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Hello friends I'd like you guys to enlighten me with this simple question of mine,what other things are opened for a legendary member than the respectful rank and higher bounty reward?is there other things that can motivate me to want to be a Legendary member?pls share

Ranks don't really mean anything here, and being Legendary won't earn you any more respect than being a Newbie. You get access to better signatures as you get a higher rank and that's it.

If you want to be respected, show it through the way you interact with the community.

There are many Legendary accounts are unable to get acceptance to join high-paid campaigns (in BTC). At somewhat extent, Legendary rank does not help you to get higher payments and get acceptance to join good campaigns. It's the truth, that partially built up by merit system - that plays as important tool to screen out good and bad posters via their merit histories.
If you are here to read and learn, you sure don't need motivational reasons to keep reading and learning; then ranking up to Legendary member or not does not a matter with you.
If you need motivational stories, please read Inspirational stories from self-made promoted users (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5100307.0). After reading, you might find your reasons to keep moving.

There are a lot of things that you get officially:
In addition to the possibility of hiding advertisements.
In general, there is no difference between Hero rank and legendary one (Just half dark blue coin.)
So perhaps the hero rank is the only one that has real changes.

Becoming a legendary member shouldn't be your goal now because you are still new on here and don't focus on that yet,better spend your time on learning about crypto first and gradually you will rank up in time,if you rush you will crash

Honestly for those thinking in monetary lines it's pretty much about having higher bounty rewards other than this it means nothing though you are expected to have gathered more info about the crypto ecosystem to help others but unfortunately this is far from the case thanks to account sales and different interests.

Self-gratification and a sense of achievement.  ;) Why do people spend years to prepare to climb Mount Everest? It gives them some brag rights, because they climbed the highest mountain in the world. Not everyone in the world can say that they reached the pinnacle of a specific achievement, because it is never easy to reach the top. <If it was, then it would be less of an achievement>  :P

So, grinding constructive posts every day and building a good post history to climb the ranks on this forum is a good achievement on it's own. Some people take shortcuts by buying those accounts, but you quickly spot those users and they will never have the same feeling than the people who worked hard for it.  ;)

Aside from the things you’ve already mentioned (*), it’s likely down to ego and a sense of achievement; even more so since the merit system was created due to it now not being simply a question of being a persistent poster, but rather more of being able to create decent content persistently (way different than before).

(*) The respect that you mention is a false impression, likely to be more present when one is fairly new to the forum (after all, Legendary does sound like something rather outstanding at first). Overtime, you get to consider the persona behind the profile, regardless of their rank.

The only concrete incentive to be legendary is to get into higher paying sig campaigns, but as time goes on the difference between senior, hero and legendary will blur in those terms.

A properly run campaign will want good posters. Rank will come second to the quality of what you write.

There's no way anyone can now become legendary just for the sake of it. There are tons of try hard posters with no merit because what they write is vacuous and clearly playing to the crowd.

You won't get the merit you need by faking enthusiasm, helpfulness or knowledge. If you have it it'll be rewarded. If you don't people will see through it.

This is true, and in ChipMixer signature campaign Senior, Hero and Legendary members have the same pay rate, and in some other SC differences between ranks in this matter are very small.

I am not sure is there any restriction is signature for Hero compared to Legendary, but except that half dark blue coin the difference is only in the name and fact that users need some more time to become Ledgendary (for me almost 2.5 years before Merit).

Considering that these days is become very hard to become even Hero member, and fact that some Legendary members are perma-banned on a weekly basis, number of Legendary accounts will most likely only decrease with time.

I've never noticed that dark blue thing before. Now I feel an extra foot taller.

I'm not sure how I feel about how few people have ranked up since the merit system was introduced - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4850225.0

32 users have earned enough merit to be legendary and some of them may have been heroes when it was introduced. If I was a fresh arrival here that would look daunting. I think I'd put it in the back of my mind and just get on with getting on.

This is the current set of profiles that have formally ranked-up under the Merit System:


15 people have made it to Legendary needing merits in the process (14 were Hero Members to start with, and one was a Sr. Member (@bob123)). In addition, 70 profiles made it to Hero, 122 to Sr. Member, 194 to Full Member, 3.420 to Member and 10.565 to Jr. Member.

This is interesting to see too:

The reading is that 734 profiles could have made it to legendary (minimum 775 activity- not considering magic number), but only 15 of them have made it so far. Likewise for example, 1.331 Sr. Members could have made it to Hero (by activity), but only 70 comply additionally with the merit requirement.

Yep, as per my calculations.

Its nice and all but don't put too much effort trying to rank up your virtual points when you should be doing more things in real life and making memories.  Reminds me of people that spend all day on video games to get a virtual badge when it ultimately just shows how much valuable time you wasted.

The legendary title just shows that you are long member of this community.
There is no real impact at all. Especially in comparison to the hero member status.

Once you reached hero member, you already have the most fancy possible signature. And therefore there is no difference in the earnings between a hero and a legendary. At least i am not aware of a campaign which distinguishes between heroes and legendaries.

But you don't need to reach one of these both ranks to get a reputable member on this forum.
Your actions count more than the title below your username.




So i am the first Sr. reaching legendary after merit got introduced? Sounds sweet.

It is very hard to understand your question.

Best thing is first to practice and learn english a bit better,
or be more active in your local Bitcointalk community forum section.

You give yourself a reachable goal, Jr.member, than member...
and maybe even highest ranks who knows

I don't know what exactly you don't understand in OP's question.. but i understood it without problems.

Maybe your english is not good enough to understand his question ? OP's language skills are definitely good enough to be understood.

Yeah, maybe I could  phrase it a bit better,
and it is regarding lack of spaces in his sentence


and my suggestion for him was not to aim for Legendary rank and then lose motivation,
but to go step by step... one rank at the time. At the moment he is still a Newbie .

I hope you understand.

PS
My English is far from perfect, but I am still learning every day.

Space or not what this person post makes sense and understandable,many replied and you seem to be the only one complaining,a newbie that can still post a neat post like that is fine by me

1. You get the maximum signature space when getting Member (4000 characters).
And there is no difference regarding the signature between legendary and hero member.

2. You get 5 coins once you reach hero member. When turning legendary, the last coin turns half blue.

3. Usually there is no difference between a hero and a legendary member regarding the rewards.

There are some ad signature campaigns which will pay a bit more more if you're a Legandary vs Hero member:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.msg6815569#msg6815569

Yes there's, you gain the experience, knowledge, sign of satisfaction and believe you can accomplish anything you set your mind at. If you can achieve the legendary status with the new system (merit system), it only means one way or the other you have been productive to the forum as a result you must have gained the previous benefits i listed above. Also any reason to try to rank-up generally makes you a good forum users, which benefits the forum in regards to making the forum conducive for Intelligent and decent conversation (AKA spam free forum).

As much as I encourage everyone to try becoming a quality forum user, I don't advice you put too much attention on the merit system as it can distract you from other benefits the forum offers or lead to depressions/desperation as you will get frustrated when you're not getting the merits you were hunting for.

If you are interested in Bitcoin, ofc it is super cool to have a legendary account in this forum.

This forum has a lot of history. Being someone who is contributing to the forum, participating in discussions, helping newbies and learning is interesting. Becoming a legendary is like leveling up . I wanna get there.

 as I read in xtraelv signature"we are surrounded by legends here"


If you are just interested in bounties, it is also useful because you will get higher payout... But I believe that in a few months /years  legendary spammers will be worthless accounts.

Legendary is only a rank-calling, nothing more. You don't need to be a Legendary member to be a real Legendary in the forum.
nullius (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=976210) is a Full Member by now (due to his lack of activities last one year), but even more than one year ago, @nullius was a real Legendary, in my opinion. At least, in his high-quality posts on technical issues, and he is a merit-beast.

Moreover, overthinking on reasons why you should become a Legendary, how far you have to go to reach it, how many merits you have to earn more to meet that rank's requirements; all of them will solely hold you back, rather than moving forwards.

A user at member rank can make a higher quality post compared to post made by a Legendary spammer. If you can do it, you will become a real Legendary someday.

I think this is the closest answer to the question especially for those who ranked up after the activity and merit system were introduced. You need to put in real time and effort to achieve that rank.

If you earned your legendary status, then it is nice to know that you are contributing to the forum,and that the members recognise this. I think it is sad if you think that the only reason to become a legendary is to fly a higher paying signature. Many legendaries don't have paid signatures.

What is even more interesting to me is the fact that you where registered 2 days after your buddy Samayuki.
You are from same region, and you have very similar activity.

https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/07/dbdec1e2ac358e42116e237028cc06cc.jpg

https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/07/3f20a3d5a78787a2e5170c8e706e1377.jpg

PS
I was just giving my honest advice not complaining,
and my point was not on his english skills,
but rather on what to focus more.

All the best

The reference to legends doesn't just refer to legendary accounts. It refers to people who have contributed to the crypto community in various ways. There are bitcoin heros on this forum like Satoshi, Theymos, Hal Finney, Adam Beck etc. As well as various villains like Alexander Vinnick,  Ross Ulbricht, Michael Brown etc as well as people who are still making history.

Yes, it does not come easy at all. I think it took me 3 or 4 years before I reached Legendary. You had to be active, even before the Merit system was introduced and you had to post constructively or your account would have been banned. It was even harder to do, because people participating in Signature campaigns were under the magnifying glass and you had to post quality content or people would report your posts to the mods.  :P

No matter if you did this with or without the Merit system, it is still a big achievement and a Mount Everest to climb.  ;)

As of writing, my total log-in time is: 35 days, 1 hours and 54 minutes. Maybe with challenge from merit system, I might have to spend 2 or 4 years to become a Legendary member, but it does not a big matter, and does not an ultimate goal to be here.
I learned a lot from the forum, after merit system kicked in. Honestly, before the lively operations of merit system, I did post shit, but after that I realized my problems, and shits I brought to the forum. I accept the challenge, changed myself, improved my English, keep learning, and yeah, essential thing is save posts/ threads that I think helpful for future reference. Merit system took me more than 1.5 years to rank up to Senior Member from Full Member, but when I hit it, I was extremely happy. Because I do realized that my decent efforts are make sense.
Looking back, I also see my knowledge, and skills in crypto increased considerably. That are one of main purposes to be here.

I guess the only benefit you enjoy is the money you get from wearing signatures because you get higher stakes. You gain respect when you make meaningful posts and you contribute to community development more than your rank.

There are plenty of legendaries I have absolutely no respect for. And plenty of lowlier members I do.

Most legendaries won't have earned it through merit, there's a tiny number of those, so the only thing you had to do before the merit system to become one is shitpost for long enough without getting banned.