Topic: Why it's so hard to rank-up? - page 4. (Read 1735 times)

Yes, I'm just learning and the lack of knowledge is palpable. Sometimes I literally don't understand what they write about in the topics. It's a bit embarrassing, but we've all been through this, haven't we? Such an answer from a newbie probably sounds funny in this topic

Theymos said:



So I'd say that's how it works. I won't talk about it too much considering you seem to know how the merit system works even though today you got your first one apart from the airdrop.

Theymos encourages more low-ranking users to post something quality, which is how all users managed to raise the rank even after the merit system was introduced. I found some users can even have higher merit than activity, they are contributors and high quality posters. While me and you and many other users run slower, but that's okay as long as we're willing to try.

I've also discovered that if you don't contribute to the forum, you wouldn't receive any merit. You have to serve the forum in many ways to be ranked higher since merit is always for posts that are good and deserving, and when you help the forum, you will be noticed, and people who have Smerit will give you without hesitation, and ranking will be easier as time goes on.
Secondly, try not to shit post on any boards in the forum.

Having a lot of knowledge in all subjects is not what's needed to up in this forum besides, it not possible to have knowledge in all subjects and most high-ranked members are also learning more at this moment because the crypto ecosystem is changing every day.

What every newbie actually needs to rank up is to understand the forum, know the section merit source focus, and have basic knowledge about BTC, wallet, and transaction.

I know ranking up won’t be that difficult, but some people are just starting to learn about bitcoin which it will be very difficult to make contribution to the forum, most of us are participating in bounty campaigns just to earn extral money, we all know that economy is down we just have to look for a way to earn a living. But I know if anybody is dedicated they will rank it might just take time.

Every member on this forum will rank up at his own pace. Some will rank up quickly while others will rank up slowly. It all depends on how hard you work at it, how much time you spend on the forum and how active you are. The important thing is to keep going and not get discouraged by the slow progress. Each of us can select his or her favorite subject, and then post in that subject by using our well-known information in this selected field. Through this whole idea, I think it's comforting to know that merit is still a fair system and that anyone can become a Sr. or Hero Member with good quality posts. There's no real secret to getting promoted on this forum, just keep posting high-quality content and you'll get there. It won't happen overnight, but with time, effort, and dedication anyone can reach the top.

On October 5, 2022, I will have my 5th birthday on this forum. I realized that I am not one of the quality posters that I can be proud of compared to hundreds to thousands of other users. I find it difficult to get merit due to poor post quality, but once I understand how the merit system works then I am very motivated to always prioritize quality over quantity. I just think that we have to be brave enough to make assumtion, share ideas and say something right. Those are some of the things that also help us discuss something good with other users.

I never complain about rankings, but I will be honest about my desire to move up the rankings to high rankings. Then Sr is the rank I'm most likely to achieve in the next few months, so it's something I'll try to do in the best way possible.

The best title for this thread should have been why is it so hard that I can't improve myself and rank up in my own opinion, this was same kind of question that I asked sometime in the past when I was a Newbie , But not knowing I was actually getting it wrong , until the time when I realized that I should rather focus on how to learn and improve myself and not how to get merit and ranked up. There a lot of members here that is just waiting on you to put up something educative and impressive to merit you.

However, Is good you've finally come to understand the right thing to do.

100k satoshis in an hour? Dang, I could recall when I attempted faucets back in 2017 and I could even barely get 500 satoshis in a day during that year when I started even when I tried multiple faucets. I can still recall that I must get into 10k satoshi first from one website before I could even withdraw it. Spoiler alert, I was not able to withdraw it as it was really tedious for me to rotate/switching all the faucets I bookmarked. Not sure what happened to it, but I ain't going back there.

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Thanks for sharing your experience by the way! I can see how some things changed overtime.

Of course, and I can say that it is a real contribution to the forum. His presence on the forum had a positive impact, his willingness to help the forum was expected and appreciated regardless how he reacted to particular individual breaking the rules.

That's how the merit system works so far. Every forum member who makes consistently quality posts then they will get ranked. Sooner or later it's just a matter of time, now you'll also find that some posters don't even have enough activity points to rank up despite having many merit.

As much as I know at this young age. Actually ranking up is not a difficult matter. To rank up, you have to have a lot of knowledge in all subjects. I see bitcointalk forum, except for altcoin board, you get a lot of merit if you post or reply with good quality. We who are juniors always wait for good quality posts from senior members.

Yes, after all, such users were valuable assets for the forum in the fight against scammers and spammers for many years, and I personally participated in 2 signature campaigns managed by Lauda and both were at the highest level, similar to today's CM. Therefore, my opinion is that we should not look at how good/bad a user is towards someone individually, but how good he is for the forum as a whole.

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A lot has changed since then, even when it comes to the faucets with which I actually earned my first Bitcoin. Back then, there were no irritating short links and claiming rewards was quite simple, but also very fast if you used a good faucet rotator - in less than 1 hour you could earn at least 100 000 satoshis, and with active referrals, even 500 000 satoshis per day. I remember a Russian site that was something like a PTC with faucets, and there I often used to get 200 000 satoshis in one click - which of course was not much considering the price of Bitcoin in those days of only $200+.

I think you are right, but I disagree if you think all users will have the same experience on this forum. Especially rankings after the merit system was introduced, it could only be achieved by users who were willing and able to post something quality. However when users were unwilling and unable to do so, then they would have hard time rank up. So that should be the reason why one thought about the difficulty of rank up nowadays.

Quality posters will be rewarded, they won't have much trouble getting merit and rankings. But I can say that every user should try to do the best they can and let other users judge the quality of their posts. I also agree that engaging in good discussion increases the chances of gaining knowledge and merit, and that is something that is often the habit of quality posters as far as I know.

I can somehow relate when I first started I even recall earning some shit tokens back in 2017 which was my year of starting in crypto. Come to think of it, I subconsciously earned some meme coin during those times. One token I remembered was Sparta (or Spartan?), lol. I am not sure anymore where those tokens went since my old brain could not keep track on how much meme coins I tried to pursue.
I also had the thoughts of buying Doge, though I did not manage to find any faucets. I kinda wished I experienced those years in crypto in your perspective, but hey since I went full Bitcoin holder, it is never too late to buy one.

I strongly disagree with you. It's not hard to rank up here, and it's not true that members are greedy with their merits. Take me for example - I joined the forum two years ago and was recently promoted to Hero member rank. You've been here for four years, but in that time you haven't moved beyond Newbie member rank. Can you spot the difference between us in terms of our forum activity?

This obviously shows that the senior forum members care about young members and recognize those who are most helpful in the forums. I'm sure that if you join the discussions and become active, you will be recognized and promoted fairly soon. But that won't happen if you continue to post only bounty reports, which is what you've mostly done so far. The forum is about helping people, and you should join the discussions with your own experiences to share. That will help you get ranked up faster than if you keep posting only bounty reports.

Am suprise seeing this post from you, do you think people having merits are greedy? I checked your post history but I didn't see any quality post that you did and is not merited, all I can see is bounty report and some comments you make just because you are participating in bounty signature campaign, I think you should start making positive impact to the forum and see if you won't get merit. You don't expect people to merit bounty report or two line posts you are making.
Also you said you are not on the forum to rank up, you are in the forum to learn, but all I can see in your post history is just bounty report, so am sure you are not on the forum to learn but to earn money. Am not saying participating in bounty is bad, but you can be participating in bounty and still be making quality posts that will help the forum.

Ranking up is not so hard when you have a lot of knowledge about crypto currency and the Blockchain technology.When you know how to help others in this forum and how to share important updates you will be appreciated by receiving a lot of merits. First learn and then share your knowledge with forum users.

You remind me of this one user, his departure is highly expected by most cheaters and scammers, so he is really a concern for rule breakers. Because Lauda was such an important member, his passing will always be remembered ^{[that's what I think].}

• Goodbye, world!

But on the other hand, one is welcome to leave without hesitation when they are not a very important member.

• I'm leaving here, goodbye friends!

You're welcome

However, I want to emphasize that this is just seeing the forum from my perspective, because in the beginning I spent most of my time in Micro Earnings and some other boards, a little outside the important things that were happening on the forum. Maybe you would be surprised if you looked at the post history of some of today's famous members, because most of us started very modestly, as befits true beginners.

I don't want to say that those who left were the ones who caused problems, but that they were just personalities who were different from the majority, and that their leaving the forum might have been a good thing for some, but I think we lost members who were also very important for this forum.

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From the perspective of that time and my own, they seemed to have some value, but for an inexperienced beginner, everything looks promising. The first coins that I somehow earned were actually altcoins, so I was even involved in a project whose owner was one of the more famous members of the forum, but that project, like many others, failed.

Over time, I realized that only Bitcoin has a constant, and that everything else is just an illusion sold by fog sellers, as is the case even today. I can't say that everything from that period was wasted time, because 1000 Dogecoins were worth only about $0.14 then, and you could earn them very easily on faucets - for those who saved them, they could make a very significant profit.

Hey! Kinda wished that I was in this forum that year. I might not have bought Bitcoin, but surely I would have been "more" educated towards it since my misconception back then was that Bitcoin was a coin being used in the dark web. That was what I was wrongly taught back in those years.
I usually listened to some random podcasts about the internet that year in Youtube, lol.
I have a wandering thoughts though. Were altcoins really like "worthy" in those years or were they just mostly shitcoins that we get these days? I am totally curious.