Topic: The Standard of a Meritorious post - page 2. (Read 333 times)

After 10 posts, they are already wondering why they didn't get any merits, as if there is a rule or formula that would determine the number of posts in relation to the number of merits that someone should have

Every beginner should know that there is no general standard when it comes to merits, everyone decides at their own discretion - so we have posts that received a maximum of 50 merits from one member, and realistically if you look at their quality do not deserve even 1 merit. It is not an abuse as some think, but the free will of each member to do with his merits whatever he wants.

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@Mate2237, if you think you've been waiting a long time for your first merit, here's something to comfort you

Another "Legednary" newbie

There are two things like you could be a newbie on the forum but have good knowledge about bitcoin network and crypto market as a whole then getting merits won't be tough for you as you simply can post useful things helping others or create similar threads on different topics.

The second case is you are totally newbie and have no idea about the bitcoin or market and you register on the forum then hoping for immediate merits shower on your account is not justified.But you may see that if you start asking doubts leading to healthy discussion you could merits but only asking for merits,how to rank up and forum doesn't come under effective post frankly speaking.

If you are putting efforts it will be visible and you will be rewarded with merits from someone whosoever find it useful but anticipation of it always is not everyone's approach and some newbies earn it easily but you only have to work for it.

There are merit sources appointed by @theymos on the forum who can give out more smerits than they earn to help members grow on the forum but they all have their own way of distributing it like you could find :

1) @BlackHatCoiner's merit policy here

2)@Pharmacist has habit of helping low rank quality posters to reach their next rank

3) DdmrDdmr the merit machine on the forum is always the first one to be ahead in giving out merits to good post

They all have their own ways of giving out merits and they don't reserve their merits if you check out them.But still if you find your post are good and not getting merits you can report them here :

[self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source

We have seen lot of similar threads in B&H section and they all are eager to rank up because they are being introduced to the forum as income source on primary basis not the knowledge library they can take advantage of.So you are right in race to only focus on merits they have nothing with them.So best is to enhance your knowledge which will fulfill the later parts.

Not only this forum, but everywhere, there are rules that applies that can make your post be merit worthy, although, not stated rules but can be called standard of quality posts. So that is quality and authenticity of your posts, how helpful it is and how convincing it can be for people that did not even notice you before and starting to notice you. There are different boards on this forum, with all having different active posters, if you study that well, you will notice that the active posts that have quality posts are getting merited, they receive merit as often. You also can be like that, go for boards of interest, read what quality posts are posting than you posting and learn in the process.

I have looked at your posts because I have a merit that I could have given you if I could find a post that deserved it, but I have to tell you that creating a thread with a long post, even if you had a hard time writing it, is not enough to get merit. What you say has to make sense and be appealing to those who read it. Simply saying what you think doesn't guarantee you anything, no matter how long it takes you to write it.

Newcomers have many problems getting merit.Their first task is to know the rules of the forum.Then read more of the seniors' posts.Because when they are new to the forum they have no idea about cryptocurrency.But newcomers don't do any of these. Because of this they do not have much knowledge of cryptocurrency and they cannot post well so they do not get merit.If they do not follow the merit and post quality then they will get merit very soon.If they do not follow the merit and post quality then they will get merit very soon.

From what I've seen those users who focus on earning merit so much that it makes merit their whole reason why they are on this forum, will never earn merits. It's simply because their posts are always clearly made to receive merit and people don't like that.
Otherwise there is no "standard" and I have to say that it is very odd that you are asking about merits and hardship of earning them after only 10 days and 10 posts from your account creation!

There are no such standard of getting merited except quality of your post itself. I've remembered when I still a newbie, better to talk less and read more, you shouldn't write something low value post or spamming in this forum. Reading many topics in this forum will help you to understand more about the subject e.g. Bitcoin, forum, economy etc. If you think getting merit is really hard, then look how @fillippone can get 1000 merits around 8-9 months only. While become a legendary member you need minimum requirement of an activity around 2-3 years.

I just checked out your post history, and it seems you are talking out yourself. Out of 10 posts you have made so far, you have started 5 posts, which means your sole focus is on getting merit.

My advice is, don't force things, and you won't be frustrated. Focus on making good content, and especially try helping members via constructive discussion. Merits will come along your way with time

I doubt that newbies are experiencing struggles to earn merits- I think this problem only extends to users who are desperate in earning merits.

Like what most have previously mentioned, earning merits is a job itself; one must at least commit that you are determined into sharing posts that will benefit the public in general. In addition, you can also earn merits if you attempt to report plagiarized posts or scams in the announcement thread. Bottomline is, hard work and patience are needed if one truly wants to earn merits.

Again, focus on creating constructive posts and avoid posting on mega threads as exposure is relatively low compared to other threads.

Newbies are thinking too much about merits. It is just another another like/upvote points in the end. Sure it is needed to rank up, but why so desperate to rank up if you can still use the forum as it is? I am not a merit source, but when I give merits I never looked into ranks. I usually award merits to those posts that had me "moved".
Speaking of generosity, we have this thread if you have not read it yet.  [TOP-200] The most generous users giving merits

The earlier you start working on your improvement the better for you, most newbies get carried away with the merit thing and do all manner of pointless and low-quality content all will the intention of generating merit from such content. From my personal experience, the forum and its members have high regard for quality and not quantity as long as you make yourself a valuable member of the forum you don't need to worry your head that much your work will speak for you and if any user finds them helpful there can award you merit. No merit source will withhold merit for any reason and will want to use up their merits but then their can just be awarding merits to junk posts or threads.

No its not. Well, at least not to those that either have something to say or have something to ask.


..which makes many of them pushing too hard in order to get merit so they pretend to know more than they actually do by plagiarizing or making merit fishing topics.


It is coming to genuine newbies that come here to learn some things about bitcoin.


No, and there are no rules when it comes to what is "meritorious content", everyone is free to decide that for themselves.

It is a problem for the newbies getting merits, the eagerness is endless as they anticipate merit in any content they have put up effort with. But it seem not coming. Is it that those who have excess of merits reserves their generosity or there are laid down principles in writing a Meritorious contents.

Let's discuss them