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Greetings everyone!

I really want to know if merit is necessary in other to secure my account, my friend who introduced this site to me said, I must have merit

Please how do I get this merit and how is it important.

No merit is not necessarily for you to secure your account, keeping your password save and not breaking the forum rules is what is necessary to protect or secure your account from either been banned or hacked.

It is not a must to have merit, merit is just one of those criteria’s needed to grow your account to different ranks, but account ranks also isn’t so important if you aren’t after it you can simply just learn a two or thing that brought you here and leave it. But if you need to engage in contests or signature campaigns you need rank.

To grow in rank you just need to either create good and educative threads, or reply posts with knowledgeable answers

Read this merit and new rank requirement: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.msg28856522#msg28856522

If you are sent 2 merits, you will have one smerit that you can send to someone.

Merit are sent to good posts. Take a look at the posts that are sent merit and read more than post and you will understand more about posts that are sent merit so that you will post like that. They are good and useful posts.

Sure thing, buddy, merit is very important here on the forum. But since you're new here, don't stress too much about merits. They're used to level up and show how helpful you've been in the forum. The merit system was added recently to cut down on spammers and boost the quality of posts. As you explore the forum, you'll hear about "quality posting," and doing that might earn you merits. As a newbie, focus on getting to know the forum, what it's all about, and how you can make good contributions. Merits will come along the way. So, take it easy and welcome to Bitcointalk!

Without merits you can post and involved in deep conversation with other member here in fact you are free to do whatever thing you wish to do but you won't increase in rank that is the only disadvantage with the merits of a thing, so alternatively for you to increase rank you need the merits to move from level 1 another level respectively that is to say you must need the merits for rank changing and that comes with creating high quality post or being so helpful to the community.

First merit doesn't secure your account, the forum is a free conversational ground for everyone but due to spamming (posts that do not make sense) the merit system was introduced to stop people from posting anyhow, for you to earn merit you have to make good post.

You might not understand what we very body here will be saying as you are new here, so you should go and read the following threads, and try to understand them before you keep posting.

• Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0)
• FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0)
• Newbies - Read before posting (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0)

If you succeed in reading the three above you will eventually enjoy your stay in the forum and the merit your friend told you about will not longer be your problem.

Goodluck reading them....

NO
 For your survival here, you need knowledge about most of the discussion that fly in the forum. Don't forget you are in a Bitcoin forum. If you are not very knowledgeable about Bitcoin, crypto, investment, programing, economics, mining, etc., then you should live an open mind and ready to learn from others. On the forum, we share knowledge, ideas and learn from one another on issues that relates to Bitcoin and the above list. You will earn merit if you contribute a very relevant comments on any topic on this forum or if you create a very relevant topic.

If you aim to participate in signature campaigns and get decent income, then you have to earn and secure your merits so that you will be qualified for any campaign. However, if your intention is just to engage in the forum and learn all about crypto, then earning merits is not necessary at all. Your account will always be secured as long as you didn't violate the rules. And as long as you respect the ideas of other forum members, your account will always be safe from banning or getting restricted from the forum.

First of all, merit is a system introduced by moderators as a condition for you to be able to move up in rank, merit is not something that makes it difficult for you to survive in this forum. is merit important? Of course merit is very important, it is impossible for your account to rise in ranking if you don't have enough merit.
Before the introduction of the merit system, there was a lot of cheating that occurred in this forum, there were many accounts of breeders who appeared and they even sold/purchased accounts, so with good consideration, the moderators in this forum created a merit system to suppress those cheating acts.

To all indications, your friend that introduces you to this site didn’t orient you well based on the forum because if he does that, he won’t tell you to just acquire merit while he was supposed to share some links for you so that you will use those links to read and know the rules of the forum itself, how accounts work, and how merit and ranks are. With this, you won’t have to come to ask such questions, though asking questions is the best thing to do because asking questions helps a lot and will encourage your stay in the forum.

Merit is not necessary to secure your account, but it will help to increase your rank in the forum, so even if you have a lot of postings and you don’t have merit, you will still maintain your rank as a newbie, but if you have merit, you will see your rank increasing. Though I see they have already shared the link, you will understand this more there, so I will encourage you to go and read it well and understand how it works.


You can acquire or get merit due to your quality postings that are of use to the forum, and to achieve this, you are supposed to have a broad knowledge of bitcoin and how it works in order to be able to respond to others when they create a thread or ask questions.
And if you read and didn't understand it, you can create a thread yourself to ask questions when others find your thread, so educationally, they might give you merit in order to arouse your interest, so I will encourage you to do quality posts and always engage in research.

This is because your friend introduced you to the forum as a place to make money, that is why he mentioned merits, instead of pushing you to be focused on learning. You do not need to have merits to be in the forum, because the forum is a place to learn, you can be in this forum without merits, be able to read topics and also comment freely. Merit is not a requirement to be in the forum, just a requirement if you want to be eligible for signature campaigns.

First and foremost, you already have an account here. You've already made posts, even opened threads. You're a newbie and has zero merit. That means you can secure an account in this forum, engage in discussions, and read other users' posts without merit.

As for survival, it's simply a matter of following the rules. Plagiarism, for example, could cause you a permanent ban. Merit isn't required for survival.

Merit is important for ranking up, though.

No need for merit to secure your account, just a hard password and your account's secrets will be safe, or add 2FA to your profile to secure your account extra.

Then is merit important? Obviously important you can earn merit from your contribution posts, with merit you can level up to a higher rank if you continue to earn merit, when you have earned a lot of merit and then the rank is high you can also look for work in the signature campaign so that's why I say it's important.

Earning merits depends on the posts you make, when the posts you make are useful for others then rest assured they will definitely give merits, as long as you don't ask or beg for merits.

You only need to save your password to maintain account security and avoid any bans on the forum to protect your account from negative trust and the worst possibility of your account being banned. Merit is only needed to rank up, you only need to make quality posts to get merit or answer other members' questions with quality answers. Always take advantage of your time on the forum to read useful threads, the more you read the more you understand the rules and how merit works.

These pinned post threads have already been shared with you by @Churchillvv and those are already pinned in the main board of the thread so the newcomers sees those immediately as their guide I guess you can use them for your headstart in the community, there's no easy path take time to read this.


Merit doesn't secure your account at all, and doesn't mean the higher the merit the higher the security level of your account, from the word merit it's like a token of appreciation to the people who committed a lot of things that contribute and help to the community or other member itself. Mostly people want to have a merit immediately so they can rank up and participate into Signature campaigns.

In terms of security you can now check out the new feature added which is the 2FA feature (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5478824.0)

Hello to you too.
What kind of merit protection are you talking about? Merit is required for promotion through the ranking system. To secure your account, you need a good, reliable and complex password (which it is advisable to change periodically), and you can also use the new function for protecting your account that has appeared on the forum - 2FA.

To get merit, I think you need to first of all be active (participate in various types of activities on the forum). If you do nothing, then you won’t get any merit. But the main way to get it is through high-quality posts, which will be highly appreciated by other forum participants. And what kind of posts you should write is the subject of your personal search. How important are merits? Exactly as much as you need and depends on your desire.

Answer to your question: To secure your account you need well setup email, strong password and sign a message from your Bitcoin address (don't lose it).

General answer: You're not necessary to post, earn merit, become a good guy, create a fake story, etc. You can become a silent reader and that's fine.

I would leave a neutral feedback to your friend account since he spreading lies. :P

You can’t be blamed for not having a good orientation before joining the forum, your friend probably told you about joining campaigns to earn and to do that he told you need merits.

This is a forum where we discuss mainly about bitcoin and share knowledge amongst ourselves. This is a forum where you gain knowledge about bitcoin and blockchain technology and if your motive is to earn merits and participate in paid campaigns then it will be difficult for you without having any knowledge. Merits is one of the requirements to grow in rank but the major requirement is your contribution to the forum, to earn merits you have to be useful to the community one way or the other and merits have nothing to do with securing your account…

If you want to secure your account then you probably need to look into this latest security feature on this thread - 2FA Added (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5478824.0) and set up a 2FA to increase the security level of your account.

It all depends on what brought you to the forum, if you’re here solely to engage in discussion about bitcoin and crypto then you actually don’t need merits but if you’re here to rank up so that you can be a part of a signature campaign then you’d need to earn yourself some merits. But there’s more advantages in the former, because if you engage in discussions here there’s a high chance that you’ll earn merits even when you’re not looking for it… but if you’re just fixated on the merit part you might be discouraged if you’re unable to earn then in the first few weeks of your registration here.


You get them when people send it to you, take note that there is no shortcut to earning merits — just look for some materials to help you learn about bitcoin after you have gotten the basics you can come back to the forum and contribute to discussions and also ask questions that should be enough to help you earn merits.

By the way, if your friend introduced you to the forum as you claimed and also told you you need merits to secure your account, why can't you ask the friend how? That would have been easier. That's by the way, the merit is never needed to secure your account, that is a misconception, no account expires here unless you are banned. And you can be banned only if you are disobeying the rules of the forum. However, you need merits to grow in the forum, we have different ranks and as you are a newbie, you might need merits to rank up to another stage, and it goes on like that. All these are not necessary if you are just learning from here and imparting knowledge alone.

But if you must rank up, the below links should help you;

[1] Main rules/guides of the forum (Unofficial): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0
[2] Ranking up: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0
     And https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.msg1861412#msg1861412
[3] Specifically for newbies: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0

Merits are important to everyone in here from the day this feature was applied.

No merit is actually not necessary. This is just only one of requirement when you want to rank up and target to join on signature campaigns. But if you are not interested with that and you are here for information then provably merit is not really necessary for that case. You also need to know that this forum is not all about signature campaigns since there are more larger than that if you just do a research especially on altcoin section.

But since you are asking to earn merit then try to find something useful here and once people appreciate your effort done then for sure that they give you that as token of appreciation of your contribution. Also don't forget to share your merit earned since those people receive your merit will provably remember your generosity and might give back what you give to them.

welcom @Eldestyoung here , Your friend misguided you, Merit is just need for ranking up youe account but you can survive here without getting single merit. There are some users (in bounty section) who has more than thousand posts with zero merit.

Bitcointalk is best place of learning, getting accurate information about crypto, taking advice, providing services. If your engage in discussion, providing helpful information,your post worth to get merit then you will also get merit where your account will be gradually ranking up. So try to learn here instead of just thinking about merit.

Want to survive on what exactly?

The forum isn't a battle field thats requires your fighting skills to survive  ;D although I understand the point you are definitely driving at but a simple sentence will put you in the right way as coming here or being lure here for merit hunt will just get you stranded.

This here is a crypto community(Bitcoin) and there are lots of knowledge that is packed up here and also benefits you enjoy here as privilege once you have started developing yourself in your learning abilities and also involving and participating in discussion for the betterment and exposure of more people who are willing to adopt the benefits of knowing and having Bitcoin.

As for the security of your account, it is not necessary to have merit; just follow the rules and regulations of the forum to avoid account bans. But for other reasons, someone really needs merits. For example,  if someone wants to keep their account growing and get a good reputation in the forum, getting is really necessary, but someone also needs to be knowledgeable about cryptocurrency, especially Bitcoin aspects, so they can contribute valuable things to the forum before merits. Once someone is posting quality posts, they will be rewarding the posts with some numbers merits.

Another reason why many people are after merits again is to rank up and participate in signature campaigns, like doing some task for company's , and when some don't reach a certain rank, they can't participate in many signature campaigns that why people are getting merits to rank up their accounts. But as for person that just want to learn about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general, merits are not important; just focus, learn, and ask questions about what you don't know. Just know that merits are just given to someone as a reward for effort by doing good things in the forum.

Op this forum isn't a do or die affair, the primary purpose of this forum is to learn, teach, ask ... About Bitcoin and other crypto assets so the idea of merit for survival is wrong. Besides, the only benefit of merit is to rank up which can make you qualify for signature campaigns. However your survival here only depends on your ability to obey the forum rules, aside that there is nothing required of you to do that will keep your account in a good condition here in this forum. The merits you talk about are just rewards to express how useful your contribution is, so if you want some then make good contributions.

It reflects the rank on the forum, with the higher the rank, the more benefits you receive, such as the fact that you are currently at a low rank and cannot post more (time limit) as well as the fact that you can post pictures that cannot be displayed. And if you have a high rank, you will also be able to wear an avatar + signature and can be fully compensated through active campaigns on the forum. As for account protection, it's not important. If you don't intend to develop more, you don't need to worry about "merit" because discussing and sharing information on the forum does not force this.

If you build quality posts, and it brings many benefits to other people, you will get the attention of forum members, try following the activities of legendary members, such as complying with the rules while operating on the forum.

If you are just here to leave your life, learn, and go without being worried about anything like rank and all of that, then you don't need to worry about merit.
 
Merit is not used to secure one's account, as you don't need to use merit as a form of payment for anything here; rather, the merit you earn up to a particular amount is what qualifies you to obtain a certain rank, and it shows to some how useful the content you produce has been to others.
 
But when your friend talks about merit as a means of protecting your account, I don't really know what he means by that, unless there are special features that he knows about account protection, which I'm sure require merit that most of us here don't know anything about.

You won't lost your account even if you have no merits at all. There is no rule in the forum that one should acquire merits in order to secure its account. That is, if your purpose is simply to learn and interact with other forum members. You can stay as long as bitcointalk is available.

However, if what you mean is to secure your account in a campaign, then merits is really necessary. In the first place, if you don't have earned merits, you can never be qualified to be accepted in a campaign. You have to improve your posting quality in order to attract merits from other members.

I would still say it's necessary because you need to see your growth in the long run.  You need to rank up and increase your level through posting quality posts so you can be an asset in the forum. Although the forum will never remove you if you have no merits earned, but you will be considered unnecessary in the forum. You need to create constructive posts so that other members will appreciate your contribution in the forum, and not just you're here to post and spam.

Merits are only essential if you plan on joining a campaign signature in the near future. Merits allow a certain user to rank up to their current rank if they reach a certain number of merits.

Generally, there are newbies who are so accustomed in earning merits that they seem to forget the reason on why this forum was created in the first place- which is a place of discussion and collaboration.

If you want to rank up and participate in campaign signatures, then earning merits is an essential prerequisite in order to achieve it. But if you are a casual forum user who reads certain boards on different times, then I do not think that it is relevant for you.

Your friend didn’t educate you properly. Merits and activity is the only way to increase your forum rank so if you’re to grow from newbie to full member rank/ legendary member, you need to have a certain amount of merit. Each rank has its own merit requirement. The higher the rank, the higher the merits required.

Gaining activity points is more easier than getting merits. For activity, all one has to do is to be active and post often on the forum. To get merits, other members need to see some value in your posts and they will reward you with merits. In short, activity is correlated to quantity while merit is associated with quality.

Probably, your friend is expecting you to participate in a signature campaign in the future so he is encouraging you to secure your account and rank up from your position. Which means you are entitled to post valuable and quality posts so that other members will benefit from your posts and in return, reward you some merits.

However, this forum does not require merit itself. Provided that you're only here to learn from the discussion and even when you don't create posts, that will not matter. Just secure your password so you can continue to have access on the forum.

Maybe your friend that introduced you to the forum didn't do his explanation well or maybe you're just the the one who didn't understood him well. Merit in this forum has no security concerns with your account holding, the merit system was only introduced a a measure to make forum users put effort in their letters to deliver and engage in knowledgeable discussion's and threads. It's a way to maintain quality of information within the forum and not a means to securing your account. Op just understand that whenever a post/comment of yours receives a merit(s) from any member of the forum it's either that your post has solved a problem or made sense or added to that person(s) knowledge.  

So it's crucial you deliver quality to the forum as you are now here

This depends on the purpose of your registration here.  In normal instances, merit is not required to keep your account active in this forum.  Merit is needed for rank up, signature and bounty campaign participation, but if it is not your concern to rank up or join any paying campaign in the future, there is no need for you to think of merit but obviously if you give a good contribution, merit will come to you.

If you wanted to learn on how to earn merit, you can just browse this Beginners & help board and you will find plenty of suggestions and advices on how to earn merit.

Merit as the name suggests is just like saying excellent, or good point. It is just like someone liking your topic or post because they find it worth it or excellent. With or without merits, your account stays on this forum forever (even Satoshi’s account is still in this forum). But if you want merit, all you have to do is to continuously contribute valuable content to the platform. Eventually, someone will see that you are contributing something valuable and will merit you for doing so. It is that straightforward.

Merit is not necessary to secure your account. Merit is only necessary for you to rank up and continue moving up in ranks. If you engage well in forum activities and contribute useful information to the community, your reward for that is merit and that is what will make you to rank up. You’ll enjoy the forum once you’re active and partaking in discussions, asking questions and providing answers to people here that you have knowledge about. Asides that, secure your account by keeping safe your password.

You have already joined the forum. If you stick to this forum you will definitely learn something from here. By collecting keys through your learning you can unlock your qualification. First follow the rules and guidelines set by the moderators. You should include things like providing accurate information, not spamming forums, and participating in constructive discussions about cryptocurrency and related topics. Familiarize yourself with the forum rules and contribute meaningfully to the discussion. By consistently participating and contributing to the forum, you build a reputation and trust with other members, which will help you move up the ranks and earn a certain number of merit points.

Merit is not required for securing your account as it's only the password which you need to keep it secure and your registered email address. Meri is required for you to grow in this forum through profile ranking as without merit you will not be able to rank up in this forum and without which you might not be able to join signature campaigns which helps us financially for advertising their projects.

To my own understanding, merit isn't a criteria for survival here, it's mainly for the growth of your account, but what you really need for survival is not to break the forum rules, so your account wouldn't be ban.
And you also have to have some knowledge about Bitcoin and others, and be willing to learn from people above you in terms of knowledge if you want to engage in meaningful conversation.

Depending on what you want to achieve on the long run, you can be in the form without merit and nobody will disturb you about it. But one thing is certain if you provide useful information and provide help to others through your posting and comments merits will come. There is provision for every body to feel welcome and comfortable here in this forum, that why we have the Newbie rank to the Legendary rank.

Not at all. The only way to secure your account is to know what to post in this forum, do more research on any topic you want to ask about, avoid copying and pasting because this makes your account unsafe, and abide by the rules and regulations regarding this forum. The person who introduced you to this forum should have explained to you why he said you needed to have merit in order for your account to be protected. That is wrong, getting merit is for those who want to participate in the campaign on the forum. If you don't rank up, you won't be able to participate in any campaigns, merit is required to rank up, for you to rank up you need to contribute to the forum.

You can make your voice here on the forum without getting merit. If you are thinking like a higher rank on forum is your survival, then you are most probably wrong. That's not how it work.
Good luck with your thought of this :)

I don't really know why many newbies are so interested in ranking up as quick as possible when they supposed to work on themselves so that they can have enough time to grow their account very well. Merit is not the most important thing her in the forum although it all depends on what we want and what we are longing for. If we are here to join signature and bounty campaigns then we are not supposed to rush to grow our account. There are so many things to learn here apart from just joining bounty and signature campaign to earn some little cash here.

You don't need merit to post here, posting here is free, and you don't need merit. Maybe you should ask your friend why you need merit before you can post here. Maybe your friend wants you to rank up your account, that's why he said you must have merit. If you want to rank up, it's not a bad idea, just keep on making positive contributions to the forum, and you will receive the merit that your friend said you must have. So if you want to rank up your account, then keep on making positive contributions. The forum is a place where you can learn and you can also make an impact on people. There is no way you can get merit if you are not making any serious impact on the forum.

Merit is never necessary, you don't need merit to join the discussion and learn in this forum which is what the forum wants for its users. But if you want the extra benefit, you want to rank up, be respected, start a business, or earn some money, then you will definitely need some merits. I think many people will give the same advice that you don't need to think about it too much, just do good discussion and contribute merit will follow, and if at the end of the day you don't get any merit you can still learn from this forum.

If it's only for survival, merits do not matter. But having that mindset does not manifest personal growth and progress, it's like you exist without benefits. And I won't chose to be that way forever. If there are certain ways to develop growth, then I would take the risk, and that's where earning merits becomes necessary.

Don't just think of your own benefits, but consider other's welfare as well. The forum is made for positive and constructive interaction, so at least do your part so you can contribute something worthy to the forum.

No, merit is not compulsory or necessary for securing your account here in the forum; you can see so many active accounts with less or no merits, and they are still interacting with other forum members, and they are getting all the information they need in the forum, and merit is not stopping them from getting all they want in this forum.But depending on your main aim for joining the forum, if you have the aim of joining the forum just to participate in signature campaigns, then merit is necessary because you need merit to rank up to another rank in this forum.

You can get merits if you post quality contents that have good information, and if people get something beneficial from it, everyone can award or give you merits if they find your post worthy of getting merits. In fact, merit is a reward for your quality contribution to the forum.

Your friend is wrong. Merit has nothing to do with account security. As a newbie you shouldn't focus on merit.
Be natural, read forum and participate in discussions. Merit will come eventually. Don't fish for merit, we can understand the intention.

For that he already been misinformed by his friend that's why its really important that newbies should ask question since they can clearly get some accurate question base on the opinion of people. And they need to know that merit is not everything and people only want this is because for ranking up reason or to join those signature campaigns which other think about. Also they need to know that this forum is not all about that since there are more larger picture that need to see here which we can benefit from. If this newbies will spend some time to research then provably they can see more better opportunities rather than expecting something larger than what they thought's especially on targeting to join signature campaigns in this forum.

As much as I know this forum, having merit haven’t been a prerequisite of the rules except, when it comes to signature campaigns if you know what that is but, as per account security, merits are far from it any way to secure your account. You secure your account here by ensuring you function within the rules. Anything more than that is you seeking means to an exit.

Merit is some later introduction into the forum as a way to prevent spamming and it in turns distinguishes some accounts to be active/better posters than others.  Hence, your good even without merit so long as you have an agenda that keeps you off forum politics and some other intricacies of the forum.

What's your purpose here? To grow, poly and get accepted into a signature campaign? If yes, then getting merits is very important. If that is not the case, if you just want to interact with other bitcoiners without any ulterior motives other than learning, knowledge, the you do not need to bother bout merits.

The choice lies with you though and I wish you the best of luck in whichever decision you have chosen

You can survive here without merit. Just keep reading, respond, and ask any questions you need to. This is the best spot for discussions, finding out the crypto industry, and having dialogues with experienced people. The merit will just come naturally without asking and applying from the merit source.

If you are here determined to join activities to earn money, you have to contribute to get merits. I am not very interested in newcomers creating many topics and sharing guides, ideas, and information that were only taken from the internet and not from their minds and self-experiences. Anyhow, newcomers are still learning and without rich experiences in this industry. So it this the common scheme. And then send messages and applications to all merit sources.

Earning merits and rank promotions is not enough. Royse777, the manager with the most number of campaigns as I observed has a guide (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5478204.msg63337543#msg63337543).

Yes that's right. In my opinion, the mindset that must be changed first, don't think about Merit first, but think first about how to gain as much knowledge as possible in this forum so that with the amount of knowledge gained, we will develop ourselves in this forum so we can make constructive posts.

Because believe me, without extensive knowledge, we will not be able to make posts that are constructive and useful for other people. Maybe if we change our mindset first we will be able to survive in this forum and of course the reward will also come by itself. I've experienced a mindset like OP's since I first registered on this forum, but thankfully I quickly realized it and changed my mindset about this forum.

Your friend didn't tell you directly, but merit is important for you to survive in real life. :P
You need merit to increase your rank, and if you increase your rank, you will have a higher chance to earn more. :P

Why did your friend didn't tell you that one? :D Seriously, you're a newbie here, so I will just say don't look at merits as it's your lifeline here where if you don't merit, you will not survive. Being a newbie-ranked member here or a Legendary-ranked member doesn't even matter if you're here for knowledge because both can access all of it with no restrictions (I guess).

If you want to secure your account here, you don't need merits, but you need knowledge. Knowledge to secure your account. Good Luck OP, and I just hope you will not do what most newbies out here are doing. Posting nonstop Proof of Authentications on the Bounties channel hoping that they will earn a few bucks.

To keep your account safe, all you have to do is adhere to the rules and guidelines set forth by the Bitcoin forum. For example, you may avoid being banned by not plagiarizing, and you can prevent account hacking by using strong passwords and remembering them. However, if you wish to participate in signature campaigns, you must have merits.

Before you may participate in any signature campaigns, you must first rank up your account to a full member rank or presumably a member rank. Several numbers of merits are required to obtain some of these positions in the ranking process. Be aware that you cannot receive merits unless you are making valuable contributions to the forum, such as insightful threads and insightful comments.

I would say it's necessary but it's never compulsory. It's necessary because you will never become a reliable forum member if you don't get out from your comfort zone, I mean by unlocking your own potentials, you will become a reputable member in the forum. However, it's still your own choice and preference if you will not try earning merits because your purpose is not to join the discussion but will only learn from the discussion in the forum.

Merits is easily earned when you are deserving. But not posting in the forum with quality posts is clearly a non merit earner.

It's not easy to make quality posts that actually produce merit. in about how the post or comment can have a good impact and provide a solution to the problem being discussed. Posts that are just spam will not have any value and in fact they will give distrust to the account used.

I remember my friends when they were first introduced to this community by our seniors, they got banned one after another because back then they could not speak English well and they were misunderstood by the moderators as well. with that, they often post on different boards but the main problem with them is they don't read the rules and regulations. They just quickly post replies even though they don't have any knowledge about the topic. So it's better to read more at this rate rather than post anything because, with that, you can learn more until you have enough knowledge to share with us or in your local section.

Newbies can get two different results simultaneously as long as they are able to achieve the targeted achievements when joining the forum. Knowledge about Bitcoin and other Altcoins is one of the main goals of joining here, but rank up is also very important in the journey process while in this open space.

The knowledge and information you gain here can help you find out more about crypto, you can also share important information here based on your knowledge and experience while in the crypto space. The quality of your post will be assessed by other members, if your post contains important information that can help other members, seniors will appreciate your efforts with merit because your post is considered quality.

Your friend who introduced you to this forum did well but may be have little knowledge on how the forum operates. As others have said merit does nothing in the help of securing your account, what does is the ability of you to read and understand the rules guiding the forum.

Merits are good, but desperate want of merit leads to spamming, plagiarizing other people's content which will do more harm to the security of your account, maybe a permanent ban.
So... It is advised to keeping creating original contents which will benefit the forum and you will be awarded merits.

you are welcome to the forum, having merits doesn't  make you secured your account rather it navigates you from a lower rank to higher one  and without merit you cannot be included in any signature campaign, making it very necessary but not compulsory.

Welcome to the forum first of all. Now concerning the question you asked, you don't necessarily need merits to remain here because you can have a good discussion and interaction with other members with or without merits but your responses must be online with the subject of discussion otherwise your points will be regarded as off topic. On the other hand you need merit to move  to the next rank and moving to the the next ranks shows how improved you have become but above the rank and merit you need knowledge to progress to the next rank because getting more knowledge will surely bring merits to you so I suggest you hustle to improve your knowledge because it will give you other things which you need.

Don't forget that you are not here to eran merits but to learn and be more knowledgeable about bitcoin and all the stuffs in the crypto market. But if you aim to increase your position level, then might as well consider earning merits because so you will be able to join signature campaigns in the future. While getting merits is actually hard for beginners, but it will become easier once you completely understand the market and make high quality posts that would make other members to appreciate and put some merits into your post.

Merit is not needed to secure your account. What you need to secure your account is to have a good password, and follow all the rules and regulations of this forum.
But to rank up on this forum you need merit.

By making good contributions, helping people who have issues, also providing solutions to some problems the forum is experiencing, and more.

You must earn merit to change your account rank. You can never change your account rank without earning merit. Your friend introduced you to the Bitcoin forum and what he told you is definitely true. Now you must informative posts to earn merit. Also if you can post informative topic informative post and good replay of post then you can earn merit from here. But let me tell you never try to cheat here you will be destroyed when you try to cheat. Donate enough time to bitcoin forum I hope you too can build a good position in future and earn from here.

Your friend really tried for you by introducing you to the forum here, but maybe your friend doesn’t understand much about the forum also, just guessing, because someone who really understands the forum won’t say merit is needed to secure an account, merit is just like a reward given to someone just to appreciate the person’s hard work. So that’s not linked to the security of an account. If you want to rank up your account, you really need merit to do that. Maybe you will like to participate in signature campaigns later in the future, then you need merit for that. Apart from that, I don’t really think merit is useful in any other way.
 
It’s better you visit the forum rules and regulations and check them out, I'm sure they will be of great help to you, and you can also recommend your friend to do the same thing, it’s going to help both of you when using the forum.
 
When securing your account on the forum here. Make sure you are using a strong password, Make sure your email which you used Registering your forum account is different from what you use for other activities, make sure your email is hidden (you can do that in your settings), you can sign a message in case you lose your account to hackers, you will easily be able to recover it, and you can also add OTP to your account.

Merit is very important to every body here to grow in ranks but it's quite unfortunate that it's not easy to get. You must make meaningful contribution or write an important thing thag will attract the audience to merit it by sudjesting something that will be of help to another.

Most people get Merits by answering questions correctly. While others get from asking a vital or important question or always being active to solve people's problem. You can be merited if you always be a problem solver.

There are some veteran members here who are not interested at all in earning merits: they are well known already, connect from time to time and don't participate in any signature campaign, so they don't give anything for ranking up.

Merits will help you gain credibility as a newcomer and will give you access to paod campaigns if that's what you're looking for, but it is not mandatory to "secure your account" in the traditional sense of the sentence.

merit isn't directly a necessity for your survival, just take getting merit as acquiring your certificate, getting merit certifies that you are activity contributing to the forum and so if in the event that your service would be needed for carrying out a particular campaign in the forum, it is your merit that will grant you access to such opportunity.

Just as you don't go after your certificate without putting in the effort to doing the right thing that will grant you the needed grade, you also will need to out in the effort to ensure that you rendering a positive input to the forum and merit will start coming in.

But you need to be patient and think through a post before reacting to it and ensure that while you are giving your view about a subject matter, you are doing it maturely so you won't end up spamming the forum in your quest to making merits.

We can see them posting on interesting threads or sections like in meta or speculation section specifically on Wall of Observer thread where they share a lot of information regarding on their speculation or sentiments about the bitcoin price, what they had been notice according to news and their experiences. We can also see some notable guys in collectibles which participate on some activities happening there.

As said merit system is just needed by people who want to join on campaign since they really need to earn that so they can reach to rank and merit count requirement in a campaign. But if they are not interested on it since they think this is just a waste of time and stressful then its so fine not to join since there's more opportunities we can seen and participate. Also the knowledge we can get in this forum is a big benefits for us so I think they should not limit theirselves for thinking about those campaigns since if they learn how wide the opportunity they can get from the crypto market for sure they can say the real profit is there.

I'm sorry to say but your comment will scare the op. Perhaps you didn't understand the question op is asking correctly. Although, the post is not clear enough for us to know the exact help he needs because there's two keys words in his post which are "secure and survival". In whatever circumstances, these two things have nothing to do with merit in the forum. Without merit, one can secure their account themselves and it solely depends on how vigilant and careful they are through the use of strong password and probably enabling two factor authentication. The survival on the other hand depends on how well they coordinate themselves, paying attention to Forum rules and refrain themselves from breaking them. You don't necessarily need merit to be secured and survive here.


Additionally, it's important to note that earning merit is not by showing interest. As far as you worth it, you will definitely get it. Showing interest in merit is what keep it far from you even because you'll be desperate and probably end up obtaining it illegally. When you worry less about it, it comes to you when you are focused and doing what are expected of you.

Ok, I've sent you merit and have checked your posts to see if there's improvement did you follow some of the advice here, I guess you did, just keep improving, just keep being active just keep being on topic and merits will come, check if there's merit source from your local discussion and participate on discussion and there are other merit sources thread here you can submit your best threads or posts there and if it deserves merits, it will be merited.

If you notice this post you will surely know about all your information. As a newbie on the forum, all the steps you should take to grow your account are there, so you can learn from here. Quickly read these posts carefully, linked below.

Details: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.msg28250551#msg28250551

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If you don't have any future plans to increase your level or position, then don't bother working hard to earn merits. But isn't it boring to stay in a forum when you don't set any goals of improvement and you just want to stay where you are currently right now? For me, I won't settle for less if there are opportunities around that will make me grow and improved. My goal is to learn and at the same time  earn as well, hence I should not feel deteriorating but will continue to enhance if there are things that need enhancement in the process.

Merits are actually not necessary for mere survival but I have this mindset that once you earn and grow your merits, you are also improving in your own way. You make more quality and valuable posts than before, and your knowledge is also upgrading.

Depends, are you here to make money through signature campaigns? If yes, then merits are definitely necessary for your survival as most campaign manager will check the merits as a measure to the quality and activity of your account but if you're not really into joining signature campaigns and you just like the discussions then I don't think you'll gonna need it because you're in here for the discussion of the topics that you are curious about and merits will naturally come your way if you participate in those discussions anyway.

I agree with you; in my opinion, merit is required for everybody interested in campaign participation; however, what distinguishes novice or low rank members from higher rank members is the merit they possess, which also helps to maintain the forum's law and order. I've noticed several individuals here with higher rank who aren't interested in campaigns but rather in contributing to the forum, and as a result of their personal contributions, others began to respect them by meriting their posts due to it quality.

Yes, you are right, but not in every case. I know a few members who took the ranking up as it was a race or competition, to the extent to say "before the new year I'll be Legendary", and manage it (although a few of them almost disappeared after the achievement ???).

I have always criticized that behavior/motivation to rank-up, and I think that my case is just the opposite (merits came more easily after the 1,000), but now I am less critical and as long as they don't do harm everyone is free to choose the method he/she prefers.

So we can make here a little recap: ranking up is positive in terms of recognition in the forum and participation in paid campaigns, although it is not mandatory since some members are well known and valued here even when they're just Full or Sr. Members, and some others made from a career to a fortune with the knowledge they gained here, no matter their rank.

Greetings! As I understand your friend introduced this forum to you as a Source of income/earning platform, right? So in this view what your friend said is partially correct. Because without Merit you can not rank up your account as everybody already said.

But if you have skills you can also provide your service here in this forum without having merits. For example, if you are a Designer, developer, artist, etc you can create an announcement for your service in the service section.

Only people who are here for the sake of getting into a good signature campaign that would think that merits are very important here.
This is not soo because we also need activities for us to grow her. For us to grow in Bitcointalk, there is need for us to write good post and earn activities to keep growing. We need to understand that not everybody that is here is to join signature campaign and starting earning. There are people that are only here to promote their projects and let it to be known to the world.

Merit is not to secure your account. Your account password secures your account and you must use a strong password.
Are your password in the green? (https://www.hivesystems.io/blog/are-your-passwords-in-the-green)

You don't have to get merit to post or to survive here, only need it to rank up.


Like me now, I am greedy to rank up.

You can post on the forum in the same way as other members post on the forum without increasing your rank and there will be no restrictions on posting or sharing information. If you want to attach a picture in your post, you have to be a minimum junior member, it might be a problem for a member without rank. Merit is necessary because without merit you cannot increase your account rank and this merit you must earn through good quality and informative posts in the forum. If you think you don't need to earn merit then you can post in forum like this or get other information no problem.

You don't need merit to secure your account. Without merit, you can learn, post and partake in bounty altcoin as an hunter. There are so many accounts for on the forum existing for so many years without a merit.



Your friend rely knows the importance of merit on the forum. You really needs it to rank up. And without ranking up in the forum, there are few things you can benefit from the forum.

Op first of all welcome to the forum , joining the forum is like a ground and merit is the foundation on that ground therefore merits are very important for you to grow in the group .

Merit is actually very necessary and you can also earn merit depending on the quality of your post and contributions on a discussion , so for you to survive on the forum  please go through some threads of the Old members and follow their footsteps and in that you can also earn merit through your reasonable contributions.

You don't need any merit to secure your account. As long as you keep your password in the right way, your account will be always secure.
You only need merits if you want to rank up your account level. Now, your account is a newbie level, if you want to rank up to Jr Member and above, you need merits. I suggest to read these first:
1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.0
2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0

To get merits, you need to do something useful and convey it by creating quality posts. You can share important information, help others, report violators, join merit challenges, and etc. Merits will be important if you want to keep rising your account rank and if you want to join signature campaign paid in BTC. These 2 things require you to always gaining merits.

I don't know hey some persons do base there survival here in merits. I think op is taking it too far, merit is not the ultimate here so we need to remove our concentration from that. The important thing here is to make a good post that would help others that are here to learn somethings about their curiosity. Apart from signature campaign that we can join that would enable us to earn more from what we are doing, we can always grow our account with good posting habits and along the way, that would attract merits to us since we are writing to inform based on our opinion. We don't need to pressure ourselves because of merit hunting, it very wrong idea.

Merits are not necessary for the security of your account, but they are necessary for ranking up. Hopefully, you have seen how you can rank up on this forum. So, merits are absolutely necessary for your survival on this forum and earning good money.

As you are a newbie, you have no idea or knowledge about how to qualify. First of all you can post here without qualification, if your post quality and quality is good then definitely you are eligible. And if you post well and post without understanding everything well then you will never qualify, then you must first know about Bitcoin and about this forum. When you know and understand everything well then if you can create an important and quality post then you will be able to qualify. And as you continue to qualify your account will be protected and gradually your account rank will change and at some point you will be able to earn money by working on signature campaigns.

In addition, merits is what is used for the ranking and without merits, there are certain privileges that one cannot enjoy. For instance, a newbie cannot post pictures and it will appear in the forum. He can only post the link to the the website where the picture was uploaded whereas higher ranking members can. I think there should be other things that earning merits and growing in ranks enable one to do in the forum, hence the need to get merits to be able to enjoy all the privileges.

No there is not any kind of rules like this here on the forum like if you want to survive here you need merits. well answer to your second question is that if you have good information or knowledge share your info here with us or the OG's members your struggle, information, and knowledge will be much appreciated as merits. keep in mind that you have to stay pure here by avoiding using of AI tools or Copying & pasting without giving any source link.

Stay active on the forum and explore the forum and read good threads and topics started by members to know more about the forum which may more helping for you to survive here on the forum.

We should be after writing something meaningful not just looking for merits by all means.
The forum is a place we can advertise our service to potential client or buyer with any stress. We can always decide to grow our account for us to get into campaign without any stress. We can make money for ourselves when we are in a signature campaign and that alone requires a good posting style to stay longer in a campaign.

Most people are just ignoring what the forum is really about, and they are focusing on other things. Merit shouldn’t be the main reason to be here, and merit is not needed to secure an account. If you are desperate and looking for merit, then you might not really be able to stay long in the forum here before you might end up going against the forum rules. The forum is basically for learning, and if you are really ready to learn, you are also going to receive merit.
 
Do you still encourage people to participate in bounty campaigns? To me, bounty campaigns are not really profitable like before, most are just time wasting because the rewards aren’t really worth it, and some are even scam projects that will never pay you. So the best thing is to rank up your account and join the signature campaign if you want to earn, or if you have any skills, then display them on the service board.

Just as many have enlighten you in many area about this merrit , I want to assure that no body will like to work without promotion but if you are one of those who will like working without promotion it's your choice. Is not mandatory you must get merrit before you secure your account I see Merritt as secondary the primary is keeping your details properly save and obeying simple laydown rule of the forum as well studying hard on the trends. If all these is in place I believe every good work you put in here will yield you better results of getting merrit that will promote you.

Currently I'm not aware of any known penalty that comes with not having merits on the forum except you are participating in a campaign. Merits aren't compulsory for you to maintain your account on the forum neither is it a necessity to securing your account on the forum but then if you are here and you are not experiencing growth then the essence of been on this forum will definitely be defeated, One sign of growth is with your merits and activities if you are growing as you should by getting good and quality knowledge from this forum then the quality of your post will increase and by default some one will appreciate it with merits and your activities will be on the rises aswell, that way you can tell if you are really growing by joining this platform so the essence of merits can't be overridden even if it's not compulsory.

Getting merits come from quality post just like I did stated earlier, apart from been merited for quality posting I'm no aware of any other known way and merits are very important if you ever get interested in been hired or participate in a signature campaign were you can earn a few dollars via Bitcoin payments.

Merit is a reflection of quality and also sometimes contains an element of reputation on this forum. It has nothing to do with account security as it relates to passwords.
 
If you aim to secure your account, the more important thing to do is stake a Bitcoin address where only you know the private key. Like I did a few days ago (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996318.msg63551106#msg63551106). It doesn't need to be a wallet with a large balance, but what is certain is that you have full control over the wallet that you signed and verified by someone else.

If you aim to get merit, have good quality discussions, such as learning about bitcoin wallets and doing some small experiments. I'm sure many members will appreciate your persistence in studying. Even though your post asks a lot of questions, as long as you have tried it means you have progress in gaining knowledge about Bitcoin or cryptocurrency. And that's great.

What are you here for OP? You are free to keep your account if you don't have interest in making any contribution, I know some one on here who hardly reply to discussions, he keep his account to only read about what people are discussing about only.

Merit isn't very important but like I have said it all depends on what you are here for, are you here to make a name for yourself by ranking up? Are you here just to learn only? Or are you here to provide some good solutions to crypto related problems?

Contribution is how you get merits on this forum but it doesn't matter, nothing will happen to your account if it's not merited, you can be active or not for years and your account will still be safe, make sure you use a strong password combination and maybe even activate the 2FA Authentication.

As other as said merit isn't necessary to secure your account. All you need in the forum to remain here is to keep the lay down rules of the forum. Merits are just needed to rank up. But this shouldn't turn you to only merit fishing member. Most merit fishing members often get discouraged after making several post and not be meritted. It is highly better you make your good contribution by posting or replying to post and let merit seek you through your good post.

Merit is not really necessary for survival in this forum, especially for people that come to learn and move, because there is no restriction on posting and asking questions that require merits and ranks, provided that you do not want to add extra things to your post, like images.

Even if you want to do any special posts or advertisements and it requires you to add images to them, you can buy a Cropper membership, which will unlock some features for you and allow you to post freely in the forum.

If you want to rank up in this forum, you need merits, and you can only get them if you make a quality contribution to this forum.

When your friend introduced you to this forum, what was your purpose  and what did he tell you is the forum all about? This is very important to know whether you need merit here or not.

As a newbie, merit is just a way of your contribution to post, you get rewarded or typically when someone like your post, they give you merit for that and the more merit you get with more activity, the more you rank up from Newbie, to Member, Full Member, Senior Member, Hero Member and then Legendary which is the last rank here with merit requirements of +-1000 merits.

The forum has a market place where trading is going on, if you want to engage in trading here it's not merit that you need but a reputation, you can see that your trust score is 0/0/0, if you get a green +1, it shows that you are been trusted with a positive feedback and more people will trade with you and if you been distrusted with negative feedback -1 and with that on your account, people will avoid having trade with you.

So, you choose why you are here and stick with it to the end, if you have both merit and positive feedback, it increases your reputation in the Forum and more people will want to deal anything with you as long as you have it.

No it doesn't so merit basically a point that you can earn by providing something useful to the forum but sometimes there are people who gave joke and merit them.
and this merit used as a rank up so you are a newbie now and the max rank here is legendary if you have a bigger rank some people might trust you.

Higher rank can also be used as work and sell things here you can do a signature campaign like I do with weekly payment. In this case for the signature high ranking means a high payout, but there is catch some manager need you to be active on forum and keep give valuable material so you can earn merit and keep you in a campaign.

If you have waited a while, you would have figured out yourself how important merit is in the forum. I have also seen that this thread has span upto 5 pages. But I still want to answer your question incase you are still reading. Merit is very important to everyone, including those that has thousands of it already. While lower rank members need merits for rank up, older members who already have thousands of merits need more for prestige. You might not have needs for merits if;

• You will not want to join any signature campaigns 
• You don't intend to become a campaign manager
• You do not want to join some contests and give aways 

If you are here only to learn about bitcoin, you are free to even read from the guest mood and everything will be fine. But if you are here to earn, just like many, you will need merits.

You get merits by creating quality posts that teache new ideas or communicate old ones in a new way. You can earn merits by answering questions in the forum. You are likely to earn more merits if you are regular in conversations.

This sounds like a joke though. But do you by chance know the friends profile? I also think that his friend doesn't deserve a neutral tag because there's no prove that OP wasn't the one that misconstrued the one who introduced him here

I think merit is just a gift that users give us to give appreciation for what we do. only that. unless your goal here is to get a job, I think merit is quite influential, because there are some jobs that require a high rank, for example signature. But I think it doesn't matter, over time you will also understand and merit will follow if you have a good contribution in forum.nesehat I don't think too much about merit, but what is more important is how we can contribute to the forum by making the forum more lively, exciting, high quality, free of spam, sharing knowledge and so on

Merit is not required to actually protect it so if you want strong password with your gmail account keep these in safe place. Here merit will help rank up your account. Moreover the more merit you get, the more respected you are. However just share your skills and knowledge and help other members then you will get merit.

It's not about having lots of merits that you will be respected but the contributions you make which makes you a respectable forum member. You can even see a forum member with thousands of merits but thid forum member have negative score which you know what it means which is he/she is not to be trusted. If you remember there is a forum member who receive Bitcoin to his wallet accidentally and he returned it to the owner which already makes him a respectable forum member. There's a thread where you sign a message and that will be used to prove the ownership of the account if ever the account is hacked someone knows the password.

Instead of survival, it's more like a measurement to make sure you can keep growing in the ranks. I think your account will stay intact even if you don't get any merit. You can keep posting and hanging out with other fellows here, and don't mind about merits if you just want to merely discuss here. However, if you have other importance, for example, as a bounty hunter who wants to improve their earnings through signature campaigns, then merit is very important. There are some criteria for increasing your ranks, and one of them is to fulfill certain amounts of merit for certain ranks.

Well, with my little understand my dear, I think having merit is not a way of securing your account, just like someone else has already said here, that in order to secure your account,you are to keep your passwords saved and do not go against the forum rules and regulations and I think by so doing i think your account will be saved and secured,..

While merit help you to grow up your rank,from newbie to higher rank and that is the important of merit in this forum and it's very important as you are a member of this forum you need the merit to rank up...

I believe what push these newbies to be eager about merit system is their greed to earn profits, or they just don’t know the whole concept of this forum, that its all about knowledge and learning acquisition first and when you have acquired that, receiving merits will eventually follow. But we all know that merits are not the only basis for survival. If you consistently follow the rules without breaking them, you will surely be safe from kicking out from this forum. While merits are also considered vital, but it does not guarantee your survival in the forum.

Secure your account how?, there's no such thing concerning merit and the safety of your account, your stay on this forum depends on you with or without merit, your friend is right and at the same time you should not take the advice so serious just like how you created this thread asking how you can get a merit. I believe you've observed the forum and you've seen post receiving merits from higher rank members, this is just simple, you post quality posts you earn merit or rather make quality comments you can still earn merit but it depends on your knowledge, how far have you gone in knowing about bitcoin if the answer is no then you should start learning about bitcoin from different post, by so doing you will get to understand and make good comments. To be sincere you need merit in terms of ranking up.

Merit isn't a necessity, whether you're merited or not, you can still go about your daily business on thr forum, different people has different reasons why they're here on the forum. For some, they're here to only grow their account, earn themselves a significant number of merits, join a signature campaign and start earning some money, not that I'm saying that it's not a good thing to grow your account, earn some good number of merits and join a campaign, but that shouldn't be your driving force.
The main aim of this forum is to educate and teach people about Bitcoin and crypto at large, as well as general knowledge too, and this should be your driving force, to acquire that knowledge, and once you're dedicated to acquiring the knowledge, the and then start making meaningful contributions to the development of the forum and its users, then getting merits shouldn't be so hard.
You're merited when someone sees something meaningful in your contribution. But merit or no merit, you can still access the forum and its resources.

What did your friend told you you needed merit for? Sometimes we easily got misinformed by the way others introduced us to some certain things, you only need merits to rank up from one rank to another which is by choice and not by force, either you earn it or not, you're not going to be denied access to your Bitcointalk account, it has nothing to even do with what you do here except that you can't put on avatar except you're a full member and you can't post images except you're a Jr member or purchase a corper membership rank, every other things remains the same with you and other members of higher ranks.

Merit on Bitcointalk is indeed an essential aspect of your account's security and reputation within the forum community. While it's not a mandatory requirement for account security per se, having merit does offer several benefits and signifies your contributions and reliability within the community.

Op I fully believe you have read through this post as it's well details I don't want repeat what is already said because is not ideal in the board. All I will tell is to take note that no work man do without expectations of result  of benefits the benefits could be salary or wages, this merrit is your salary or wages for your good write up or presentation of good information on the board you need it to get promotion as many have said, you can be newbie all the time another rank must be your dream which is the vision of every man in any thing they do.

Merit is necessary to rank up and if your friend said that you can make some BTC from this forum then yes merit is necessary for it to happen.

In general, you can keep posting as much as you want even if you have zero merit. But when you keep posting something that can be beneficial to someone else then it's hard to stay with zero merit as well.

You need merit to participate in bounty companies; you do not need merit to view information or participate in the forum. The main functions of the forum are already available to you during the forum registration period. But if you want to take part in the bounty, you need at least 10 merits.

Merit is not necessary to survive in this forum, what is necessary is to follow the forum rules, which has been provided on this thread, although merit is important if a forum member wants to rank up. A newbie needs to concentrate first on understanding forum rules, learn and increase their knowledge about crypto related matters, this alone might take a considerable time, unless the newbie already has some experience before joining the forum. After this phase then the quality of their posts will attract merit rewards from other members to them, from there it'll be easy to rank up and ultimately they can apply in a signature campaign, where they can earn financial rewards.

Their are people who are surviving in this forum base on different ways, if the surviving that the op is talking about has nothing to do with ranking up to an new rank then I don’t think merit is important for him as he don’t need to think or get worried about merit things.

One thing I see as an important tool on this forum is to learn and understand what the forum is all about then focus on that areas which you want to benefit from and you will gain that knowledge.

Surviving here literally needs nothing other than you as the member not breaking the forum rules in other not to get your self into trouble if you can avoid all that then you are safe and have nothing to worry about survival.

If you want to grow and develop in forums, knowledge and increasing reading are important things that you need to improve because the more knowledge you get, the better the knowledge you have. But if you want to grow by increasing your account ranking then merit is something that is quite important and another way is to buy copper members with the services available on the forum.

Getting benefits is not difficult because it is related to the quality of your posts and the way you reply to other people's posts. If person think it is appropriate then they will definitely send services in accordance with the appropriate amount. In addition, there are service sources that you can visit and attach several posts that are deemed appropriate for submission.

'merit' is an important thing in this forum, it has become a requirement so that when your account reaches several hundred posts you will move up in ranking

but to get 'merit' you have to struggle, you have to provide posts that are very useful and useful without that it is impossible for you to get merit, you can also apply for merit in posts that offer services for that, keep trying hard, the point is

You only need merits to progress to the next rank you don't need merits to secure your account here, once you understand the forum, join the discussion that is usually here and make a useful contribution you will be merited by other members here but you shouldn't get borderd because once you are able to get knowledge the merits won't stop coming. You can ask well ask your friend who introduced you to enlighten you more in a way you should do to get more knowledge.

Merit is necessary for survival here but it's not compulsory. We don't have to be looking for merit continuously because we want to join campaigns and want to earn more. Merit is good and it will help us to have an increase in rank and grow higher in the forum.
It is good for us to understand some levels we can attained with merits. Merit wi help us to have increased level and people may find us to be a good poster if we are good posters.

He didn't explain to you in detail. You must contribute meaningfully before you can be given merit. You don't just get merit without putting effort. The people you see here with alot of merit worked for it.

Like i said earlier you need to navigate through the axis of the forum, read what people post that got them Merit and learn from it. Read more often than posting.

Basically I think everyone need merit for survive here.working so hard but result zero what to do ! It's one of the decepline. BTC talking getting important to grow up knowledge more and more.
Hopefully merit one of the thing for inspiration to work and might be strong position in forum. Just  every want to know how can I achieve my first merit?

From what I have read, merit can help you to increase your rank which can be used in joining some campaigns by simply wearing their signature, and from that you can get paid by BTC. Of course, it is not easy to attain merit as you need to have a good and quality post that can contribute here in the forum.

You can receive merits from anyone if they find that your post is helpful as well as a quality post, or you can try merit assessment where people with high ranks would evaluate your posts and give you tons of merits. I have read it before here before joining the forum, just trying to catch up.

I don't really encourage bounty. Just try to list those things you can do within the forum without a merit. Bounty days has gone when good money are made from it. This days projects' team prove to be more clever than hunters by making them work for them without payment. Those that pay self paid with few cent or dollar that doesn't match in for the work being done by hunters. It's high time newbies understand the main purpose of the forum for them to work with it.

For you to keep being a member of this forum, you do not necessarily need merits to be active here in the forum, merits is only important for you to rank up which not many are interested in the ranks, you can still be a member of the forum and carry out your business even as a newbie.

Before now, there was nothing like merits here in the forum, and at that time those who were here cab rank up to legendary members without the need for merits up until 2018 or so when the merits system was introduced but it was not a mandatory requirement to be a member of the forum, but merit is required to rank up here in the forum now.

Since the crypto market is already on the bull run, the. We might be seeing more bounty projects coming toaunch again with good vibes and opportunity for bounty hunters to earn from different bounty programs they subscribed for.
Making free money in the crypto market is more of a competitive move this time and many new projects would like to give out there tokens to users so that they can benefit from holding their token and doing little tasks.  Those that can find their ways on knowing good bounty tokens that would have a massive bullish movement in the market will tend to make money from bounty projects.

at first you have to know your major objectives why you are here because if you know the reason why you are here you will be concentrated and I believe that if you are concentrated you can make your merit or any your merit at any point in time, a merit not have any solution to earn it but only solution that you can use is to make sure you respond positively to any post that is be made by any other person, so therefore I believe that they have to understand the real concept of making a merit or earning merit is by making a reasonable or a quality post that is educative to people that is only Avenue that you can make a merit