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CryptopreneurBrainboss

legendary

Activity: 2450

Merit: 4295

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Quote from: Jet Cash on October 22, 2019, 02:49:44 AM

Quote from: CryptopreneurBrainboss on October 22, 2019, 02:27:46 AM

>..<

Well thanks for the kind words.

It might be that I'm not pushing any projects at the moment. The photographic project to help people in low income countries is starting to grab me. I thought of Venezuela, but Nigeria might be another country where members could benefit. I think that projects like this to help members to earn Bitcoin could be useful.

You're welcome. I'm always on a look at for such opportunity so don't hesitate to alert me the moment you come across any. I'm always open to learn. I prefer working smarter to harder that's why I don't engage in an opportunity that'll require me to work twice as hard than I'm currently doing instead of encouraging me to work smarter. Bitcoin has been a major blessing to we from this part of the world, you just have to be in our shoes to understand the feeling we get from been enthusiasts especially as our economy and currency value is depreciating constantly.

Any legitimate opportunity to earn some bitcoin is always welcomed 🤑.

AverageGlabella

legendary

Activity: 1232

Merit: 1080

Quote from: Jet Cash on October 22, 2019, 04:27:08 AM

I don't agree that merit is just a matter of pride for legendaries. The actual count is not important to me, as I will never be able to compete with the stats reporters. However, individual awards are useful, and they give me a feel for the general opinions in the forum, and they help me to "tune" my posts and threads.

A lot of legendary members haven't earned their first 1000 merit so gives a good idea of a good poster if they have earned more than that. Legendary can also send that earned merit to others so its not like its being completely wasted.

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on October 22, 2019, 04:33:02 AM

I have no issues ranking up a newbie to a junior member and giving them signature privileges as long as it is clear to me that they are here primarily for the reason I outlined above - to learn and discuss - and they aren't here solely to abuse that signature.

Signatures should be something to reward already good and established members instead of being something people aim for. I don't change my behavior when in a signature campaign and despite being in one of the highest paying campaigns you will see that I haven't posted for a couple of days. My posting habits haven't changed just because I'm earning money from posting and I think looking at the before and after statistics when accepting members and moderating a campaign that should be taken into consideration.

o_e_l_e_o

legendary

Activity: 2268

Merit: 18748

Quote from: Daniel91 on October 09, 2019, 10:34:51 AM

I remember the time before the introduction of merit when we just wrote in the forum without burdening ourselves too much with others and what others think of us.

I still post like that, and I suspect many of the other top merit earners do too. It is pretty easy to spot people who are posting in topics they have no knowledge or interest in for the sole reason of spamming their signature or phishing for merits. My biggest tip for earning merit has always been to forget merit exists and simply use the forum as it is intended - to learn, read, ask questions, and discuss.

Quote from: Laskoo on October 22, 2019, 04:16:01 AM

Not many users gives merit points to newbies just because they are newbies and they know you'll make him/her Jr.Member if you'll give 1 merit.

There's actually a fair few of us (myself included) who spend time and go out of our way to track down good newbies to give merit to, which you can see from this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.52227889. I have no issues ranking up a newbie to a junior member and giving them signature privileges as long as it is clear to me that they are here primarily for the reason I outlined above - to learn and discuss - and they aren't here solely to abuse that signature. As Loyce says, utilize his thread to report any good posts you think are doing unmerited.

Jet Cash

legendary

Activity: 2814

Merit: 2472

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I don't agree that merit is just a matter of pride for legendaries. The actual count is not important to me, as I will never be able to compete with the stats reporters. However, individual awards are useful, and they give me a feel for the general opinions in the forum, and they help me to "tune" my posts and threads.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

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Quote from: Laskoo on October 22, 2019, 04:16:01 AM

The merit system is problematic for newbies who are struggling to get 1 merit and be able to post images, and here I am not talking about new Newbies, but about the ones that have 2-300 activity and they are still newbies.

That's not a problem, it's exactly why the Merit system was introduced. If someone has 300 Activity without earning a single Merit, I'm pretty sure his posts are worthless.
But by all means, if you find a worthy Newbie with good posts: report them here so I can Merit them!

Laskoo

full member

Activity: 350

Merit: 144

I think Legendary is just a matter of pride in here since Here/Legendary gives you almost the same benefits on the forum.

The merit system is problematic for newbies who are struggling to get 1 merit and be able to post images, and here I am not talking about new Newbies, but about the ones that have 2-300 activity and they are still newbies. Not many users gives merit points to newbies just because they are newbies and they know you'll make him/her Jr.Member if you'll give 1 merit.

As for the calculator, is a good tool but for the old system (without merit requirement), with the current one the tool is just for curiosity as you'll get merit points much more harder than the activity required between the ranks time-frame.

Jet Cash

legendary

Activity: 2814

Merit: 2472

https://JetCash.com

Quote from: CryptopreneurBrainboss on October 22, 2019, 02:27:46 AM

>..<

Well thanks for the kind words.

It might be that I'm not pushing any projects at the moment. The photographic project to help people in low income countries is starting to grab me. I thought of Venezuela, but Nigeria might be another country where members could benefit. I think that projects like this to help members to earn Bitcoin could be useful.

CryptopreneurBrainboss

legendary

Activity: 2450

Merit: 4295

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Quote from: Jet Cash on October 22, 2019, 01:46:31 AM

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Same goes for me, the rate at which I recieved merit has also reduce drastically but In my situation I know the reason why since I'm not that active as before and also spending more time in less merit awareness board due to some specific reasons but when you think about it more lower users are getting merited and ranking up so irrespective of it affecting the time to achieve legendary status atleast more high ranked users will be recorded.

The forum interest right now is the 10 anniversary of the forum which is understandable why decent amount of merit are flowing towards related discussion on that matter. I'll presume your case to be out of touch in forum interest since your post quality hasn't changed.

fillippone

legendary

Activity: 2268

Merit: 16328

Fully fledged Merit Cycler - Golden Feather 22-23

Quote from: Jet Cash on October 22, 2019, 01:46:31 AM

I've noticed that my received merits have tailed off a lot recently, and I'm not sure if that is the result of a change in the community approach to merit awarding, or a reduction in my posting because I felt that I was becoming out of touch with current forum interests. I use merit awards and replies to my posts to judge the value the community places on my posts. A drop in either, or both, means that I have to rethink my posting behaviour.

If there is a shift in the awarding of merits, then obviously this will affect the time taken to achieve legendary status.

Nah,
I think you should post what interest you the most. Merit is a nice addendum to that, but in the long run I think sticking what interest you the most, and to what you are better at, benefit the most the community. This is what merit system is about.
Well, this is under the hypothesis you are not a merit farmer, in that case... do the opposite!

Jet Cash

legendary

Activity: 2814

Merit: 2472

https://JetCash.com

I've noticed that my received merits have tailed off a lot recently, and I'm not sure if that is the result of a change in the community approach to merit awarding, or a reduction in my posting because I felt that I was becoming out of touch with current forum interests. I use merit awards and replies to my posts to judge the value the community places on my posts. A drop in either, or both, means that I have to rethink my posting behaviour.

If there is a shift in the awarding of merits, then obviously this will affect the time taken to achieve legendary status.

fillippone

legendary

Activity: 2268

Merit: 16328

Fully fledged Merit Cycler - Golden Feather 22-23

I understand that your calculator is so much older, but this is superior as it automatically calculates (in the version I posted above) the exact ranking up date, provided you feed your activity cycle correctly and the uniform update cycle in the forum.
You could easily upgrade your own spreadsheet with the official activity cycle.
You can find all the required information in my updated spreadsheet above.

TheBeardedBaby

legendary

Activity: 2240

Merit: 3150

₿uy / $ell ..oeleo ;(

I made calculator 2 years ago when the activity was the only vector to rank up. You see each date for each period of the 14 days cycles. Logically all this applies if you have the required merit for ranking up.

Quote from: TheBeardedBaby on December 06, 2017, 05:28:10 AM

Link to the Rank, Activity and Merit points calculator, v2
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Easy calculating your Activity based on your registration day. Basically for fun as just a few receive enough merit to rank up.

Silent26

sr. member

Activity: 602

Merit: 327

Politeness: 1227: - 0 / +1

Quote from: Daniel91 on October 09, 2019, 10:34:51 AM

It is especially difficult to advance for young members who can't write in English and can only participate in the local part of the forum.

Low rank members can still receive Merits even though they can't/don't post in English Language. Merit is a reward to be given in a "quality" post and doesn't mean non English posts doesn't deserved it. As long as a post helps other member or can be qualified as quality, no matter what language it is written, it can be merited. I hope that answered your concern.

btcdie

sr. member

Activity: 784

Merit: 251

Quote from: Daniel91 on October 09, 2019, 10:34:51 AM

I remember the time before the introduction of merit when we just wrote in the forum without burdening ourselves too much with others and what others think of us.
Now it's different, everyone is struggling to get merit and advance in the forum.
I am not sure if this is fair to the younger members since the older members received higher forum ranks much easier.
It is especially difficult to advance for young members who can't write in English and can only participate in the local part of the forum.

the time has come when beginners have to struggle to raise their rankings in the forum. and very sad, the younger members who are now more happy to spam, only a part of the beginner generation who really earnestly struggling to raise rankings without spamming.

actually not understanding English is not an obstacle in this forum, there are many language translator platforms as learning media, maybe it is difficult to learn grammar only. after all we in school must have learned English, of course we master it even though a little.

CryptopreneurBrainboss

legendary

Activity: 2450

Merit: 4295

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Quote from: Daniel91 on October 09, 2019, 10:34:51 AM

I remember the time before the introduction of merit when we just wrote in the forum without burdening ourselves too much with others and what others think of us.
Now it's different, everyone is struggling to get merit and advance in the forum.

Exactly and that's why the younger generation are now suffering for the way majority of earlier users treated the forum. Had it been "they" didn't spam the forum, all in the name of they don't care about what other thought of their posts, we won't had been in this situation now (having to require merit to rank up) but still though, kudos to them as due to their abusive ways we got a better system to stop account farming and probably reduce the rate of spamming in the forum.

The quality of post are steadily improving and healthy discussion are been observed in their numbers. Now we just have to get rid of or reduce the rate at which back scratchers are getting rewarded (i.e those posting to impress certain set of users) then the system will become perfect.

fillippone

legendary

Activity: 2268

Merit: 16328

Fully fledged Merit Cycler - Golden Feather 22-23

We might be a little OT here, but I think the system is fair.
I racked up a decent amount of merits and just today I ranked up to Hero... just waiting for my lucky day when I will be legendary.

Of course I put a lot of effort in the forum and I got something back.
I am being humble about this: if I did it, i cannot see why other "new era newbies" cannot do the same.

Also I am not angry at oldest members who got their rank based on the fact that they were there.
Firstly being there at that time meant they were intelligent enough to understand the BTC value proposition before many other, secondly they put a lot of effort in the forum as well, without merit system being able to signal it. So no point in thinking they are abusing their status.
So I do agree, the system is not perfect, but it's the fairest.

The Sceptical Chymist

legendary

Activity: 3528

Merit: 7005

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Quote from: Daniel91 on October 09, 2019, 10:34:51 AM

I am not sure if this is fair to the younger members since the older members received higher forum ranks much easier.

It's fair. Even if it weren't fair, it was the fairest solution to the rampant shitposting problem. By the beginning of 2018 it was clear to anyone reading posts on this forum that something had to be done--account farming was easy to do and was out of control. Members came here hoping to rank up and earn big money in signature campaigns, and the result was an onslaught of low-quality posts done for just that purpose.

Quote from: Daniel91 on October 09, 2019, 10:34:51 AM

It is especially difficult to advance for young members who can't write in English and can only participate in the local part of the forum.

If they feel the need to write in a language they don't have a command of, I would question their motive for doing so. Usually such members have advertising in their signatures, and if that's the case they're probably writing in English because that's what they're getting paid to do.

It's much, much harder to rank up from scratch these days, that is certainly true. But that's the whole point of the merit system. It wasn't done maliciously but rather as a protective mechanism for the forum as a whole. Personally I think it's serving its purpose so far, all complaints aside (and we haven't seen many bitch-fests in Meta lately).

Daniel91

legendary

Activity: 3374

Merit: 1824

I remember the time before the introduction of merit when we just wrote in the forum without burdening ourselves too much with others and what others think of us.
Now it's different, everyone is struggling to get merit and advance in the forum.
I am not sure if this is fair to the younger members since the older members received higher forum ranks much easier.
It is especially difficult to advance for young members who can't write in English and can only participate in the local part of the forum.

fillippone

legendary

Activity: 2268

Merit: 16328

Fully fledged Merit Cycler - Golden Feather 22-23

Hello everyone.
I am bored as well, so I did a trivial edit to the calculator.
As activity cycles are common to the whole forum I added them into the spreadsheet (credits to Jambola2 spreadsheet found here).
So it's not needed anymore to input last activity increase then!
Try Now the Rank Activity Calculator Automated here!

actmyname

copper member

Activity: 2562

Merit: 2510

Spear the bees

You need to make a copy of the document so that you can edit it. Obviously, if it wasn't view-only then you'd have the document deleted or strewn with chaos.

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