Topic: The scramble for merits - page 3. (Read 858 times)

You have just told him the bitter truth. because everyone has already passed through this situation as far as you have been in this forum for a long time, as a newbie to the rank you are now. Because noting good in life that comes easy, you have to put more effort on it so that you can get what you really want. But most newbies will see it like the higher ranking members are not ready to encourage them, but I won't lie, if they start giving merit to the newbies merits on some of their less educative topics, they will continue and they will not take it seriously, which will not improve the standard of the forum because they will find it easy to get merit without stress, but if you have to have strong knowledge before you can get merit, then they will be more serious to focus on the standard.

You no lie for diswan, another thing be say every body gets their bases for judgement and so dem no go think as you dey think, d topic fit dey okay but d way person use reply for sweet dem pass so dem go decide to reward d reply but den another person got come see d topic merit am too, if dis kain tin don happen to u, no dey discouraged, just continue to dey post dey go, maybe one time you go get post wey person go like den merit u, but go study hard so u go dey make post wey go sweet pipo well make dem merit u.

I'm not arguing with him; I'm just letting him know his flaws and the reasons why his application might not be accepted if he keeps making those basic mistakes and ranting about merits like some random newbies. Obviously, he cares more about the English board, which is why there are more English board posts in his application than our local posts theymos is not stupid. I've never been one sided and neither do I know 99% of the profile I sent my source to, I'm only sceptical about newbies as I don't want to be responsible for ranking up Alts accounts.

I've not received anywhere close to 30 merits on this board in the last 120 days, my posts must be really bad. Lol but who cares.

With all theses arguments, still no one could send op some merits.. it's obvious why he was angry and created the post In the first place. @ Charles-Tim and Igebotz, you are both bigger than these arguments, it's not showing good example on the local board. You should try and settle your differences. Merit shouldn't be a reason why people should start getting angry or one sided with each other. We are one family and one local board..

the only things I know I've noticed like I said in my other post is the merit distribution amongst members which obviously sometimes to some point looks like friends giving friends.. there is no prove about this so it's just a taught.. even if it's true, we should still stretch out our merits across other members of the local board, so it wont be obvious. Not just our local board, you check also see this in other local boards, where a member needs a good amount of merit to rank up and get into a campaign.. you see the bombardment of merits from different people just so he can rank up and apply. So it's just a thing not something that we should start arguing about.

I know exactly how you feel op, but this is not a New thing anymore. you know one thing about this merit stuff is that if you're curious to get merit definitely you won't get it anytime soon is going to come when you don't even expect it is just a matter of time and patient, just keep working hard  it will definitely get to your turn. There are some people who joined this forum and they were working so hard to get marit but on the  contrary no single merit that was given to them, and they decided to quit why most of them are still pushing because they know that some day they will definitely get marit.

Half of 32 is 16 and not 21. 32 merits equal to 16 smerits.

That is also not true. CryptopreneurBrainboss merited me the mosts. Although, him sending me merit reduced so significantly after our differences about English should also be allowed or not allowed on Nigeria local board.

If it is generally including English boards, I salute Upgrade00 and Coyster which are not also merit source but followed Brainboss. You have not sent half of what Upgrade00 sent while Coyster sent more than you.

Despite you become a merit source now, I still sent you merit in the past than you have sent me.


My only complaint was that theymos did not make me a merit source which you thought I was attacking you but I was only showing my mind to theymos. You were merit source already that time, but you saw it as an attack. You ought to know that theymos can not remove you from merit source. I did not expect you to think that way like one sided. I was disappointed with what you sent me that time because I posted I wish you to be the moderator on this local board in one or two posts that time when the difference between Brainboss and I increased but you only stayed not one-sided that time.

Aside that, I did not complain about anything. Except what you think now in this thread as a complaint. Actually, indirectly it could be but I was only using it as an explanation which is practical. But you do not need to post, all local boards are just like us. Not difference. Sentiment can be toward someone you like and know also. It happens everywhere in life.

I personally PM some of you when I started on this forum which I do not think is bad. Some of you are still my tight friends till now while some we have issues. But knowing you people actually helped me when I started. If I indirectly tell OP to try and get close to some of you, is that wrong or pushing him against the wall? I do not think so.

Let us stop posting about this. Just be sending the merit to quality posts which is what that matters. If you do not send me merit and you are a merit source, I do not still care.

Using merely one month's data from nearly a year ago reveals a lot; that same month, you sent only 21 smerits and received 32 merits in return, thus statistically you sent 0 and received more. You've only been on the receiving end, not the giving end. I've merited you more than any local profile on this board, but that's all because I'm just doing my job.

The only time I started focussing on lower rank members and stopped giving to high profiles was when you started indirectly complaining about merits, which I don't understand why someone with so many merits would still be ranting about merits. It's not like you need merit to enter a campaign or DT.

Someone of your reputation should know how to address lower ranks and not push them against the board.

Op I feel your pain, but the merit system doesn't works that way once you make a meaningful post that deserves a merit it most surly be merited by our high rank members so would advise you not to feel bad or discouraged when you see that your post is not merited, because as a newbie that have passion to rank up in this Bitcointalk forum once your are making post and your are not getting any merits from those posts your are supposed to know that you have to work more harder to achieved your goal instead of felling discouraged.

I do not have to further repeat myself. Read what Hatchy posted.

I thought you know how to do the stat. Or you intentionally want to give wrong information? What you posted is not true. My post on Nigeria local board is 18% in overall while 88% on English board. I have been posting on local board since May 2020 while I registered on this forum in March 2020. While I was not in campaign, I posted actively on this board. While I was in Bestchange and other campaigns that local board do not count, I was very active. Only few weeks that I was not active which was coincidental with when we were given local board. But I started posting again when I have the time.

I am posting over 220 posts per month. Having 50 posts after I joined Stake in a month makes it 23% posts on local board while having 77% of my posts on English board.

We are on this forum to learn from ourselves. At least, many Nigerians learn from my post as I learn from others but not quite often. It is not only about merit. My explanation on that is what that is going on to receive merit. It is an advice to OP. If he follows the advice which is the truth, he will receive merits and rank up.

These lies are getting too much. Have you now graduated to lying? Prove this with stat.

Not that I do not have good days here. At least there was a time I remember I sent merits very well like this: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62987551. I only received 1 or 2 but not more than 2 from CryptopreneurBrainboss who sometimes send me merit despite our differences, while the remaining from Hugeblack which was over 25 merits that he sent me that month to posts on this board. No one on Nigeria board than Brainboss that sent merit to me that month. Hugeblack was the encouragement that month.

I saw some posts on this board that were implying they saw emotion about my posts on this local board. I was like this while posting on this board.

It is bold of you to believe that merits on the Nigerian board are awarded based on relationships rather than quality; that's allegations and you are aware of this, right? You make an average of 50 posts on the board per month, but you don't drop a single merit on 99% of those topics. I wouldn't say there are no quality posts because if that were the case, you wouldn't be making more than 60% of your posts here. Alternatively, you may not care about any profile here and are only using them as leverage to increase your posts quota.

More than 20% of your merits came from the local board yet your smerits sent to the local board is not up to 5%. You don't need to be a merit source to start distributing or doing the right thing.

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If your think the OP is doing something right you don't need to wait for me, you can merit him right away and if others see it that way, they would definitely follow your steps too. Quality posts do not hide for a longer time and that's fact.

Hey mate, I totally get your point as it can be really discouraging when you pour your heart to create something valuable only for it to be ignored especially when others are getting the attention that you thought was meant for you. But ask yourself these questions; are your threads valuable? Are they worth getting merited?

Look at your posts and then look at the ones that are getting merited and see if they are the same, I don't mean to discourage you the more but I just want you to know that you are doing well as a newbie in the forum but you need to sit up if you really want those merits, I also get frustrated at some point too but I know that I'm doing fine as a newbie. You are lucky you didn't get much criticism from the oldies because they don't like it when we (newbies) nag about not getting merits as no one is here to babysit anyone if you want something you work hard for it. Here's what I think you should be doing now for positive results (merits)

Be consistent.
Try as much as possible to engage more.
Make quality posts.
Visit the profiles of those that gets merit easily and study their posting style, no go copy from them o make you no go spam or plagiarize if not you go chop ban. Just learn from them.
You aren't up to two months here so stop nagging, try to read more and engage in different boards while you are reading, learning and listen to corrections. Good luck

I understand your feelings mate, but if all threads were awarded merits it will not looks good because the merit system was created to eliminate or reduce spam and low quality posts in this forum, and it has helped because every user now do consider the quality of the posts they will make before posting them to avoid been tagged as Spamer or to anticipate earning merits from the post to rank up; and that is why merits are used to determine ranks in the forum.

Another thing you need to know is that, the merits you are talking about is a reward for quality contribution to the forum, if your posts have educative content, and it help others in the forum, you will earn a lot of merits from the post, and we have few merit sources that do award merits, while other members need to have earned merits before they can also give out the merits; therefore, be patient and keep creating quality and educative contents, you will surely get merits.

First you are just a newbie with less than 20 activities and you are already complaining about how merit is being given, no get this forum wrong oo, the main purpose of the forum na the share reasonable knowledge about bitcoin and to discuss more about bitcoin, as a newbie wey you be you suppose engage more in reading, sharing opinions and making research about bitcoin and not complaining about merit for now. Well we all know the benefits of merit in the forum, maybe na why you de complain about merit already, but seriously I go advice make you forget about merit for now and focus on knowing more about bitcoin and how you can frequently engage in conversations with other and before you know it the merit will come.

For the Time wey i don spend for this forum one thing wey I know be say this merit something comes natural, you fit create post make you de think say this post suppose give u merit but at the end e fit give maybe 2 or 3 merit but when you get plenty knowledge about bitcoin na just reply you fit reply person post make people begin give you merit. Sometimes na one thing you go talk and people will believe you making research about bitcoin. We just want to see that you making effort about bitcoin so you can make this forum a better place.

There is no substitute for study. Through this every man can reach his ultimate goal. I think for most newbies it is very important to study more to familiarize yourself and make yourself experienced. Imitating seniors and understanding them and discussing new knowledge can greatly help you move forward positively. Tend to spend more time which can help you improve the quality of your writing.

Merit awarded in this forum is solely based on an individual's experience and knowledge. If you want to accumulate merit through your experience, then surely you deserve enough qualification from here. Merit is given only to those members who post good and informative posts that people can learn and benefit from. Also, you can't apply for qualification at will, but you have to acquire that amount of knowledge to qualify, then you will get merit. Also you should gather information about how to earn merit by spending time on forums, if people get something good from them then you will definitely deserve merit.

Well op don't feel bad, at first when i started too, I was feeling the same way but as time goes on and began to read others post ,there i saw that my best was not good enough, so I calm down and study more to get the real fact before posting, just keep trying and apply for merit at the mentioned source, you will get there gradually.

No be you go tell person the post wey him go merit. The topic wey you come up with wey you think say Na good topic for your eyes fit no be better topic for another person eye. Moreover you never can tell if the person get sMerit to give out. My advice to you is, if you are creating a post, just do it for the purpose of sharing vital and useful information/knowledge and not for merit purposes. Because e go shock you say that post wey you dey expect merit no go see one merit collect. Remove your mind from that side. Those reply that are getting merited fit pass more information than the post wey you create. But if you think say you don create better post wey supposed get merit and it's not merited, there are many threads here in the forum that you can report such posts for merit consideration. I think our moderator for this Local board also get him own thread were you can report such posts. No come make am look say na merit be your primary purpose of being here.

Merit may not be the main aim but it is a necessary achievement to mark out in the forum, you would not have been in this rank and put on earning signature  if you where never awarded good amounts of merit, yes it all came from your contribution to the forum. Being awarded merit is a virtue, a good sign that the user is making posts in standard to the forum, having little or no merit compared to the number of posts automatically puts the user as being a spammer or something likely.

Every one understands what OP mean because we all still need merits to celebrate new ranks, the only option is to keep foot still in keeping our discussions here of good qualities, definitely we me must surely grow past every rank.  

I understand what the OP is trying to say infact it's would be so frustrating and discouraging for newbies to make good contributions without seeing any rewards for their efforts (Merits) but then newbies should understand that merit isn't the priority of joining the forum, the main aim of the forum is learning, I'm aware that some newbies are very knowledgeable about certain things involved in the forum before getting here, but they still got to learn the do's and don't of the forum so they'll not get themselves in trouble. I also want to encourage the OP to keep putting more efforts to contribute to the forum in whatever way he can, in due time the merits would come but if he's not patient enough their is a thread here in our local board where he can submit his good post that weren't merited to be merit assessed, there's also one in the Beginners and help board.

OP, I understand how you feel, many of us don d in this kind of situation before that we begin to question whether we d make progress for the forum or not via making quality posts. Everything begin to change when we commot eyes from getting merits and focus on how to develop ourselves in providing information and given answers to peoples inquiries about bitcoin, then merits begin to fall on our side like water. I go advice you to do the same thing to develop yourself first for the forum. Get every information you need for your growth in crypto knowledge while merits come to you gradually as you provide answers to people's inquiries about crypto.