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Been inactive for awhile and I was pumped up to rank up my member status from Member to Full Member by increasing number of my posts. When it meet the requirements, I was surprised that we need additional Merits to rank up our position. I think it is really good to eliminate negative posts to help the community growing up. Now the question is how to increase Merit? Is Merit trading allowed?

There are some threads by saying earning merits. For this you need to amswer the questions and submit the urls by posting a comment to that particular thread. The last time i saw there was only 3 merit left. Cause others were been donated as a reward for the riightfull answer to the participant. Go and take a look around. You will find some.

Indeed, with Merit regulations it is very inconvenient for us to raise the rank level of our account, to raise account rank, in addition to the active amount we also need Merit, and with you a good post and educate and many people who are interested in your post, and you are given a Merit by another member, with the amount determined by the increase in account rank level.

Nicely said. But if you also earn by helping people out by providing valuable suggestion by replying the threads. If it really helps them members of bitcoin talk doesnt hesitate to give merit to nicely written post.

BUT just for an advise as i nearly forgot to mention inmmy previous comment. That is merit exchange is extreamly prohibited. You can get banned for that. Monetery transaction deals for the exchange of merit its really belittle the who purpose. So avoid this before you make any.

If you want to increase your merit, you better start and make sure that you will be able to construct quality posts that are definitely helpful not just spam posts. You can read more information about the Merit and sMerit in the "META" section of this forum.

It might be hard to earn merits not Totally because of your capacity to construct quality post or capacity to research and contribute knowledge in the forum, but possibly because of too many spam posts to a certain topic making your own post overlapped by other member so your post gets overlooked. But there are some members here who provide service to review post if it deserves a merit. If you believe that you have made a post that is probably helpful and deserves merit then you can try them to check out if they will accept it or not.

Also beware of merit trading because it is prohibited and you can get punished if you get caught by somebody.

 If you want to increase your merit. you also need to increase your post make a debatable post or quality post to get merit to increase your rank..

I think merit is pretty reasonable until after senior member. Getting 250 merit seems impossible. Actually, even 25 merit is looking a bit difficult. I've written some great posts that took me an hour and got 1 merit. But I've also written a few that took me a very long time and didn't get a single merit. In all it will take an incredible amount of time to get anywhere. I think by the time i'm hero member this forum will be closed and everyone will have moved on to more professional venue for information.

I think we should create a quality thread or post so that we get merit given by others if not then we will be difficult to increase the merit.

You should actively post articles with valuable content. The purpose is to contribute to the proper content of the topic, as well as to articles that are friendly, and deep.

Merit requires that your post is quality and not meaningless. It is best not to trade merch, because if checked, your account will be banned.

to increase merits always read and give more important details before posting get reliable information about the topic.

Excess is very useful, by making merit bitcoin players can not make post topic carelessly. going to rank is very decisive by merit if the posts or topics are not qualified merit difficult to be shared by other bitcoin.

First of all, you have a topic in meta, all about merit. Second, you can also notice that the "merit" on your profile page is clickable and you can find some information as well. Now, you earn merit by creation quality posts, but that doesn't mean that yiu should force yourself to write quality posts about topics you don't know. Just stick to the ones you, actually, know about.

And please, stop making topics like "how to earn merit", "what is merit",etc... You can find all about in meta section. You're just making, absolutely, unnecessary posts.





Merit requires your posts to be of quality and not meaningless. Do nit trade merit, because when checked, your account will be flagged*

Fixed it for ya, bud.

Merit trading is fine as long as you give merits to valuable posts. However, it is extremely difficult to gain merit. I don't think this regulation will provide convenience to new members. It's kinda unfair that earlier members ranked up less difficult and the new ones won't be able to rank up as easily as the previous ones.

the only thing you can do for the merit should be your post high quality and your post should be helpful to give you the merit of perseverance only to be done but when I know the merit admin gives

Your merit will only increase if members wil give you by posting good quality post , making high quality post and contributing  to the forum is one way to get merits from other members.

You can start by quality posting. And search in forum the Marketplace - Services; there you can find many topics to earn smerits in a legal way.

Publish some quality, non-repeating, meaningful topics, and many people will give you advantages, depending on the quality of your posts.

If youwant get more merits you should need to post a good and high quality post but for now theres a lot of people dont want to merit you becaue they dont want lol even your post is good my advise is find a friend or try to join in some services signature campaign that gives a merit.

In this matter,as a newbie i expirience to answer and post here in bitcoin discussion and its hard to get a merit here, you should answer or reply each thread with your best opinion or what the question is all about, if the members here got interested in your anwer is valuable mybe you can get merit.

The only way to get that merits is to get it from others. You need to write useful comments, and others read it, they feel your posts are helpful then they will give you merits.

The merit increase was well received by the entire department so competition was fierce during the following month after incentivizing everyone.merit program seeks to proportionally recognize and reward individuals with salary increases based on performance. 

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you have to do only quality posts. But quality posts too have to on topic or relevant on particular interesting that should be eyecatching. it should give information about certain topic and helps other too.
it will give u more and more merit points.

I think this topic does not belong here. To answer your question, if you want to earn merit then you have to post quality and meaningful post that can help other members of this forum. Although I am confuse on how do you define a quality and constructive post. I think it still depends wether your post are eye-catching or just worth ignoring.

I'm a newbie and it's even harder for a newbie like me to get merits. I've seen some people giving away a merits by joining his discussion and giving the best answer to a question given by them, but again a newbie doesn't even allowed to participate on it. But if you're a member then you would not got a problem I guess

I think if you want to gain merit,you should doing a quality post,or valuable comments for now earning merits is so difficult because the other has already see your quality post but didnt give any merits.

if you want some merit, you must make a good post.
but still, it not be guaranteed that someone will give you merit.
because it is depends on the merit giver, whether they want to give you or not.

you must create a post that is sufficiently qualified or at least share your knowledge with all members in this forum. by inviting your discussion, this will get you merit. but I guess it's pretty hard. because until now I also have not get any merit

Another Merit thread, Dude since you are not new here anymore even though you've been inactive for quite some time now. Try to visiting META section. There are tons of threads there that talks about this merit, merit system, or whatever they called it. Before making a thread with a common topic please try to browse and/or search first. 

You can get merit if they like your post or its had an advisible message on your post you should post meaningfull post so they give you a merit ...

You are right about that because other bitcoiner people is spamming in post that's why they use merits but now other people abuse using of merits because they cycle in donation of merits.

Example:
P1 - P2 & P3
P2 - P4 & P5
P3 - P5 & P6
P4 - P1 & P2
P5 - P3 & P4
P6 - P5 & P1

That is what i learn in my friend that other people use that cycle to avoid to donate each other but to donate by group of people. I think my friend idea or knowledge about that is correct, that our topic tackle when we meet each other. Its possible to happen right?
We just topic about in ranking up and going to merit and he notice of other people doing that thing in his work place.

One way to get merit, with you creating a high quality post, or by creating a useful topic for all users of this forum. it is now quite difficult to get merit, but still for the spirit and do not give up, to make a quality post to get merit.

 its to hard to increase our merits. we need to post and reply a very quality words. and people who read our comments and reply is giving us merits. make sure to post a very unique and quality to post to gain you more merits.

For me, it might be hard to get or to earn merits not Totally because you need to conduct a quility post to increase your merit, but if your post is only a spam or non sense post no one can give you a merit anymore so you need to post a very quility post have it.

It might be hard to earn merits not Totally because of your capacity to construct quality post or capacity to research and contribute knowledge in the forum, but possibly because of too many spam posts to a certain topic making your own post overlapped by other member so your post gets overlooked.

how to get merit, then you must make a post that has the character build, solution, and also communicative.

if your post can help other members to solve the problem, then you will get merit from other members.

so, with merit you will stay continue in your position, or your position will go up to legendary ? merit determines your position.

if you dare to trade merit, lets do it but remember that is too risky. but my advice is better you try it yourself and try to improve the quality of your posts. not just for one thread, you should try for all threads and provide a useful information.

Nicely said. But if you also earn by helping people out by providing valuable suggestion by replying the threads. If it really helps them members of bitcoin talk doesnt hesitate to give merit to nicely written post.

Everyone want to be merited in other to grow to the next level but i have decided not to bother so much about it,it will come at the due time

As you know , ranking in bitcointalk thread has been changed after 24th Jan , a new feature called " merit" has been added to profile .What is merit ?
•You get merit points when someone sends you some for one of your posts. Additionally, when someone sends you merit points, half of those points can be sent by you to other people.
what has changed in ranking?
•In addition to activity, everyone now has a merit score, and you need both a certain activity level and a certain merit score in order to reach higher member ranks.

I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
•This forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
•Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.

In order to increase merits, you should reply quality posts regarding each topics. You should answer the questions straightforward and easy to understand.
Tip:
Give facts rather tgan opinions

Goodluck

While i do not have any merits at the moment. I think it depends on the quality of your posts as well as the quality of the topics you put up on this platform. I'm not sure if it depends on the replies to your topics though. Just do good on the platform and you may stand a chance. I hope this helps.

You should have constructive post that other user can gain knowledge in your post so they can give you merit points.

there is no chance to increase merit for common man. I have noticed that only campaign manager, hero member, legendary member are just got merit. If we write a good post or answer but no one give us merit. I have a question to this forum authority that why we don't get merit, though we are writing good post and answer. please change the rule or reform the rules.

Staff Merit Increases Merit increases recognize employees for their overall performance achievements. Budgetary funding for merit may be based and designated by the State ..

one way to increase the merit is to create a thread or post news that is informative, interesting, educational. or create an actual, reliable news summary.
or you can advise on any questions in this forum.

Merit can not be obtained easily because services can be obtained by others who give us a reward. In order for someone to give you a merit, you must provide a quality and informative post. so someone will not post anything that is not important or spam, By providing useful information and quality to other users you can get merit

Managers can reward performance most effectively by carefully distributing their merit pool. Merit increases can be used to recognize an employee's performance, and, contributions.

Merig increase when Salary increases are granted to eligible employees in career positions based upon their job performance. Merit eligibility is contingent upon completing three months of service.

Yes there are some merits trading here but in good way like doing some thing for someone for example this post
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2957836.0 he is looking for an art related to bitcoin and the reward is merit.

It’s also respecting post and trying to help those posts that seem to be lost in a way. Bitcoin discussion is very timely and educational and the patience of senior members is necessary to help newbies line me to understand crypto currencies

if you want some merit, your post should be high quality, meaningfull and it should  be helpful to other then you can earn merit ... ;D ;D

we can not increase our merit, because Merit is given by others for our services to do a useful post for members of this forum. so all we have to do is write the best post possible, do not get out of the Topic in talking, do not spam. I also have not got merit yet, but I will keep trying.

"I think it is really good to eliminate negative posts to help the community growing up" I do agree with your statement, I think merit is good for the community, with merit as a requirement to rank up means there no way spam people can rank up easily.
Answering your question how to increase merit? I think the only way to increase merit is to give all your best to make a good post and let the other people do the rest, I think all of the members of this community is a smart people, which is mean if you make a good post you will get your merit from the people who think your post was good and helpful

make a good or useful content or comment in the discussion so that the other discussion participants feel helped by the information you convey so give you merit

We cannot beg for merits because merits is for those people who give their best by making a helpful thread or by commenting useful and meaningful posts. And good thing it helps to know people who use alt account just for merit farms. So I hope people will now be afraid to do it because it can lead to a negative trust and banning them to join signature campaigns.

Merit exchange is a violation also merit selling, merit system is created to eliminate those shitposters and spamming accounts.

Here's the link about merit system:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0

Maybe my post can help you a little bit to get some merit here's the link:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3058025.msg31494285#msg31494285

To get merits is to make quality posts. Certainly I will be surprised if merit trading is allowed.
A new trend is starting in meta, where Seniors calls for quality posts where they can review and award merits. Lookout for such opportunity who knows you can get some.

Maybe this one can help this guy. I found it by chance when reading around the forum.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3049711.msg31395094#msg31395094
There are lots of chances for newcomers to get merit as long as they are contributing to the forum somehow.

 I think merit is a good reason for senior member .it takes 250 merit seems impossible by the way though 25 merit is viewed by a bit difficult and I'm writing most of the well and great post at the exact time and  get I merit .so I've also wrote to some that took me a very long time and did not get a single merit .all of this really got the incredible amount of time to take anywhere .I think this time I was in the hero member maybe this will forum will be closed and everyone will have the moves for professional venues informing .

I think of you want to get merits consistently you must really study how the whole Bitcoin system works, and how the rules here applies so that you can help those folks who are seeking for answers or clarifications regarding crypto and Bitcointalk programs. Earning merits is darn hard and progress is painfully slow to impossible; I just hope that some day in the future we could find maybe another system or just improve the merit system to make it fair for every member.

Creating quality threads and posts increases our chance of earning merits. With these valuable posts, it also helps beginners like me who are still learning the bitcoin world. But nowadays, it gets somehow frustrating to earn merits because quality posts gets overlooked because of those spam posts.
Nevertheless, trading merits is prohibited, you might get punished for doing so, so beware.

Nope, technically speaking it is not. But, black market is out there ruling the black world with its strong influence. You just need a lot of money lol

I have seen some posts under this section wherein several trusted members do not condone 'merit-trading'. You need to understand that the merit system was implemented in order to substantially decrease the number of post spammers and trash threads by limiting members from ranking-up based on their post quality. Though it may be subjective for one to decide which post may he/she finds qualified, but it has at least affected the forum in a positive light.

The reason on why merit trading defeats the purpose of the system since it tolerates cheating (if that's the exact term). When you trade merits with someone and your post quality does not fit the standards, then you are just simply cheating your way to the top. It totally eliminates the need for one to provide decent posts since there actually exists a way for one to increase their merit without making their post quality decent.

On a side note, under the marketplace section there are some individuals who award people merits based on their post quality. You might want to check it out if you believe that you are qualified to such. Good luck!

by creating a quality post. but not entirely true because this sometimes makes a quality post also do not get the merit. others consider ordinary account either only or they did not want to give merit then nobody knows.

My simple recommendation for you:
If you simply join the forum to get merits, to earn money; you should leave and choose another appropriate one.
Why? Due to merit system, you will probably can not rank up to high positions which can give you opportunities to join campaigns. Campaigns might tend to stricter and stricter over time.
How to rank up? Contribute to the forum as much as possible. How to contribute if you don't have enough knowledge, skills.
Another question raises up, how to get knowledge, skills? Yeah, it's simple. Stop complaining, crying, making shit-threads; instead focusing on reading to learn, sharpen your skills and spend more time to write more constructive threads.

I definetely agree with cmmhbct. The forum tightens the rules in order to get rid of spammers and hunters for easy money. I think this is right, since this community is not the place to dump any garbage in the form of unconstructive and unreasonable posts. Bitcointalk is the place for those who really want to understand the phenomenon of crypto currency and share their knowledge and skills with other forum participants. Signature and bounty campaigns are just a privilege, a chance to get some money for your participation. But this is definitely not the purpose of the existence of this forum. So if you want to get merits, improve your skills, read more and write about crypto-currencies. If your efforts are appreciated, people will give you a merit.

Just do the best post you have. Can be classified as a helpful post so other might give you merit for that. Its hard but we need to live in that way to prevent spammy post inside the forum

Earning merit isn't easy for three main reaons:
First: you must be active by publishing worthy posts with good contents.
Second: never be negative, be positive try to motivate peopole always look at the positve side, respect people opinions, be positive even if you don't share the same point of view.
Third: people are from diffrent backgrounds , they have diffrent opinions so they will give you merit if you respect their opinions by stating a proper post with a convincing content.

I have seen a lot here who deserve to get merit based on their quality posts however due to thousands of posts being posted regularly and the limited amount of merits to be given the outcome is most of them very rarely get even a single merit. Coupled that with the selective tastes or possibly whims and caprices of some individuals you're left with something like being stranded on a desert waiting for a few droplets of rainfall. Oh well, it seems like it's much easier to win a lottery rather than to get a tiny slice of merit. Probably a statement that is quite exaggerated but it's just what's creeping in the deepest chamber of my mind.

I highly appreciate your opinion. After participating in bitcointalk, I find myself a better writing skill than before. I don't know when shall I get only one precious merit, but there is one thing that I am quite sure that my writing skill has improved. Moreover, my knowledge of crypto has been grown day by day.

You should say like this "After merit system launched, I has changed and become better user with better writing skill and better contribution to the forum. No need to hide the truth, which obviously shown in your post history.
By the way, thanks Theymos for launching merit system.

You can increase your merit by posting quality and useful posts. I also have the same problem, i wasn't able to rank up because of the merit system. But i see the merit system as a good rule to avoid spamming. Some users just post different types of topics or replies that are not helpful enough. They only post for the purpose of making their rank high so to get a much bigger payment on signature campaigns. The bad thing is that some users used to abuse the merit system. There are some users who have a lot of bitcointalk account who used to merit their own account and not giving it to other users who deserve the merit. But there are still some who are patiently reading topics and used to give merit to those who are deserving and are working hard. Its nice to have a merit system, but hope that we users become equal on giving merits.

due to the lack knowledge of merit system. i think admin should pin a topic about merit and people will expore what they want about the system.
Create too many  topics like this is a waste of source

To get merit these day is a bit competitive. In the sense that, you have to work for it and your work in form of good posts must be acceptable and helpful. All one needs to do is to keep posting good comments, until the time that comment will be helpful to someone or people that will award you some merits.

You have to post quality standards. Then you can get Merit. There are many Merit threats. There are comments on your good post there. Hope you can get Merit.

There is about 300 threads about merit, a 20 minute search and READ of the forum will answer 99% of questions any user may have. The fact that a user could help themselves and find the info is proof that the majority of these redundant threads are made by lazy people who struggle with the English language (not saying this about OP for once)

quality posts and useful for other members. besides that you can ask merit to moderator by sending the post you think is qualified. hopefully your post can be accepted and given merit

Earning for merits? Just post a valuable or a quality post so that someone will give you merit. Also, there are some thread that the reward is merit when you do the job there. Like editing videos, or making something. You can tell your friends to give you merit. :)

Please can you report those, as they would appear to be against the spirit of the merit system.

To increase merit you must post a quality, valuable, have sense, and constructive post. So that people will give you merit if they see that your post is a good post. It is tradable? You mean exchange of merits? Yes, ofcourse you can do that thing, and you can ask your friends to give you merits.t

You should never try doing such stupid stuff, bro.

Agree with you, guy. You can report them by simply commenting in the following available topics:
 List of users who are abusing merit system (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896910.0)
 More mass merit farming (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3024695.0)
Then, strict punishments will come to them almost immediately due to their abusements against original good purposes of merit system.