Topic: Why Same MERITED Rankers send Merits to themselves? - page 3. (Read 1190 times)

Is there no other means to appreciate a post been by legendaries rankers or other higher rankers. I will really want to see something of such nature in future. Because same rank member sending Merit to same rank member is like a waste.

Getting merit is not only to increase the rank but it also confirms in one way that the person is writing quality posts. Also if any member want to get into signature campaigns the managers do check if he have recently got some merits in last 120 days. (As only last 120 merits are visible on the profile).
Merit is sort of an award which makes you superior than the others. Good writers are judged on the basis of merits. The more merits you have, the better writer you are, who contribute to the forum.

Congratulations, you have just discovered the "Matthew effect". But just like almost other people, you also commited it. My post was just 2 posts below libert19's post, mentioning the effect. You missed it because I'm just Jr. member ranked, right?

try to compare your own posts that you make with members who receive a lot of merits, is the quality the same?..  Your quality is too low if you think you are the same as the member (recipient of many merits). You just need to understand how our world works, everyone has a different level of intelligence (in writing, an understanding of a problem, and knowledge), this is what you need to accept..

"You have the right to opine and insinuate like this but in reality, the rich are always more helpful than the poor" the poor I mean here is mentally poor, complaining is one of the poor mental proofs..

Best and accurate sentence so far. +1, which left me with a solo merit to keep the +merit box open!
I will not say that 100% of merit sources or other members are doing this but since the merit system was implemented there was so many trafficking starting from the guys sending +50 merit to their alts, friends between them for stupid comments...
Actually what I notice is the probability to be merited increase with how famous you are in the first place then how substantial your post is. For example if theymos makes a post about a new forum feature, he may receive for it a total of +50 merit, while if any other staff member announced it, he may receive less than 30. Same applies for other members. No?

Am Wow with this... I believe this will help lots of newbies coming into Bitcointalk forum to understand better on how to get Merits other than begging for it.


In your case, it's about the bounty Campaign they are running, while I am talking about having Merits when you are already a higher ranked member in the forum just like legendary to legendary.

I have the same problem that before that "how can I get a lot of merits like the legendaries that have over 500 merits". The only thing I need to do is only get a lot of knowledge and share into other users. All of the good posts have merit, no matter what is your rank. One of the common mistake of us before is one of our goals is to have merits but that is wrong because we need to have a good quality content post and the merit will automatically come.

I would like to share where do I got some of my merits and some of the thread giving some merits
1. Giving 25 Newbie/Jr. Members a Chance to Rank Up by Pmalek
2. 💥 [Merit Giveaway] - Post useful threads and earn merit by
Henri Cartier
3. [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source by LoyceV
4. Merit giveaway for newbie and jr members by Daniel91

And the other merits are came from the topic/thread I made that helps other users. I hope you can get some too soon.

Perhaps that solves the mystery of why he hardly replies to our peasantry discussions.

Many people here have expressed the preference to merit lower ranks. They're saying most of the lower ranks don't create good enough posts. If they did then they'd be flying up the charts.

The small amount of shit hot posters who arrive out of nowhere reach ludicrous heights in no time at all. That had nothing to do with privilege or nepotism. What they had was recognised by others and awarded.

Those people always deserve praise who are capable to make impression with their thoughts it doesn't matter how much experienced they are so in this case the positive impact of thoughts really matters more than ranks and we must understand this simple point.

I've been meaning to do this for a while.

A. Problem


In your opinion, merit in the forum should be given only to those who need to be ranked up. And there is no need to give merit to those who are Legendary.

Like you, I felt like that one day. But I now understand that merit has to be earned and it can be earned by anyone whether he/she is a Newbie, Jr.  member, Member or Legendary member.

I mentioned two topics here as an examples where you can see that Newbie and Jr.  member has no comment. The reason for this is that if you want to comment on something, you must know about it.  If you don't know, you can't comment there.

Bitcoin Transaction Fees - Everything in one
[Tutorial] How to create Lightning Network Channel (Testnet BTC)

Again you will see that in the Beginners and Help section when a Beginner is looking for help then High rank members are comes first for help.

How to earn bitcoin using this site fot a newbie
Fake volume?

Again, you can go to this thread and see that most of the sheet posts are from lower rank members.
Wall of fame / shame. Shit posts so bad that they are actually funny

You have achieved 3 merits in the last 120 days. May 4, 2020 two merits and today 1 merit. This is because you spend most of your time in the bounty. "Crypto.Games" was the first to comment on this topic. You will see that his total post is 4 but merit is 12. Therefore, if the quality of the post is good, there is no doubt that lower rank members can get merit.

So we can say that merit is not given on the basis of rank. Merit is given based on the quality of the post.

B. Solution
I am mentioning here some ways to achieve merit for you..
1. Given more and more time in the forum
2. Acquire knowledge
3.  Start a good topic.
4.  Good Comment.
5.  Helping others
6.  Scam busting
7.  Participate in important discussions.

You can also read the guide below ..
TMAN'S guide to getting merit.

Thank you.

They are high-ranked members for a reason. Their post quality sets them apart. Especially those who became Legendaries after the introduction of the merit system.

You assumption that Newbies and lower ranks are overlooked is not correct. In most cases, their contributions are not merit-worthy. But there are exceptions. Take a look at these two newbies for example:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/writeups-of-my-mempool-observations-5245506
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/vanitygen-hd-a-vanity-hdhdm-wallet-generator-5243577
 

This is a little off-topic.

Legendaries who are active in signature campaigns needs few merits too because campaign managers would require or prefer those who received xx amount of merits in the last 120 days. If they don't meet such requirement, the chances of them getting accepted is lower.

And then there's this  

Asides from the effect of airdropped merits, those high ranked members were once newbies and they rose to that rank by earning merits. Merits are not given to ranks, there are legendaries who have not earned a single merit. As long as you keep dropping useful and relevant content, you'll get some. If you have a target you are pursuing then you may need to find a niche board and learn everything about it; this could be politics, mining etc.

I am averse to this, it's like meriting a shit post of a HQ poster cause they usually post good content. If a post is merit-worthy by your subjective standards, it should be merited.

Wait until you uncover the Legendary users who gift other Legendary users up to 50 merits at a time.

Or re-discover the threads whose sole purpose is to say outlandish things and gift each-other merits in a circle-jerk of merit giving.

Or the mock indignation in the pretext of discussion about other user's reputations garnering those posters merits.

The list goes on.

The "rich gets richer and poor stays poorer" is called "Matthew effect" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect). Applying this theory to Bitcointalk, it can be interpreted that if a problem or an idea spotted at the same time by a low ranked and a high ranked members, the high ranked member is recognized and the low ranked is easier to be overlooked. I'm not opposed to this Matthew effect, it's quite popular in real life. I usually talk to myself that, you can't change social prejudices on your own, all you can do is never stop proving yourself. One day your effort will be awarded deservedly or at least, you won't be regret that you haven't tried enough in the past.

The forum is far different from a game - where you only need to try hard, kill bosses, clear maps... to rank up and then chill when you hit the highest rank. People are here for knowledge, discussions, bitcoin passion and so on. So just because of reaching the legend rank doesn't mean that they stop giving merit to other legends' good posts. At a certain level, merit is the measure of reputation, I think. There are merit sources to do the merit distribution and the number of them is increasing day by day.

High ranked whos deserve a merit  base on the quality of the post  he make should also given merit what ever they rank is.

The merit given to High ranked member will also convert to smerit where they can also use to give to other user's  so its not really a big problem. besides merit is also part of requirements  if you will apply for a campaign so they also need to receive merit.

I wonder same at times, it's much like real world economy where rich gets richer and poor stays poorer.