Topic: What is Merit and how will it help you get promoted? (Read 355 times)

Thanks for the information.

Merit is a kind of score which is based on the quality of your posts. The total merits you get on the bases of your post will help you get promoted to higher ranks .Each rank requires a particular number of merit. Once you are able to score some merit you will be promoted to that particular rank. 

I do not know what kind of merit would be posting, I have helped many people who have benefited , But the trouble is that my merit has not increased so far, I am really worried about this topic, 

hi,
your post is very informative indeed. It will help new comers as well junior members to try to create some good tops and posts .
Thank you for this quality post .
Buy the way where is the merit button on the left corner  i can't see . i want to click on it  so that get merit in return 

It makes me feel hopeless. I already have 70 of activity but don't have any merit. Its hard to think a post that can help others and a post that have a sense. I hope there's another way to be rank up.  

Ohh now i understand what merit is....

With increase in merits, user/ candidate acceptance to bounty campaigns increases. He get more preference and may also accepted in even more schemes. However merit don't come easy and a person has to be expert/remain in forum till he know what level this forum expect, and how he can support for its growth.

Hi.!  Will you please like to check my post quality.....

1. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.34137341

2. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.34206877

3. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.34140435

4. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--3088619

5. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.34727257


Thanks..!

What are these so-called Merits and why do we need it?
Bitcointalk has now implemented a merit system that means you'll now need to have both activity and merit in order to get promoted to higher level.
Due to a lot of registration by newcomers and bulk of useless posts, this step was necessary but this doesn't mean you need to make quality posts from the beginning. You'll help plenty of time to learn from your mistakes and start posting something that's really constructive and useful for others otherwise you'll be stuck on the same level for days.

These discussions can be seen vividly on Meta section but I'm posting it here on my local thread because I see a lot of useless posts here regularly by newbies. It's pretty common as I use to do this often too in my days. But now the scenario has changed. You might get promoted till Member but the road ahead of that will be tough if you don't do something different from others.

For becoming a newbie from brand new you'll need only 1 activity and 0 merit.
Junior member will need to have at least 30 activity but still, you don't need any merit.
From here on forward, you'll need to learn to make quality posts or else you'll be stuck on Junior Member.
However, you'll only need 10 merits and 60 activities to get promoted to Member status.

Now, the real question is, how will be able to get these Merits?
There are Merit sources on the platform. These are the people with a lot of merits and of course higher ranking such as Sr. Member, Hero Member, and Legendary.
They have credited Merits on the level of their ranking during the implementation of the Merit system.
For example, I was Full Member during the implementation and for becoming the Full Member one need to have at least 100 Merits, therefore I was credited with 100 Merit points.
On every post, there will be an option for +Merit through which one will transfer the Merit to the user who posted it. Suppose I transfer 2 merit point to someone then that will be split into two namely Merit(1) and sMerit(1). Merit is what you can keep to get promoted while sMerit will be used to transfer it further along to other users.

Rank	Required activity	Required merit
Brand new	0	0
Newbie	1	0
Jr Member	30	0
Member	60	10
Full Member	120	100
Sr. Member	240	250
Hero Member	480	500
Legendary	Random in the range 775-1030	1000

If someone sends you one merit that will not be shown until you receive another merit point.
As of now, there is nothing like -Merit or Demerit but I'm getting the feeling that to further improve the conditions, this will soon be implemented.

Keep in mind that this is to ensure that people will post high-quality stuff in order to get promoted. If you post garbage, it will be really tough to even get 1 Merit and you'll never be able to put up avatar, signature or even post images.


One benefit of this system is that we can now clearly identify the posts that are really useful and stop wasting the posts which are not that good. Of course, it will take some time especially here but believe me it will be beneficial for us all. Did I forget to tell that the posts will be highlighted with "Merit by" once people receive Merit along with the name of the sender and the amount he/she sends.

Hope this helps. Let us all create some quality posts from here on forward.

P.S. If you think this post is helpful, you can hit the button that says +Merit on the top left side of this post.
Also, I too have some Merit that I can spend so you can start making some high-quality posts right here so that I can transfer my first Merit.