Topic: The Forum Journey of _BlackStar [Senior Member Right Now] (Read 750 times)

Thanks to both of you, but I have never felt better than anyone including the two of you who I consider to be my seniors in this forum.

I'm happy that my 500 merit target has been achieved, and now I just need to be patient to rank up to Hero in the next few months. But I started to set a target of 1000 merit even though it is still quite far to be achieved at this time. Nothing is impossible, the journey is still quite long and I can expect it sooner or later.

And now, I locked this thread and will return once Hero rank is reached.

Best Regards_

_BlackStar

OP post is on the Senior rank but now you got enough merits to be part of the Hero member welcome to the club another quality poster ranks up, well deserved by that we are now expecting more to you merit is not a wall to achieve another milestone of rank again Congratulations to you looking forward to your contributions!.

_BlackStar earned the merit that is enough to be a Hero Member. Man, that only tells that you are contributing well to the forum as seen on the merit you are earning. Of course, we can be active or inactive sometimes, but because we love the forum, we will never leave it.

I've been here since 2016 but I'm not a good merit earner but I still continue to be active to the best I can.
People like you who earn merits really inspire me and for sure those who are aiming to rank.

Lastly, the most important is the contribution to the forum, and ranking up will just follow, sometimes you won't even notice it.

I think that's how the merit system works for all forum members especially for those who really care about the quality of their posts. The merit system introduced by theymos is to improve the quality of posts so that anyone who doesn't do it will find it difficult to rank up because on the other hand the merit system also functions as one of the conditions for rank up.

Anyone can earn merit and rank up, but the quality of their posts and knowledge will largely determine how quickly they accumulate merit on their profile. _BlackStar is one user the number of merit is higher than the number of activity at the Sr level and there are several others as well. I also want to congratulate him after successfully obtaining 500+ merit, sooner or later he will become a Hero member.

Yes. The amount of activity is also required to reach a new rank. I mean, you don't have to be online every day by making lots of posts, With daily tasks on the project you advertise, the activity count will be achieved as well.

Once again I congratulate you, you are now a HERO Member. Even though your rank is still Sr. Member, but the number of Merit gains (503) has already reached Hero rank.
You are growing very well so far. Quite often I see posts and threads from you that are constructive, informative and quality.
The topic that you create with brilliant ideas that are useful for forum users make merit always stop at each of your posts.
Finally you have reaped good results since _BlackStar was listed on the Bitcointalk forum.
Get ready, after sufficient activity, Sr. Members will be a thing of the past for you.

Thanks for the words of wisdom.

Maintaining quality while improving it are two things that are quite challenging if it is not a habit. I just want to achieve good posting standards for every post I make regardless of whether someone considers it quality or not and it has become a habit that I always do based on my skills and knowledge. In the end I just thought that merit wasn't everything I needed to think about even though in reality it was necessary to rank up.

You're wrong, I need enough activity points to rank up and I can't get them in just a few days because you and I or anyone else will only get 14 points in 14 days unless under certain circumstances if you can claim your potential activity points. This means that I have to keep posting actively in each period.

Since _BlackStar was born on the Bitcointalk forum October 19, 2020 you have progressed well, it doesn't take long for you to be in the rank of Sr. Member. What you are doing here are quite good, there many other users who dream to be in the new rank soon, but they are not as lucky as you.
I would say you are a lucky man, today your merit has reached 462, you need 38 more minutes to be in Hero rank.
Even if you can't post every day on the bitcointalk forums, I'm pretty sure you'll reach a new level in the next few days.

Congratulations _BlackStar.

See after only after few days your merit stats have grown and now you need only 38 merits to reach the Hero rank ignoring the fact that you lag the activity for it.See you have gained additional 14 merits in period of two days which simply justify the post quality and your speed of merit earning and effective contributions to the forum.

Keep up the work same way you have been doing without taking merit perspective into your mind because at some point they may not be delivered as per expectations but we need to maintain that good work we are doing on forum.But speaking frankly there are now so many new members who have maintain this thing of more merits than activity including you and it will be same as activity will be delivered after every two weeks and that also 14 which means you can cope up with that.

The fact that you have achieved such high amounts of merits in a relatively low amount of activity points is a testament to your post quality and contribution to the forum. You have currently achieved what 80-90% of all the forum members  cannot do, which is to rank-up and get out from the "Jr. Member hell."

Continue what you are doing OP as your contribution is what makes this forum a better place for all beginners to visit. Like what I always mention to newbies, if you do your responsibility as a forum member, then merits would be the least of your concern!

It's always easy to see high quality posters getting more merit on the forum from different users. Since I got to know this user on the forum, I can honestly say that he is a quality poster with a number of contributions to the forum. _BlackStar is also quite active as a spambuster user and in my opinion he deserves to be beside to Ratimov, actmyname and other best spambusters. I've also sent him a few merits although there may never be many.

It's true that you are required to wait a while until your activity score is sufficient, but don't worry about that because I believe if you post regularly every day between activity periods then you will also be promoted. 7 months is not a short time to move up the ranks, but a lot of people take longer to get there like me. 

I hope so.

Yeah you will have to be patient cause the Hero rank is more or less inevitable for you, you are almost across that line, just a little steps more, and in my opinion it is much better to get the required merits and then wait for your activity score to accumulate so you can move over to the next rank.
It is a good idea, and is evidence you are a high quality poster which i can somewhat attest to.
We all hope and pray so.

Looks like I'll have to be patient for the next few months to reach Hero rank ^{[around September]} as my activity aren't enough right now. So far I've managed to get 448/500 merit for Hero rank and only need a minimum of 52 more merit to qualify. But it looks like I will have to wait patiently like some other users whose merit amount is sufficient to become a high ranking member.

I don't think that's the case now because I just want to keep my merit count above my activity count for a long time. I'll probably try my best though this isn't really important to mention.

To all my forum friends, stay calm even though it seems the world not safe right now. The war must end soon and I love peace. 

Unfortunately, I'm too bad at stating it to you. 

You can translate whatever you see either from the bad side or from the other side which is different from mine. We all come from imperfection, but our interest and desire to learn has set us apart from the rest. You two are also not pesky posters, I know how you achieve all this based on the history of the merit you have earned and shared among users. Good job to you guys too, I appreciate it.

That's to be expected, knowledge should always take priority over anything else even if you have the ability to detect cheaters, spammers as well as ban evasion. I know they all are important part of this forum where they all can be useful in keeping forum safe from rulebreakers but when you put knowledge aside then you are a loser in this forum called crypto library.

Regarding your success in rank up to Sr, I think it will be a guarantee for anyone who knows how the merit system works and that is post quality. You get a lot of merit because you are a good poster and I think you really deserve more in the future until you rank to Legendary. Congratulations on your current achievement, you will reach Hero in the next few months if your merit and activity count are sufficient.

I am not new to your work. The short time you have spent here you have been contributing immensely to the forum...reporting ban evaders and plagiarism.  Anyone can  browse your post history and have an idea of what you are about. My favorite post is Myth vs Facts and My Assumptions about Bitcoin. Congratulations! Hero rank is not far away.

I am very happy to hear this! I am truly happy for you. Your merits say much more than your achievement of a new rank. At first, I did not take you seriously, thinking that your desire to be on the forum would quickly dry up. But fortunately, this did not happen. You are a good poster, I sincerely congratulate you on reaching the rank of Sr. Member and wish you a speedy achievement of the hero rank.

Hi friends, I am happy forward this message to you that today I have been promoted to Senior Member. I have nothing to boast in front of you all but improvement is always expected from every low rank user like me.  

Thanks to everyone who helped. I'm posting this as one of the notes. ^{[345 merit noted Senior Member]}



Note: I just want to increase my contribution to the forum more. Really knowledge is more valuable as the best benefit that I can absorb from this forum than anything else. Thanks for all the attention, this is just a short message that you probably don't need to take seriously. 

The Pharmacists, I will not rush now and will do so very carefully. But I would be very rude if spammers really never stop publishing their spam posts just to fulfill their weekly quota.

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It is my humility not to boast with pride for the good efforts and contribution so far. There is always a reason to know that above the sky there is still a sky, so I don't think I'm being unfair to myself.

I can tell you that the moderators have worked faster than I imagined. 2 out of 900 tagged bad ^{[double report]}, I only realized it now. But now you can see the latest results.

And yet, you still have better stats than a lot of other users out there ^{[try to see the glass half-full, as opposed to being half-empty]}!
^{- Despite saying the above things, you're being unfair to yourself by comparing your stats with others [all of us have different journeys].}

I have no doubt you'd reach those ranks in the future, but if I were you, I'd focus more on improving your unhandled reports ^{[it's not a big deal, but you have "a lot of those"]}:

• Quote from: _BlackStar on November 10, 2021, 03:46:18 AM
  I can tell you that the moderators have worked faster than I imagined. 2 out of 900 tagged bad ^{[double report]}, I only realized it now. But now you can see the latest results.
  
  https://i.ibb.co/jZwMj3q/Screenshoot.png
  
  That also means the 183 unhandled reports that you had in your previous screenshot, were all made in the past day or two! I'm impressed

Yeah.  I actually got started on bitcointalk as pretty much a troll, and if you look back at some of my earliest posts you'll see that a lot of them were quite nasty.  That's because while bitcoin had attracted my attention, I lurked on the forum for months before registering and saw what a shit show it was here--and also how little censorship there is with regard to what can be written. 

I had no intention whatsoever of growing a reputation here, getting on DT, getting green trust, etc. when I joined.  I didn't even know a hell of a lot about bitcoin, but boy did this forum give me an education.  Seriously, what little I do know about crypto (and it's still less than most members here) is because of bitcointalk and all of the very smart people here.

There's no "club".  That term is just used to refer to the members who are most active nowadays, or have the loudest opinions, and that can and will change over time.  What I do know is that if you stick around long enough--and post frequently--you'll develop a reputation.  Whether it's a good one or a bad one depends on you and what you post, but over time members will become familiar with your name.  But that's the key, time.  I wouldn't try to rush it, _BlackStar.

Some people will probably guess the same way about me as you do, but that doesn't really matter to me. It's true that I'm Asian and live in a place ^{[where there has been a long conflict in the past]}, but I can't tell you about this openly because maybe some people will be very angry with my behavior about spammers. If you really want to know, just send me a PM. 

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Thanks for telling me, I never knew about that before.

Of course it will be very nice when I know so much about them.

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YOSHIE, COOLCRYPTOVATOR, and GeorgeJohn thanks for the words, this will motivate me a lot. While I can only try to do it in the best way and consistent with my main goal and only you guys will help me to continue to develop after I received very constructive suggestions.

I know you're not Spanish, and I don't think your native language is Spanish either but apparently you're unwilling to disclose it.  I'm guessing someplace in south-central Asia, like India or a neighboring country.  Just a wild guess, and obviously I could be wrong.  


I can only speak for myself, but yes I do get that impression.

Since you have to ask, you probably don't know those originated from the Wall Observer thread. User xhomerx10 makes them for regulars.

There are many

What do you have, I mean: ideas, knowledge etc, related to Bitcoin and the Bitcointalk Forum, maybe all of us here unknowingly have given and done things that are useful for the forum, which is basically: do what is in your mind, maybe it's better in every way.

Of course we will support what you do here, as long as it has positive values.

Oh, yes congratulations on something new (Full), hopefully it will be better in the future.

Congrats on your achievement. And you deserve that. You can give only one thing to the forum and the forum expecting only one thing as well, that is your best contribution. Yes, since you ranking up by earning merits means you are contributing to the forum. Just keep this contribution, nothing else forum demand from you. I would say till now you are on right track, doesn't necessary to write too many posts on the forum. Rather than that is good you are learning more. That's the perfect way to grow yourself and become an established forum user.

Best of luck to you.

To start with i congratulate you for the new measure you have taken to this community of bitcointalk worldwide, actually it's not easy to grow from step to step,at least you have reached to the third rank of the forum as bitcointalk community precised, and it's remaining about three more positions or rank's ahead of you, i believe that for you to secure this height of full member you will definitely get ride to others positions, just devote out your time to follow the activities of the community it will enable you to expand more knowledge of bitcoin understanding morally.. congrats again, note: forum take whosoever that take it serious very serious.

Sorry, is there a special club or something on the forum so far? Give me a little explanation about this, maybe I will be interested in becoming a member in the future.

I only know about the spambuster club that is on the meta board and I don't know who its members are either. Although I have a direction and behavior that is in line with the idea of ​​​​this club but I remain independent without being part of any club at this time.

DireWolfM14, since the beginning someone ^{[maybe some]} have noticed me ^{[positive or negative]} just because my account username is similar to an artist of this forum is Legendary rank and is also a well-known managers of this forum Darkstar_. I once questioned it on a board because I never knew some users would be affected by this name who might assume and suspect that I was undercover. But of course that's not the reason I use this name because it is the name of a place that I have visited several times in my country in 2020 and I was inspired by it.

DireWolfM14, your guess about my mother tongue is correct because English is not my mother tongue. I learned a lot about English and I also took private English lesson for 2 month with a final grade of A. This helps me to post in a correct and easy to understand way although some term are slightly different from those in other countries. But I'm definitely not Spanish. 

I didn't realize that my behavior all along seemed like someone was rushing about something on this forum because only other people could judge it. They can judge everything objectively as usual, but I've been here for 1 year 20 days which is a lot of time for me to spend if I want to learn a lot. I read more when I have time than post and have only been active the last few months. I don't think it's wrong, but people are free to share their assumption about my behavior. Thank you for your response and your advice.

Sorry about this long post, as this is my chance to explain the problem you are asking about. Because you are in a different time zone than me, you should be sleeping now. LOL

I don't think you'll have any trouble earning the merit to rank up, seems like you're earning at a respectable pace so far.  

But... you come off as being in a hurry to "join the club."  Generally speaking those who are in a hurry tend to make people suspicious.  Considering the hassle you already had as a result of your choice of name, I would try to stay humble if I were you.

BTW, Your English is great, but it's obvious it isn't your native language.  Mind if I ask what is?  I'm only curious because I'm learning Spanish (my third language) I and find it fascinating how adjectives are applied in the various languages.

New milestone today for _BlackStar. It took 1 year 20 days for me to reach this rank ^{[Full Member]} with 120 posts, 120 activity, 109 merit and 900 spam post reports to moderators. I know this is not a good statistic from me because there are many other users who are much stronger than me. But here's what I can do for the forum so far regardless of whether people will like it or not.

Being a spam busters is not a bad way in my opinion if it is an attempt by one of the users to raise awareness of the spammers about the quality of their posts. No intention to hurt anyone just because I reported some posts they made ^[spammers]. Apart from their goal to make money, they should also pay attention to post quality, not quantity. Congratulations on my ranking as a Full Member ^{[minutes - hours from now]} and next I will try to get a higher rank ^{[Senior - Legendary]} with my efforts and contribution to this forum. Clap for me.

Can I get someone to gift me an avatar hat, I really want to use it. Would really appreciate that. Thanks

I've considered this before so it's probably pointless if this thread is considered spam by some users. But in reality I'm just going to assume that this thread is part of how I motivate myself to stay longer on the forum and also as a way to evaluate myself since becoming active. I thank you for all your support and kind words and I appreciate it but now I will lock this thread.

Good that you rank up on the forum and it might be big achievement for you as gaining merits is not easy as well not hard if you are capable of it and activity is distributed every two weeks if you are active during that period but these types of ranking up posts are deemed to be of low quality in the forum as this is not under constructive discussion over the forum.There are lot of similar threads on the forum whose hidden purpose is to achieve some more merits with these kinds of posts but now it's hard as many have done the same thing.When you rank up your responsibility increases and you need to aware other newbies not to indulge in such practice not create such threads yourself.See there are still lot of milestones to be achieved and as senior member it's just friendly advice.

I and some high rank members have previously also adviced that if you can avoid these types of ranking up thread then avoid them because there are many members ranking up daily or weekly and if everyone will start creating such threads it's gonna create mess on the forum and you will see pages filled with them and you won't get any merits for them as well.Keep up the same way you started and you will see better results and more recognition on the forum.

_Blackstar, DarkStar. Not insinuating anything though but, upon seeing the thread associated with rank up, my mind keep drifting back to DarkStar because, the user is sure to have archived the highestrank and yet would be awkward to see yet another rank up celebrations form that user.

Anyway, I'm sure to have seen _Blackstar around and it's of note that the user is doing quite well and you can tell from the accumulated merits. I thought it was down to 10merits or a bit higher but, 50merits is a lot high for a newly celebrated member. That'sto tell us that, the barrier to higher ranks for this user is just activities.

Congratulationsmust of all and see you up the ranks soon as time/activities permit. Cheers.

Congratulations mate, although you had the merit of a member before now, activities works in hand with it if you want to rank up, allow me to shake your shoulders up in encouraging you to participate more and early also, if you ever had set a goal to be ranking up, get used to engaging/participating.
Further more do you mean what you can give, in terms of gifts/support, or what you can contribute?