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Hello Everyone,

Welcome to my thread. Today i am going to share my little feelings of achieving Sr. membership rank with you all. At first from the deepest layer of my heart i wanna give millions of thanks to them who encouraged me to get into this stage. It was quite impossible for me to achieve this rank such in a short time without our community members help, guideline and encouragement. So i think all the credits goes to them.

My bitcointalk journey wasn't so smooth but i tried my best to learn every new thing which were completely unknown to me. I always tried my best to help our newbies who are completely new on this community. After the implementation of new merit system there were so many users who were getting worried about the system of new rank achievements. Yeah obviously it was hard to rank up but not impossible. I just wanna tell them; "Keep believe on your own and work hard".



My last one year scam detection report:



Every ending is nothing but a new beginning. After completing the journey of achieving Sr. membership its time to move for hero membership. I hope i will get everyone beside me to complete my next milestone.

I know the feeling of reaching the Sr. Member rank because I've done that before. Earning merits was quite difficult for me because I'm just an average member of this forum but still keeping to be a good poster at my local.

Now that you reached Sr. Member, is it easy for you to become a Hero Member because you knew how to make a quality post. Keep reporting scam projects and through that way, you'll keep in the high grounds and reach your goals easily.

Congrats!  ;)

Congratulations OP for your achievement. You have proved once again that quality poster could rank up.

Just keep helping forum by you contribution and scam exposing.

Congratulations to you as well, just noticed from here that you need 8 merit to rank up for Hero Member. And you are lucky enough that today is my last day of merit distribution from source merit. Tomorrow will refill again my source smerit. So I sent you 8 merit from my source smerit instead of send individually to other users. You are now Hero Member.

Best of luck for both of you.

Ditto.  I think most members who registered after the merit system was introduced have little chance of attaining Sr. Member rank at all, or at least not within several years at best.  OP is one of the few examples of members capable of doing so, and to those lower-ranked members and assorted newbies who are perplexed as to how they're supposed to rank up when no one is giving them any merits, take a look at OP's posts and use them as sort of a guideline.

No doubt TalkStar will reach Hero Member eventually if he keeps up the good work.  He's still got a ways to go in terms of activity, but he might actually earn the required merits well before the activity.  Props to him.  And just wait until the game is on to reach Legendary.  Hopefully he won't have to wait until the very last activity period before he gets there, assuming he has enough merits by then.  Not sure how many members have truly earned Legendary status by clawing their way through the merit and activity barriers, but I can't imagine it's that many.  It's rarified air to be sure.

Hey, you're fortunate that you've got some generous merit-givers on your local board.  I know a lot of local boards have a dearth of merit sources and members often have a hard time getting their posts merited there.  I wish that wasn't the case, but hopefully we'll get some improvement on that eventually.

Yes, there are many merit-givers and I'm still receiving enough merits even we didn't have merit source way back in 2018. In my case, I'm started grinding since day 1 of the merit system introduction so I managed to rank up in Sr. Member and finally become a Hero Member this day, August 14, 2019.

There are some merit sources from the international section that lend us help in our Philippines local board when our merit source's stash became zero. I always find ways to sustain and motivate myself to keep creating quality posts that's why I always reach my goal.  ;)

I'm an optimistic person and I hope all of us should be like that to be more active and confident in reaching our success in life.

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Thanks for lending me a hand, I'll keep being motivated and help our local board to be more active.  :D

Congratulations, TalkStar!
You put decent efforts into your posts during your time in the forum, and you deserve the badge for Senior Member. It makes more sense when you started from scratch, and went a long journey, from zero to Senior Member. Merit system takes one year and around 3 months from you (since May 2018), but eventually you made it!
Your story also added there

I also reached Hero status today, so it is really doable. I was already a Senior Member when the merit system was introduced, I take everything in stride and challenge myself that I will be Hero and that day has been realised today. I'm sure you will have your day and became a Hero and just continue to be motivated day-in day out.

Congratulations to talkstar, it's not a thing of luck to rank up really, you don't just stumble on it, you must have to put in work and effort and you've done so, the feeling of achievement is one good feeling to taste, having being merited over 250 times is quite an achievement, congratulations.
You're one poster on the forum i admire so much, you're always there to assist newbies and warn them of fraudulent scammers waiting in the wings, you are a paradigm of the fact that the merit system works and serves a very good purpose.
Posters such as yourself helped to encourage me when the new merits system was introduced, then I thought no chance in hell am i going to rank up higher than the Jr member rank(1 merit)

But today in less than a year I'm just 8 merits away from full membership.
Congratulations baofeng.

Congratulations TalkStar,
and thank you for helping clean up Bitcointalk forum with exposing scam projects.
There is so much scammers that we need all possible help in exposing them.

I can see you as Hero member soon! ;)

Great testimony TalkStar,  thank you for sharing.
You are excellent member on this forum,  helping and supporting others and we are happy to have you here 😁
Your road to success was more difficult than for us, "older members " but you showed great example for others, than reward always comes to the hard working people.
Congratulation!

You deserve it, it will just be a matter of effort and I'll be wearing that same signature you have. Just keep doing what brings you to that level and surely the next in line rank for you will be not that difficult to reach. Congrats and hope that many will be inspired by your thread, another great win by the merit system.

Congrats on your latest achievement @TalkStar

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Congrats! I recently saw you getting active in our local board. Looking forward to seeing more of your informative posts there.

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Aside from locals being generous, our board also had some help from @Darkstar_

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Congrats @finaleshot2016

Firstly, there is no newbies jump directly into Meta, after making only four posts before this one.
Secondly, begging for merits does not make sense, and does not help merit beggars to earn a single merits.
Lastly, Low-content posts are considered as rule violations, by admin. Addtionally, merits suggested to give to only good posts.

Why are you desperate to earn a merit? If it's to rank up to Jr member and participate in ICO bounties, then you're definitely going to be walking on the wrong path.
If you take a second to go through the preceding comments before yours, you'll see the word effort, determination, quality, helpful,decent etc, those are the characteristics your post must embody to enable you to rank up, and you wouldn't have to beg for it, users would be glad to give them to you.

Start up with building your account to a reasonable rank and also increasing your reputation on the forum, if you're able to do that, in the long run you'll be glad you did, but one thing you must know is that it takes time, so you'll need to be patient.

Definitely a great achievement with the merit system in place!
You definitely have to contribute a lot to get to Sr. Member rank and looking at your post history, it's pretty clear you've done so.

One small little tip I'll give you, is to try and resize images to a smaller format when you add them to a topic.
I've been using an open-source screenshot tool called ShareX for that, works great and also automatically uploads images to imgur, plus you can resize them from inside the app.

I'm referring to this topic of yours btw, just thought I'd mention it ;)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5175413

As a forum member i am so proud that i have got community friends like you all guys. From the beginning of my forum journey i always tried to tell about this forum is that we are not only community members here, we are a family together. I am blessed that i got same kinda behavior from all the members i discussed or seeking for help through PM. Because of my personal life or workload sometimes my activity wasn't so highlighted but whenever i engaged myself with anything that relates with forum i tried my best to serve. I will try my best to continue it in future too.

I wanna say something for our newbies or upcoming users. Please don't lose your hope. Every single section of this forum is full with valuable knowledge's. Try to build your knowledge vault stronger by spending quality here. Be greedy to earn knowledge rather than earn money at the very beginning of your forum journey. I always believe that its not possible to buy experience through money. Whatever you learn from here its all yours.  

Thanks for the great advice mate. I wanna let you know that i usually use big images to make it easier for viewers. Sometimes they can recognize scammers and real persons face without visiting the source link :).  

Thank you for your initiative in helping new people. Now I need real help. I am actively working on releasing some valuable content about Merit's acquisition, but these don't seem to get attention and improvement, but I still want to thank you. You, let the new person see the hope

I have already checked your post history and you are completely new on the forum. In one of your post you are asking for merit indirectly and it proves that still you didn't feel it necessary to read forum rules before starting your activities here. AFAIK getting merits isn't a funny game. Every single merit comes as a reward for good contribution. Expecting merits too early from your situation wouldn't be a good idea.

For this time i have got only one suggestion on my brain and that is "Try to read forum rules before starting to post anything, anywhere"

 

Congrats. I did try to help members from The Philippines in the Fit to Talk forum, but that seems to have died down a lot. I'll try to rebuild that over the next few months. Members from The Philippines, Venezuela and similar countries are important for the future of Bitcoin in my opinion. We need to ensure that the distribution of Bitcoin wealth is retained amongst the people of the world, and not just kept by the bankers.

Its a great step for the people of Philippines, Venezuela and other similar countries. Don't give up from providing your service for them. Maybe you are not getting enough responses but it can be changed in upcoming days. Spreading the name of bitcoin and connecting more people with our community is always a great thing. Have a lots of best wishes from my end.

Nice I must applaud you, but people from Africa to needs to be enlightened, there are vast population of Africans(in Africa or around the world) who has caught the interest of bitcoin. Some are not fluent in English or just to shy to come out. Like you said bitcoin is for the world and I believe it has the power in bringing people together and killing social vices like racism, stigmatisation, stereotype, xenophobia and so on.

Blindly it will be a pleasure for me to help them. There is some user on our forum who are working with African community to enrich their knowledge vault about crypto world. I will be glad to provide any kind of service for them if it helps them to increase their knowledge about bitcoin. Yeah i agree with you that they have communication gap and its because they are not fluent in English. Hopefully its not gonna be a big issue if they got thrust for learning new things. Bitcoin is the which has no border limit and our community is the real example for that. Different people from different countries are working together here as a family. So if we get much more bitcoin lovers from Africa then its obviously gonna spread the name of bitcoin on a large scale.

Congrats.. It's really a wonderful feelings to get to a stage you highly dreamed of (hero member). Although you put in your best to post quality post in your local boards which you're been rewarded for it

Just couple of hours remaining to start the celebration of "Happy New Year - 2020". Currently i am a Sr member with 418 earned merit (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=2136362) and lack of 82 merit to join the hero members club. Advance new year greetings for all the community member of bitcointalk. Hope you will enjoy with your friends & family.  

Congratulations on your achievements Talkstar, you are an active contributor as a scam project detective. I am appreciate your work and it is appropriate for you to continue.

You will get the chance to become a hero member when your merit reach 500. Lets hope that a miracle will come to you and make you a member of the heroes for the rest of 2019 or you will get it in 2020.

Now you only need 80 more merit to become a hero member, good luck Talkstar.

I also have the same story as you, it was not easy to improve my account rank. The merit system has been applied when I joined this forum on April 04, 2018. I was trying to post every day at that time but I always got no merits. I was in a newbie rank for a long time until the end of 2018. Then, I could rank up to Junior rank at the end of 2018. At the very early of 2019, luckily, I found someone who motivated and inspired me. I ranked up to member rank faster, and just several months later I could reach Full member rank. Finally, now I am on the way to Hero rank, I just need 8 Merits only.  :)

Yeah, me too. Not only help newbies but I try to help all members that need any helps. As long as I can help them, I always try my best.

Indeed. Nothing is impossible, there were already many members who have proven it. We just need to keep our trust, keep learning, do best efforts, and never give up/try continuously.

Good luck, mate. It seems you will reach the Hero member soon in the next year.  ;)

New Year celebration is going on and from now we are going to forget our past for a new beginning. New year with new rank is undoubtedly gonna be special for anyone not only me. Just preparing to start with more contributions and hope i will be able to serve as like as did from the beginning of my forum journey. Maybe merit will come sooner or later based on my contribution for this community.  

Thanks for your prediction and encouragement.

Happy new year @CM, I'm pretty sure that you can rank-up to hero level in 2020. It's just around 80 merits away. And the way you contributed busting scams, this community will appreciate all what you have done.

So sooner or later you will definitely go from Hero-to-Legendary and wish you more campaign projects to come!!!

Gave you 3 to get closer.

Good luck TalkStar on your journey to become Hero Member.
This is difficult to reach rank Hero, only the good guy with their good work in this forum who can reach it.
Thanks for sharing list of your Scam Project. With your post, you save members in here from scammer.

I am trying my best but there is lot more potential user on this forum who are far better than me. If you have the mentality to help others then there is no doubt that you will definitely achieve your target. Always i believe that people are nothing but learners where in every sector of our life we learn new things.

I will do my best to continue my campaign management service for this community. Hopefully new upcoming campaign owners will be happy to hire my campaign management service.

It was difficult but not impossible. I believe any newbies can reach on this position faster than me if he spend a good amount of time for this community. Just keep helping others and make everyone careful about scammers.

TalkStar,  when I read all your posts and everything you did until now in this forum,  fighting scams and scammers here,  it's amazing really.
Thank you for everything 
Because of your hard work,  and hard works of  many others, young members without experience are protected and have the right info.
I'm sure that soon you will become not just Hero but also Legendary and even staff member and continue your great work in this forum on higher level.

You are very eligible to Rank up to Hero Members.
many contributions you make to the forum and benefit all members with your hard work analyzing scam projects.
Continue to do your work, because this will make the Scam project a little less.
I provide merit support for you.
congratulations TralkStar, the new year 2020 becomes a special year by reaching Rank Hero Members.

Thanks for the motivation buddy. I am just trying to fulfill my responsibility like many other members doing for this community. Bitcointalk is the place where user get proper guidance from experienced users and they are doing this without expecting any personal benefit. Undoubtedly its a rare thing. In my personal view its the best place to achieve knowledge and sharing opinions.

I have started my bitcointalk journey after the implementation of new merit system and honestly it wasn't so easy for me to reach on this position but i believe if anyone have enough patience and mentality to spend good amount of time for this community users then he will definitely reach on his goal oneday. I feel so glad when i see that forum newbie's are making their contribution by revealing scammers and IMO this habit grows by seeing experienced scam busters's activities.

You are 1 closer I gave.you 1 today.

I had a few extra merits to hand out so I got you to within 10 to make Hero rank. You help a lot in finding scams and scammers, I doubt it will take you long to get the last 10 you need.

A side note to everyone who reads this topic and other just like it, great job acheiving your goals but making a topic about it for each user who makes their goal of ranking up to jr member or legendary really isn't needed.

Just my opinion.

well talkstar, i bless you with my merit for free,just because i like your way to banish hyip investement,although normal people know that just a scam project,but sometimes people too lazy to make a warning for it,btw congratulations to Hero Rank.

Just came by and see that you have achieved your goals already.  ;D

Now, the next journey begins and I'm sure you can reach that Legendary status someday. Of course if needed a lot of hard work, but it will definitely pays-off big time. Congrats!!!

congratulations I know how hard it is to achieve where are you now, and the effort you give on every single topic and comment you made, this only shows that no matter how hard it is, if you keep on going there is no impossible you will achieve and and make what you are now congrats again hope ill make it someday

Thanks everyone for encouraging me which leads me to achieve my "Hero membership (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5218966.0)". I don't wanna reduce the value of all your support by giving thanks only. I am so fortunate to have such honest and reliable people on my last 2 year bitcointalk journey. All my hard work was just to help this community users and keep them far from scammers. I don't know how much successful i am on this field but if a single member get benefited by seeing my little contribution then that's the big achievement for me.

Everyday new users are getting registered on bitcointalk and they come here with a hope of learning all about crypto currency. Undoubtedly bitcointalk is worlds biggest crypto community and i believe it will remain same in the upcoming days. Its our responsibility to help them to enrich their knowledge vault and lots of active members of this community is doing that great thing for many years. I am still learning new things from this forum and i believe that process of learning new things start from our birth and end with our death.

Lets work together to build a scammer free environment on bitcointalk and if we stick together then its just a matter of time.

 

Hi! I just want to congratulate you for achieving such a milestone here in bitcointalk, I like how you are valuing the newbie's here by giving them the right information. Your project regarding scam projects are very awesome! it is indeed a really big help in forum and for those who are bounty hunting. Time is valuable thing to be wasted on those projects for our bounty hunters, so thank you for continuing your great work!!!

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I also achieve the legendary rank by gaining 500 merits (total of 519). The merits came so fast! after the 10th anniversary art contest, which I receive 300 merits. I started to became a quality poster and start posting on our local community, in just few month I already gain 479 merits (my 120 days earned merits).

I'm just a shitposter who became inspired to our local members that receive a lot of merits same to those people here in global like LoyceV and The Pharmacist. Merit will come as long as you are giving your best here in forum.

Again, Congratulations TalkStar!!!

I want to be like you can enter a contest and give quality posts to all who are in this forum but my ideas are not broad for that, can you give advice for this?