Topic: Zero To Hero in under 4 months. (My Merit Journey). (Read 1145 times)

Thank you Daniel91,
Yes you remember well!

Both of you are great members on this forum, always ready to help and support others and you can be inspiration for young members that everything is possible even if you joined late.
It really doesn't matter who joined when but what they can provide and give to others.
Mikeywith, if you didn't follow this forum only as a guest in the beginning, you would probably be legendary by now, but you did not let this fact discourage you and you set a great example to others.
If I remember well, fillippone also became merit source recently?
Congratulation to both of you!

When I check my infamous merit post, I am always shocked on how much road I have travelled in the forum, and how everything changed with my firs serious post (a guide on running a BTC node, back in Jan 18).
But this is only the result of commitment that users like you, like us, put in the community.
Not everyone can do the same (time is scarce, natural inclinations or other respectable reasons), but It's a nice thing to look back in the path and see how much we have travelled. This is the only way to continue walking in the same direction, as I feel the more I go down that path, the more I want to walk..
 

It's amazing how far this journey has gone, it's been 8 months and i eared another 1000 merit , seems like my average merit is 500 every 4 months, or 125 merit a month, most certainly not the best out there , but this should prove that ranking up is fairly easy if you actually contribute to the forum.

I am now in top 15 most merited members of all time, in less than a year of actually being active on forum , I do take the forum very seriously , I enjoy teaching other members about the stuff I know the most , and this makes life much more easier for me here, and I see no reason why wouldn't anyone rank to hero or legendary in a year time, really "If I can do it, anyone can".

This is a very inspiring users with good posting skills. There is so much had done in your part and able you to get merits and rank up.  You deserve it likely and in the future you will going to rank up to legendary. There are many likes of.you in the forum lime those users that has receive more merits than their activity. They just wait their activities to fall in into legendary so that they can rank up.

How I wish it would be that easy though we know that it could not be ask rather it should be acquire. Since many are nkw applying to become a merit source. Hoping one day many users will going to rank up. It is a wish of every bounty hunter and somehow turn to be a small scale investors who became an crypto lover and has the endeavor to continue searching for knowledge in cryptocurrency.

Congratulations mate and sorry it's coming late, I didn't notice your self congratulation post of achieving such a milestones in a short period of time. I did achieve similar progress (ranking up twice from member to full and snr member in 2 and half months) but decided not to celebrate the snr member achievement so I won't get distracted. Achieving Hero membership is something to brag about as not all can bust of that as only the well deserve members do achieve it and hopefully I'll celebrate just as you have done when the time comes.
Congratulations once again and keep up your good works.

skimmed through your posts, quality and content seem to be improving a lot, and so is your merit score, keep up the good work , you will eventually get there.

I have moved a little bit more than half of my run to finish Full Member challenge, so it might be great if I can get 45 (half of yours) in next 9 days. 
It is just kidding, I might spend around two or three months to hit Full Member, if I can not do something more constructive, helpful for community.
I stopped here to start reading all your recent meritted posts (your posts that help you received your last 90 merits).

hmm how about 90 merit in 9 days ?   

Fair enough. I respect your answer and thanks, the same to you to.

There are some facts and valid points in your post indeed, but you bury them between a lot of what i think of as " non-sense aka b.s ", sadly i have reached to a point in life where i don't enjoy disagreements.  a few years ago i would have 2-3 debates with my wife alone daily, now i just happen to agree with every point she makes just to avoid debating, so not debating with you does not mean i disrespect you , it does not mean i totally agree/disagree , it just means i do  not feel like it.

Feel free to debate in any of my topics.  

Why would giving you praise cause you to dislike me?

Not giving a fuck is fine. That is your call.

There is no debate. I am just presenting observable events.

Anyway, I will not contribute further to this thread unless you wish to debate anything I have said or if anyone else does. If you wish to term my prior post as "that shit" then fair enough. However, it does not stop it being the observable truth of how the mechanisms of control operate here currently and the dangerous implications associated with them.

I hope you get more merits or just get made a legend already - if you are really here to help then you are a legend already. I would rather see them go to you than the most serious abusers of the systems whom know full well how they operate and deliberately exploit them.

if you think that by saying all that shit you going to make me dislike you and start debating with you, then sorry to disappoint you, i just happen to not give a fuck.

I still think you are after a good cause, but with the most stupid tactics, and it will get you no where, but you know what ? suit yourself cryptohunter

good luck fighting everything and everyone 

Mikey Mikey Mikey - please don't fail to over look the praise I have given you already. So it is not like I am having a go at you.

Let's examine your post and take it apart as I have done so with every other post you have made that makes a faux rebuttal of my observably true statements. This all relates back to my thread called the most important thread of the
year. I mean  just trace back through our prior debates. You will notice that you vanish when I start nailing you down to details. You either do not understand how it observably works or you are choosing to ignore it and feign ignorance.


1. you hang in meta = yes or no  

that would be yes.

2. you again try to defend the broken systems of control = yes or no

that would be yes and actually support them

3. you call observable fact relating to how the systems of control DO function and their implications a "conspiracy theory"

again true

4. you continue to use your anecdotal experience as validation for your false claims and general lack of understanding of these abused systems. Even after I have taken time to break it down and explain it to you many times.

again true

5. you claim to not be ass kissing or defending the DT abusers, but yet call accurate descriptions of their abuse and behaviours and its implications " conspiracy theories" therefore seeking to discredit the evidence provided.

again true

6. You see being familiar with other "meta" posters does not mean you will essentially gain their merit favour purely on meta board. Once you are on their merit merry go around ( observably aligned with their agendas) they admit they bookmark their fav posters and just search their post histories to bestow merits.

Merit system is the source of their power to abuse, it is the tool to influence or even crush free speech.

again true

Now let's be sensible.  You helping some new people with some issues resolve them is noble and deserving of merit indeed. However, my quest to bring forth a transparent and fair system ensuring equal treatment for all whilst preserving free speech for no direct personal gain and actually the destruction of my own account  -- well as you can imagine that is equally as noble and has far larger implications. That is without boring you all over again with my prior achievements.

Let's not get up set with each other. As I have said my main beef with you is not that you are a trust abuser, nor seemingly that unfair. It is that you are proliferating false information which is misleading and damaging to the freedom of speech of this board.

Now, I would suggest again that you go and read that thread of the year thread and keep reading it over until you grasp that it is not a debate, it is not an opinion and rather it is an accurate and observably correct presentation of how the systems of control merit and trust operate and the damage they are inflicting on free speech. Not only that, but there is built in motive and financial incentive to abuse the systems.

Now before responding here. Go and respond to one of the other debates we were having until you just vanished or go read the thread of the year and understand the full implications of the merit system "which you are promoting here"

People that keep saying pre merit members were lucky or got easy merit are being disrespectful to those that accomplished many amazing things and made posts that were far far better than the vast majority of "high" merit cyclers are even capable of.  I mean some say "most" pre merit legends are spammers....imagine that kind of crazy allowed to proliferate.

Now again, well done on your merits , but stop making far reaching statements that are simply not true or at best misleading and inaccurate.

I have no idea why you are so upset since I said you were likely more deserving for your efforts than most of the cyclers. Certainly though you need to read more before posting on certain aspects of this forum. Experience and knowledge of many members histories and previous events here are paramount really when making a case for certain admin level changes or even commenting on the systems of control. Hence why I think most noobs should not be hanging in meta at all. Most are here to merit up, rank up , sig banner up, spam with impunity. Simple as that. Although that is the same for most of the meta club as we can observe.

I think the "false and ridiculous assumptions" are rather yours

as we speak I have 529 merit - 113 merit from meta = 416 out side of Meta



The merit I got out side of Meta are probably more than what other 500 everyday-meta members combined get.

I am on of the most active members on btc mining board, solved a dozen of issues for a dozen of people, what have you done except for nagging about merit and DT ? nothing personal but i don't accept the fact that you directly or indirectly accusing me for earning my merit by supporting any system, i support people who have problems, help them out, educate them and that's all about it, and i could care less about all the drama they you and some other members enjoy.

look at this newbie > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1712442  

16 posts > 40 merit . 0% from meta

I have many other examples to show you, many people hang in meta all day long , support the "provably broken systems" and get no merit at all.

TL;DR

get our of the conspiracy theory you live in.



I do i do trust me , i always keep my merit bag near empty.

Applies to the merit sources as well.

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I am really not good at creating useful stats or giving technical explanations and no local board which makes hard for me (like persons) to get merits.But not impossible though.

Good job OP, keep up the good work
Newbies can have a look at your achievement, so they can't say that ranking up is impossible because of the new merit system...
Also, don't forget to spread the love merits whereever you go on the forum to let the others (who deserve it) to rank up too.

I will wait for your next story, fella.
Your old story has listed there already, but I will wait for your next one.
Inspirational stories from self-made promoted users

I had wondered to create same topic after become Hero, but seems you have stolen my topic title idea (fun).

Congratulations OP for your achievement. Now a day's it's not very easy to earn merit. Seems you earned merit faster more than me. Keep it up. I will write my story also once I will rank up  . Also I wrote my 500 merit achievement story on B&H

@cryptohunter, kuddos to you.
To OP, yes you surely are getting a lot of merit and congrats to that. Yet I would love to agree to that post above. This is not all about merit (merit is just a perks)
That leads to newbie thinking just more on getting a merit lol. It seems that merit system can now be the main reason why you should used this forum.

Funny thing is when some users who don't actually understand tends to post long nonsense post