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I'm new here. What's all about this merit count? How is it earned? I'm assuming it's linked to the quality/usefulness of your posts/replies? Their originality maybe? What are usually the subjects you'd get the more merit for posting about?

The better your posts are and useful, the more chance you are likely to earn merits. Just focus on bitcoin boards and choose the ones that you have interests in and also the boards that you know that merit source use to visit often and give some posts merit. Do not spam but let your posts be useful. Merit are given to quality posts.

Merit is needed to rank up and it can be given by anyone who has it to give. As far as the quickest way to earn it, don't worry about trying to earn it. Just post normally and be helpful on the forum and participate in conversations where you are knowledgeable. Merit will come when it comes.

write something informative without using chat ai.
make it thought provoking about something thats interesting/informative that no one thought of before
use stats,facts and details to back up what your saying
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if its boring stuff thats been said before or not really saying anything new or interesting you wont get any recognition

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or find a merit source user/influencer/troll who rewards his suck-up fans, and suck up to them, agreeing with them even if they are wrong

When you don't have much to contribute or add to others, most times just asking the right question can genuinely earn someone merit that they never expected. Earning merit is as simple as that.
 
One thing is that you can either be a problem solver for others or provide solutions to those who are in need of answers, and if they find your answer interesting and educational, then there is a higher chance that you will be rewarded with merit for your effort. You can also earn merit by just asking questions, which can help others understand things better too.

You can't force nature, merit is nature. It's about people who are finding your posts useful, constructive, or a good contribution to the forum in some way. You can't force this and you will find that you will earn less merit, make less quality posts and hurt your reputation if you intentionally are posting/looking for merit.

Here are some tips:

• Make constructive and informative posts that others have not yet made in the thread. If you are active, you will generally have more chances of providing original and constructive posts before other members.
• Naturally participate in the forum - join conversations where you can contribute any form of value (knowledge, questions, social value) - There's no point trying to force yourself to provide value. If you can't, learn from other posts instead.
• Be a good member - don't unnecessarily insult others, have good posting etiquette (grammar, use of bbcode, etc) and try to avoid drama - as a new member, it's probably best to keep your grievances with another member to yourself, there are a lot of children with power here and they will not hesitate to make your forum life less enjoyable and may even succeed in hurting four reputation. If you ever find yourself targeted, DM me and if you are right, I will happily bat on your side.

Good luck on your forum journey :)

You are a newbie, but I see that you have already earned some merits. Just look at your merit earning history and you'll easily figure out which posts bring you merits the most.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=3596085

The Forum merits are almost the same as retweets or upvotes on Reddit. The more actively you engage in different discussions and helping out other members, the more the chances of you getting merited by some member who will see the value in your post or reply.
Just keep it organic and don't even be bothered about earning as many merits as possible.

Welcome to the forum I hope you'll learn a lot from this forum.
It's the number of merits that you get and which people can see on your profile. The number of merits you get for your posts = merit count.
It's sent to you by those users who have sMerits and they send those sMerits to users who make good and informative posts and also to those members who regularly contribute to the forum.
Yeah, when someone posts high-quality stuff that contain valuable information then other users send merits to those posts which are somehow helpful for the community. If you make good posts then you'll get merits from all those members who appreciate your work. The better posts you make the more merits you earn. I suggest you to avoid thinking about merits as a newbie and focus on making good quality posts. Try to help others with your posts and then you'll see the merits flowing like air to you.

Don't beg for merits as that's not needed at all because if you make good posts then there are so many generous people on this forum who will send you merits.

I will say your first thread actually answers this, if you look at how informative the thread and how members responded to it by meriting then I would such type of thread or comments are what gets you merit. Also you can equally go through the profiles of high ranking members with lots of merit to see how they engage in the forum, the kind of posts they Make, the type of threads they create and boards that they engage in then you might find out to earn merits. The only advice is do not force it, because once you force it you might easily break a rule or two.

Judging by the Merits you already earned in a matter of days.  I guess you found the way.

Be willing to learn.  Be creative and ask questions others are afraid to ask.  This is how I think I got most of mine at least.  You will get a lot of Merit forwarding knowledge you learned to other people who know less than you.

There are some users who earn a LOT of Merits through what looks like 'simple' threads.  A few dozen paragraphs, a few pictures and some BB Codes.  Seems easy, no?

But these posts often take a LOT of time to write and put together into an easily readable post that sparks curiosity and interest to the readers too.  Any of us can write posts but not many of us can make truly interesting threads.

You have a Merit to Posts ratio of around 4:1.  Keep it up.  This is the way you have to hold on to.

Seriously, dude! Are you messing with us? You scored an impressive 25 merits with your very first forum post, and now you're asking how to earn merits quickly? Do you need a step-by-step guide on how to breathe?
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The purpose of merit is to prevent spam on this forum and make quality posters rank up. Merit is needed to rank up and calculation of it is merit count.
 
Merit can be earned through different ways but most through quality/informative posting and helping people. Since you're a new user another quick way to earn merit is through posting your PGP key by writing an encrypted message (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5461523.0) and sharing your best posts or threads (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5412657.0).

Merits in general was set as a limit to help sweep away shitposter and spammers that is without merits you won't moved to the next rank and it's being gotten by being helpful to the community as quality post you describe already. In merits people don't just give it to you without any of your post worth receiving them so the more you become creative and helpful the more merits you received from fellow users over here.

You got quite a bit of merit on your first post here so I think you probably know more than most of the posters on this forum how to earn it.  You displayed that you had some knowledge and were actively seeking a solution, which brought out some good replies and merit.  I think you'll do just fine if you continue using the forum like that and don't worry about trying to earn more merit.  It will come as you post, regardless of what the topic is so long as you display that you're honestly presenting knowledgeable information on whatever you're discussing.

In your case, as I see that you are knowledgeable and interested in technical issues, if you focus most of the time you spend on the forum on exchanging knowledge in these sections, you will gain merits at a good pace. You don't need anything else.

You will know about it after you are here long enough. Use your time in bitcointalk naturally to explore the forum, rules, rank requirement, merit system. Get familiar with prominent forum members, spend time to read their posts and analyze their merited posts. You will learn a lot from those merited posts, quality ones and will have idea to earn merit for your account.

Writing a welcome message (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5036308.0)
Merit & new rank requirements (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0)
Signature Campaign Guidelines (read this before starting or joining a campaign) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1684035.0). Before you can rank up enough to join campaign, you must earn merit and that topic has some warning for shit posters who will not be able to rank up, even will be banned. You can learn some from that topic.

If you use ChatGPT, ask it.
I asked ChatGPT on how to earn merit on Bitcointalk (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5432402.0).

I am not sure if you know but you posted this on the 14th of December and by that time you already had collected 15 to 17 merits on one your posts in the " Development & Technical Discussion" section.

Getting 25 merits from only 6 posts, especially when you have registered on this forum just 2 days ago, is pretty impressive and I don't think you should ask this question as you are doing better than any newbie i noticed getting so many merits in such fewer days.

Seems like you have good technical knowledge of Bitcoin and if you share this knowledge, it won't be difficult to collect merits.

Including all these points, and it just so happens that the senders are in a good mood.

Re: Quickest way to earn merit? There is no way to be sure. I think you have to be iconic in this place or stand out more.

See

• [SUCH GUIDE] Guaranteed method to earn many merits, statistically proven (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5126690.0)
• Tutorial in welcome message (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5036308.0)

You can find some best topics, posters at Forum merit stats page (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats) such as

• Top merited users, all-time (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topusersat)
• Top merited topics, all-time (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=toptopicsat)

Learn from those topics, best quality users and see how they earned a lot of merit, then applying what you learned to improve your post quality.

Your title of the thread seems like you are looking for some easy ways to earn merits but that's not the reality and you need to work for it which will take time.The merit won't come without any positive contributions on forum which will be possible if you have knowledge so gain it first of all.I don't know why all these merit related threads are again appearing and newbies are not understanding the forum?

To earn Merit, you need 2 things: good posts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5477561.0), and a reader with sMerit to send you some. Thanks to your post here I saw your good post.

I feel like he was trying to sarcasm, he create a good topic in technical discussion and earn many merits in one thread, so I'd say he's not really a newbie. But there's no rule of having alt accounts, I'm not saying @OP was wrong or make a mistake.

The quick way to get merit is to be patient - make high-quality posts - don't ask for merit.

Honestly, there are many new members in this forum who keep asking about the best way to get merit and the answers given will always be the same, there is no special recipe for getting merit, even moderators are required to follow the rules in this forum to get merit, there is no special account on this forum unless you make your account special and have a high reputation.

If you're asking for the quickest way to earn merit, besides posting quality replies and topics, I hope that your Local board where your other paisanos are located are an active board because they're generous when it comes to people that can speak their language, I'm saying that because I've seen a lot of Russian members that are gathering merits left and right in their local boards since they've got an active community there so there's that, that's probably the only way that I know that can get you a quick merits.

All your questions have been answered in your first post. That's how to get merit if you have more knowledge about Bitcoin or have special expertise about Bitcoin and you share it in this forum. Getting merit might be easy for you. Of course, if you ask what's wrong with merit calculations? This is one way to avoid spam created in forums. Apart from that, Merit is also one of the conditions for increasing your account rank if your activity is sufficient.

Focusing specifically on the question, I’d probably take a look at some of the profiles on this stat (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5281030), that depicts the fastest merit earners on the forum from different perspectives in the first four posts. It won’t tell you the how, but looking at the who, and browsing over the posts they made, it might give a pretty clear idea by mere inspection and deduction. Note that the data on the post has not been updated for quite a while for being a p.i.t.a., but regardless, it probably serves as a pointer to the more extreme cases (which differ from the norm).

Note: Some historical marks were probably time sensitive.

Edit: p.i.t.a. updated: Stats – The Merit Speedy Gonzales’ of the forum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5281030.msg55345725#msg55345725)

Most definitely you have the answer to your question as there's no other quick way to get merits than putting up quality post and replies aswell, even if you apply on a giveaway trend to earn merits, before sending merits to you, the quality of your post is first assessed and if it's worth been merited and probably haven't been noticed by others all along then definitely it will be merited by the person who started the giveaway trend and is willing to give out merits.

Secondly it's also important that you understand that quality of post doesn't lay only in quantity but in the information and usefulness of such post, how impactful and helpful it can be to anyone who reads and aswell come across such post and make sure it's not spamming and you can be sure to be merited for making a good and useful contribution in the forum. Note that it's only a reader with s-merit can merit your post.

We all like merits, but don't worry too much about it.

Being here is like bitcoin... It's not a 100 meter race, it's a marathon

Don't worry about the end, enjoy the journey... enjoy and participate in the forum naturally, without charging yourself, there is a lot of rich content and incredible people here...

Things will happen naturally over time.

Somehow it seems to me that your statement is not correct, because it seems that you are an alt of someone who knows the forum very well and is technically very well versed when it comes to Bitcoin.

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I'm glad that someone else noticed (or at least publicly admitted that they had doubts). Alts are not against the forum rules, but some of the other things done with them definitely are. In any case, it will be interesting to see in which direction this "newbie" will go.

Earning merit can mean different thing to different user.
What you need to know about merit is that Theymos(Moderator of this forum) assigned a number of people to give merit to people. Every month, there is a particular allocation to each of them to reward quality posts in the forum because prior before the merit introduction, the forum was full of low quality poster but with the integration of the merit system, people began to improved their post quality because high quality post invite merit source to give you merit which can be used to rank up in the forum, no merit, no rank up.

For every merit earned, you can send half of that. Anytime merit sources distributed this merits to other users, the merited users can send half of it to other posts they think it worth it. The best way to earned this merit from either merit source or other members is through making of quality threads either in the main boards or locals boards. Make contributions when people ask questions and help out when some people need guidance with bitcoin wallets and other software.

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Your question is just same as asking  "what's  the cheat code of earning merits " ;D funny though but 5hat was by the way. Answering to your question, there are no ways of writing topic but you can get a topic based on your content  to entice more users to your thread , the necessary thing to always keep in mind is that  your content must be good,   you could be ignored for bad content  and the other way round for good content and i see alot from you already :). So go out there and make a quality post 8)

Originality, the quality, and the usefulness of your posts does contribute to the chance of getting merits. But even you think that your post is useful and is high quality, it doesn't necessarily mean that you'll receive merit(s) for that post.
Following known users here will surely help you on the quality of your posts and on how you should interact with other users, thus, chance of receiving merits will likewise increase.

My presence in this forum has made me believe that truly writing isn't an easy task but I've also learnt to read more than jumping into conclusions and so far, I think making meaningful contributions to the forum is one of the easiest way to earn merits on the forum but at some points making very impressive post by someone who isn't so good with writing wouldn't be an easy task  hence I've learnt to grow gradually and try as much as possible to to make meaningful contributions to the forum .

37 merits with just 7 activities is a good start for a newbie. If you contribute positively, then you will have a better chance to earn merit more often on the forum. Someone (maybe a newbie too) could seek help, and if you are able to provide the solution to their question, you will also earn merit. It's just left for you to be active on the forum and engage in quality discussion, and then you will just see the merit coming.

Don't be too obsessed with earning merits. You will get there once you have established already your knowledge about bitcoin and on the forum as well. For now, just enjoy your stay in the forum and post on the topics that interest you, and of course on the topics that you are widely knowledgeable about. If other members will find your post meaningful and useful, you will earn merits gradually.

I suggest you visit more on bitcoin discussion. You will learn a lot there as long as you also open your mind to different insights and ideas. Filter those posts that you don't like and focus on the posts that creates an impact to you, that way you will have gained limitless ideas.

Post like this won't even guarantee you on having any single merits... If you wanna argue, how many merits were you given on this? Lol. Just be yourself and avoid unnecessary repetition - everyone wants to read something more refreshing and informative in here.. secondly, you need to know that you're not entitled to receiving any merits; it all depends on the quality and time you spend on improvising your posting pattern, and on yourself too...

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don't do too much; see yourself in the process of learning and subdue yourself to the process already... You'll start receiving merits without even expecting them..

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

OP’s brief post history tells me a lot. For starters, he’s definitely not a shit poster. He’s first topic on the forum earned him 37merits so far. It was well written and was posted on the right board. It’s not everyday you see newbies making discussions in development and technical discussions. I think this is an alt account trying hard to appear as a newbie hence this typical newbie post.

There is no quickest way to earn merits, everything is gained through patience and hard work. So don't be too eager to quick profits if you think you are not yet capable to receive merits. Improve the quality of your post first and when you think others have started to appreciate your post, that would be the start then. Continue learning everyday as there's no stopping when it comes to learning in the forum. That way, you will easily get merits when your posts are full of knowledge and reliable experiences.

Such fools only believe that there is quickiest way to earn merits. For your information, getting merits is obviously earned and not freely given. You will only receive that if others will see you capable to have that, otherwise you will keep on learning how to make a quality post and imitate how others construct their post so that one day, you will also receive consistent merits. Earning merits quick and fast are never worth receiving, you have to pay the price first so you can get your reward.

OP I checked you already have more merit than you post. At least that better explains some more points to your questions. When you proffer solutions or answers and people deem it fit, they give you merit as it pleases you. For instance I will use your topic created because that was a good idea after I had read it and as you can see, you earned some merit from the post which tells you that the quality of your post and being creative too can earn you merit but that should be a secondary focus and taking your time to learn more about the forum should likely be a primary thing of focus now and watch how fast and speed you grow coupled with your quality posts and creativity.

Whenever you will make valuable post on this forum and some people find it more and more valuable to themselves or if they think it might be proof as an asset for the entire BTT forum like other members or maybe for newbies. Then they might appreciate your contribution with merits.

And yes originality is necessary for your post to get some merits and by originality it does not mean you can remove plagiarism and can post anything here but it means you have to become a creative one. Comes with new and good posts that would not only help newbies but also legendaries of this forum.

The quickest way will be to contribute on good topics, share useful data and spend time in your local boards where your local community might get you more merits because there is at least one merit source in each community and their job is to distribute merits among the local community but the merit will be given based on merit only. Or you can apply in different merit distribution schemes and can get some merits if you can.

If you are devolper and have an ability to bring something special such as Talkimg, Tryninja telegram bot, ninjastic space Loycev or Mining work then go for it and you will get bulk Merit on your single post. Remember it's not easy task and only few members had ability to do but nothing is impossible. You can also find spammer/scammer but merit is not guaranteed there especially as a new member.

As a normal user you can contribute to healthy discussion , reply straight to the topic, help newbies , share valuable knowledge in the local board and I hope you will rank up quickly but your first priority should be learning Then you will be not regret if you don't get merit on your post, you got one thing which is knowledge, worthy than merit.

Imo, originality is paramount. Whatever you post, be original. Most merits I earned was from memes topic [1], created those memes in few minutes and it earned most, other topic was this [2] — I merely shared my experience here.

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[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5232907.0

[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5289504.0

You are new to this forum though, but your posts and qualifications don't seem like a newbie. May be you are an experienced and old user this is your new account due to which you earned merit easily. Your posts are of good quality which is why you are able to get merit and if you spend more time with this forum you will definitely get more merit. The way you post about the basics and the style of your posts looks like you are an experienced person, you have enough knowledge about the forum. If you try you can definitely get a good position with your account at some point so you make your quality posts and from these you can qualify and move up.

Your assumption has actually answered your own question. And I think you have the potential to be a good quality poster. Because I see your first post is very useful so you can get 37 Merits even though you have only made 7 posts. Merit is required to make your account get a ranking increase on this forum. So it is natural that many users try harder to get it. And Merit also encourages every user to contribute more to fellow users in this forum and also to this forum itself. But don't think too much about Merit. Just focus on creating quality posts that are beneficial for everyone who reads them. And it's not just a matter of creating a topic. But it is also about answering every user who needs an answer to a problem related to the topic discussed in this forum. And to be a good forum user and be useful to other people. Of course, broad insight is needed. So a learning process is needed to get it. So just focus on adding insight and sharing insight. And believe me, Merit will come naturally from the generous hands on this forum and from Merit Sourch who always helps increase the motivation of every user on this forum with their Merit shots which are always right on good users.

When looking your account and see your stats. All I can say is that  you are a good one 7 post, 7 activity  but earned 37, merits that's quite good enough  those topic you've created last December 1,2 is the best example if thread or post that can earn bunches of merits which is pretty sure that there are more topics in you . Anyways good luck to your journey here in Bitcointalk that is a good start earning  a lot of merits in a few days.

Apart from requiring a number of activities, you need to collect a number of merits to rank up. The aim of implementing a merit system in forums is to eradicate spammers who make rubbish posts in forums. In the past, rank up was only calculated based on the number of activities, due to the large number of spammers who only pursued the number of activities as one of the requirements for rank up, the Admin tried to introduce a merit system in the forum.

It's not as difficult as you think, haven't you already done it in this post  Using Bitcoin as a trusted clock? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5477561.msg63311451#msg63311451). When other users assess your posts as quality that provides benefits for other members, they will reward your posts with Merits, that's how the merit system works in forums.
Every time you get +1 Merit, the accumulation will increase by 0.5 sMerit. Now you can send 19 Merits to other members if calculated based on the number of merits you have received. No need to hoard sMerit, you can spend it on other members if the posts are quality in your opinion.

 
Merit is used to rank your profile. Ranking up will give you the feature of wearing an avatar and a signature, and you will also be considered an old member, and you could be trusted by more than zero merit members. 
 
 
Your merit status is better than 90 percent of all newbies who come here to rank up their account. 38 merits with just 8 activities is very impressive. Yes, quality is the first priority for Merit Source. All you have to do is impress members with your creativity and knowledge.
 
 
I hope you already have your answer. Check your profile, and you will see which posts give you the most merit. Just continue spreading helpful information in the technical section, and you will get more.

You don't need to rush to get merits dude. If you become too desperate to get merits then you might get the contrary if you miss the track.
One of the ways you can get merits from the forum is by writing good content which is going to make people to give you merits. You don't need to rush things because you might get a negative or neural trust along the way if people find you too desperate for merits hunting.
You just need to keep doing what you are good at and you will see merits coming your way.

He is not in rush but rather just asking question about merit. It’s common newbie question since merit is vital for rank up. There’s nothing wrong to ask for this kind of info.


It’s not worthy a negative feedback if a user is posting to earn merit since it does mean that he is providing quality post that’s why he is hoping for merit. The only time it will be a  worthy of negative trust is when the user contributes shit post and demand merits for it because that can be considered as spamming.

this is crazy!
10 activity with 46 merit? You're a legend to be honest.

You should be the one educating others on how to go about things because for coming this far within such small interval of time isn't a small feet anyone could easily attain within such space of time.

You've seen what you did that got you merited and I feel you will get more of them ymif you just keep going in that manner. Give an info.ation that is useful in forum, answers and a cakear a doubt to a follow and make meaning contributions in the forum and your merit will creep in as fast as the ones you've gotten already.

Can you imagine if for example satoshi coming here with a newbie account and people attack him for being a merit/account farmer? Or talk nonsense about him? I can.😉
Most of people here are some teenagers with no life experience, so they say stupid things, but the reality here is the following :
Sucking up for gang members and campaign managers will earn you thousands of merits, that's it, that's the easiest and quickest way. 😂

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Welcome, I apologize on behalf of everyone who'd disrespected you. 🤝

Your contribution here guarantees you being merited, for you to be awarded a merit your post must carry the information that's is helpful to the person that find you meritable, involve in discussions and make you stance count, don't be shy, be a good posters that understands the value you create with your post, op, with what I have see so far you don't really need this advice, you are doing well so continue using the process you that's helping you grow this fast, I will say that it's effective, to be honest, if you want to get merit here it all depends on your consistency with good input.

The reality is that even if Satoshi is coming back as a newbie, he would never have made a post in such regard that will warrant anyone to talk to him that way or manners, the way some people post is just all about the reflection of how their real personality is in real life.


This forum is not a cult and you can't say that ganging up is what will give you upper priority to make merit, just show yourself approved and knowledgeable and see If you wouldn't end up being merited often by those who appreciates your quality posts.

Op exactly what intend asking as a newbie , But when I go through some thread I realzied that merit is given here based on the quality nature of your post And How concise And precise you place your words on the Topic you are discussing . The forum basically is filled with brainy And knowledgeable people who see the relevance of your Topic   And whether It worth To be merited or not . Therefore I believe merit is given here on the grounds of quality And precision of your Topic .

Just keep posting right and keep being active, I think that is the best and fastest way to earn merits along the line, many newbies have put pressure on themselves all in the aim of trying to gain favour in the form of merits, but along the line, this pressure drives them away from the fundamental purpose of this forum and how it works, forum member reward efforts and if you have taken ti. e to read and research,  there is no way to not earn merits because your efforts will always get rewarded at some point along the way.
Time and time again we have seen many threads seeking to know the best and most effective way to earn merits, but all the while the replies have always been the same and that is contributing qualitatively to discussions and making your post valuable to other members of the forum.

What you write, how you write which includes the tone, quality grammar correctness, tenses, facts, generally the make up of your  comments and whether reader agrees  or not determines if you get merits.

So do your research well. Write about what you think within the purview of Bitcoin , and cryptocurrency. Write concisely, accurately, sensibly.

Nothing else or any sort of magic performance will earn you merit here; the only things that can earn you merit are your posts, discussions, and ideas that will earn you merit. As long as you understand the forum, getting merit won't be too difficult for you; occasionally it may be challenging, but as long as you understand the forum, you will get merit. However, you also need to have what we refer to as patients. Without patients, visiting this forum will make you disinterested in it. Many people come here and decide not to return because they did not anticipate the experience as they did. For this reason, I would advise you to exercise patience.

Make sure your post is so good that anyone who reads it in the forum will feel compelled to give you merit. By this I mean, the way you post, respond, or quote someone with your well-reasoned conversation will also earn you merit. However, before you do that, I would also advise you to educate yourself on cryptocurrencies, as they are very important to everyone in this forum. Additionally, I have noticed that many people have already given you answers, and by following their advice, you will succeed.

I thought that this is a guide on how to earn merits. I was just eager to read and extend my merits could, it seems that I am stocked here for some times. But unfortunately for me, it's someone wanting to know how to jump from newbie to legendary.

All the above listed are correct and needed to earn merits. But then, if you implement all and there's no merit source looking your way, I'm sorry you are stocked.

Nahhh  the title is too tricky we need to read it twice Ang read the main thread by OP to understand. Anyways there are no quickest way to earn more achievements here in our community. Cause we need to work hard for it in order to achieve what we want to achieve. Like what you've Said mate that once we are newbies then we want to reach legendary then it's all about a year to do that unless you are too knowledgeable then for sure almost A year  you will reach legendary rank.

Everyone has suggested well already, but talking about being a newbie, it's not an ideal way to start with first, a newbie does not need to start running after merits, they should be interested in knowing about how they can make a meaningful contributions to the forum and have the best understanding of how the forum operates, why should a newbie needed to have merits for a start if not that there's more hidden under his intentions for that.

@digaran, I wonder why you keep siding and apologizing to op at various occasions ???


Is it possible an alt of yours or a friend ::) I'm not accusing you, just curious. Well op must have already been giving a lot of guide on how to earn enough merit on this forum. And from his merit history (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=3596085), I see that he has already gasp more than enough means of earning merit, including sending some to his Alts and sending them back to his main account  ::). It's nice though I guess according to him, his just testing the merit system. Let's just leave it that way since op is a newbie ;D lol

We see threads like this a lot and the replies are always the same. As a newbie,  running after merits should not be your number one priority. Your first aim is to understand how the forum works before any other thing. I am glad you already have an idea about what you should do first to deserve some merits.  Make quality and useful posts and merits will  come.  While trying to give out something of quality, try as much as possible to avoid lifting other people's ideas . Yea as easy as it seems using other people's ideas,  the consequence such act is outrightly ban from the forum. Focus more on understanding the forum,  there is a lot to learn here and it cannot be achieved in one day.

You never can tell if really he is rushing to get merit, he may only trying to find out how merit is being derived as a newbie seeing other members of the forum with merit. If at all he is too inquisitive of having merit it is good for him asking how to get it because if he didn't ask he can end up doing something funny to get merit by all means which can land him doing the wrong things . Atleast with this question he can be able to get answers that will help him to get it the right way.

Because there is a %50 chance that OP is the same gold hoarding dragon we all know aka satoshi, but the other %50 is divided into %25 a total newbie/stranger, %25 someone I know or heard of, besides he is a cyberpunk, and we respect each other when we see one another. 😉

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Now the question is, who are you sir Hatchy? Lol

Digaran bro/sis, satoshi dreams of that fifty percent. Wait for them pizza txes to come.

Anyone know how much bitcoin be owns?

yeah you can earn merit on the basis on the basis of quality post which has looks originality and unique post, there is multiple discussion on various boards on the  forum, you can always to be active and stay up to date on different crypto threads so being an active member on bitcointalk to enhance the achieve merits on quality basis

Questions like the ones in the topic have been asked before and we have seen topics like this very often. It's okay if you have the ambition to immediately get Merit, and I see that you really understand the direction and purpose of implementing Merit in the forum. You only need to develop knowledge as in the topics you have previously created. Studying and reading may have been suggested very often by seniors, but one way to understand all the forum rules and conditions for getting Merit is by studying and reading.

Got you, you immediately showed your true face, now keep posting plagiarized BS around the forum to farm merit and account, I'm sure there are people here to teach you how easy it is to earn negative trust, the only reason they didn't tag your sorry ass was because I defended you, thought you are a newbie. But keep at it. Now I know %80 who you really are. 😉

I can't make a joke now... You might be confounding me with someone? Anyways I'm really innocuous fellas but whatever keep it going. Por dios.

No sweet cheeks, you can't make a joke on my personality after I stood up for you, because when you do that, it becomes clear that you are one of the butthurt trolls from puzzle thread whom I most definitely insulted in the past month. So you took the first available opportunity to hit me back, that's obvious especially after your stupid question about puzzle challenge on tech and dev board.
Unless you can prove me wrong by coming out with your main account and embarrass me here. so which one is it? Are you a plagiarist, an actual dev, or a newbie with no knowledge about how this forum works?

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Now have you learned what is the quickest way to farm merits here or not?

You are very much correct about your explanation. Asking questions or answering questions is the best way of getting merits one thing I noticed is that some of those legendary with over 14k merits are always busy in some board like meta, bitcoin technical support, economy and bitcoin discussion. And they don't have time to be answering questions from newbies so they give merits to people who help them answer the question of the newbies correctly. Sometimes if the newbies question is educational or informative which will help other newbies to learn, they will also give merits to the person who ask that vital question. So that is how I understand it.

Even though your point is valid, how many newbies do you see genuinely interacting in a general conversation? Most of them do not have a genuine interest in a topic. Some newbies even cannot wait to get their posts merited and they start sending private messages to forum members to give merit. I guess a lot of forum members have this experience already? didn't you receive any PM from a newbie who was asking for some merits? I guess I have received at least three PMs from three different people to check their posts which is intentional merit begging.

Now back to this OP. The user already received 60 merits from his 22 posts which is incredible. Even though 11 of them he received from his alternative account which he claims is just an experiment. This newbie user has some coding knowledge and if he can continue his forum journey, what would stop him from becoming another discover of the year? n0nce and PowerGlove has been outstanding newbie when they started. They contibuted a lot to this forum.

If your post quality is met, and post quality is maintained then other senior members will give you Merit gift start. So now all the people who are wise get the gift of merit very quickly and pass the high status. So if you try hard enough to gain knowledge and improve post quality then you will get merit gift.

I sometimes fit in the penultimate profile you put forward. But definitely the last one.

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Not really.

Lol, I'm saturated with all sorts of personal attacks, I can no longer differentiate friends and foes. Understand, porfavor amigo. Lol

To rank up your account, you must first gain merit, which can be bestowed by anyone who finds your post helpful. However, merit is not given freely; rather, you must work hard to gain the respect of other members of this community based on the quality of your posts. Additionally, you can expedite your progress by go through previous threads, there where you can summit your best post in order to gain additional merit. There are two threads on the biginners and help board: one by @hugeblack and the other by @fillippone. You are welcome to visit any of them that you interested.

Yes, Bro, who else, but you know how to get merit on the forum? I miss you. And now you, with zero merit, are teaching newcomers how to behave on the forum.
But you probably forgot all your activities and what you had to go through while you understood the forum rules.
Everything is in your review, and I want you to know that nothing can be forgotten. But now this is a neutral review.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5394559.msg63485083#msg63485083

That was too rude sister.  :D
You should let him guide the community. Probably he knows better than you because he has some other accounts which is high-ranked and earned a decent amount of merits.


OP has been inactive for a week now. I don't think he has a genuine interest in this forum. Or even if he has, he do not care much. OP has some technical understanding. If he continue to contribute himself in the forum, it won't be too hard for him to earn quick merits. Just like he has earned already (except from his alts).

Merit count is the total number of merit of the user, for the new era of newbies they start from 0 which is you will gain your merit once you keep posting helpful threads that contribute to the community and help members with their concerns, you can follow users who have a thousand merit and above those are the people who have good content why they gained merit, but its not limited on it there's some newbie era like them but of course because of the rank up requirement they didn't reach the designated rank base on their activity and merit. Keep reading and observe sooner or later you will understand how people get merited for now try to enjoy the full pledge of information and knowledge once you have this sure you don't need to get bothered about how to get merit.

The only quick way to get merits is to keep writing good topics and not to overwrite in a way that will make people to think that we are Spamming. As a newbie in the community, you don't have to be too desperate because it is going to be noticed with the way we react to comments and give opinions. Merits is not something we need to be too desperate to get but one thing we need to do is to create reputation by the way we write and responds to comments.

the funny thing is that i was busy opening the site everyday for the past one year to read the economic outlook without knowing i should've been post and commenting with viable and quality replies. hopefully, i make this year count with lots of merits

Getting merits is not only by making posts, you have to understand the standard required to be able to receive merits from the forum, the major expectation from you is in making a quality post, once you're inline with giving the best quality contributions from your own end, you will soon get used to it and merits will keep coming the more members are seeing thoughts in what you're posting.

Agreed with you but just to add a little more light to what you have said, the only standard required on the forum here is good information (truth not fiction or fabricated stories just to get attention or fish merits, comment on the things you know only and stop spamming when you have nothing to contribute to a particular thread that's what the forum is after. Short and simple comments can give you all the merits you want but long and useless comments are just nothing but garbage this is not hard to understand.

You probably have had several anwsers to your question, but then, I am still happy to further say that you are right with all that you said about merit, merit is one of the most important aspect of this forum as far as a user is intrested in ranking up and staying relevant, and earning merit on this forum is very easy, all one have to do is make really good and quality posts, doesnt matter whether if it's a new thread you are starting or you are just commenting on another thread, make really good quality post or comment, and readers will gladly send you merits depending on the level at which they understand what you said and found it useful or very useful.

That's right, I have seen some persons make good quality post but they don't meet the standard of this forum because they were off topic, and could be appreciated in their respective forums but not here. So your post quality has to also meet that of the standard of this forum for you to earn merits. And your post should carry helpful content to enlighten other, or you could become a contributor to Bitcoin network, that can earn you some merits. Here in this forum we like the growth of others because the faster you grow through your post quality the more you become a good contributor to the forum and Bitcoin network at large. From learning you could start mining or running node which a big plus to Bitcoin network

While other people may seem easy for them to gain merits, but there are still a lot of us here who are struggling to earn merits. DYOR is the key and make reading a habit in the forum and even outside the forum. That way, you will gain a lot of new insights that you can add to a certain discussion in the forum. But don’t get obsessed with getting merits, that will eventually happen in time when you have improved the quality of your posts being posted in the forum. Instead, focus more on gaining new relevant information all about bitcoin and its crypto space. There’s higher advantage to gain merits if you have a lot of new knowledge to share that you think will bring benefits to the majority in the forum.

I believe there’s more to it than simply making quality posts in the forum. This forum seeks to build a reputable area of learning, hence every member is required to gain relevant knowledge even on basic threads so that as much as they can benefit other’s posts in the forum, they can also take part in sharing of new knowledge and relevant ideas in the forum.

If you can educate yourself the best way possible, then you can increase your level of knowledge in the forum. With that, you can contribute great ideas in every thread you take part to discuss, which will eventually get noticed in the forum and these members will merit your posts afterwards.

Also to add;
When I was new here, I was told that there are some certain boards which receive merits more than others and it is true. I also had to understand that there are some certain conversations which receive merits more than others. If you keep posting in threads like the one created by Op and think you will be getting merits, it is a lie. There are these problem solving threads where merit sources discuss and issue out merits in their numbers. If you are knowledgeable in such threads, you will be able to earn merits faster.

Your moving forward is truly mistrust and wonder. Just like a Superman .. Congratulation...

Merit is one of the factors that can increase your forum rank. You earn merits when people merit your reply or your thread and it depends on multiple factors on why people send it, such as:

• Your post contains informative posts;
• You created a general guide to everyone;
• You were able to post some information that is very relevant to the current market and time;
• You reported scams and posted them on the scam accusation board;
• You created a thread were it showed very interesting features and up-to-date news;

Those are just some of the possible scenarios that can garner you a merit across this forum. Be reminded that merits are discretionary acts by which forum users have full discretion to distribute them for as long as it is not "merit trading" that can potentially ruin your account by having a negative tag.

While it is important to rank-up in this forum, this should not be your first priority. Your priorities should be learning about cryptocurrencies and thinking of ways on how you can contribute in this forum or to newbies who are just starting.

At the end of the day, it is not about the merits that are important but the journey on how you garnered them. By earning merits, that is the testament that you have learned something from cryptocurrencies that can ultimately affect you in the long-run.

Rather than that we also can say that help others in such a way that your post must be unique and helpful, i have seen many members talking off-topic in the threads and talking the same way, others are talking. Your post must contain quality content and that content must be unique. There may be questions about how can we make it a unique and quality posting so in my opinion we should add some helpful sources, and should not use the same words as of others.

This quality may bring our profile reputation high and in this way, we will win the effective eye of the senior members and even merit source. Just we need to keep in mind that we have to contribute a quality posting as much as possible. These kinds of posts are appreciated by other members on the forum. We have seen many of the members talking in such a way not needed and they just add words to their posts to make posts lengthy and these kinds of posts are not interesting posts. what you say dear? share your opinion. Many Thanks!

Good post and good topics is the only thing that can make you to get merits easily to rank up and, for you to develop the good post and good topics to get merits you must be very focus on anything that related to BTC and crypto for you to achieve the knowledge to display all those things in the forum.

 There are people monitoring the way users are giving out merits in the forum and if they discovered that you merit low quality post all the time or you abuse merits in the forum they will surely sanction you for such habit in the forum for you to know all eyes on everybody in the forum.

As a newbie, do everything possible to be more active in the forum which is one of the things that is opening the eyes of newbies to see things they have never see before in different discussion section and, it will make them to remain in quality post through out their staying in this forum.

It's about learning and growing and not just being active. You will find a lot of people who are active in the forum but they barely post anything constructive which is evident that they aren't here to learn and grow but the fundamental reason for them to join this forum is something else.

Alot has been said by other users, but however one of the strategy that has landed me into gaining the few merits that I have till date is that I deem it  necessary to look out for threads arn boards that are been visited frequently by merits source where I try my possible best in contributing meaningfully. The truth is that most times is very difficult getting merits from users that are not merits source so contributing more in a thread or boards that are frequently visited by merits source can help you gain some good merits. Although merits gaining should not be made a priority you need to free your mind and make your contribution, then merits is going to come  when it will come.

Welcome to the Bitcoin Forum. What you have captured and mentioned there about merit acquisition is correct. The more good and useful posts you create, the more post merit you will earn. If you can replay a member's post well or post informative content then surely you will be able to earn merit. Also if you can join in different contests you can earn merit from there like pie baking contest is going on right now if you can participate in this contest then you can earn merit from there too. You can be active in the forum if you can be active in the forum then there are many opportunities to earn merit from which you can easily earn merit.

Anyone may give achievements to other people who are deemed worthy, but the limits of eligibility may vary according to each person's point of view. If you want to get achievements to move up in ranking then what you need to pay attention to is the quality of your posts. The easiest way to get achievements is to have good quality and interesting posts so that other people will consider it appropriate to give achievements. Informative writing will usually attract the attention of other people, but the writing must be original with your thoughts.

Your active pattern in the forum is also an assessment because the more active you are in discussions using more constructive language, the easier it will be for you to get achievements. Know your skills and develop them in the forum, then I'm sure you will gain the trust of other people, after that achievements will definitely flow slowly as a form of support for you to move up in rank.

It gets easier at first to easily get merits and hardest once you begin to rank up and begin to either write for a signature campaign or for passion.
There are merit sources though that can assist with merits when a little task is fulfilled as instructed. Although these days they may be random from anyone, when one does have 2 merits for instance, it sums up to just 1 sendable merit.
Just be yourself and do your part by being consistently and steadfastly a contributing member of this community.

You are a new user for which you are very excited to earn merit. Anyone can give you credit to up your rank, which you can earn only when you create good quality posts. If you are a knowledge user, then of course you can earn merit based on your conversation. Don't think too much, but think about your quality posts, when your post quality continues to improve, you will gain merit. You will not be able to earn merit so easily, but you have to work hard, and your posts should be good from which people will be able to give you merit. So you always think good thoughts and create good quality posts to earn merit.

You're a newbie has I am but you have earned a lot of merits so far and I think you're happy I know you work hard and take a lot of effort to earn your merit I'm sure with my hard work and dedication with quality post and replies I believe I will earn merit someday it doesn't matter if I don't have it now but I will keep on making quality post to ensure I don't give up so that people will see my hard work and be able to give me merit I believe in that.

If you have enough merit in your profile now, we can assume that you have a rough idea of how to earn merit. If you don't have this idea then you can't get merit. Try to share as much as you know about any new topic in the forum and if someone wants to know then you can collect various information and comment on his post and let him know about the specific topic. When your post or your comment is informative you can earn some merit for that post. But there is no need to always post with the thought of gaining merit rather you should post with the thought that you have to share something good in this forum so that others can benefit from your post and others can learn something new. Whenever you post with this thought in mind, the quality of your posts will be much better and as a result you will be able to gain enough merit in your profile.

There is no such thing as fastest way to earn merit. it really depends on you and your knowledge that you have. It depends on the post that you post. Post that must be informative to others. Other who really finds your posts helpful and informative will give you merits. There is No merit for low quality posts that some people make in this forum. their account doesn't really rank up. Always try to make good posts. and try to be helpful in your writes up. The merit will come when it has to come and where from it has to come. Just keep up the hard work and it will pay you someday.

Correct. There is no instant way or a shortcut way to earn merits.
It must take time for learning everything first. In this way, we can get enough knowledge and experience. This will always be the basis for a quality post.

Of course, knowledge and our contribution to the forum will be the reason to get merits. When we help other people, they may appreciate our contribution with merits. And when we make quality posts, it is also a reason for people to give merits.

When we deserve for merits, people will reward us with merits. In most cases, it will very depend on how useful our posts and how good its quality. Sure, never give up to improve your post quality and your contribution in this forum. Someday, there should be merits to earn when your posts deserve it.

 Many people have asked this question before and answers have been given to them and most it is always coming from newbies. Op there is no big deal on that issue and all you have to know is that you are here to learn bitcoin if you have not known it before so your have to first of all focus on that first before any other things. Then you should also know that there two things you have to know here. First you are to learn bitcoin by making research and asking questions here in the forum and also in Google Search Engine. Then the second one is you are to teach or educate others when you have learned.

So that others will also benefit from you as you benefits from other. These are the two major things in the forum and what you need (merit) will come on it own.

You ask the quickest way to earn merit, while you have already earned quite a lot of merit. I often look at Merit & new rank requirements (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0) to find out how I can get merit. What is clear is that posts are helpful and of good quality. I'm also trying to get merit, hopefully I can get it ;D

There are loads of threads like this and none has really been direct, i have been reading through the responses and not one single person concur to the steps provided. i think there's more to getting merits than posting and commenting.

This is one of the best comments I've read so far in this thread. The first is to gain the knowledge, it doesn't matter where you get it from, like I use to read from this forum and if I come across any word that is not in my vocabulary, I make use of the goggle search and I get clearance of the message the person was passing, that how I grow my knowledge to this point. Even until now, if I come across any new word, I make use of my search just to make sure I'm not missing out any piece of knowledge, though it's not possible but I'm trying my best. After which you have the knowledge when you start making quality post, the merits will definitely start coming.

Yes. that's right friend. If it's relevant, why don't you respond to it? Maybe there are some things that are still not optimal in what you convey. However, at least try to be organized, simple and easy to understand so that it provides more benefits for others when reading it.

If necessary, also convey the source so that it strengthens what what you want to strengthen is whether you like to follow and see market developments, especially BTC or like other items.

Just relax.. :D.

From my little experience I don't think k there is any shortcut to earning merits, its all about making contributions to the forum and beigj of help to others, anyone that has merit can give you merit based on how they view your contribution and everyone has different perspectives here and would give merit based on those personal convictions on your post, so there is no route to this apart from improving on the quality of your post and making contributions to the forum.

Even though it is not easy to earn merit as a newbie, the only thing that motivates them on the forum is getting merit from what they post, which is not bad, but in a situation where newcomers will put merit in front, these types of newcomers are not thinking about anything other than getting merit, and people often understand that that is what they always make posts for, which is wrong. I also think they should keep on doing their good work and focus on learning; they will earn merits naturally. Too much desperation for earning merit may not even give them the merits.


You are right, there is no shortcut to posting helpful, meaningful, and educational content on the forum. It is the only way to earn merit on the forum, and as a newbie, don't expect that any of your posts will be merited. Sometimes people who view your posts may lack the Smerit to send them, so it's just all about hard work and luck. 

As a newbie it doesn't matter how quickest you want to earn merit,you want to say you just here to earn merit without understanding the forums or getting to get More knowledge about what this board forum says, you're a newbie but you have earn much merits so far Isn't interesting for you , take a look at my I haven't gained a single merits yet with my fellow senior members but still it doesn't stop me from trying My best I won't give up is just a matter of time merit will come when it's time I believe in, better late than never just keep doing good work it will come on expected.

I am so much impressed with your words, it gives me motives and courage,I know it's not  easy to earn merit as we newbie but we can't just be complaining on getting merits when we don't get to understand much more about this forum to gain knowledge about the forums, he's a newbie but he as earn much merits so far tho I don't know how good his posts are but merit don't matter I will also be happy if any of our senior high ranked members can give me merits ,but is just a matter of time merit will come when it's time we just keep making good posts I believe I will gain merits someday.

Buddy, you've flooded this thread with regular replies to OP ;D. But look, the topic was created last year, but you bring it up every time. Is it worth it? Maybe you need to move on.
Try to learn about Bitcoin, read and communicate in other sections, and do not get hung up on one issue with merit.
But today, yes, as you said, you will get one merit as motivation. Don't make people feel sorry for you. Move. Move and learn.
In addition, there are forum rules. Read 32. Posting multiple posts.

What one should have in mind when posting is that they are sharing knowledge that they have and they aren't hunting for anything. A lot of people, specifically newbies, make the mistake of unnecessarily enlarging their posts thinking that this might make the posts look more constructive which isn't true.

A constructive or good quality post doesn't need to have a lot of paragraphs or should consist of a lot of words, to be precise, you can find posts with a single sentence getting Merits because they make sense. So even if you write a post containing multiple paragraphs but none of it make much sense, you are not contributing anything to the forum and you shouldn't expect to get rewarded for that.

More precisely, it's all about quality, not about how many paragraphs a post creates. I also understand this, seeing many beginners doing this to appear to have a lot of knowledge, but in fact the content is just nonsense. and now even many beginners use ChatGPT as a tool to create their threads, even though it is strictly prohibited.

Perfectly said, there are so many ways to earn merits.
For example:

_By making a quality post
_by making a nice contribution

For someone to be rewarded this are the few task that need to be completed before thinking about how to get merit,you can't seat and fold your hands and be expecting marit to fall down from heaven.is obvious that everyone want to gain merit so as to rank up to the next stage,but depending on how serous and hard working you're.however for you to get the reward, you really need to work hard and stop been curious about getting merit, merit will surely come for those who are hard working.

the best way you can earn merit is true quality writing neither you respond being replied to a threat or you create a topic but what to do the community need mostly is someone who is innovative is someone whose idea will bring a solution to sort out something so that is why we have to understand that it is a quality writing that give us accumulation of merit or numbers of merit we needed,  we have to know that our research is what that gives merit

Everyone tries to make it more complicated than it really is. There are some newbies who make better posts than legendary members. You are basically trying to contribute to a conversation and hopefully spreading some knowledge. You don't have to post like this person or that person, just be you and try.

What does "merit count" mean In this forum is that is a key which will propel you to the top of the ranks, and the quality of your posts will determine how many merits you can earn on a daily or weekly basis. You do not need to stay inactive because it is still dependent on how you maintain consistency on this forum. Always ensure that you are active. Just keep encouraging yourself, even if you drop a thread and you don't receive a single merit. Don't be disheartened, since that's what drove some of the newcomers here to their homes a lack of patience. Because they think that by simply dropping one or two threads, merit will flow. They do not know that everything starts with a slowly process.

Good contribution and opinions to post can also earn you merit. Just as he said, as a newbie, learning should come first and gradually as you know more about the crypto space, making post and contribution becomes easy. With this merit will keep looking for you and not you looking for merit.

What I believe is that your posts should be a mixture of knowledge, humour, taunts, eagerness, and a bunch of other stuff because merit is a very subjective thing, a person might like your post if they find it humorous and it makes them chuckle, one might merit you if they find your post informative and on-topic, some other user might find your taunt on point and well-deserved, so it's not just a matter of writing long posts with a bunch of detail about things that aren't much necessary.

Most newbies misunderstand the meaning of a constructive or quality post and they think a quality post is a post that is very long and a lot of information and detail, but that isn't true, I can write a couple of sentences in a thread and that can be considered constructive as long as it is on-topic and contributes at least something towards that thread.

Keep participating in the discussion and make such valuable replies that you feel other members are not sharing the information if you have such good knowledge and information reply to the post then the chances of getting merits on your quality post will be high but I am not saying you will receive merits all the time because your post sometime not reaches the person who is merit source or who feel that this post deserve merit. Well, I would advise you not to run before merits make your posts quality good and merits will come whenever they come.

You can also make Informative threads that you feel really helpful to others and your thread may also be appreciated by your senior members if they feel you have really contributed good information on the Forum. I hope you are getting my sayings in conclusion I will say never run before earning merits or never use any shortcut of getting merits rather just focus on your post quality.

Normal circumstances what will give you a merit is your meaningful contribution towards the community both response and topic can also give you a merit it does not necessarily mean that before you earn a merit you must make a topic or create a topic with your response to the community you can be able to earn a merit as many as people wishes to give to you because of your good response, what is the community really need most is a good response so therefore I believe that research before respond is what can make you to tender a good solution in any problem in the forum

Frequently participate in forums such as bitcoin, economics and help and beginners discussion boards. I see that there are many people who earn merit by providing useful comments and replies to the forum. If you have knowledge to share, you can create a useful topic. But of course the easiest way is to reply to comments in the thread with a useful reply.

I suggest making helpful post to the forum also learn from other post to be able to help other members, as a newbie don't focus on merits focus on creating better post, there is no quick way to earn it, it will come when you least expected.

In my experience, trying to get merits quick is not a good approach: you'll need many and chances are that you get burned before you achieve your goal (in the years I've been active here I have known many of these cases). I have even known guys who got burnt even after a race for the 1k merits, and are now inactive.

There is a saying in my country: "the path is the top". Learn and enjoy, and merits will come without looking for them.

Its not really a good approach knowing that its voluntary given by other people and we will just get disappointed if we can't convince people to send us their merits. Much really better for them to do a lot more research so that they became more knowledgeable on any crypto discussions they participate and people will find relevance on each post they made and maybe from that they can get a merit from their valuable post made.

So it clearly state that its more better to gain knowledge which is really more important since once we contribute here and people will get impressed or enjoy the way we post then we can possibly get that. And they need to know that merit is just a bonus here and what they should prioritize is to get a lot of knowledge about crypto.

Just as every good thing attract the eyes so it's to good post and comment, is merritable every wages of good work here is Merritt. All you need is to study pin post and create good post also good comment on existing post your sure if merit if it Worth it.

Rather i would like to suggest just start reading the forum where you are more interested and if you found questions asked there.
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Participating frequently is not a guarantee to gain merit for growth it if your ideas is not helping member of the forum,  if it is not adding value to the forum. It is important if members of the forum especially beginners are so conscious to check if the ideas are more of value that will be benefit to other members of the forum, doing this I think merit can be gained without any struggles. You can still participate in the forum and still not get merit you want . The easiest way of getting merit from the forum is giving out value to the forum.  Whatever you find yourself doing in the forum,  you make sure others are gaining value.  I think with this one will definitely get the growth they want by gaining merit which they need.

Helping each other is the most important thing and can support the activity of this forum. If your post makes an impression on someone and can help, you might get merit. which merit can be used to increase your position in this forum.
stay relaxed and share on the forum, merit will also come to you by itself.

By helping each other I guess you mean giving a good information that helps solve a problem of any member of the forum here because that's the most important thing, educative post is one of the easiest ways to also earn merits because when you come up to teach what many people don't know and you are able to communicate with everyone with your quality write-up there's no way you won't be awarded a merit by members who find your post to be of good benefits and educative to others. You may not be awarded merits instantly but soon or later the post may get merits from different members who may be out of merits when your post or thread was created.

For someone to earn merit on the forum just like you said that is linked to the quality/usefulness of your post and replies, that is very understandable. but outside that i don't really think that there is quickest way to earn merit rather to identify your area of specialization, identify the boards that you can make quality contributions, useful suggestions and make an educating post that people can learn from, then merits will come.

most times, you often see your post as quality post and reasonable replies and at same time you will be expecting to be merited but at the end you will not see any merits , just have it in mind that the merits source have seen your quality post and good replies and they will give you merit when the time comes , hence , the summary here is that you can earn merits through a quality post and reasonable replies and nothing much.

First of all, I welcome you for being new to the forum. 
 
And now we are talking about how "work is required for merit." So simply is that you should participate in the discussion in each thread according to your knowledge, you should express your opinion according to the context of the thread, even if it is a reply question. If you have any opposition, you should share. So if your quote is right on the basis of knowledge, then surely big members will appreciate you through merit, but the condition is that there should be some valuable answer. 
 
Post quality should be good. Good means not so short that the candidate cannot understand and not so long that it is difficult for the candidate. To find out, answer 
 
Try to give possible answers in a simple way. 
 
Share knowledge by opening a new Topic. 
 
Take a part in every discussion and share your knowledge without any hesitation. 
 
So iMH, it will help you to get merits and you can achieve a new rank, and finally, my advice is that to be consistent with your work until you get something (success).

But don't forget also in order to make good posts and contributions one must first take out time and contribute also by reading and evolving one's self because thats the only way to make good posts, lack of reading will keep your mentality and thinking stuck within a particular range and this will prevent you from making quality posts but when you expatiate your reading capability this thought and wisdom of making good and Lucrative contributions will find it way to surface without any efforts.

I think firstly you should be reading and learning of each every topics especially following to seniors openion. First you have to make yourself following this method then the merit can be expected.

He may be reading without learning, but when he is determined to make the reading a conscious effort on learning, then there could be an improvement on the level of his knowledge about bitcoin, then with time he would have realized that he has also improved in so much and begin to give quality posts, in so doing, other members will see such and give merits to any post they found meeting up with their own standard.

Adapt to a strategy, push oneself to be above others and bringing on the tremendous posts, they earned points based from the viewers. We should ensure we're always abiding to the available rules that govern the system, putting through the difficult and building phase. Merits are earned based on the quality of your posts, and let me give OP this little piece of advice, never be in a tight corner where you're too desperate for Merits because there are consequences for any actions leading to farming of merits.

you must to learn how to make a very good post because without learning how to make a good post I don't think that you'll be able to understand the system of ranking in this forum because a quality post is the thing that gives a merit whoever that is a quality writer does not lack merit and the person does not search for merit it is a merit that will look for the person, that is why everybody continue to let everyone know who is new person in the community to learn how to make a constructive post that is meaningful post that is not meaningful does not attract a merit