Topic: What is merit all about? - page 4. (Read 707 times)

To be honest, during my first month on this community, I didn't even know how the merit works, I didn't feel much concern about it until I started to receive the merit too. It surprises me how a newbie that has just been on the forum for 6 days is already asking about the merit system, there are other important rules about the community which you need to know about, if you go against those rules, you will face the consequences. Get to know the forum rules, stay active on the forum and you will even know how the merit works.

Merit is all about quality, helpfulness, and useful contribution of a member in form of his/her posts/thread. A merit shows that how useful a post is and the posts/threads that get many merits often because they have been helpful for many members. Consider merit as a reward for your contribution on this forum, if you make good, contributive posts/threads, which are helpful for the community then you'll get a reward for your contribution that's a merit given to you by a member of the forum with sMerits.

Most of the sMerits are in the possession of the merit sources because the administrator of the forum Theymos has accepted them as merit source and has allocated a certain amount of merits for those merit sources. If I'm not wrong then all of those merit sources get some spendable merits per month automatically, and then they send those merits to the members who make good posts. If you as a member can make good and valuable posts then you'll also get some merits.

The merit system basically helps signature campaigns and the campaign managers as it's the best step taken against account farmers. If someone who makes low quality posts that aren't helpful at all then that person never gets higher ranks that are needed to qualify for signature campaigns. In simple words, all those members who make low-quality posts that don't get merits may not be able to rank up on the forum if they have created their accounts after the implementation of the merit system.

For someone to earn merit in this forum is very easy, but it depends on how quality of your post is, because I have been in this forum for long now and I have come across some many threads in the forum were our senior men always advice us to make quality post, so my advice for you is that as a newbie that you are, you should try and focus on reading the forum rules and regulations, so that you could be able to create a wonderful post, them you can start to earn merits. Here is a links for you to know more about the forum
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/faq-everything-you-need-to-know-about-forum-activity-account-ranks-and-merit-2766177

If you search, you can find many topics about Merit with a Merit & new rank requirement thread that was given in above posts.

Newbies - Read before posting is another thread for newbies to start.

Two topics about forum ranks and merit. The last topic is from ChatGPT answers and you can nearly get everything you need with ChatGPT about merit, how to earn it.

FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit
I asked ChatGPT on how to earn merit on Bitcointalk

Since you want to learn and know what merit is really all about,. I don't know much, but with the little knowledge I have about merit, I will tell you for free that it's something that's given to someone based on the kind of post or contribution that the person gives to the forum and someone else, like the idea or knowledge that you shared, and as a result of that, he or she will reward you with merit for a job well done.
 
And for every merit you earn, you will be given half of it as a spendable merit (which is also referred to as smerit), and this smerit can also be sent to another person whom you might also like and who will want to appreciate it.
 
Less I forget, this merit is also essential to your rank up on this forum. Aside from the activity requirements, you also need merit before you can obtain a new rank. Every rank requires a certain number of merits that will complement that position.

A piece of advise I strongly suggest you will be needing to keep you going progressively on the forum, which is, don't go chasing for merits as that will be the wrong way to go. Rather, go for knowledge, learn and add to the little I believe you already know and heard about cryptocurrency  as a newbie. Your growth in the forum is in how much of a beneficial knowledge you can give/contribute to the community. That's the secret of how merit are attracted which in extension is the purpose of the meriting system.

You will want to read this below:
Newbies read before posting
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/newbies-read-before-posting-1689727

I can see yah new to this forum , so I will say at first welcome Mate.

I wanted to provide a link that would actually help but I can see that hatchy has already done a great work sending it to you already.

But let me just add some enlightenment, merit is like a way users shows appreciation whenever they found your post  contributing or helpful to them.

One thing you need to know is that the chances of you getting more merit depends on your contribution to the forum and how quality and helpful your post is.

One thing have also took noticed of is that the more you are eager to earn merits the more your chances of you earning any dropped. So all you got to do is to focus on what the forum offers , which Is wide knowledge concerning the Crypto space and the more you learn ,

the more you see yourself growing . And more you see yourself earning merits .

Let's me drop some common tips that would help increase the quality of yah post.

*Always take your time when replying or creating a thread , you have all the time so don't need to be in hurry.

* Always read through all the reply in a post to gain More understanding (due to learning from different sources) and also to avoid repeating what someone has said already, before posting

*Whenever you encounter any thread That you are not too familiar with the concept, is better to not reply and learn more about it than endup going off-topic due to not having a good understanding about that topic

I believe you should check this post out to understand what the merit is all about
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/merit-new-rank-requirements-2818350

The merit system was implemented in 2018 the forum Admin due to the rampant increase of shit posters and the need for quality post on the forum. It is the reward you get for creating good, useful, quality and helpful post here on the forum. I believed your friend should have informed you a bit about the merit along side as a requirement for you to rank up. When you make good post you are rewarded merits by members who finds your post of quality and helpful to him or the community. For every one merit you earn, you have 0.5 smerits(sendable merit) so if you earn two merits, you get 1 smerits which you can give to other members you find their post helpful.

Greeting everyone. I was newly introduced into the system by a friend who made me to have so much interest in the system with the zeal and the passion to learn and gain adequate experience on the system but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.