Topic: What is merit and why do some people have up to thousands? - page 3. (Read 869 times)

It's always fun for me to see these people who got lots of merits and tend to race between each other. It simply tells that they are one of the most active people that is helping and educating people in multiple ways or maybe just participating on a natural or high quality discussions in which they share information that may benefit a lot of people.

This is always an inspiration for me.
[1] Earned Merit Race Animation - See if you ever got to top20 merited.

Probably your inquiries are now been answered to be fact that some users are already given a helpful link which discuss about merits.

For simple explanation, the amount of merits you have gained are the amount of times how you been useful in the forum. You could simply gain these merit through making a significant topic or discussion that could help other members. This merits can be also considered as regulation for ranking system the forum.

I remember when my profile are all consist of those reports. It took me a while to realize the forum greatness. I think its too early to judge bounty and airdrop hunters cause I see myself with them before.

Some could actually changed but Im not expecting all of them would realize that. Since he is still a newbie, Im not gonna judge him so easily but instead teach him the proper while it still early.

Merits are just a reflection of the number of a contribution right here on the forum it's a helpful threads contribution, not a monetary contribution that member has a lot of number of merits are some of them are the eldest right here because they are here for a long time and they shared a lot of information and helpful threads so the merits are the rewards


I don't want to get harsh but right most of the content of OP is all about bounty report if you still do this you cannot get any merit again because this only gives to the people who deserve and give a lot of time to share their information.

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.

Don't consider it as a reward since it's subjective.

OP just needs to follow the forum rules, be polite to others, and post freely constructively without pressure or doing harm to others or to the whole forum itself.

I just hope OP will read the links given to him. He is a bounty hunter based on his post history and in most of the cases, these people usually missed some updates about what's happening in the forum.

The links provided on this thread are a good read on what you need to grasp concerning merits (and sMerits).

Concerning the profiles you see with thousands of Merits, they have probably spent lots of time on the forum since the Merit System kicked-in, and created some kind of content through their multiple posts that was considered decent enough by others. You can look through the official Merit Stats for a simple view on the most merited profiles and such.

Bear in mind that when the Merit System kicked-in, on the 25/01/2018, profiles were airdropped an initial quantity of Merits, equivalent to the number of Merits required for the rank of each person at the time (0 Jr. Member – none required at that point in time - , 10 Member, 100 Full Member , ... , 1k merits for Legendary members). Some Heroes were awarded 1k Merits exceptionally.

Note that the typical rookie misconception is that a profile with many Merits should have plenty "Merits to award" to others. After all, you see a large number of merits on their profile summary, so they must have plenty to hand out. That is not so.
Remember (after reading through the referenced links in the prior posts) that Merits and sMerits are related but are not the same. A profile with 1k Merits on his profile could have no sMerits (left) to award. The Merit counter does not decrease (unless you are really naughty) – it’s the sMerit counter that decreases after you send sMerits to someone.

i.e.
- User A has 10 Merits and 2 sMerits. User B has 0 Merits and 0 sMerits.

- User A sends 1 sMerit to User B.
User A will now have 10 Merits and 1 sMerit left. User B will have 1 Merit and no sMerits to award (he has 0,5 virtual sMerits, but only integer figures are sendable).

- User A sends 1 sMerit (again) to User B:
User A will now have 10 Merits and 0 sMerit left. User B will have 2 Merits and 1 sMerits to award to others when he pleases.

Next time you are surprised by something about the forum, use the search option, you will find it at the top, type the word (Merit, Trust,..etc) and you will have a lot of discussions about it.
You can also use Google to restrict the search for this forum using site:bitcointalk.org merit.
You can also read the rules for using the forum to avoid problems.

I guess the easiest way to explain merit would be,
A reward for hard work as per quality content creation or post that helps you grow in rank in this forum. Just like every reward, it is earned and not beg for! But then, for everyone you gain, it lives you with a part of it to send out.
I see you've got one, keep up the good work.

All you need is right in here
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/merit-new-rank-requirements-2818350

You can understand - merit, how it works,- and understand/know your contribution -good works/services - may earn you merits, in between congrats on your first merit, press on.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/faq-everything-you-need-to-know-about-forum-activity-account-ranks-and-merit-2766177 this thread might help you get some answers.

Essentially merits help you to rank up in the forum and to allow to forum to encourage users to make quality posts.

You may be better off thinking about them as similar to an upvofe but there's a limited supply that users can give out. For every 2 merits you receive you'll get one merit you can send. There are also merit sources who get airdropped amendable merits.

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?