Keep it up bruh

GeorgeJohn

hero member

Activity: 1400

Merit: 655

Bitcoin is achievement

You can't be patient for long and still eat Bone's, keep the quality post coming and in a short while you'll get it naturally.
The feeling is like winning the Champions League for the very first time..... you'll want to keep memories of that post and that day always.
My advice to newbies is to keep it going for the growth of bitcointalk community and forum, working hard and smart,been creative and avoiding plagiarism... getting merits for the first time motivates one to be more engrossed in improvement of his /her quality post reading books not just books bitcoin related books expands ones knowledge on bitcoin.

Saidasun

sr. member

Activity: 334

Merit: 275

I have the same feeling that I had the first time for every merit I receive not because it helps rank up but because you know someone else appreciated your reply which works it worth it when you spend a lot of time on them.

GeorgeJohn

hero member

Activity: 1400

Merit: 655

Bitcoin is achievement

Quote from: BTCLiz on May 20, 2021, 03:40:43 AM

I am no exception of the joy and happiness it brings been merited your very first merit on the forum bitcointalk after series of hardwork and due research in the cryptosphere. Because I feel very very much happy right now beyond bounds because it's just like a dream come true finally. And I have no other way to express my happiness but to come share it

See op, Merit award is the evidence of been hard working and also Making a contribution that can render help to the forum entirely, the ideology of the user is really a welcomed development because it can bring another innovation to the community which any one can equally adopt, in actual sense when merit is been awarded to newly admitted user in the forum the user always happens to be excited, meaning that his or her post or comment is been valued, from this scenario, i think newbies have to follow the methods of existing user before it will lead them to community penalty.

ziennakarishma21

copper member

Activity: 168

Merit: 4

It's a great thing to be recognized on Bitcoin talk, isn't it, it's a recognition of your achievements on the forum, I'm new to Bitcoin talk and am still learning this platform thoroughly to become a contributors to this platform.

terizla

sr. member

Activity: 555

Merit: 271

Yes, I know how you feel because I've been there before. For me, getting merit the first time was like when my social media account was mentioned by the person I idolized.

ChaptainCrypto

newbie

Activity: 2

Merit: 0

It's always a good feeling seeing people achieve great expectations in life, and you celebrating your merit, I just wish someday I will do mine

ScamViruS

hero member

Activity: 1694

Merit: 719

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The feeling of earning the first merit is different, I was also very happy when I earned the first merit on Bitcointalk. You have a long way to go, it's just the beginning. Improve post quality, share informative things that can be interesting for users. I have seen many members who do not post anything good which is not informative but they hope to get merit. They need to remember that those who contribute to BitcoinTalk, the Bitcointalk community members must give their deserving rewards to those members.

So continue your activities and earn more merit. Good luck.

Rengga Jati

hero member

Activity: 1932

Merit: 622

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I know your feeling because I also felt it when at the first time getting merit after hundreds of posts I made so far.
However, if that is your first merit, don't be satisfied only with it, try again and you can get other merits again if you really deserve it.
And probably, you can review your own posts again in order to make better posts and also decrease the off-topic postings.
there are always more struggles to get bigger and better things to obtain as you expect.

nakamura12

hero member

Activity: 2254

Merit: 669

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Congratulations to earning your first merit. Just keep doing things that let you earn merit which means that the post or thread you made have quality. Just make sure you don't focus on earning merit only. I earned my merit months later on from the day theymos implemented the merit system to lessen the spam and shitposting forum users. It is different from before where you only need activity points to rank up which some people abuse this system and create many accounts to join bounty campaigns (ICO) which until now some are creating alt accounts to abuse paid bounty campaigns.

sapnu

sr. member

Activity: 1036

Merit: 286

Way back you can increase your rank through activities and merit is not yet present. It is much more easier compared to the system right now but we cannot maintain such kind of process in ranking up. It is a good thing that merit has been present and is the requirement for you to rank up because it filters those who post related comments in the posts with those who just post as a requirement. Earning one can already mean a celebration specially for those who are trying to rank up so let us not degrade those who are celebrating just because they earned their first merit.

UserU

hero member

Activity: 2016

Merit: 531

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Could totally relate, I was elated after receiving my first one too years back.

As long as you continue contributing, they'll come naturally

Iphomme

member

Activity: 69

Merit: 12

Having first merit I really feel so happy and it makes me more hardworking, creative to post. And I assure to the forum that they will not regret for giving my first merit
butt sadly to say I don't have any merits heheheheh .

Pmalek

legendary

Activity: 2730

Merit: 7065

Farewell, Leo. You will be missed!

But even if a user is only posting bounties-posts I would suspect he/she would earn at least one merit - maybe just by accident. The more you post, the more likely it is that you earn a random merit.

Not if you consider the following things. Bounty hunters don't merit other bounty hunters for the reports they post. They are mostly newbies or Jr. members having only 1 merit, so they can't send any sMerits. Bounty managers of altcoin campaigns will surely not merit bounty reports either. Merit sources and those with huge stashes of merits don't go searching for merit-worthy posts in bounty threads or the altcoin boards in general. That very much limits such users from receiving any merits.

DdmrDdmr

legendary

Activity: 2240

Merit: 10532

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain

Actually, and interesting retrospective exercise is to revisit one’s own first merited post, especially if you’ve been around for a while. Mine was this one (in Spanish), after about a month and a half on the forum:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.30980512.

The posts have a context given by the thread that should be taken into account, but all in all, revisiting the first meriting post of people is quite interesting to see (I’ve just done so on a few of the profiles on this thread – over the 120 day window timeframe).

Edit: I went ahead and compiled a list of posters on my local board and the first post they were merited for (whichever the board). Interesting retrospective exercise (see: ¿Con qué post obtuviste tu primer mérito Bitcointalk?)

Smartvirus

legendary

Activity: 1400

Merit: 1108

I really can't recall what it felt like but I'm sure it felt good to actually get accredited in one of the best way possible of the forum especially as a beginner. Merits could be as well motivating as well as it could be discouraging. When you see or measure how tough it was to get one and the number needed to scale through the ranks especially when it doubles, it becomes very discouraging. On the other hand, it boost your courage when its just a few left. I wish you not to get discouraged on your journey in the forum, be careful enough to read through beneficial articles and comments in the forum and keep finding a way to motivate yourself.
You've got one and its sure to be an attractant for many more to come.

BTCLiz

hero member

Activity: 826

Merit: 513

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on May 19, 2021, 01:49:10 PM

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If you look at the poster’s posting history you’ll see it’s dead easy to know why he hasn’t received any merits: All his posts are in self-interest, related to bounty hunting. That’s his own prerogative if he wishes to do so, but it is obviously makes his posts completely contrary to being candidates to receiving merits. Not a question of bad luck therefore, but rather more a consequence of the chosen path here.

Okay, you are completely right. I didn't check his post history and was not informed about that users are only here for some bounties. But even if a user is only posting bounties-posts I would suspect he/she would earn at least one merit - maybe just by accident. The more you post, the more likely it is that you earn a random merit.

acroman08

legendary

Activity: 2296

Merit: 1063

Quote from: Poker Player on May 17, 2021, 02:43:09 AM

Wow, havent seen something like you before. You have almost over 1000 posts and not a single merit?

I guess you haven't seen TheBeardedBaby posts about members with thousands of posts of bounty reports with zero merits which is not surprising.

I agree. It is better to be constructive and try to motivate him to write posts like the one that has been merited.

an outright discouraging post is wrong but I don't see anything wrong with the constructive criticism 20kevin20 gave. 20kevin20 mentioned what OP needs to improve at and what OP needs to do if he wants to earn merit which I think is good for the OP.

DdmrDdmr

legendary

Activity: 2240

Merit: 10532

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain

Quote from: Cryptolakshi on May 18, 2021, 01:15:29 PM

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If you look at the poster’s posting history you’ll see it’s dead easy to know why he hasn’t received any merits: All his posts are in self-interest, related to bounty hunting. That’s his own prerogative if he wishes to do so, but it is obviously makes his posts completely contrary to being candidates to receiving merits. Not a question of bad luck therefore, but rather more a consequence of the chosen path here.

BTCLiz

hero member

Activity: 826

Merit: 513

first merit on Bitcointalk ?? Grin

hopefully waiting for that feeling...... Wink

Wow, havent seen something like you before. You have almost over 1000 posts and not a single merit? Thats just insane. In my opinion even if your post quality was very bad it is also connected to very bad luck, because usually someone gives you at least one merit.

Gorosden

member

Activity: 518

Merit: 30

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Don't take it too serious OP, if you are here to make good contributions to this forum merits will surely start flying to your account it's normal and not hard but avoid letting this be your first priority, be the real you and see what happens

Cryptolakshi

newbie

Activity: 504

Merit: 0

first merit on Bitcointalk ?? Grin

hopefully waiting for that feeling...... Wink

Furious 7

hero member

Activity: 2828

Merit: 639

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For the first to get merit, of course it will be a special joy because by being promoted to jr. but you dare to prove that later merit will be easier when you have mastered this forum, it can be said that you contribute fully so that the information given will certainly be of benefit too.

So it's natural from newbie to jr but with hard work and this will motivate you in the future to continue to work fully in this forum and provide extensive insights and debate with relevance with valid information.
I am sure you can do this in front of it to increase your account.

Congratulations dude on the first merit.

AniviaBtc

sr. member

Activity: 1120

Merit: 272

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Celebrating your first merit is not that bad especially that you worked hard on it, but think about making more quality posts instead of focusing on gaining merit.

Some newbies are so greedy that they really focus on earning merit without improving the quality of their posts and replies.

Hoping that this will be the edge for you to make informative and pleasing post that will contribute here in this forum.

Poker Player

legendary

Activity: 1232

Merit: 1888

Yeah, congratz. The only thing I would add to what the others have said, is that you make more posts like the one that has been merited if you want to progress in this forum.

Quote from: jamyr on May 16, 2021, 07:27:26 PM

Come on, no offense but I don't think we can call this hard work.. 32 posts in total out of which 10 are in off-topic, 2 are bounty registrations and the majority of others are quite useless .. There's so much space left for you to grow, merits don't come from bounty registrations or useless posts!

Try to actively participate in the community with some useful stuff if you want merits. Read and learn new stuff about Bitcoin and whenever you see some newbie asking a question you know an answer to, jump in and help. If I were to count all your posts since December, you'd have about 6-7 posts per month.. that's 1, max 2 per week! How do you expect merits to come when you don't even post much at all? Cheesy

Good luck m8, but I really suggest you to spend more time here if you want to receive some merit Tongue

In my opinion, this is not the best way to encourage newcomers, as I think your comment belittles an achievement that he is very proud of. We must educate, not intimidate newcomers.

I agree. It is better to be constructive and try to motivate him to write posts like the one that has been merited.

wendy sy

jr. member

Activity: 65

Merit: 5

Congratulations on your first merit. I am still in the process of groping. I hope that one of them can also get a merit, and strive to bring a better answer. I still need to continue to work hard. I wish everyone can realize their ideas.

hd49728

legendary

Activity: 2044

Merit: 1018

Welcome to this forum and congratulations for your first merit as well as the rank you have, Jr. member.

With that rank, you can post images but don't upload too much images. Some people with bad internet bandwith will get troubles with images upload and each page with images. If you want to upload images, resize them first.

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Merit does not decide your quality or your contributions. Indeed, your contributions and your post quality decide how many merits you will receive.

You're likely not a spammer so please keep up your good works and don't mind much about merit. Merit will find you.

cryptoaddictchie

legendary

Activity: 2044

Merit: 1315

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Congrats. Its bit early but we must encourage those newbies to extend their faith on creating and posting quality post. You are still long way to go, but Im sure with that spirit and confidence you can make merits and rank up in the future.

Just don't mind people that have some negaitve comments on your posting. That's normal that you get corrected and saw some opinions against yours and you'll see a lot of that here in forum. Dont get swayed, I've see some bounty registration on your account but that's fine, I am a hunter too, before but I have found a way to pass that and gain merits. Listening and tryimg to figure out your mistakes is always healthy. Good luck on your journey here.

jamyr

sr. member

Activity: 1750

Merit: 373

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I am no exception of the joy and happiness it brings been merited your very first merit on the forum bitcointalk after series of hardwork and due research in the cryptosphere. Because I feel very very much happy right now beyond bounds because it's just like a dream come true finally. And I have no other way to express my happiness but to come share it with you all, because this is indeed the best forum on platform earth anybody can find his or herself, and I am very grateful to be here and promise to contribute massively to the growth of Bitcoin in the best of my ability...

I pledge to Bitcointalk to always create value to it's forum now and always. Amen.🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Congratulations on your first merit. Yep, it can be really euphoric and it may lead you into posting better in hopes of gaining another merit.
Merit is addictive. lol