As I'm a brand new right now I have gained some knowledge about merits through this thread, thanks to the OP
I have to think about giving quality to my posts as suggested here
Topic: What is merit and why do some people have up to thousands? (Read 880 times)
I just got only 1 merit I don't know what it means and I see some profile with thousands of merits. What does it and how does it come?
It only takes one post for everything to happen. (1)
The post where you receive it is a clear demonstration of the previous paragraph.
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One wonders how it takes more than a year to ask that question.
Zero merit, I never bothered / warned / Investigate /
Merit 1, yes.
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(1) Users who are a source of merit have their exception to this premise.
I wanted to add you some merit but unfortunately looking at your post history. it's only full of bounty reports which add zero value to the forum.
It's obvious that what pulled him to the forum was bounty hunting. You never can tell what conditions the OP is in to elk a living. However, I think it would be prejudice to judge them harshly by slamming the spam/shit poster appellation on them. Too early for that. A lot of us here started out as shitposters, BTW. We never can tell, the OP may be a rough diamond waiting to be fine tuned so to say.
Merits are being given to members here in this forum who deserve it if they are making useful quality posts or posts helpful to other members. Merits are also the way to make you rank up, that is why other members here are cheating that they are exchanging merits with their alt accounts to earn merits, and it is obviously against the rules in this forum that you could get banned.
You are granted merit from other members when creating content or a useful response to topics, and this merit helps you develop your account in the forum
@OP ~ Yup! But chill, don't stress yourself out (unless you're now hungry for csmpaigns) 
. Don't get intimidated or jealous if you only got 2 and others have thoudands of merit. It doesn't justify that you're not productive here, the fact that you are slowly getting one by one already means a lot. I know that there's nothing wrong of developing your account here but seeking for self-improvement should be on the top of your priorities. Just continue learning and good luck! 
Merits are given to the people who have a lot of contribution to our forum but at the first time that the merit is implemented there is an airdrop distributed to them so some of the member already start into the following merits depends on the number of their acitivty but today if you will create a new account you does not have merit yet instead you will earn this through creating a thread which can be helpful and answer the peoples question, how to get merit? it depends on the user they have the right too who is the one deserve to have merit.
Every 1 merit you will got you can get a 0.5 sendable merit or sMerit.
Also there are a lot of members are giving free merits that will pass their qualification.
Merits for good jr.members by notblox1
Newbie - Members. Join here and take some merit by OcTradism
Sendable merit give away contest (Full Member and below ranks) by hd49728
[LEARN] LOGIC GATES and chance to earn merit. by Peanutswar
Also you can visit this thread too as your motivation Weekly earned merits (median) of top 100 merited users by tranthidung
Every 1 merit you will got you can get a 0.5 sendable merit or sMerit.
Also there are a lot of members are giving free merits that will pass their qualification.
Merits for good jr.members by notblox1
Newbie - Members. Join here and take some merit by OcTradism
Sendable merit give away contest (Full Member and below ranks) by hd49728
[LEARN] LOGIC GATES and chance to earn merit. by Peanutswar
Also you can visit this thread too as your motivation Weekly earned merits (median) of top 100 merited users by tranthidung
You are granted merit from other members when creating content or a useful response to topics, and this merit helps you develop your account in the forum and when you are granted that reputation you can give other people half of this merit, for example if you get two, you can give one
And I would like to add merit cannot be beg or requested you cannot even sell it, you need good contribution for the forum and if you think some of your good posts are not credited with merit you can check threads coming from merit source they have a thread here for those who wants to qualify their posts that deserves merit.
As you can see in the previous reply, this merit can be interpreted as a motivator for yourself to be able to post something of quality. The merit system was put in place because the admin had discovered that tens of ton of junk and worthless post kept flowing around here non-stop.
Thats why this system support anyone who post quality good. This system can limit spam poster from rank-up and will not prevent anyone from rank-up if they can make a good contribution to the forum. When you care about forum then other user will care about you. Useful writing has the potential to gain more merit for author recognition, and established Legendary member can generate more merit because they have better knowledge and experience than others. You can also do what they do if you want, hone your skill and knowledge and start now.
Thats why this system support anyone who post quality good. This system can limit spam poster from rank-up and will not prevent anyone from rank-up if they can make a good contribution to the forum. When you care about forum then other user will care about you. Useful writing has the potential to gain more merit for author recognition, and established Legendary member can generate more merit because they have better knowledge and experience than others. You can also do what they do if you want, hone your skill and knowledge and start now.
You are granted merit from other members when creating content or a useful response to topics, and this merit helps you develop your account in the forum and when you are granted that reputation you can give other people half of this merit, for example if you get two, you can give one
In my opinion this has been explained hundredsl of time by other, its just that beginner dont want to know because of their habit of rarely reading sticky thread.
You are granted merit from other members when creating content or a useful response to topics, and this merit helps you develop your account in the forum and when you are granted that reputation you can give other people half of this merit, for example if you get two, you can give one
Personal text updated according to the above table. 
While we're at it, these are the virtual Legendaries on a given pair of Section/Subsection (>=1K earned Merits there alone):
(scroll horizontal and vertical if need be)
Some are slightly populated, but there are plenty of scarce 1k section/subsection pairs. There are two rascals with a double entry on the above list ...
Note that here I’m aggregating on two levels (section/subsection), whilst the Altcoin exercise was performed on one level only (section= Alternate cryptocurrencies).
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section subsection user_id name nTotalMerits nMeritSubSection url
Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion 3 satoshi 2579 1748 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3
Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion 11425 gmaxwell 4171 1903 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=11425
Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion 290195 achow101 3416 1514 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=290195
Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion 867786 HCP 2797 1150 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=867786
Economy Economics 1067333 El duderino_ 4001 3370 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1067333
Economy Economics 479624 Last of the V8s 3961 2892 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=479624
Economy Economics 120694 xhomerx10 3136 1887 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=120694
Economy Economics 379487 LFC_Bitcoin 3597 1837 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=379487
Economy Economics 252510 JayJuanGee 3062 1693 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=252510
Economy Economics 181806 HairyMaclairy 1962 1665 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=181806
Economy Economics 239406 Toxic2040 1711 1595 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=239406
Economy Economics 1138727 VB1001 2140 1427 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1138727
Economy Economics 49008 jojo69 2482 1383 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=49008
Economy Economics 1852120 fillippone 3815 1381 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1852120
Economy Economics 569455 BobLawblaw 2526 1266 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=569455
Economy Economics 41175 infofront 2106 1043 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=41175
Economy Marketplace 1000199 krogothmanhattan 1807 1476 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1000199
Economy Marketplace 881377 Hhampuz 2646 1396 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=881377
Economy Marketplace 346731 minerjones 2237 1152 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=346731
Economy Trading Discussion 234771 suchmoon 5431 1042 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=234771
Local Arabic 2033515 mikeywith 2837 1038 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2033515
Local German 2143453 1miau 2454 1347 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2143453
Local German 1424178 mole0815 1302 1223 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1424178
Local German 24140 qwk 2636 1216 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=24140
Local German 1724800 Lakai01 1187 1108 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1724800
Local Indonesian 1878246 abhiseshakana 1899 1804 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1878246
Local Indonesian 1051955 roycilik 1599 1362 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1051955
Local Indonesian 1827294 Husna QA 1392 1243 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1827294
Local Indonesian 1275282 joniboini 1434 1162 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1275282
Local Indonesian 1574226 mu_enrico 1380 1131 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1574226
Local Italian 1237522 Plutosky 1242 1223 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1237522
Local Italian 1852120 fillippone 3815 1154 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1852120
Local Russian 2627711 Ratimov 1828 1553 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2627711
Local Russian 1855828 taikuri13 1303 1280 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1855828
Local Russian 1039323 Goran_ 1271 1163 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1039323
Local Russian 2654005 zasad@ 1327 1009 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2654005
Other Meta 35 theymos 7879 5280 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35
Other Meta 459836 LoyceV 6783 3289 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=459836
Other Meta 1582324 DdmrDdmr 4048 2577 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1582324
Other Meta 234771 suchmoon 5431 2224 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=234771
Other Meta 397737 hilariousetc 2446 1572 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=397737
Other Meta 487418 The Pharmacist 3581 1431 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=487418
Other Meta 1291828 TheBeardedBaby 2061 1329 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1291828
Other Meta 1188543 o_e_l_e_o 4716 1158 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1188543
Some are slightly populated, but there are plenty of scarce 1k section/subsection pairs. There are two rascals with a double entry on the above list ...
Note that here I’m aggregating on two levels (section/subsection), whilst the Altcoin exercise was performed on one level only (section= Alternate cryptocurrencies).
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I just chucked like a lunatic… 
There are no current merit-earned Legendary members just from Altcoins (aggregate of all "Alternate cryptocurrencies" boards and childboards). The maximum case had earned 407 Merits there as of last Friday. This is the list for those above 250 earned merits there (note: some others may have earned a few more there, but the posts have since been deleted, thus these do not add to this count):
Interesting. Looks like it would take someone many more years to do it or may never happen at all. If I remember rightly there are very few applications to be a merit source from anyone alt oriented. I've no idea if there's enough to merit in there but it could do with a few heavyweights just in case.
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There are no current merit-earned Legendary members just from Altcoins (aggregate of all "Alternate cryptocurrencies" boards and childboards). The maximum case had earned 407 Merits there as of last Friday. This is the list for those above 250 earned merits there (note: some others may have earned a few more there, but the posts have since been deleted, thus these do not add to this count):Code:
user_id name nTotalMerits nMeritsAltcoin url
225292 romanornr 907 407 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=225292
180477 tk808 1085 405 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=180477
1038794 deeperx 383 383 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1038794
412662 tonych 863 363 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=412662
389271 Limx Dev 1325 320 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=389271
306958 Claymore 1320 320 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=306958
724243 hornetsnest 374 293 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=724243
35 theymos 7879 281 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35
925926 gawlea 579 265 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=925926
823344 Traxo 427 264 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=823344
236770 Eliovp 1263 261 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=236770
64507 philipma1957 2523 250 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=64507
That's not an insult directed to anyone. It's a straightforward factoid. If one is in that particular club the merit will flow far more than other places where relationships aren't as close or reciprocal.
@Embolden, people perceive and relate to things they can easily champion and make relative while discussing a particular subject matter, some are very knowledgeable of different altcoins like giving, Price indication, predictions and bursting crimes. You've being a dedicated forum member to have ranked up to your current rank. Well deserved!
Legendary purely from altcoins would be a very significant achievement since so little merit flies around on that board. You'd have to be ten times more compelling than someone who posts tit gags in the wall observer thread.
I am not going to bite this bait, and even if my thirst for merit-related achievement is legendary, I won’t embark on this venture.
Btw, I never posted tits on WO, trains, a lot of them.
@Embolden, people perceive and relate to things they can easily champion and make relative while discussing a particular subject matter, some are very knowledgeable of different altcoins like giving, Price indication, predictions and bursting crimes. You've being a dedicated forum member to have ranked up to your current rank. Well deserved!
Legendary purely from altcoins would be a very significant achievement since so little merit flies around on that board. You'd have to be ten times more compelling than someone who posts tit gags in the wall observer thread.
@Op Merits are like retweets on twitter because it is hardly gotten since it deserves an earnest intellectual output, whereas you need dedication time and patience to earn merits and ranking on the forum is mostly decided my merits and activities count. The accounts with much merits have been here contributed a lot to the forum via elaborating the systematic review of Bitcoin and blockchain entirely. It is quiet surprising why newbies are always not ready to read the frequently asked questions and repeat the question all over again.
I would struggle to post in the Altcoin section even if there were a continuous overwhelming flow of merits. There is a limit to everything, intellectual prostitution included. I would rather take pride in something like “ legendary outside altcoins”...
@Embolden, people perceive and relate to things they can easily champion and make relative while discussing a particular subject matter, some are very knowledgeable of different altcoins like giving, Price indication, predictions and bursting crimes. You've being a dedicated forum member to have ranked up to your current rank. Well deserved!
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If I were intent on growing my merit score - and I'm not, the only meaningful figure to me was 1000 earned - there are places I wouldn't bother devoting my energy to like the altcoin sections. There are areas where it definitely flows more than others.
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If I were intent on growing my merit score - and I'm not, the only meaningful figure to me was 1000 earned - there are places I wouldn't bother devoting my energy to like the altcoin sections. There are areas where it definitely flows more than others.
I would struggle to post in the Altcoin section even if there were a continuous overwhelming flow of merits. There is a limit to everything, intellectual prostitution included. I would rather take pride in something like “ legendary outside altcoins”...
@Embolden, people perceive and relate to things they can easily champion and make relative while discussing a particular subject matter, some are very knowledgeable of different altcoins like giving, Price indication, predictions and bursting crimes. You've being a dedicated forum member to have ranked up to your current rank. Well deserved!
Merit is a mechanism that acknowledged a quality post. A merit can equally be define as a criteria that qualify a member to the next rank, which also indicates that a post of op,is meaningful.
You define merit as evidence of reward to someone who contribute immensely to the betterment of the forum.
You define merit as evidence of reward to someone who contribute immensely to the betterment of the forum.
Well merit is requirement for you to rank up. And in my opinion getting merit is not easy as it could be. It takes a hardship before you can acquire it like average posters like me. Anyway, I am okay with my current rank and does not wanted to rank up to higher ranks. I can get to use of it and happy that I am earning cents with the campaign I join.
Still if given a chance to rank up then yes sure why not. I can't just get enough merits like those quality posters did here in the forum. You can observe how they do it and follow on how and what they did.
If many beginners have thoughts like you, there will probably be many beginners who will move up the rankings with effort and post quality that can be said to be good.Still if given a chance to rank up then yes sure why not. I can't just get enough merits like those quality posters did here in the forum. You can observe how they do it and follow on how and what they did.
anyone can move up the ranks and earn a lot of merit. The OP just doesn't know what to do and how the mechanism works.
I think all have been pretty much said about what merit is. And if you'll take time to read those links of threads posted before me, then you'll surely understand what it means. Just think of it as "likes" or "reacts" you get when posting something, like in social media. Though there are some things that merit-senders are looking for in a post before they give them one. Like the quality or relevance of the content. Giving merits is totally upon their discretion.
Some people have thousands because they were already in a high rank when the merit system began, then they continue to post good quality and relevant contents that other members find merit-worthy so they continue to gain merits.
Hope my explanation helped you somehow.
Some people have thousands because they were already in a high rank when the merit system began, then they continue to post good quality and relevant contents that other members find merit-worthy so they continue to gain merits.
Hope my explanation helped you somehow.
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