This is not me trying to claim as tho I know anything much, besides Im still a newbie like some of us here and I think I'm not to small or too early to give forum advice if I have something good to say. Since I'm also a newbie I think that one of our major challenge is to earn merit.
Concerning our troublesome quest to make a post we'll deserving of merits, I have a few things I can share regarding this topic, it has worked for me and I can work for anyone who chooses to regard them.
👉 Firstly I'll say STOP BEING SO MERIT CONCIOUS : I know this might seem so misleading since my topic revolves around earning merit, but let me explain. I've seen many newbies make threads on topics they know very little about and at the end they would get Comments or reactions that would seem hateful or disciplinary (to me) from our seniors. And from my observation the root of this would be the fact that they are so much in a haste to earn merits than to understand how the forum works, what it wants and the basics of earning merit.
If newbies take their time to read the forum rules on the merit system, they would find out that it states clearly that you would receive merit from making quality posts.
But I think what they might be confused about is the idea of quality, which would have been simplified aa helpful. From my long term observation on this forum I have come to realise that the merit system isn't bias in any way and merit goes to those that are making helpful contributions to the forum, be it by Comments or making a thread.
With this point noted I think the next question should be, WHAT DOES THIS FORUM CONSIDER AS HELPFUL OR QUALITY POST?
👉 I would love to acknowledge the fact that different persons on this forum have different perspectives and interests and would react to different comments and thread differently.
So I would give a very general answer to this question.
I believe that most people are on this forum for different reasons, but a major and inevitable reason would be to learn and improve on their knowledge on bitcoin and the crypto verse at large.
By this fact I can establish that we are all knowledge seekers here, and if knowledge seekers what we need is information. So what a person on this forum would consider helpful or quality would be the right information that would improve their knowledge or solve a problem for them. This makes the merit system even more clear, if you continue to improve on yourself and grow in knowledge, you can make better contributions and thereafter earn merits by favour of doing so.
Now if we have reached an agreement on this I would like to talk about my last point. Which is to grow and improve in knowledge.
👉 I've already established a fact that the merit system is in favour of those who improve themselves and learn more. And many newbies are still struggling because they lack this ideology. To earn merit you must contribute and to contribute you must grow.
The final and most important question should be HOW DO I GROW AND IMPROVE MYSELF?
👉 AS A NEWBIE YOU MUST FIRST UNDERSTAND THE FORUM AND ITS RULES:
I'd like to make reference to a comment on a thread yesterday by Sandra hakeem
And what I'm most thankful for is the feeling of getting my first merit, it really filled me with joy. Now I'm more confident to do my own research and share new information here. Big thanks to everyone.
All the same, you've learnt the rules and have gotten used to it already.
Sandra 🧑🦰
Im not trying to promote myself here, I just want to point out to fact that she said you have learnt the rules which I'm still learning, but as a matter of fact its still important. I've seen many newbies with about 50 activities and higher that are still making Common mistakes that are quite annoying to some seniors, stressing to the fact that very little newbies have read about the forum rules or doesn't even know about it. So every newbie must first take out time to understand forum rules first before posting.
👉 secondly I say ask questions, this is a learning community and everyone here is ready to help you out with answers to any questions regarding to crypto or bitcoin.
👉thirdly IF THERE IS ANY TERM MOST USED ON THIS PLATFORM IT WOULD DYOR: this might be the most important thing every newbie should know and its doing your own research, it's every forum members responsibility. If this is a learning community, i believe everyone should have something to contribute to the forum. But if you know nothing, what do you do. Become a crypto activist, join crypto related groups or communities on other socialplatforms, subscribe to news feeds. Just make learning about crypto your lifestyle and it would become part of you.
With all this said, I believe your growth in this crypto community is your decision and can only be achieved by you. This forum isn't bias and would reward you appropriately, so keep whining about how earning merits is difficult and Start learning.
Pls if you have any contributions to this thread, we would also love to learn from your information. We newbies would love to learn more.
I believe this is not all and I know our seniors can better contribute to this thread.
Everything I've said is based on my observations and what I've tried and worked for me.
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