Topic: Which one of this is important most? - page 2. (Read 514 times)

Reputation, are you referring to trust rating (feedback) or you mean popularity. If you're referring to trust rating it's basically worthless outside the marketplace boards as that's where your rating really matters. But if you're speaking about reputation (which is popularity), I'll chose that over merits. Popularity can get you into places your merits won't get you. Merits can be easily earned as anybody with quality contents can get merited but not everybody can get reputations. Both are important but merit is losing its value for me. If you see an account with high merit it mightn't necessary interpret that the account is a quality posters.

Merits can be gotten from various means today. We have review threads, giveaway threads and merits as a reward for participating in the different official contests organized on the forum.Then we have reputation that is purely earned through your years of giving people a reasons to trust you due to been very professional or been known for your quality contributions to the forum. Having reputation can give you merits as more people see your write up they pick interest in trying to find something worth meriting in your posts but having merits can't give you reputation. You can see some members receiving merits for been known for their quality contributions to the forum and that should let you know reputation is more powerful.

I have recently seen a few videos on Byung-Chul Han's philosophy and realised that users of this forum are quite fortunate to post here. The mentioned author is quite pessimistic on how the identities people invent in different social media end up transforming the real self, not for the better most of the times. Anonymity and distance makes most users behave in a way they wouldn't in real life, and feed back from the same behaviors from different people makes them not only distort reality, but themselves.

We have the luck that most members here are educated people with a common passion who want to help others who share that passion in a collaborative space. Not in vane is this the forum created by Satoshi himself. Maybe this is the reason why, as far as I'm aware, we value respect in a way that is not so typical in the internet today.

So IMO merit is really important, of course, because this is the way you can access paid campaigns or be trusted for other business, but reputation is the most important one because, if Byung-Chul Han is right, it is directly linked to the reputable or mediocre person you truly become.

Before answering your question, I want to ask you back, do you live to eat or eat to live?
Reputation and Merit have a very close bond, without building an account reputation it is very difficult to get merit. Meanwhile, ranking up requires merit, an account with a good reputation with the quality of what you post will more easily bring merit.
Your way of thinking on the forum determines whether it is easy or not to get Merit and Reputation. I think both of them have the same function and role in order to get a bonus in the forum. Merit and reputation are inseparable, your success in the forum depends on both.

Many forums have a ranking system and some privileges for members. But this forum is famous for the fact that newcomers who come here often forget about the very idea of the forum and strive to increase their ranks, being ignorant. It looks pretty funny. And it is precisely from this that we see a lot of new open topics created by beginners, the content of which either does not reveal anything or does not correspond to reality at all.
I would say that everything should go on as usual. A person comes to the forum with the goal of learning about cryptocurrencies, and only after that should he care about rank and merit. How can you talk about surgical operations without having a medical education? In the same way, how can you expect respect if you come and do nothing and act like an amateur?

Both are important. With questions and answers, it is possible to generate positive discussions in providing actual data and information about something, both developments and situations related to the world of critiques. I think each has a contribution in this forum. and regarding the quality of posts or in providing relevant answers and awards in the form of merit, I think each has its own way and pattern of analyzing it.

I do not understand your write up very well but it seems you have already taken side that reputation is more important in the forum than merits. You may be correct but I have these to say based on your question.

• Reputation and merits complement each other
• Every reputable members of this forum has good amount of merits
• But it is not everyone with good number of merits is reputable
• So, it easier to chase merits and get them than to chase reputation which is more related to trust.

For me reputation. If this go down then whats the purpose of your merit? As a person who have it. This is a biggest achievement since if you establish a nice reputation whether you are low rank or high rank, its show how important you are in the forum and that means that other people are respecting you. Merits can come eventually and its based on your quality post or response. But reputation is something you build with your character and thats not easy to attain.

It will depends on what is important to you if you want to deal with multiple people in this forum since you always want to do transaction reputation is better since people could trust you up in any form.

But if your aim is to rank up then maybe to join on signature campaigns then gaining merits should be prioritized so try to select on which is best for you so that you can focus and see the result afterwards.

The forum is a place to learn a lot of things, particularly about cryptocurrencies, but many people mistakenly believe that going there is just to get Marit and start engaging in other activities like signature or doing anything else that would put money in his pocket. I am aware that getting money online is not an issue, but how much can you really make if you don't know how? The bulk of newcomers to the forum are drawn there by merit.
What I'm trying to convey is that in order to rank up or gain merit, a person must be aware of the forum rules, the procedure for earning merit, and the requirements necessary to obtain the merit. To that end, my advise is to visit the beginners' help thread in this forum.

Please don't get me wrong here if am picking out some errors you made while typing this post out so i would like you to seat and read up what you are saying before posting, i dont just come up to peoples topic and comment, i take my time to read on what you are saying regarding the topic before i say anything.

cheers....

My advice to you mate is to try and learn English further you are far from being poor in English, it's extremely hard to understand what you are getting at.

I would be going with what I think other understand from this and that's you can't be a poor poster and rank up here on the forum you would not be able to get merit and there by hou won't be able to rank up.

Rank and reputation are important as you growing here although one is very much necessary and as such one needs to take such with calm while building your account. Ranking is good but that has to do with you getting merited and activities growing so as to sustain your presence here but reputation here has to do with reliability and credibility onboard this platform. You shouldn't be too bothered about that as you have no deal with anyone here. Most times, reputation can attract members to one with high level of it here. It takes you a successful deal as an escrow or any duty here which involves funds or otherwise to behave and being fair in the dealings to earn a good reputation.

"reputation" ⁽¹⁾ is much more important then "merit" ⁽²⁾

it is useless if you have abundant merit but in the end your reputation is destroyed because of something unpleasant that you did in this forum ^{(plagiarism, threats, slander, fraud)}, reputation on this forum is like a foundation on a building, without a good reputation the building ^(account) will be destroyed and it will not be easy to return ^{(the reputation)}, although merit is needed to rank up in this forum, don't chase it too much because you might will accidentally break your reputation.

Reputation is how people see you or their opinion about you and it all depends on if you're doing the right thing or not and the impression people have about you might change. Rank and reputation ain't the same, the rank is the position you are on the forum and the merit system helps to keep it going so without the merit the rank stays without going up. IMO I'd say reputation is important than ranking, because ranking doesn't tell who you are.

There are a lot of member accounts here in the forum that is ruined because of bad reputation, for sure reputation is more important here in the forum because you could have a high-rank profile by earning a lot of merits but at the same time bad reputation like for example you are tag to something like scamming. Your profile doesnt really matter anymore even though you are a legendary rank member here in the forum it wouldn't matter anymore since no one would trust you anymore at some point because your reputation is already ruined.

I mean merits and reputation had connections but are still different things, you get merits by doing high-quality posts and you could rank up by doing that, your reputation will depend on your contribution to the forum that includes your high-quality post, etc you're going to slowly get recognize and earn trust/reputation in the forum. Reputation is still the priority following the rules should be the basic and if you dont follow that you're going to have a bad reputation and probably get ban.

Merits is the reward a forum member will get when they post a constructive posts or high quality post while reputation is how people determine the level of trust you have gain from other forum members. As you have read from other forum members, reputation is how people see a person if they can trust a certain person or not. That's why there's a two level and that is good reputation and bad reputation, good reputation means that a person with good reputation are most likely won't scam people (except when they start having a good reputation but turns out they start as having good reputation before scamming people, most likely who done this are casinos) and bad reputation is how a person will most likely scamming people or promoting scam company or projects.

@OP, on the forum, reputation is measured by two things so far as I know: first, if you carry out a successful transaction with another member and you receive a green target for it, it will help build your reputation as someone who could be trusted for some good business deals; second, if you are a good poster with educative contents, then you will have a good reputation as someone who is always making quality posts that provide solutions to other users questions, and there is no way you will be a quality poster without merit. Based on those two points, you will need them to build your reputation, which, in both cases, you are likely to get merit for. Although there are some shitposters who also manage to earn some merit to rank up just for joining the signature campaign, most of them are not concerned about reputation. Also, there could be other ways that the forum measures an individual's reputation other than what I have said.


Cheers 🥂, Dr.Bitcoin_Strange 👺👺

Reputation simply means the view most people have about you, it could be a good or bad reputation. Based on the content of your post, it can be assumed you mean a positive reputation. Your question can be interpreted as " getting so much money but generally known as untrustworthy and having little but considered as trustworthy, which one is better?

It is not wrong to expect merit from your contribution because you need it to rank up and everybody wants to be promoted. But it becomes a problem when people begin to desire to get merits by all means. They go to the extent of plagiarising, using bots and even lying because they want to get merit by all means. I have seen some posts that are clear lies because it lacks facts and is not coherent. But people will just come up with such talks because they want merit. These set of persons don't care about a good reputation because they have been blinded by the uncontrollable desire to get merits.

Merits are useless without a good reputation. Without reputation, you will not enjoy the forum. People will not always believe what you said even if it is true. You might not also enjoy the benefits from the forum such as signature campaigns because you might not be hired by managers.

We earn merit as a reward for quality posts and contributing ideas to the forum and its users. I also believe that someone's reputation is what defines the person, and it's based on what and how the person behaves around the forum. Our reputations are all being judged based on our own contributions to the forum.

Reputation can be stained and tempered with, but merit earned can't be removed (at least for now, no feature allows that), so if you are to ask me, both are essential, and both help each other because for you to earn some good reputations, you will first be rewarded with merit for your contribution before other recommendations and ratings will follow.

Both of them are important mate. You need merit to rank up to show that you are learning and growing in the forum. While you need reputation to make people trust you and easily do business with you or can entrust something important to you to coordinate. Good name is better than riches and I see that reputation comes from our being sincere and honest with whatever that we are doing here. Good reputation will enable one assign a task to you and will have that confidence and assurance that you are capable to handle it.