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I have been into the system for some months now and I have made over twenty posts but no simply merit has been given to me or earn by me and this make me to be surprise on how these merit are generated, given or earned. However, looking at it in another perspective, I don't know if it is because I did not meet the number of my post require to earn a merit or because of the low quality of my post that is the reason why I had not been able to earn a single merit. So please I will like to get more clarifications on the possible requirement for earning merit.

The minimum post to earn merit is one post. You can make one post and earn several merits if the post is very useful and helpful. You can make hundreds of posts and no one will send merit to the posts because they are useless or of low quality.

Read what good posters are posting and start being like them. Post something useful and help.

For reference, you can use this thread to have a general overview about merit system in the forum https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0


Merit can be earned if a user with shareable merit sent it to you based on their preferences. It’s either your post doesn’t meet everyone preference or it’s not visible to user with available merit to share. You can use merit source thread to report post that you think it deserves a merit.

Some merit thread:

@Filippone Merit Thread:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5412657.0

The reason you might not be earning merit is because you create low quality post or haven't taken your time to understand the forum itself. My question for you is, what do you know about merit and what is it used for? If you can answer that question then maybe you might earn your first merit.

Also on going through your post history, you based mostly on you local board and on off topics board and judging sincerely, your post quality is really poor. I'll advice you take your time to read about the forum and forget about what ever the person who invited you to this forum told you about. And focus on learning for now. You earn merit when you create quality post mate, that's all.
Read here : FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0)

You opened two months ago a topic with the same concerns:
What is merit all about? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5491901.msg63912168#msg63912168)

You had in those replies all the information and all the counseling about merit and how you can get it, if from 80+ replies you weren't able to understand how merit is earned and you still thought even for a split second it's some quota then I'm sorry to say but probably its' time to stop thinking about merit altogether.

The minimum post required to earn a merit is your post should provide a value to the community and the members. And now how do you make your post with provide a value is depends on you. Like what things you know that can help others share with your posts. And here you are new at forum you shouldn't rushing for the merit firstly explore forum like I think for a beginner Meta board, Bitcoin Discussion boards, and the Beginners & Help board are most important. I would Like to suggest explore them and also the tools related forum.
More over here is an table may those can be work for you:

 You asked a really good question, it's good to ask to seek knowledge so you won't make mistakes, most Newbies would be wondering why they don't get merits, and if there's a required number of posts to be merited, I thought about that as well when I earlier came into the forum, but no there's no required number of posts for one to be merited.
 
 The major requirement for getting merited is creating good and quality posts, when you create good post, by teaching, giving good replies to a post or even questions whereby other members could learn from, maybe anyone who have Smerits and is pleased with your post or a merit source could merit your good quality post.

 Also if you check the beginners board, there's a thread by @fillippone where people could share their best post to be merit assessed, there's another thread by @hugeblack where you could share your best local board post and get merited, I think there's another one by @NotATether in same beginners board where you could run a node for 14days and get merited. But you should know that before you share your post in those threads they should have quality and also follow their instructions so as not to receive negative tag.

 

The minimum post require to earn merit is 1, because if you never post, no one can send merit to you.

@OP don't need to follow or read anything, just be yourself. There's no need to look high ranked users, no need to follow or copy them, no need to think about your post quality, just post what you want and whenever you want.

Because if you follow other users, you will regret if you didn't receive any merit.

It is true, if you don't post, no forum member can merit you but there is another note, you can see a user with 0 post, 0 activity point but still have merit.

What does it mean?

That user actually posted in the past and received merit for his posts but later that account was nuked. It causes number of posts and activity point drop to 0.

 I think @ _act_ gave the perfect response. One post can give as much merits you need depending on how informative it is and I took the liberty of going through your post lists and trust me, if you hope to earn merits, you'd need to put more effort. You got registered on the 1st of April, y days later, you sought guidance from the forum, the next day, you needed more guidance on how merits where gotten and now you need more hindsight on the number of posts one needs to make to get merits! Gee, show some effort and maybe you could get lucky.
 All you have managed to do is rehash posts that have been made by others. One good thing you need to help yourself with is how to use the search button so you can at least know when to not create threads that have been talked about so you don't get labeled as a spammer because the last thing you need is to be tagged as one.
For now, focus more on browsing the forum than you do in opening new threads as it won't help your case, but rather, doing your research, coming up with informative threads will.
 You have lasted all but two months here and are bothered that no merits are coming your way, maybe you need to try a different approach.

Merits are offered when someone find your post's informative, interesting or something that adds value to the discussion but it doesn't necessarily mean you are making low quality posts either because not every quality post got merited too so if you're desperate to earn merit then you can try merit giveaway threads like others suggested or can concentrate posting more where merits shared often.

What you just need is 1 constructive post to earn merit.

There are people here in this forum who made only one post and got alot of merit for it example I can remember is @PowerGlove and one other user I can't remember they only made constructive posts that earned them merit so it's just one useful post and you can earn merit.

but you can still go around learn and give useful details and you will earn some merit.

OP only focused on earning merit, not about how he could deserve it.
But thinking about the number of posts needed is beyond the requirements that are needed.

Looking at some of the OP's posts, he said that he has Data analysis skills,
Even I don't have such a skill, but if he does have it, it should be easy to get merit with the data analysis ability for this forum.
Create a thread that may have a technical discussion about forum, crypto or some data analysis that has never been discussed.

You can earn merit from your first post in this forum, and you can make thousands of posts without earning a single merit if the posts are of low quality and no one finds them worthy of merit.

I checked your profile and I see that more than half your posts are in the Nigeria local board, you can simply earn merits in the local board, but for you to come and share with the general board, it means you never read the forum rules and your posts are not up to the quality to receive merits; therefore, make sure you improve your posts.
Also, make sure you go through all the comments and read through all the links provided in the comments.

You have been on the forum for months now, ok. These twenty posts could have been better and more helpful. That's no problem. Don't be disappointed that the previous posts were not so good. You keep the quality and quantity right for excellent and helpful posts. Maintaining good post quality and quantity will give you automatic merit and no need to worry. You should spend time on the forum and learn how to post well. Start slowly, and you will see merit too. Instead of posting randomly, post what you understand and know will help others.

Very thoughtful of you to ask. I believe you will learn a whole lot of things from this thread only if you can follow up and read. Here, number of posts don't really matter, what matters is quality of posts. Number of post only matters when you join a campaign where you are expected to complete certain number of posts in a week.

That's the advice I do give to newbies. Operate from the area of your core competence and you will add value to yourself and the forum. If only Op actually possess that skill, it will be helpful to him.

In addition to your good points.
This is not by default, else everyone making a single post must earn merit.

While that one post does not guarantees for a merit.
That same one post must be a quality one.
You may also have to make more than one post before you see someone to merit you.


Its also good and very important to be reminded of how to make a quality post on this heading. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5184741.0#post_altgiveaway

But I was skeptical about that skill when I saw the question that shouldn't have been asked.
There are many people who claim to have qualified skills in certain fields,
but it is only camouflage and only understands the basics, not really understanding it well.

I know some people who understand data analysis very well, and they do it well, get more merit and are very useful for the forum.
In fact, they started from a Newbie account, which then in a short time could rise in rank more easily.
The OP should have done that if he had the skill as a data analyst,.

Earning merits do not matter the number of post you make a day, but it matters much on the quality and usefulness of your post that even a single post can earn multiple merits. However, the more merits you make, the more chances of getting merits, but for a good and quality poster, even a single, short but precise post will definitely attract a lot of merits from different members in the forum knowing that post has seen very useful and helpful to the majority.

If you make any post that any forum member finds useful to them, then they are going to merit you. The number of posts that you make or the months that you have spent on the forum won’t earn you any merit, it’s your post quality that matters. You can create an account today with just one post, and you are going to receive merit. If you are making posts and no one is meriting them, then you will have to work on your post quality. Also, your post might be useful to someone, and the person might not have smerit to give out.
 
I just checked your post history, and I see that most of your posts are on the local board and in off-topic. People don’t really find posts in off-topic useful, so most people don’t visit the section.

I took the time to have a brief look at your post history. I'm not going to judge your post quality per se, but I think you can and should improve in certain areas.

So far you made 32 posts of which 5 were deleted. 18 of your posts were replies to existing threads, so you opened yourself likely 14 own threads. What strikes me is that you rarely, if at all, engage or reply in your own opened threads. Why is that?

I mean, it's not really necessary to reply in one's own threads, but frankly I would do it almost always. If you don't care then you should ask yourself if it's necessary to open an own thread at all, if you don't want or care to engage.

If what you post is of no or low value for those who read them, why should anybody of your readers give you merit? You don't get merit for opening threads alone, especially when your habit is to abandon your threads.

Learn things that you can give back to other members here, especially if it has something to do with the main topic of this forum: crypto currencies and Bitcoin in particular. Engage more in existing threads or where others have questions where you could contribute something of value.

Don't open pointless threads that may be only of value for you but not really for others. You will always have members who engage in your threads because they benefit by posting when they are in some signature campaign and are happy to deliver posts.

I don't really want to put myself into the spotlight, but just to give you a different perspective: ninjastic.space has (without this) 1167 posts from me (2 explicitly deleted by moderators), around 1157 are counted by the forum (not sure where the other 8 have gone). I have opened so far only 3 own threads where I also added replies where necessary. I mostly contribute in existing threads of others because I very rarely have a new or unique topic that warrants opening my own.

In the past I was confronted with a difficult Bitcoin wallet recovery. Before succeeding with it I realized how little I know and understand about Bitcoin's internals and how wallets operate in particular. I don't ask for spoon feeding, I try to learn myself. What I can't grasp myself, I can ask here, if the information isn't already posted somewhere (yes, there is a forum search and there's ninjastic.space/search, too).

You're too focused on merit. Relax, embrace the forum's rules, improve, repeat.

If I get you correctly, you might have known that growth in the forum is based on activity and merits. You seems to also know that activities are given based on number of posts but never knew that merit is not based on the quantity of posts. So, this is the way the forum work, activity is awarded one per day and added to your account every fourteen days whereas merits does not depend on post quantity but quality. Like many people already commented, if you want to earn merit, improve your post quality and make them helpful and relevant to the topic of discussion then merits will start dropping in your profile.

All you need is one good post which should be either helpful to the forum member or sharing some knowledge or technique across forum which would help other members and do remember merit is a token of appreciation provided by forum members when they come across something helpful for them. So don't think you need to ake lengthy posts or rocket science it can be simple and on the point.

Posting in the forum has no limits so even if you keep making a lot of threads or post some replies, that would be okay. But if your goal of posting multiple threads is to attract and earn merits, you are wrong with that. It’s quality over quantity which means the significance or value of your post will matter more than the amount of posts you are making in a day. Don’t focus on posting a lot, but learn more on how to make valuable posts that the majority of the members will benefit. And as much as possible, study how these reputable members create their post, that’s where you will get an idea on how to improve your post.

Lengthy posts without points doesn't count in the eyes of other members, rather its seen to be story without actual passing of vital information which was intended. Gaining favour in the eyes of top ranking members in the space is not difficult at it seems. It's simple, just make a constructive post and aim to become one of the essential information passed and look at the eligibility of Gaining merits.

Exactly my dear mate the minimum post and also the maximum post required to earn merit is just one post but it all lies in the quality of the post. It is not all about making numerous post  or contributing in a discussion instead it’s about making a reliable and well constructive post and merits will come.There are various patterns to post and it’s always advisable that you post on your areas of interest and focus more in writing something useful and something that will benefit every member of the forum and merits will come. The shocking part it is that sometimes you write just four lines but the contents of the lines are beneficial to the group and before you will wake up merit will come.

Lastly, it’s not all about the number of post but the content of the post and the quality of the content and how beneficial it is to the entire group.

OP if you stay here for long even keep posting low quality then I will never earn merit. How you improve the quality of your posts is entirely up to you. In fact merit does not depend on the number of posts, how informative your post is, how educational it is depends on whether you can earn merit. Also, a small tip I give you is to look at the posts of members who have earned merit on any of the posts and see how informative they are.
Like many members I've checked your profile and found that most of your posts are on your local boards and some are off topic. Off topic posts can never be considered for merit.

You posted earlier on "What is Merit all about"  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5491901.msg63912168#msg63912168)in the Beginners & Help thread. Many people there may have answered your question even said how can you earn merit.

You're absolutely right only one post can make one to earn merit depending on how quality and meaningful your post is, there are some people who made over One thousand post but no single merit that was given to them. reason is because there post lack so  many qualities this is why most people find it very difficult to earn merit from their post, something they keep accusing those high ranked members for being greedy, without knowing that there post lack so many informations.

Merit can be earned by your contributions on the topic or the forum itself there's no specific number of post you need just to acquire merit it depends on your contents as like mentioned here in the thread you can get a merit in your post but it's not limited into one, other users can give you a merit too it depends the number to them. Merit can be many to one post. If you want to gain merit here you must to gain knowledge atleast so you can get drive with the conversation of others and get contribute at least.

There is no minimum post requirement to earn merit. If you can post quality post then you can earn merit in your first post. And if you can't post quality post, you can't earn any merit even if you post 1000 posts. So read more posts of others and write posts with new ideas. But definitely no plagiarism.

You will not find a rule or requirements where you need a number of posts to get a merit, in fact, I have seen newbies with thousands of posts and yet they failed to get a single merit because all of their posts are bounty reports.

So I've given you your first merit because you started a discussion as a reference about acquiring merits some newbies have a misconception that you need this number of days or number of posts and by posting this they will help them understand more about merits based on the discussion you started.

Check these answers to your question and take note I expect you to get more merits if you take notes and follow our pieces of advice.

Earning merits in this Bitcointalk forum didn't matter how many post you make, what matters is how Quality of your post because if your post is meaningful to the forum their is know how that you we not earned merit. however, that is why is always necessary as a newbie to always do more of reading than making post that are not useful to the forum, sometimes I used to wonder why newbie are always inquisitive of making post, why they are not in any Campaign.

Don't confuse yourself that there's a post requirement needed before you can earn a merit.

You just need  1 quality post then maybe there are appreciative member will send you a merit. So try to focus on improving your post quality and be a good contributor of the topic discuss since for sure that you will earn the desired merit you want soon.

Also don't chase for merits since its really frustrating but rather try to be informed and learn a lot since the things you wanted will just came. Just appreciate the information you learn here and for sure it will benefit you in future.

other than posting helpful posts, joining a discussion or even just asking questions, there really isn't any more possible requirement for earning merit. if you want to continue earning merit just be active and continue joining discussions and posting helpful posts. also, just to be clear, just because you think you have posted something useful doesn't mean that it will receive a merit from other members.

If you take a look at Coin-1's statistics in his thread [TOP-200] Members who support newbies - Thanks! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5034141.msg64189130#msg64189130), you'll see that the number of merits given to newbies is really, really low.

In part that's natural because as newbies the quality of their posts is usually low. But, even if that's true, it is also true that we generally send our sMerits to users we know, even if the quality is just the same or a bit higher. Taking into account that some newbies deserve merits almost in the same proportion as others who get them, and they need them much more (to be encouraged to keep participating, to build their reputation here, to be accepted in bounty campaigns, etc.) we should consider being a little more generous with them.

If the forum where to be using number of posts to earn merits, many account would have earned more merits within a short time period because they will only be posting in order to be merited, they won’t mind whether the post is of high or low quality. We will have more spammers than real and honest posters ready to contribute something meaningful to the discussion in the forum. Keep posting and when a user sees your post and it’s worth meriting, you’ll be giving the merit without you bothering to ask them for it. The forum doesn’t work the way you’ve assumed it, but with time, you’ll know how everything is.

It's not about the post count but it's about the quality of your posts and your contributions to topics and threads you participate in. Looking at your post history, seems like most of your posts are generic responses and there is nothing significant in any of them, you didn't try to put in much effort which is the reason why you didn't get any merits. When you want to achieve something, you need to work for it, you can't expect to get it for free.

For reference, you should surf around the forum and find posts that are merited by other forum members and read those posts, try to learn from them and once you do that, you should try and put in as much effort as they have put into their posts and then you will see things changing for yourself.

As a newbie, if you are joining a forum like this, what you are supposed to do first is go through the forum rules and regulations, and you shouldn’t just post without checking the rules guiding the forum. I am sure if you went through the rules and other pinned posts, then you will know that amounts of posts done won’t earn you any merit, it’s your post quality that’s going to earn you merit. And why did you join the forum? Did you join the forum just because of the merit, or did you join because you wanted to learn? If you join because of merit, then you might not be receiving merit, but if you join because you want to learn, then you will end up receiving merit.

You have tried for yourself in the few posts I checked. You already have about 14 topics you have started within two months you registered in this forum. It shows you are willing to learn. It is just that you are not posting in the boards where merits giving members post. Do not blame yourself for the lack of merits you have. You only need to pick topics that interest you in boards where your posts can be seen by more generous merit giving members and merit sources.

It is all about the quality of your posts that will earn you merits. I believe you may have seen newbies here in the forum who have posted only a few times but have earned some merits. Merits are not given based on the number of posts a member has made. If you are really interested in earning merits, you need to start contributing valuable information to the forum. Once you begin making such posts, you will start receiving merits.

My advice for you is that before chasing merits, you should seek for proper knowledge about Bitcoin and general cryptocurrency. Never be too eager for merits; otherwise, you may end up breaking the forum rules and regulations.

So far and from my understanding no minimal and maximal post required to earn merits and if you post something that is helpful to community you would see merits coming like flood to your profile,as a matter of fact a single post can possibly earn you up to 100 merits depending on creativity and useful you information could be. The thing is most of the topic created by newbie are the topics already created but just that they always reform it make it looks like another post or I will say there is always a particular methods mostly used by some newbie to earn merits and since lots of people knows giving out merits to similar post could be very hard.

Pardon me for this response but I have to seek clarification from you. First of all, you are addressing a newbie, maybe someone still very new to this entire concept. If I may ask, do you expect him to post like a pro? If you say his post quality is low, I want you to elaborate on how you expected him to post so we can rate him as a good poster.

One thing we have failed to realise in this forum is that newbies will always post like one and using your standard of post quality to judge them might be the reason many of them are resorting to seeking help from AI in order to impress people. As much as possible, we should try and remember  how difficult it was for us when we started. Blockchain technology is an entirely new concept to many people, so we should manage our expectations from people properly so that there could be continuity because many of them are running away siting that here is too harsh. Reading the rules and all the links you shared are not enough... most people learn through practice.

Well said Mate, same time the links he shared would be useful for OP, to guide him on how to make useful Post on the Forum. Remember we practice based on information we have and not vice versa.
This is not a matter of rating OP, but was just an opinion which OP can look into and sort for ways to improve wether newbie or not, experience would surely build OP, just as we all started out experiencing same challenge which we learnt and build from overtime.

Yes, I've seen one newbie get merited on his first post, and there are newbies with thousands of posts who haven't got a single merit because all these newbie posts are about bounty submission reports, which do not offer something useful to the community but to the project they promote.

So newbies who are active in discussion are likely to get merit then those who participated in bounty campaign.
So, if you concentrate on the discussion, continue doing so. There are threads where you can submit your best post to be merited.

There are some forum members who have more than 1000 activities but not a single merit. Because they have never participated in any post or discussion outside the bounty thread. As a result there is no possibility of getting merit. There are also some who don't actually know that there are more forums boards outside Bounty where a lot of discussion takes place.
But newbies who participate in various discussions can definitely earn merit.

Yes, there’s no minimum or maximum post needed in the forum in order to earn merits. Earning merits does not matter on the quantity of the post, but rather on the quality itself. If you are only able to make a single post and yet that post becomes very relevant and useful for majority of the members, in no time you will receive series of merits. That looks very easy to achieve but actually when you are not a good and quality poster, you will find it the hardest.

That is the part I like most on this community there is no partiality on Merritt reward mostly once it has to do with quality post, you don't need to know any body or beg anyone to give you Merritt as much as your work or post deserve merit people you don't know will award you merrit, all you need is to create quality post that is informative and full of lessons and problem solving as regards to people demands in the forum.

To receive Merritt is not base in number of post created or reply everything lies in quality another aspects it does not matter weather your newbie or member what matter is the quality of the post and who ever that found it informative irrespective of level can merrit you without sentiment of looking at your level as newbies.

Such users usually join forums only after they are told by someone that they can earn money from those forums, and they have been given directions about what they need to do to earn money, and they keep following what has been told. So if someone has been told that they need to participate in bounties if they want to earn money, they will stay in that section right from the beginning and will stay there for as long as they stay in the forum.

Users who join the forum randomly or because of their interest towards cryptocurrencies wouldn't have that sort of a nature, they will be seen surfing around the forum, reading and maybe making posts where they feel they can, and those are the kinds of people who grow in the long run.

You know sometimes people always look at the merits aspect without them thinking on how to help the community, when community is being educated then people tends to be attracted to for merits. However there are some dedicated thread worth for merits if he thinks his post aren't receiving accordingly then he can report them to those people who are willingly giving out merits to people.

Absolutely right, posting what actually attracts person and it gives meaning to others who are reading it, not by how many post will give us merit but how educative the post is.

That is why it's essential to read the rules governing this forum, so that we won't make a mistake or go against the rules and also it's okay if to more research and be sure of what we want to post before posting it out and also read it to be very sure of our words.

You don't have to make a lot of post to earn merit, only knew psit is enough to earn you a merit, it just has to caught the eye of a user that has some sendable merit and is willi on or happy with your post and decides to give it to you.

This is the second topic your making on merit, I guess you have to increase the quality of your post or find a board taht you are more knowledgeable about and share your insights there.

I believe different people have different way of viewing message and at same time they have different motive of viewing a particular post, there are people who view to criticism or belittle one's post, there are also people who view one's post with the intention to get the writer's point and there also people who view to correct you if there's a mistake etc those people who view in order to get the writer's point are the people that give merit the most if they have Smerit. This is why sometimes you will see a post someone earned a merit to you it doesn't make sense or worth it but someone who needs the information has taken it and award the writer merit however, I think there's a minimum or maximum that is required for someone to earn merit but rather pass good information.

My goal like others, was to make quality posts to earn merit on the forum. However, I found myself uncertain about what exactly qualifies as a quality post. It was a bit unclear to me what criteria or characteristics would make a post valuable enough to receive merit from other members. I wanted to understand better what content or style of writing is considered beneficial and appreciated in the community.

There's no minimum number of post or any special requirements to be merited, what you need is quality, if your post is of quality and educative passing an information that is very important and useful to the readers such that when someone reads the information, they get interested and want to reward you for sharing such important and useful information to them, so they reward you with merits but in the forum, there have never been a time when I have seen a number of post been required to be merited. Keep posting and improving your post quality and soon you will get to see the more merits resulting from your post quality.

Good of you to point out that your low quality posts could be the reason why you haven’t earned a single merit yet although i can see that you have already earned 2 merits from just asking this question. Sometimes you earn merit from posts you don’t even expect it just depends on who feels the post is merit worthy. To earn merit there is no number of posts required to be eligible to earn merits you can as well earn merits from your first post if any member sees it worthy.

To maintain a good merit history you have have to keep making quality posts at all time it will help to increase your rank but i have an advice for you, as a newbie merit shouldn’t be priority at the moment you should seek knowledge first it will help you in making quality posts and useful contributions that will earn you merit. Focus on learning and contributing positively to the forum and the merits will come eventually.

There's no minimum or maximum number of posts that will make you to be eligible for merit and nobody is obligated to give you merit in this forum, this is the fact. I'll advise you to focus on learning about cryptocurrency from experienced members in the forum and also research from reputable crypto sites to increase your knowledge. Don't make posts on topics that you don't understand and don't be in a hurry to start a topic, nobody will penalize you for that. When you want to make a post, try as much as possible that it has quality contents, hopefully it'll impress a member to merit it. If nobody does, move on and keep making more quality posts, eventually the merits will start to come.

That's the point most newbies don't understand or they simply don't understand this due to a lack of knowledge about the system. They hear from a friend or someone that it is possible to earn money from this forum but you need to have merits for that, and as soon as they create an account, they start a topic asking about how they can earn merit and what are the requirements, etc.

Most of such newbies, after learning the details about the system and how they can earn merits, either abandon their accounts and leave immediately or give up after trying for some time because they aren't able to make constructive contributions in the forum and that is the only way they can grow over time. You can't expect to get merits and grow in ranks if you are making useless posts all around the forum no matter for how long you do that.

Everyone here inter go this situation before they become high rank members, may be the reason why you're not been merit in some of your posts if your content is not up that will be deserves merits, even though you made one hundred postia day no any of them will be merits. Because is your quality of your posts that will determine the merit you can earned in every of your posts; but the only advice I will give you at this your stage now Mate, is for to go and seek for knowledge so that you can know how this forum operates which can even put contribute on how to make some posts in this forum.

Morever, there's defferences of boards that if you take your time and visit them by going through the previous threads, that have been posted by some of our members it will help and also aquiring some knowledge from there, and once you done that you cannot find anything difficult everything will become easier for you.

If you are a new member of the forum, then you must read all the threads of the forum and get an idea of ​​what topics are being discussed in which thread and try to learn from there how they post and how they post quality from which they gain merit. is doing
One of the most critical aspects of this forum is that you can quickly learn a lot about the world of cryptocurrencies. Forums are usually more about everything related to crypto currencies. From there, you can definitely earn merit if you post very good and quality contributions.

You have to earn merit by posting very quality posts from which others can get help and learn something. Everyone in this forum is friendly and explains things very professional way. If you want to know something, they are perfect, and their talent and intelligence are always ready to invent something new. You can qualify if you post good quality.

There is no need to post thousands unnecessarily. Read ten posts and choose which one you know best. Try to spread your knowledge among everyone. There is no minimum post requirement to qualify, just good-quality posts. Posting good quality will not make you less qualified.

I know that earning a merit is one of the happiest thing that happened to anyone who is the forum mostly it will look as if it is a password to success and also encouragement, so what I want to let you know is that you may think that what you are writing will please others why it does not pleases any person based on the way you constructed your information so low quality is one of the things that is deny some users merit from the sight of the reader, so for you to earn merit just make sure you have improve from your quality and also introduce things other people will learn from.

1 post is enough if it deserves for merits. But that post must have good quality and useful for others. However, merits can be quite subjective, each member may view your post in a different perception. Even if you assume you have made quality posts, other may assume the posts as average posts. I think you just need to make harder efforts and analyze how other posts can get merits.

There should be a minimal. If you have no post, how people can give you merits? 1 post is the minimal.  ;)
But it is true that we have no maximum posts to be merited.

Congratulations OP that you have earned 2 merits after making this post but if you want to earn more merits then you should try your best to make good and valuable posts.

Those members who make good and informative posts get merits and in order to get merits you don't need to make 1000 posts but a single post with good information.

Those who make good posts and are regular members of the forum often get more merits than the ones who aren't active or who aren't ready to make good posts.

The only criteria to get merits is to make good and useful posts and when you meet that criteria then you'll see the merits coming to you.

Don't focus on the quantity of your post but prioritize more on your post quality. When I say quality post, that means it should not be off-topic but should always be on point and straight forward. It needs not to be lengthy but a short yet precise post will do.

And most importantly, your post should be of high relevance to the forum or to the majority of the forum members, otherwise your post will only be ignored and members will skip reading it. Just one post is enough, as long as it creates a higher impact on part of your readers.

There is no fixed number of posts for getting merit. You can get multiple merits in 1 post. In that case the post must be useful and informative. Try to share the knowledge you have and benefit others with your knowledge, only then will you be eligible for merit. Ask questions and study more on the subjects you are not good at. If you don't get even one merit then your posts are low quality and useless.

Firstly I can see you are new to the system and am saying welcome to Bitcointalk forum, earning merits doesn't necessarily required post count or your quantity of posts but rather a single post can have multiples of merits. However, the logic is that any post can only get merit or merits from another user that have an sMerit after which he or she decided to merit your post based on how much informative, educative, or contribution your post mean to him or her, I will advise that you should be observant enough to do what those that seems to be earning merits are doing by doing it rightly, surprisingly merits will keep coming, the truth is that everyone you see with tons of merits started one day just like you, so don't be discouraged keep pushing hard and growing a thicker skin as you navigates the forum.

The system does not have a minimum or maximum post before merit is given, merit is given to you by who sees the importance in your post or see your post merit deserving before meriting. You might make a single 1 line post with a serious information and will be Given alot of merit for it. Sometimes you don't need to wright a whole lot of post to receive merit, but it dipends on the quality of the post.

Merit should only be awarded to quality posts that should be highlighted that's how they're meant to be shared and to a large extent, it's being done that way. Sometimes you can see posts that you might consider to be low quality being awarded merits but they aren't of a large quantity since others have their different reason why they merit a reply and merit is a subjective matter that people are allowed to interpret as they see fit so you can't actually question a merited post unless there is a clear evidence of abuse going on. You don't get merited base on the number of post you have written but I won't want to go further since justice should have already been done to this part of the question by other users.


I noticed you received 2 merits on this topic (congratulations) but this shouldn't give you the wrong Idea that this is how merits are being earned. If you want to receive a larger quantity, you have to make yourself useful to the forum and earning merits won't become an issue for you. Take your take to always make sure your contributions on the forum are that of quality and not just because you're looking for activities or meeting up post quota. Earning of merit is simple when you're not doing it for the merit but to help out others through answering their questions or educating them on the topic being discussed.

Well said, to add up to this, a person that is reading a post and feels a touch of something insightful or impactful will want to merit such post provided that he have smerits to give or is a merit source, quality post is not what some people think about it as from their own way of reasoning, a poster should not judge for his post being a quality one except when another person come across it and see some taught in it.

Seems like you're just out to earn merit in the slightest possible means, without wanting to impact the community for it or learn either way. Why are you always asking questions about merit all the time? It's obvious that you've known exactly what to do to gain  'em but you just wanna keep asking questions as a way to get merited, maybe for your curiosity or something? I'm afraid you're going down the drain.
That's obviously because he doesn't have an interest in those created topics other than trying to see if it cuts (earns him some merit)... So when things don't go as planned, he tries another maneuver. 😂

An appreciation for the OP, hopefully it will make him more enthusiastic in making quality posts. Because with that, there will be more opportunities to get merit, yes, it's like a bonus for what you've done.

However, sometimes there are no specific benchmarks for how a post can get merit. It also means something different for each person who gives the merit. It's just that, if the post is really good and reserved for the merits, there will be more opportunities for that.

Oh yes, several threads on this forum also provide threads for memes to submit several posts to be reviewed and then proposed to get merit.

Like this:
[Merit] Share your best local board posts/topics (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5465195.0)
[Merit] Share your best posts/threads with Fillippone to be merit assessed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5412657.0)

Then, you can also go to each local board, usually there will be a thread about merit too.

Both of those threads can be helpful for the members to gain merits if they're making good posts but as fa as I remember, Fillppone's thread is a huge one and if someone posts his/her merit worthy posts/threads at that thread then it can take from 1-4 months to get any merits.

There used to be a great offer by The Sceptical Chymist for reviewing good posts/thread but now he's finally ended that great offer. You may also try to look at the thread of NotATether (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5480200.0) where members can get some merits if they can run a Bitcoin node for 14 days.

Just as act mentioned in the first comment, 1 posts is enough to gain merits, if the post is worth meriting and also you may make 20 posts and not received a single merit, what make posts meritable is the content of the post, and not the number of posts, I still remember when I make my first post that generated me alot of merits in the early days of my forum journey, from that single posts I earned close to 15 merits so that show that the posts gained alot of views and attention to have generated such public interest.


So before you make that post, always make sure to include all the necessary content to make it worth reading and useful too.

There isn't any minimum or maximum threshold or requirements. Just go with the flow.

Make informative posts.
Join discussion with a constructive mind.
Try to contribute for the betterment of this forum and it's users.
Avoid spams like hi/hlw/very good post etc useless posts.
Be a regular user.

And you are good to go, as simple as that. Another thing don't post with the mindset to earn merits. If you deserve it, you'll earn some eventually, like you did in this post.

You're Right! But in the same thoughts it was said that newbies read before posting and all about merits and ranking if the rules and guidelines were followed promptly this question would not be coming up again, what she  asked is a very good questions but if you know very well it was told that there shouldn't be repeated questions or post concerning a particular thing.

I'm also new here ,And I think it's not just about focusing on merit's but rather how you'll air out your own contribution to the forum by replying to a post or making quality Post as well that guarantee's that.

Welcome to the forum.
There is no minimum post in earning a merit what you just need to gain a merit is your quality post make a very constructive post that will make sense to others when they read it. Maybe you may have posted couple of times and haven't had a merit in them but don't give up just keep trying ok.

Undoubtedly, you will also get merit if you post quality posts. Is Merit to Chand for giving merit to quality and good posts? They always look for good posts. Qualify them if they see good posts. There are no rules for you to catch here. If you want to do well here and prove your worth, then you need to post good quality, both quality and quantity. And here, if you can express your talent, a Person will be created only.

Well it seems you didn’t go through the pinned messages on each board else you would have sighted things and writings about ranks and merits but nevertheless I don’t think your post quality is an issue because you’re actually doing well as a newbie and which I’m sure you’ll do better as you grow in the forum.
You’re already very active in the local board and there is already a thread from @Hugeblack for submission of local board post and he’ll help review and merit post that are worth it after each round of review and below is the link for the thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5465195.msg62774456#msg62774456
Nothing is wrong with you but maybe your post haven’t gotten to the right audience to merit you and I’m sure when someone with smerit finds your post worthy of merit finally finds your account, I’m sure you’ll get some merits and possible be on the watchlist of such person

Just continue writing and don’t be discouraged

Merit doesn't come with the number of post we make only one post can make you earn merit depending on how quality and lengthy your post is that's what matters, if you're making a quality post definitely you're going to earn merit. there are some users who made about 3hundred post but no single merit was given to them, reason is because their post lack too many things.

One thing about merit is that if you're curious of getting merit probably you won't get it anytime soon, it will definitely come when you don't even expect it. so you don't have to be worried about getting marrit, it will definitely come unexpectedly you just need to exercise patient and keep making your post to look more quality and also by giving the best opinion.

Making a posts is never consider to be easy but making a comprehensive posts that will portrayed ditch meaning to others and become important source for contributions needs thoroughly enough time. Merits are the core factor that attached a member to become dedicated to the system, he would do everything humanly possible to earn merits and boosts the level of his account.

Not everyone will do everything to earn merit, some will do that but some will not.

There are people in the wall observer street thread that don't really care about merit but they keep posting so it's not the merit system that keeps people attach but what they pose to get from the forum. if you are getting the best information that is giving a good income you wouldn't think of merit in this forum but it's just a system that is more reliable to put people in their places and help reduce scam too.

To op just try and make a good post and see if how many is required to give someone merit

Well, I wonna said that posting is easy or I am phrasing it a little differently. Posting is certainly easy but quality posting is a difficult task. What you post is up to you. You don't need multiple posts if you want to qualify you can get multiple qualifications with one post. You must maintain quality quantity and post to qualify. You qualify when a post quality and quantity mints in. At first you will find it difficult, you will learn and understand, then there will be no difficulty and you will be able to do it very easily. So, it doesn’t matter what you like and any topic of post. Your post quality then you get merit that's simple.

Don't worry mate, I think you are good but to be  honest there is actually no limit or required number of post before you get to earn merit because I have seen so many users even do it with their very first post in this forum and for some users even a one line post can earn them lots of merits, it just that whatever you are posting should have some kind of value or importance to the reader or the general public here in the community and you be good to go.

Am dead sure a lot of replies have made it to your knowledge that to earn merits you just have to strive to be a good poster, to give quality solution solving and knowledge building posts. Reasons for this as a criteria to earn merits rather by posts quota, is that, by posts quota a lot of shits as post will be flying all over the forum rapidly to meet up for any set quota. But with the system in place on how merit can be earned every member of the forum at all time focuses on quality of their post rather than number of posts to be reached. And it makes sense that way.

Brother first of all don't panic if you want to be successful in this form then improve yourself post good quality which will benefit others don't think about merit because your job is only  Making a good post quality discussion in the forum. merit is a secondary thing that will earn you over time but you should not compromise on the quality of your post.  Increase your post activity and a good post will help to reach your next rank.

Actually there is no minimum or maximum post requirement to earn merit. If you can create good quality posts that contain information people can learn from and are very informative then you will have merit there. Maybe you posted a lot but those posts were not informative enough due to which you didn't get merit there. If you create good posts from now you will surely earn merit.

But remember to make good posts you must put in a lot of effort and spend a lot of time in the forum. If you can give your best effort then I think you might be able to earn merit. One more thing you can notice here is that those who are getting more merit can remember how they are making posts. You will definitely be able to earn merit if you create good quality posts by watching and learning from them.