Topic: The scramble for merits (Read 212 times)

Definitely you do not know what is happening on local boards. I do not have to explain anything about it further. You can read Hatchy's reply instead which is better. He is more observant about life from his post than just posting emotionally.

I am only using it to explain. You do not have to be emotional about my presence on local board by diverting what I explained to Gooner0 to me. This is not my thread. I did not create a topic about anyone or any local board. Merit habit on this local board is not what I am interested to post about. Trust me, merit is not an issue for me on this forum.

as someone that also passed through this phase I totally understand how you feel creating a topic and not getting merited and seeing someone replying to the topic and getting more merit. This is not just about the Nija local board but happens accross all the boards in the forum.

You have to know how the ideal merit system works so you don't get discouraged by a thing as this. With time, you will also reply to someone else's post and receive merit even when the OP hasn't received any. The merit system favours quality contributors to the forum. It doesn't mean you have to create topics before you contribute to the forum positively. There are a lot of high merit earners on the forum that don't create topics very often and yet you see them getting a lot of merit. It's about understating the forum and being a useful asset to the forum.

The advantage every new person has while growing in the forum is that you're at liberty to post on all the boards of your choice and post as many times as you choose to. If you can't earn merit now that you're enjoying such liberty, if you eventually join a signature campign that restrict you to posting maximum of 5 to 7 post on a set out boards, it might become more difficult to earn merit again.

It takes a little effort to study the forum and become a creative person who people will want to give merit to. Even in this local board, the moderator gives regular merit to post that are of high quality and there are other genuine people that also do same without you being in contact with them for whatever reason. If you're smart and knowledgeable enough, you will do the needful and complain less.

I don't know anyway but we can't really say that because an account is bombarded with merits different times by a particular user doesn't necessarily mean they may have some connections of knowing each other. It could be for some other personal reasons other than just knowing anybody.

But maybe we should also evaluate ourselves while we say we don't usually receive merits in the local board we also ask ourselves how many times do we usually give merits to quality posts we come across in the LB. For we can't say we don't see posts worth meriting out of 7 days a week we come into the forum. Like you I am also someone that receives most of my merits from the English/general boards but that doesn't mean I would say merits in the forum is distributed based on who-knows-who as you had put it.

It's very common in most local boards, you see merit exchanges from accounts to account without any reasons or important psot. I still remember when this forum was hot, you won't see such case though. Guess it's now a normal thing since everyone is quite. Op should just take his time to understand the forum. Complaining here won't even help him an inch. If he wants to earn merit fast, he should stretch his legs to other boards on the forum, learn and also contribute. The reason why I love other boards is when you create a quality post, someone will definitely catch it to reward you merit. But local boards is more like people they know off the forum.

Hi mate calm down, to my best of understanding merits is not obtained by who creates the topic of the thread but who provides the forum with help posts. Literally post with qualities containing soluble contents which may either be on replies or topics.
Don't feel discriminated. ✌️

You are definitely right if it is about the forum in general but otherwise could be the case if it is Nigeria. I can point out accounts that may not be better than his account but which have been bombarded with merits on this local board or by Nigerians. I think it is more about who you know on this board. I as another example receive most of my merit from English board. Hardly will I see merit on this board except people that are not on this board sent me. I will also advice him to study very well and increase his posting quality which will also help him on English board but about Nigerians, he also need to get close to some of them.

OP no dey discouraged No be every good posts you make go get merits. Even sef your merit:activity ratio no too bad like that. Na so the early days dey be. Small time you go don get small personal experience with bitcoin and the forum, that one go help you fit dey make topic way others go find interesting and na so the merits go dey come. For now just dey take am small small the merits go come. No fear.

Hey man you should not be heartbroken at all. We all have been there. One of the tested and tried strategies of getting merits is by not creating a topic to get merits. In fact, I have found out that the topic will not attract any merits and you end up getting more disappointed and eventually exit the forum. So, take your mind off merits for now and engage with topics that you find interesting. Drop your comments there and engage with other users just s you would do in a real life convo.

One can gain merits by presenting their topics or even replies that they think makes sense, in a good order and then had to post it in the pages where merit sources have designed to access ones post and award any number of merits that is deserving to the individual, for showing effort and being reasonable enough to follow instruction and obtain a perfect result as others too.

Being consistent also should make one appear merit hungry and thus attract merits from those who notice how hard we have been trying.

That's not discouraging, as that's literally how the forum had been, right from day one, and as such your recent emergence won't change anything, so it's better you try as much to adapt to the system, while you study some thread which you notice may have gotten the most merit and try to duplicate them, while been original and not copy-pasting, as it's against the rules of this forum to plagiarized content. So I will advise you to accept the forum the way it is, because there is no big rank today, which was not a Newbie like you many years back. So for the fact that we were able to make it to the rank we are today, it should be a means of encouragement that you too can do it.