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Aloha,

Please start giving out your merit like the title says.

Mahalo nui loa,

dumplingsandsushi

It will probably take a while before people even realize they have it to give

Make the post more constructive again guys to get merit because the merit will be give for someone who active give constructive post on the thread. Lets go to make our post more constructive :)

Ain't giving any to you.Ain't giving any to you.Ain't giving any to you.

Maybe if you guys wrote something that was clever, funny, or otherwise interesting you'd get some merit points.  There's no way in hell I'm giving out merit to one-line shitposters after everything I've done in the last few weeks.  Write something good, something original.  Make me laugh.  Make somebody else laugh.

The other thing is that you might have a better chance getting merit points on the local boards, where the nuances of language aren't lost on your fellows.  People who can't write English here usually write stuff that no one wants to read--mainly because it was written in order to satisfy a campaign with minimum character quotas.  All of that shit is ridiculous and you shouldn't expect to earn merit that way.

Not really sure if this is the correct thread to make the post.
However, again, The Merit function is pretty new to the system and it will take a while before people realize how and when to use it. As of now, people who are really active in the Meta thread are having the most active participation in the merit system, but they are everywhere.
The best way to get some merit will be to start making constructive and knowledgeable posts. You can also end your post with the PS, to ask for merit if the post helped them in anyway.

It will take some time but it will really reduce the number of scammers with multiple accounts to come down and not to grow their rank.

Cheers!!

Since you do have many merits I'd like to ask you how you feel about being made to reward others for their posts? I'm not sure I fully understand the reasoning behind giving merits so that posters can rank up. why were some given many while others not so much. I dont mean to sound negative as I just am asking your views and take as you have many you are holding.
thank you

I am trying, honestly, but if the posts are like this one, I am afraid I am going to have a hard time finding anything really worth a merit. You know...

I agree, people should give their merits to people who needs them especially the junior members and members so that they maybe able to rank up. All users with members to hero or legenray rank has the ability to merit one person or many people. Please give us your merit so that we could also level up. Let's work one another.

Merit will be a business for some people who has in it abundance. I don't think merit will be given for free by just reading a message one think is constructive.

I think the whole idea of merit is that merit should be earned, not just given. That is the big difference between merit score and post count. You will reach post count regardless of your post quality, but merit score is far difficult.

Exactly, nobody will give merit to stranger for free. Now guys with full member and higher ranks will start to sell merits.

This is the main reason why the forum are getting more strict,shitposters should be penalized or the best would be a permanent ban.It pollutes the entire community here in bitcointalk,joining signatures even they cant have any constructive posts.Now asking and begging for merits? you do not deserve to have merits you need a redtrust because your post is completely non-sense.

This  things happen now of giving a merit to those member  who having a good post in the forum,is a strictly compliance of this community,but sometimes other use this oppurtunity as a part of there rocket bussiness,they sell there merit in a certain amount of value ,they exchange it a fiat.so that why sometimes i put in my mind that this merit is advantage only those have a highest rank in this forum,and we from the bottom is  needed that whos person  give to us merit,and asking for those generous heart who give to us.

I don't think they will give it as free. Maybe some using it for trading. Example, they will give you 1 merit for exchange of some coin / money. It was my opinion because if they do to give out merit for someone who needed it like us, I will be thankful but truth is, I don't know why they don't give some especially those who achieved the higher rank that no more need merit to level up :(

Maybe the idea of ​​introducing a system of merit is good, but it is not fully realized. I think that a very high amount of merit is established, which must be obtained for the transition from one rank to another. For example, to move from a full member to an older one, it is now necessary to collect 150 merits. Previously, it took about 130 days of relevant activity on this forum, that is, somewhere around 4.5 months. Now it is not realistic to get 150 merits in 4.5 months, no matter how hard they try to write their constructive messages. Therefore, it is unequivocal that the introduced system of merits will significantly slow down the advancement of forum participants in ranks, and perhaps, and make such advancement almost impossible. This is still beneficial to the older members, the heroes and the legendary.

Maybe they can give merit to those people who deserve it. Whose post are good and have sense. If they like your answer. I think they can give you a merit. If not then better luck next time.

Is the only use case of merit giving to others? So the more merit a user has the higher reputation? Don't get the point here.

Your just wasting your time begging on waiting people to give you some merits. Note if you want to earn merits you need to increase your hardwork and creative on replying on so much thread and one day maybe someone will give you few merits

It's a dumb system that was created because too many people are ranking up and the signature campaigns are clogged. Soon there will be merit based campaigns with big payouts and most everyone will be locked out of them.

I also try to make usefull post but no body get merit yet, in my opinion merit system is good but some member that still in jr.member thinking this is not fair, but aim of this merit just want to increasing quality of the this forum and to be more usefull for all member.

I agree. It will take time before they will generously give out their merits to others. Actually, I've seen a lot of quality posts here in the forum but 5 Smerits of mine is not enough to give them all. I hope others won't hesitate to give it to those who deserve it.

Don't be like beggar mate, ask in a clever manner
Start posting with thought, not only with fingers
Universe is fair, the more goodness you spread, the more goodness you will receive
And last

You need luck  :-*

I've given out most of the merits I had when the system started, and I've given a lot of them to users I've never heard of.  But read the replies in this thread.  Most of them are short, boring, poorly-constructed and thought out posts that after the first 6 words, I skip on down to the next one.  Those fuckers are never going to get merit, and I hope eventually they just give up and go away. 

I responded in this thread back in January and pointed out some posts that don't deserve merit, but shitposters just cannot see what they're doing wrong, just like scammers can't see what they're doing wrong.  They keep on posting crap.  There's no point in explaining; people will learn eventually that they can't rank up by posting crap.

Only fools and people who have alt accounts will give merit to an unintelligible thread or post just one liner, like you have created in this thread. Merit system is given to people who can provide clear information so that can be understood by readers. Be a useful person in this forum, provide clear information to people who read your post, and never cheat the system. I will be willing to give understanding to people who do not know the world of cryptocurrency in this forum.

Being rewarded with merits pretty much depends on the following steps:

1. Know what merit is, and what it is good for. I can see on the overall topic, and the replies to the topic that it is only a fraction of the people commenting here, who have taken the time to read up on the topic. Go visit the main topic in the meta section.

2. Write quality posts. This thread and replies are utter crap. I always urge people to read between the lines in order to fully understand what a quality post is. In this thread it is hard to read between the lines, as shit is dripping from one line to the next.

I fully agree that more merits should be given to the high quality posting people roaming the altcoin section. Fact is though that we're hard to spot.

This thread should be on off topic/meta section, right? hello moderator

If you want merits you should make posts with high quality content.  8)

Haha true that.Truely there are still many people who don't even know what merit is.Even for the people who know about merit it will take some time to understand it better and mainly to keep aside their ego and start giving merit to others.So let's wait for a month or two and things will be alright.

Come to the people! Live harmoniously, close and love each other. I will start my work every day. Join the post from bitcoin. I do not know if everyone is the same.

I've just gave 2 merits to a post a while ago because in my opinion it deserves a two thumbs up for making a very informative post. I still have 3 waiting for another deserving comment or topic here in the forum. We all know that there are repetitive and useless topics created here everyday so one must make an effort in creating worth reading topics before hitting the post button.

I'm looking to people who has many merits and need talk to them. Because they ignoring altcoin discussion thread.

Most everyone here has a valid point regarding the merit system. I totally agree on the repetitive threads and non-topics, which feel like a complete waste of time and effort. On the other hand, What i find truly positive about these threads are valid concernss, queries, suggestions, discussions and support. It is really heartening to see people helping, guiding each other without any personal constraint, and as such deserving of any such merit system. More than the language, which could be a problem for some, a sensible, topically valid response is what counts. So, though i empathize with the frustration of some with the merit system here, please be patient and grateful for a much better quality of posts, and continue sharing and learning in this, empathic community.

The merit system is theoretically excellent, but in reality, it will be another misused idea!

Yeah at this rate I might reach full member sometime in 2040.

Merit is provided for those who deserves to have. But it does not seem to be enforced because people who are selfish or otherwise give them to their friends or even their alts. Sadly because even your quality poster will not receive merit from people, I hope there are other ways to get merit.

I think that too many people are holding back the merit, but some of them are just sending it to friends or even farming. I hope that the merit sources do a good job, because the normal user seems unable to merit others.

as far as i know to get merit you need to make a quality post. and that's not an easy thing.
at least you can help solve someone's problem.
I am also still learning to make a quality post to get merit.
my advice cobalh makes the best for yourself and others.

How to get the merit. Even though, I'm still jr member that my activity is not yet available Pls give us the opportunity to increase our rankings so hard it is worth the merits pls give us.

What does Merit do?

actually i want to start by giving merit, but i am still confused with this merit system. some posts that I read there are saying very vulnerable to give each other merit, because it could be suspected connected accounts, because now a lot of reports that linked accounts.

haha I feel like this thread aint going to get ANY merits.
Sometimes I think BCT can totally start an ICO...

"[ANN]Merits ICO - A decentralised platform ecosystem for smart contract IoT Merits!!"

or something along those lines...

You'll give merit to a post that worth giving. It's kinda embarrassing if you'll give a merit to a post that kinda nonsense. It is a new way of ranking up here in forum, now that people will decide if you're worth ranking up by giving you merit based on your post.

Many people now worried about merit system, and I'm one that, because as long as we don't have any merit count in our profile account, our chances to be promoted are nothing, even we do enough effort on writing a strong line of answer on every question posted nothing merit will be given. Actually it is a new way of management system to promote the quality of every poster, on how to improve their quality of thoughts on every answers posted.

The only ones who have a decent amount to give is Hero/Legendary but they don't give noobs they only giving it to each other. So for a new member to rank up and become a full member will takes many years (if ever) instead of before just few months. Apperently the elite (who already are Hero/Legendary) here like it that way so just have to accept it or find another forum.

I still do not know about giving merit from alternative cryptocurrency while there are so many post quality here. Hopefully, there will be a service that will provide merit, by post-review for alternative cryptocurrency. I think many will received merit because most posts under the alternative cryptocurrency are high quality posts.

I also dont get any merit yet, i was try to make constructive post. I think many member here dont want to spend times for giving merit to others member. And in my opinion 100 merit to get full member ranking is to high.

merit is not something to ask for, it is something you earn from
making more constructive posts that can truly help with this forum.
try reading more and learning to be more constructive in posting
informative knowledge in what you know about the thread/topic.

Yeah, is easy to tell others to start moving merit around, to which I agree, but is not that easy to do good posts because it takes time to learn. I am afraid it is going to take me a long time to rank up if ever.

In my opinion this Merit System is great . For people like me , how i used to be until i understand this Crypto World ( a spammer for a project earning tokens ) this is great. I have to admit that i was that kind of moron spamming and get tokens . Whatever , this is not the main ideea because i figured out that this won`t bring me nothing . As far as i said that this Merit System is great , i`m afraid that it will become a slight bussiness for those with a lot of Merits , and i find hard to believe the BIG ones will give Merits to low people like us, even if we make a great content or have a very good opinion or point of view. It`s debatble , but i`m going on the side that Merit= Bussiness in near future.

the merit  is good for the forum. encourage everyone to send high quality posts.

Lol. I like this man. Everybody want to get some merits. It is not easy.((

This is very funny. You want people to give you merit so that you would rank up?  Pretty much. I was wondering when someone would even make something like this. But too bad the post was poorly constructed.

How many people who gave merit for a good message?  ;D

There's no problem giving out merits if the person receiving it really deserves it. I know that it's hard to rank up these days.

ICOs and project will soon realize that there are too many higher ranks are joining bounty campaigns and of of the participants are lower ranks that couldn't even wear good signatures due to character limitations.
Time will come that this forum will be flooded by Jr. Members that are stuck for a long time.
I really don't get the Mai point of Merit system because if you noticed, higher ranks are exchanging sMerits and only few of them are for younger ranks.

It's really hard, especially English isn't our native language.
My only point is, why we need to give sMerits to legendaries like Theymos? they already on top, merits and sMerits are for high quality posts and they're not intended to the posts you're agreeing with.
There are some higher ranks are only after on busting offenses and they earn sMerit. What's the point? Busting members who did offenses are not considered as high quality posts.
If that's the case I would rather hunting down some members who are abusing their sMerits and other offenses to earn merits.

Shouldnt be asking people to give you merits,if they really wanted to give you they will.The merit system has really FCKedup the ranking system in bitcointalk but look at the good side,a month a go this forum was flooded by shitposter and spammers who wants to rank up fast,today our forum has less spam and shitposters that is why i am very pleased with the merit system.

Can you explain what this merit gives?

It ensures you can go up when you hit member level. Once you are member level you will be needing merits from someone else.

Half of the posts here don't deserve a merit at all. But why do you accumulate ur smerits? Do you think to exchange them for money? :)

People are probably not giving out merits because they are not receiving any and therefore they feel they would just soon finish their sMerits and never get any new one any more. I am not wanting here to state who is deserving or not deserving merits, I'm just pointing to the fact that most middle-ranked people will start to give out their few sMerits only after that they will have started to get some. That's how human psychology works. And since most of the people write only bad posts which are likely to never receive any merit, I see some problems in the circulation of merits to get traction.

I still can't work out how to give merit or even why i would want to.

Go Green!

Merit is not so easy to come by. You cannot get merit by begging and that is more reason i do not beg for merit. I believe that when the turn gets to me to have by merit by a good and constructive post, i will get it. If i do not get it, there is nothing i can do about it.
Whoever deserves it will get it.

This merit system made horribly. Just to send some merit you cannot just like the post, you have to go to another page and do some manipulations.

Even if I am willing to share merits to others, I could not do so, because I don't still have any merits. According to some, merits are given to those who are deserving, who habitually have conscructive and full of sense posts to threads. So come on let's think and make some of full of sense and constructive post that will please those who would be able to share their merits out there.

Why give merit is how to strengthen its future competitor. No one will do that because it's illogical.

As far as I know, the forum administration prohibits simply exchanging merit, it can be given for the benefit that the user brings to the forum

If you want get merits your posts must be better built. Because this post is very poorly made.

The combination of two languages evokes mixed feelings, next time try use only english, it will make you better perceived.

And you must remember, to get merits you have to work on it!

And do you think people are going to give your merit because you asked for it?

Try making quality posts instead and it'll come in due time. ;)

Nobody will tell you their merits and will not give it back, guys. The same real adult world keeps everything for their own and does not divide, it's a squeeze!

Just have to focus on quality over quantity posts and it should come in due time, it's annoying when people rewards stupid posts with merit but what can you do

Most people doesn'r realise that they have it. This forum has been made as an "old style". There are little graphics, there should be more images, infographics and other visual stuff that can get more attention from newcomers. And converstion of good info to merits would be much higher.

People are not ready to share their smerit to anybody in this great forum because everybody is hoarding merit for what purpose we do not know. Merit was meant to be reward for a good work done.

hi guys.. im just asking how can you have merit? thank you

D95

I think that the merit system does not work. People do not want to give away their merits for free. The system was introduced several months ago, but there are many members on the forum that write good quality posts but do not have merites. The  idea  of Merit system is good because it has to improve the quality of posts, but I think that it does not work as it should.

I think that it is not worth it. You will receive simply a negative trust from someone from the forum, as well as all who do so ...

Here the forum administrator clearly explains that for all users of the forum, good luck https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0

Actually, the only way to earn merits is by creating good quality posts that are informative or helpful. So, I suggest mate that you do that and you will probably earn some good amount of merits. It is the quality over quantity.

Unfortunately, one of the biggest problems in the forum lately was the Merit problem. There are messages like those that deserve a high amount of merit, only messages that have been given 1-2 merit. I think I wrote good quality messages, but the last time I forgot my name is unfortunately. I do not have the time to distribute it, I expect a hope that someone will give it up and distribute it. Let's see where this is going to end.

Yeah right, those with lots of merit should share to members like us who need them. I believe that sharing is one of the best virtue that a person must have. Sharing your merits is one way of helping people to rank up especially those who are really giving and exerting their efforts for quality posts.

I have fully given my 29+ smerits to those ideas who have helped me or I think is helpful. I just wonder when will it replenish 'coz as I've understood, we can have smerits replenish itself aside from when we receive merits from other people.

I don't think they will give it free.Now a people are not given merit free in return they will be charge a high amount.The merit is not given to all.It will be given to those person who deserve it.

It seems they prefer making new accounts and meriting them to abuse bounties. I've seen accounts completely unrelated with bitcoin with 100 merit only made for bounties. Obviously sold alts. Meanwhile after 3 years in btt, I've seen and wrote a lot of helpful comments that deserve merits and got none.

Giving merit out will definitely help other mate but some are stingy they prefer to have another account and send the merit to develop another account.

To be honest i do not think that people are ready to give it becaise of the reason that they themselve need to earn it first and i think this system has just made the ranking system stagnant although im against spamming but still i do not like this system as we talk about decentralization crypto concepts here but on the other hand we are being controlled too much here, i know majority of members support what im saying but most will still stay quite. Anyhow lets still hope there will be removal or this system or atleast friendly modifications introduced so that new members do not feel deprived.

I think that the Administration of the site is working very hard on this, since the number of users is now very actively reduced by , due to full-scale bans of accounts with different rangans.  Based on this, I believe that the opportunity for new members will be given soon.

I do not think that someone wants to share their merits with others, but I like the idea and I think that they are the future

All claim you have to do good post. One Hero Member said I post too much in Altcoin session. So you only get merrit for BTC posts?
And still if the old BTC liker member dont like your posts you wont get merrit.

So in fact when I see users having 2900 merrit points and they dont share, something is worng in system

By the way, no one give me my SINGLE merrit point for one post, I was given because of my support of someone.

So I have all I need ONE merrit point  ::)

I think that this will not be unequivocally no one wants to share their merits is a fact but still I think you still need to think of something about this

Maybe it's true because providing merit also requires proper consideration, but everyone has the right to get it if they meet the requirements and especially for beginners, it is very important to be able to participate in prizes or ICO projects that require a minimum of 1 merit.
Whoever we are, we appreciate the kindness of people who want to share gifts.

Basically, giving merit to other members is easy, but of course, there are some references that must be given when, for example, I give merit.

Not to members who only post shit posts, spam, or low-quality posts. There must be several criteria so that the post is worthy of getting merit.
It might be better if starting from now, you make quality, informative, different posts from the others and can be accounted for, specific information, and arranged with the right set of sentences, especially by including source links and illustrated images.

If this is done at a minimum, I am sure that many people will give merit to you.

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Note : anyway, this topic should be placed on meta.

The latest merit system has made a lot of people to be stagnant on the same rank since it was introduced. Although it has its good side of it but personally am not too convenient because it is as if your fate has been kept in the hands of others to be determined.

It's not easy to get merit because you need to make a post that constructive and very helpful in the forum so I suggest that do constructive post so you can earn merits. And we can please anyone to give us a merit we need to earn it.

need consideration, certainly not easy for people to provide services to anyone.
maybe if you provide knowledge or various experiences, here many will give it.
only certain people want to provide their services, and that is very good because they are willing to give it and do not necessarily know who people.

I have already given merits to over 11 people but your post does not deserve merit, it's like you are begging for it without us giving you a reason why we should give you merit, do your assignment by posting relevant and creative post and you will become a good candidate for merit.