Topic: What is merit all about? - page 2. (Read 985 times)

All you need to do is search for it and add bitcointalk at the end of the title then you'll see a lot of threads about it. Anyway, I don't want to repeat what others have explained but this is what I can say about merit. It is implemented for prevention for shit posts and people who wanted to rank just by posting shit posts. You see, ranm requirements doesn't require merits to rank up before so that's why it is also the rank requirements till now. It is also used to reward forum members who posted high/good quality posts and motivate them to post more high,good or constructive posts.

This merit system, which was introduced in 2018, was the only appropriate approach. If you want to get more ideas, if these are the most you can read then you will get suitable ideas from here.

Recent Merit History: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=recent

That's true, merit is not by the virtue of how you desire for getting one, but it is gotten by the standard and quality in what you deliver as a post to the community, so if someone should need merit, then he has to first work on himself and earn a good number of quality posts that are merits attractive, even though i don't also see it as a right but a privilege for someone to receive a merit, so we shouldn't be in that position of judging by ourself in what we post as quality post and must be given merits.

Well merit is not just earned base on how long your thread is or how short it is but rather it is earn base on how informative, useful, important etc your thread is and merit is what help one to move in their current position to another, that is from newbie to jñr member to member etc but I will advice you don't strive for merit now because it can mislead you and also make you feel discourage in this forum but rather try and read threads and understand what this place is all about.

Merit is a way that is used to determine the rank of users on the forum and a way to validate their post. Usually you would see a lot of persons make useless post on the forum but the merit system was introduced to reduce the amount of users posting rubbish on the forum.

Anyone can give you merit on the forum as long as they have smerit to spare which is gotten when a user earns merit on the forum(½ per 1 merit earned), although they are special users that are merit sources that are given a number of merit to give to quality post on the forum.

You shouldn't be bothered about individual preferences on what a quality post is cause they are several merit sources on the forum and other users that can give merit to you so if everyone skips your post then you should know that you've gotta improve on your post quality.

I have check all the replies you have in this your post and I can see that your question has been answered, what I have to say is that, welcome to the forum, without even telling you that the forum is a place where you will learn and even if you don’t know anything about it, immediately after joining the forum you will have people who will show you how you are going to do and what are the things to avoid to not being banned, and about the merit you don’t understand, just check on the link that was giving to by the members and you will surely understand and even thanks them at the end. But before you try to focus about merit, I will advise you focus on the forum first you should try to understand what here is all about, the reason why I say that is because many newbie don’t focus in anything in forum now than how to have merit and build their account to another level.

That's right, this is the most important thing and must be understood by users here. Most beginners are looking for merit and rank which will later be used to get additional work here.

they slightly ignore the quality of posts and discussions related to what is on the forum. Instead of wanting to get merit and increase ranking quickly, people like this will usually spam more and just waste their time on the forum.

So it would be better if you keep learning, and read anything related to crypto more often. because that's where you can grow.

This is a good advice to the newbie, some newbies join this forum because they've heard that ranked up members earn BTC rewards in signature campaigns, and to be eligible you'll need to get enough merits to rank up. When they join and the merit is not coming their way as fast as they'd expected, they'll become very frustrated and their morale will become low to continue in the forum. It's best to join the forum as a newbie, with the intention to learn about Bitcoin and the crypto space, gain knowledge and theoretical experience on it's investment and trading, that will be more beneficial in their crypto journey.

Let getting merit to be a secondary desire for any newbie in the forum, when they've increased their crypto knowledge and begin to manifest it in quality posts, other forum members will notice the posts and some will reward it with merit.

Those that introduced you to the forum never took their time in telling you the use of merit, maybe if you had also taken your time in going through the forum, you might have seen something that talks about merit, however, if you're a quality poster, then you should be able to understand the meaning and use of merit, forget about the merit system and work on yourself as how you will be able to make quality posts, then you will understand more better.

I must say you're New to the forums firstly let me welcome you mate ,in this forum don't ever think of giving up, giving up is big sin . it's easy to earn merit and isn't too easy I have been in the forums for months now,I was a newbie once look at my rank now I'm a Jr member if the forums was hard for me and I gave up I won't be a Jr member my now.while merit is something that will come when it Time just focus like focus on making quality post take time and read what the topic is all about that's what I have to say mate , merit will come when it's time.

The dream of immediately getting merit can perhaps be shifted to a target and combined with initial planning when you register on the forum. You shouldn't be trapped in your dreams without taking any action. It's best to divert your dreams of getting merit by producing quality work. Prioritize reading several threads that have been pinned on the B&H board and several other boards to increase your insight into how to avoid bans and also produce quality posts that can bring merit.
Don't make the difficulty of getting merit an obstacle to existing in the forum. The mindset of having difficulty getting merit can be overcome by studying topics that raise the theme of merit. As long as you have the intention to progress and try to remain consistent in the forum, sooner or later you will get merit if you are able to produce quality posts.

I will give you a little advice about merit, merit was invented in 2018, this merit system has improved a lot since its introduction. If you do good and quality posts then you will be happy and given as merit award. And if you acquire two merits then you will definitely have one Smerit born and you can give it to someone else.

What do you mean by (system) because I can see that you mentioned that word repeatedly in your write up.


When you say system, you mean bitcointalk as a forum?


Because that is the only thing I can figure out that you are referring to as a system, and if that be the case then sorry to correct you that this is a discussion forum and not a system.

To sound minds it is not harsh, but to weak minds you are too harsh.

• Lazy us find it simple and easy to post shits than to waste time searching for it.
• To dumb to learn how to search
• They were told that people are being spoon fed here. So, instead of searching the internet, they will come here to ask "what is cryptocurrency?"

something I want to advise all the beginners that come across this community so that whenever they are registered in this community there will not be much interested in earning merit, I know quite well but I'm merit is very necessary and is very important for any user that to find itself to this community but what that will fetch you a merit is when you have a positive respond to the community and when you are creative for the community so a quality post will it determine if you are going to grow positively in the community or not so if he believe in writing trash I don't think that your growth will be rapid one

I don't care if a newbie or other low rank wants to rank up fast. If it's their goal, so be it. Unless that someone posts and asks how to do it. Then I know, this account lacks probably almost all abilities to actually achieve such a goal.

Take e.g. the surprisingly good and condensed summary of ChatGPT linked in one of the early replies in this thread:

If you digest the suggested advise there properly, you'd have a good chance to succeed.

Users who ask OP's question and this happens on a regular basis could be summarized as follows (one or more of the points apply):

• lazy to search the forum as answers are there numerous times
• too dumb to search efficiently or even consider it at all
• prefer to be spoon fed than find answers and solutions on their own

Am I too harsh? Maybe, maybe not.


Looking at OP's posting history reveals a flawed strategy, if there's a strategy at all. OP either opens a new thread but doesn't interact in his threads further despite opening one or posts a single reply in other threads, so far. That is minimal interaction and I'd say, do not open threads just for the sake of it and if you don't intend to take care of your own threads, i.e. participating in a discussion based on given replies.

Follow Asuspawer09's advice: nobody likes newbies who is evident that want to get merits fast in order to rank up as soon as possible, so if that's your goal it will take you much longer to get there. Enjoy your journey here instead, learn about Bitcoin (and other crypto if that's your interest, you can get a lot of info about many altcoins too here) and when you have a decent reputation you will start earning them with little effort.

Visit the merit thread that is where you can find the perfect explanation of what merit is all about. Basically its the point the you would need in order to rank up here in the forum.

When you already understand what is merit what I would recommend that don't make it your goal, what you could do is start your investing journey into the cryptocurrency space, I mean there was no way you could completely understand everything unless you going to experience it, so the only way is to actually invest by yourself, with the exception of if you already know what you are doing, you don't really want to just invest without having the knowledge when it comes to Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchains, networks etc. that is just the basics of it. This is where the forum is going to be useful, because it is a forum you could ask anywhere around where as long as it is related to Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, etc. If there is something that you don't know and you can't find the right information online that is where the forum gonna go in, ask anything here as long as it is only the right thread a lot of experienced members is going to answer all of your questions.

When you gain your experience you could answer most of the questions here as well helping other members, and that is where the merit could start dropping for sure, I mean sharing your ideas, news, and topics is already a good thing, but just don't stress yourself on getting merit, you're going to get merit as long as you are active and making a good quality post here.

Merit in bitcointalk forum is a rank that signifies your positive contributions, offering others help where they need guidance, and above all merit shows Quality. The more a user have a merit the more it show the Quality the person posses. So let just say merit is a reward to your useful contribution to the forum. It also shows your level of growth in the forum, like if you are really contributing to the forum are or not. I will even say Merit defines a user, you can say something about a user from the merit they earn. Like if they are really contributing to the forum or not, and if the user is intellectually good about cryptocurrency.

When you earn merit it shows your worth in the forum, it shows you possess some kind of quality, it shows you have skills to help the forum with  and with that other users in the forum tends to pay’s a lot more attention to anything you say, because it is believed that you are making research, learning and working hard.

Merit has it benefits too, when you earn some certain amount of merit, you tend to  qualified for some signature campaign in the forum which can earn you some money too. So it All depends on your hard work, consistent research so you can contribute meaningfully to the forum.

There are two places, namely when outside to use your free time using a smartphone but only to control and see market developments. and when I'm at home I usually use a laptop because I can work more optimally while sleeping and can also open several tabs or browsers. Another thing is to distribute working time because this is also a strategy to make more optimal and systematic use of the forum. Even so, still follow the suggestions and input from others, who knows if there is a better way. Another experience is that if we give to others, other people will continue to return the favor to us. What is strictly prohibited is that taking these news posts is categorized as falsification of writing