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Most of us who recently joined the forum to learn more about cryptocurrency seem to find it very difficult to earn merits on the forum. Most of us try so hard to earn merits but most time find it as mission impossible.
I just wish someone can put us through to earn merits as a number of them is required to rank up from Jr. Member rank.

"Really great post, I also wish that. I am looking to learn about cryptocurrency
 and blockchains myself and then slowly stepping in."

Now the forum is working a new system, which in its idea should reduce the amount of spam and it really helps. It seems to me that there are fewer people on the forum. Earlier statistics was worse. Merits are received by those people who write the right messages or make useful information branches.

Difficult ? it is impossible. It has just put an end to promotion of ranks in this forum. You will stay with your current rank for the rest of your life. This is how it works now. No more promotion, stay where you are and that all. And even if you somehow earn a merit still then you'll need it in big numbers to get promotion.

I agree with you. It is hard to get merits, but you have to active in discussions and if you write interesting and constructive post which will beneficial for people, then people will share their merits with you.

Merit is really difficult to get but one haveto try to post good quality posts and keep doing the right thing. One day you may get surprise that someone had given you a merit.

I think this is not a right place to post this thread you must move this in the beginner's section.

Anyway, there are many guides that you can follow the earn merit.

Check this list of merit guides.

TMAN'S guide to getting merit. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3182178.0)
Guide for getting + Merit (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4508282.0)
How to get merits (guide) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3260696.0)

Hope this threads might help you to earn some merit.

Buddy, Just because someone is high ranked doesn't mean that they know how to gain merit. Most of them got few number of merits for their level once the system has started to be used.

In my opinion to get merit, you have to try to be formative and excellent when posting. Always try to write posts in sections that are hotspot for distribution of merites. I Hope you find these points helpful.

yes it may be true it is very difficult if someone wants to get merit in this forum, everyone should make a quality post if you want to get merit in this forum, it is to reduce the amount of spam they send, maybe this is all difficult, but we as beginners should work harder again.

I can't completely disagree with this fact , it is becoming difficult for the newbies to earn from merit on form, well I understand this is happening because they still have lacks of knowledge about the market so when they try they failed to achieve anything, we cannot directly blame anyone one for this but athourity must take some steps

Of course, at first it was difficult for everyone. It was necessary to study and try to earn something. But it normal. And my advice to beginners is for the ease of work. Try not to rush and learn more information. To be ready.

And that's merit system works. Best "rank" for best "members". But if you go to this forum to learn, why do you need high rank?  In this forum, there is no rank discrimination, you can still discuss, learn normal like others.

I can say: yes, it's true. Earn merit nowadays is too difficult, although you have a good post with useful information. Not too much people ready "merit" you.

It is really difficult not only for the new ones but also to the users that are not. The new system makes it hard to rank up and we all know that ranks in this forum is important since it is the basis on the rewards especially in bounty programs. That is why patience is needed not only for the investors but also to the bounty hunters due to the added difficulty.

it's not a solution to merit selling merit just to rank or to increase your rank can help you with the forums to give you merit risky to give the merit no one else because to give it good post quality that helps other people.

Of course it will not be easy because now everything is much more complicated. Even experienced participants found it difficult to earn money due to the increased probability of project scams

All I would say is try not to worry about it, engage with people in an honest and helpful fashion and eventually someone will reward you. We all have things that we can do that others cant, work out what you are good at and stick to that. It may be helping newbies find their feet, getting involved in discussions about the tech side or the financial side of crypto but learn your stuff and stick to it.

Personally, I have more than enough to do learning about getting my head around how blockchain works and how it will fit in with real-world uses so I am concentrating on learning what I can before I try and gain merit.

Best of luck to you.

actually its impossible if you are not really well known in this forum. I have saw a lot of high ranks who is really popular and some managers who easily earn merits just by posting updates, or starting a bounty program. but for a normal individual like us, it seems impossible.

Not just for newbies but for everyone.
Smerit is the one to give to the people who post constructive and informative.
but now only selected people are getting Smerits.

I agree that now it is not easy to get the rank, it needs to be earned. Be useful to people, and they will be grateful to you.

let the system work, I just hope will get merit, by making a good post in my opinion.
but all thats, goes back to someone else's assessment of the posts I made.
so, stay optimistic buddy.  ;)

i agree with this thread.
now newbies difficult to get new rank about new rules   :'(

I agree! can anyone know the branches where you can earn a measure?
I saw that earn on twitteraudit.

Yes, you're right, I'm like you who complain about the difficulty of getting the merit. But I will not give up, I have to move up in this forum, and I need to improve the quality of useful post content on this forum and add luck

I think its not just for newbies, its for all of us to earn merits and rank up. If we can look at the statistics of the ranking changes before merit and after merit. Difference between them will be huge i think.

Say it again oo my brother ,we are tired now.They say you must make quality posts but it looks like it goes beyond that.The merits all still go back to those who already have plenty.I not know what to do again to get any merit.I created a topic recently and someone  who replied was receiving merits whiles am there no meirt.

When I registered on this honourable platform, I was told by the person that introduced me that as I make meaningful contributions on this forum my rank will increase and merit will be given to me but since I got to junior member I have been expecting merits to get to next rank am yet to get it. And I don't know why is like that.

yes this a fact that newbies are facing issues from merit on the forum, it is unfortunate but has proper logical cause they are new in this place so it is normal that they will face problems to understand the market and earn profit from there but we will really looking forward to opens suitable envioment for the newbies.

I'm sorry my friend it's very hard for newbies that will get some merits. Forum doesn't give any information about this if when they will stop this system or continuous to run. Anyways you have alot to do in crypto world. You cando blogging, Creating a community team builder and be a influencer.

Thanks. I've been looking for something like this. At a point, I had to give up looking for merits because I felt it wasn't going to be possible. Numerous times I google search, I always see the old way of getting to top ranks not until I saw a post talking about the new way which involves the merit system.

I think there's nothing to say about Merit. Your skill and quality will take you to a good position. Your quality will bring you your Merit.  :) So anyone here can do well. Newers should study more. Then they will do well.

Yeah I think... and talking about rank, The old system works with number of activities but it seems the new system only allow you to futher rank using the merit points and thats seeming hard to get. I will be glad if I can get a link to a thread talking about the merit system.

I suggest you to take patience. It's not that  much easy earn merit and get your rank upgraded. Try to post authentic and informative post. Share your unique thoughts. Hopefully you will get what you wanted.

The merit system was meant to encourage quality posts and has been fully successful in that. Still, earning merit is an ongoing woe, one that will be addressed soon i am sure, since it is becoming such a matter of concern for most people here. It has to be auto generated, because the frequency and speed of responses, mostly makes it impossible for people to read every post.

You know, high rankers, they were here 7-8 years ago.  ::) ::) ::)
There are quite a few ways to earn merit.
Besides what you try to cultivate yourself, care little for each of your posts.
On this forum also opened some merit competitions.
I try searching for gg with the keyword "how to earn merit on bitcointalk".
There are many results there.
Try try again.

We all are late, now to grow to senior ranks need to learn a lot and become a professional in this forum. We have to deal with that.

Yes I have same problem with you mate. Earnings those merit is really difficult. I ask some of my friends they said that our post should be with in the topic and informative. Well hopefully they take a look on this matter, but for now all we can do is continue posting and hoping someday we get one.

So you that is writing formative and excellent post how many merit have you gotten? call a spade a spade, not a gardening tool, getting merit on this forum is difficult, especially if you are a new member.

I believe that it is necessary to simplify the procedure of getting the next rank. It is simply impossible for a beginner to reach Hero or Legend! You need to write a lot of interesting and useful! It is hard for beginners to do it without having experience behind shoulders!

I don't see it that way if you must earn it then u must work for it,your contributions on discussion and commitment would earn u that as long as you are constructive in your response you will surly get it. slow but steadily

There is a good reason why it was put in place. Previously, many newbies tend to spam just to gain activities and rank up (I am also guilty of this). With the current system, you have to provide value in this forum. The only thing is higher ranked members probably have their own personal biases in giving out merits to certain posts or comments.

I believe that if you do high-quality posts, understand what you are writing, and have some ideas you want to share, it will not be difficult for you to get a merit

The reality is most new users will never rank up their accounts.  I feel sorry for them but it had to be done to prevent spam.  It must seem unfair since a lot of high ranked members leveld up by spamming back in th eday.

It's work.And now they want to earn a lot not to work.Work is always difficult.There's money but it doesn't fall from the sky!

Maybe because they are posting merit topics in altcoin section and they expect their post to be merited even though they are posting in the wrong forum.  ;)
You want to get merit? There are few rules:

1) be constructive
2) don't post in altcoin section
3) don't post in altcoin section

and last rule:

4) Don't post in altcoin section  ;D

It is difficult, but not impossible. And the fact that it is difficult make it so special when yo get one. I recently got my first, i was super duper exited for the rest of the day!! Because it is so hard now, most people try to think before they write. And still i read here so much nonsense, i don`t want to now how it was in the pass when it was much easier.... so i think it is better now. Complaining or nagging don`t help.  Enjoy the ride!! Good luck!!!

Earn merits through your researches and quality posts helping the community. One irrelevant posts has the ability to lower your chance of getting recognition. I hope you do well.

It's not a easy thing to update your rank and get merit. Try to active on this forum and post informative things. then surely you will get.

Suiting them well in a forum like this for newbies is actually a little bit tough as my opinion. Most of the newbies do not try to learn, research and gather knowledge to start with a firm base than posting from the start whether they possess knowledge or not. I think they should first do homework, study a lot, read the discussions where he is truly interested then in slow motion start to post lucrative discussions where everyone will be interested and benefited and try to comment relevant solutions to gain merit.

Right. But I think there many suggestion and post which  really helpful for newbie’s to learn about something about cryptocurrency.  But need some reliable helpful post for them.

I assume to increase your merit you have to understand about this sector properly. So for newbies their main duty is to know about this. If you know properly than you will comment and post efficiently. I think it will increase your merit.

The main problem for me personally, it will not happen again in the topic that you want to present. You need to better understand the search engine on the forum. It became very difficult to get the merits. But it's for the best. Because there are too many interested people.

new regulations in this forum do require merit to increase the rank of Jr. Member to the next rank. I am also still confused about how the posts meet the requirements to get merit. if it was very easy to raise the rankings, you only need to post all day.

So, to all jr.members its a reminder.. Constructive post and    we have to be active except in altcoin section.. Now I know.. thanks for that information..

But honestly, all we need is to read more and give more time on bitcointalk to earn not only merit but as well as knowledge which can help us to have our own strategies in cryptocurrency world.

It's an herculean task getting merits on the forum. I just didn't want to use the word impossible. They changed the whole system of things, it was like this before, wished I had taken my rank progression business seriously before this rigid rules, I would have rose through the ranks before this whole quagmire. But I won't be surprised if I see Btctalk ICOs in the nearest future. I believe they are working on improving the status quo underground. But in the meantime we just have to endure. Cheers mate

It is true that merits are very important for all of us to get higher rank, and also it is very difficult for us to earn merits. If we want to get a merit, we have to post useful and constructive posts, if we do that, and then someone will like our posts, then maybe they will give us merit. We can only earn merit only if we are deserving to have it.

 Earning Merits isnt difficult for just newbies, its difficult for almost everyone in the  forum currently as its difficult to find those willing to give them out and those who do probbly give them to the people they know personally, which is quite unfortunate, Hower if you keep yor posts productive, there are chances that you might get merited

Well all high rank members here also started like everyone else. They went through with our situation now. Let's have patience and just do what we can. Also I think there are some guides here in the forum oh how to get merits.

I as a beginner in this forum are also confused with this merit system. it's very difficult to get merit lately. maybe I have to learn a lot more about how to post well so I can raise my rank.

That is the biggest difficulty that the jr. members are in to right now, I hope that the bitcointalk admins can do a better solution to this problem. But as of now, better be patient, make some good quality post in order for other users to appreciate it and luckily they give you some merit points.

I believe  merit depends on comment and post. I can say it depend on your overall activity in this forum. If you know well in this sector your comment and post will portrait it. So try to gather proper knowledge about it.

I think not only for the newbie, but for everything. Now indeed hard pressed to get a merit. Especially after a system that made increasingly strict. So the more difficult raising the rank of accounts that we have.

I certainly agree with you. It is really hard to get merit these days because it is impossible for users with higher ranking to donate or to share merit. I think it would be hard for newbies or jr members to attain a higher ranking no matter how hard they work for it.

It is tough to earn merit on the forum now. Only if people find your post constructive and useful , then they give you merits.

The big plus of introducing the system is that there is less spam and there are more messages filled with meaning. However, it is not very clear how the owners of merits assess the posts themselves. It seems that I write something informative, but still does not merit.

True that.Its kinda impossible to ranked up to member. I Got the Jr member rank a while ago,but still struggling to get the member rank for which merit is needed. I think The community should think something or do some changes So that newbies and jr members get the chance of getting merit.

instead of you, we are here working hard for it, but I don't think you are focused on getting merit, there is still much you can do like studying trade, analyzing analysis and trying to invest. in this crypto industry you can do anything to bring profit not just stuck to merit and bounty.

Earning merits is very difficult. Most of those who hold the merit have a hard time sharing even if a constructive post is being made. It seems impossible to get even after the hard work is done.

I agree with your opinion!
It is very difficult to check the merit in this forum. There are no merit points.
It will also reduce the spam rate in this forum.

Inevitably you have to do a lot of ways to be even better, in addition to making quality posts. currently competition is getting tougher and some members have violated many rules. with the existence of merit, we can learn more to have more integrity and quality.

Contributing to the community will definitely help you to earn merits, just make sure to post quality stuff consistently, One or two irrelevant posts have the ability to lower your chances of getting merits. I hope you'll not lose hope and keep helping the community and earn merits for yourself in the process.

As you have said, we are here to learn more about cryptocurrency and do you think that you have enough knowledge? Why the rush? Before earning merits it is good that you prove yourself to others, i think it feels good to receive merit if you really helped someone here and not by begging.

It was done by bitcointalk mods to prevent abuse on bounties last year.

A lot of people are creating multiple accounts, low quality post and joining one bounty campaign with multiple accounts thus ended up scamming the bounty community and the bounty organizers.

I hope there will be changes as well, maybe 2x the existing activity will be sufficient for an account to rank up.

What are you going on about? There is no specific rule stating that merit won't be given to posters posting in the altcoin discussion forum. Why would anyone discourage it in the first place? The truth is that it is extremely difficult to earn merit(Not impossible though), but it is worth it in the long run to minimize the spam in this forum. Everyone should focus on posting whatever they feel like posting, but try to improve your grammar and come up with more detailed posts instead of 1-liners. Focus on improving your writing quality which would most likely help you at the very least become a member in this forum.

WOrking in this forum seems so dificult to reach in a high rank. Before it was quick and easy to promote our ranks since only number of post are required unlike now that we need to earn merits in order to be promoted. And to get that merit we need to post a very useful ang informative post. But some cannot do that since a new member does'nt know more about this forum yet.

It seems difficult to earn for newbies  because some bounties need any star upgrade from newbie and even some aspect that newbie is require in bounties you will get better tokens accordingly to how upgrade your star is

yeah, its a really really hard to be merited by others. even if you have a best post articles or a thread here. a small amount of chances to be merited, just accept the fact that we gotta stocked in here, i hope this coming Christmas maybe global moderator will give a merit gift to us.

I agree with you, gaining merit here in the forum is very difficult, and people saying merit is not hard to get should count their self lucky because if the merit system is in place since the start of this forum, most high ranking members will still be jr member without one single merit after so many years.

I think the reason why we don't normally get merit is because we normally focus on bounty and meeting up the bounty weekly task, so no one actually take a long time to research on some topic, most people only spend time on altcoin section because it is where the bounty requires us to post, so it makes most people not to visit other sections, I believe if you take time and post quality content on other section, merit will surely come

I agree with you earning merit on this forum is hard, I have seen some great articles/post that requires a merit for it but, the post won't get a single merit but on the hand you will see another post which doesn't make any sense and it will get merit and this makes me wonder why such thing happens.

Right! The merit of posting on your posts will improve the credibility, quality of the nick you participate in the forum. But this is not easy for newcomers. Try to gain knowledge and write good articles and you will receive a certificate of merit. This is very beneficial.

I read all the rules and regulations related to gaining merits and honestly I figured that the best way to earn merits is simply sharing posts and informations that helps the community. Keep doing that and you'll definitely get noticed and earn merits in the process. Best of luck!

It's hard to get Smerit, even if it's done well, but it's not that easy, and it will continue because many new members will join. To learn this forum must be really careful, and this Smerit will give a gift if you have useful ideas.

personally, with this merit system, it's difficult for me to increase my rank. because it takes merit to be able to increase the rank. that's true if we should make a good post, but it's very difficult. I don't know how long it will be continued. but, it can be a learning for me in order that in the future i can make a post that good and informative.

Let me review your statistic.. you only made 3 Open Thread.. Your reply Post just suggestion and opinion.. try different thing to get your merit bro.. good luck..

Helping the community to grow and sharing your relevant knowledge with the community will definitely help you to earn merit. I have seen a lot of posts which earn their users merit. Those posts were full of information and their strategy on investing in the market. So, basically they earned merits because of sharing their profit making ideas with the community. Newbies should try that too.

I agree in the opinion. After the introduction of the merit forum, it became almost impossible to raise your rank higher. As for me it is possible to increase only the Member, and then simply fantastic. If you write a fairly high-quality and useful messages, 100 merits before Full Member is simply unrealistic to earn.

you should forget about it and try to find other knowledge that can be useful in this industry. You can do many opportunities such as trade, mining and even investment. so you will not be stuck to get merit and try to follow the signature campaign.
I think if you want to try better you can do many ways to get better.

The ranking system that exists in this forum seems to me not quite fair. I express my subjective opinion - any work, whether writing posts, should be rewarded, qualitative to a greater extent, less qualitative to a lesser extent. Here on the forum the evaluation of your actions is not necessary - they can evaluate, they can not evaluate - this is a subjective opinion.

Well its hard to get merit because the smerit is too limited for. The smerit supply is too small and once you sent it to other user, they earn 1 merit and 0.5 sendable merit. Which mean, when someone send to you merit, you are awarded a half of merit that you can able to send. Wondering why, it's call of survivability on how you provide satisfaction all those readers and how you dedicated on what you've post here in bitcointalk.org. So lucky those high ranks, while most of the lower account will experience this kind of filtering system.

I do agree that earnig merit is really difficult.  That is why you need to exert extra effort for it.  Extra effort in researching about the cryptoworld, extra effort in reading more, extrs effort in making your post.

I agree with you on this. Specially for us who are relatively new to this forum, we are having a really hard time in obtaining merits which are now required for us to rank up. I do support their drive against spam and sh*t posts but i think merit system has hindered the way the forum is going and somehow it has put power on those people who have higher ranks which is against the principle of bitcoin which is to break the system of centralization or bringing power into the hands of very few people.

It is difficult in some ways, just you need to catch a real relevant and painful topic that would solve the recent problems of the people the way that they will feel grateful to you, and then will reward you with merit.

We really need tutorials on how to get to merit posotion and how this forum works

Bounty signature where newbie can make token.

Advise on trading and crypto news
Thanks

no need be rush my friend
u need spend 1month to reach jr member
and another 1month to reach member
and only need 10 merits to become member
u got 2month to earn those 10merits

if u already got 9 merits
maybe this guy can help you
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4461881.0

It will be if you give less attention on merits. Earning merits is not that difficult. Though it takes time. So i think you should try to help people as much as possible in the forum. You will earn merits in time.

This forum is very tight so it is very difficult for the newbie. Getting to Jr.Member is very difficult. We need to post quality, secure, true content of the topic can become Jr.Member.

I think there need to take a bounty in which they pay a merit for new participants that they can pump their accounts.

I put you on ignore for that suggestion. I think they should remove a merit, rather than award one.

In my opinion, do not set yourself a goal to get merit. Set a goal-to help people and make the forum better.
Then the goals will be achieved and merit will be a pleasant addition.
Profit. :)

A really great question i hope that there is someone have a great heart that will help us newbie to get a merit

Is Smerit the same as Merit?

How does it work, when you earn them, do you technically loose them for giving away to someone else?

Lots of patience is needed for earning merits.The criteria is quite simple. We just have to keep focusing on providing informative and good post. And also helping people with giving solutions.

 ;D Since they release this new ranking system, the price of forum's account increase a lot. I thought this is not the end for the forum, but the new beginning !

Try to enrich the forum by giving as much information and solutions as you can. It will start to increase the merits. Don't worry if you are dedicated you may get a good rank fast.

When your post receives x merit, you receive x/2 smerit (spendable merit). You can use smerit to merit other peoples posts and it doesnt affect your merit score.

I agree with you merit earn is very difficult for newbie even Jr member tried very hard for earn merit point
But I think earn merit point you should knowledge about this forum how to you can earn merit point and what post is better to earn merit
Some member and high member can help us to earn merit point

Yes its difficult to get merit not only for newbies but also for everyone. Even you posted a very useful information it is hard to get merit. For me, i will just post useful information and help others.

I think it necessary because merit make a quality member. A forum can’t have a good develop if member can spam and make low quality post then get merit. It will motivate member develop their knowledge in truly way.
P/s: i am sorry if my english make some of you confuse  ;D

On working on that too. Its very difficult to earn Merit in this if others dont appreciate your post or its not that quality content. Hope we can have merit

The system should work out a way to give out merit to those that merit it. Doing this will help to set things smoothly instead if thinking of other means of achieving it.

Agree. I’ve given up on it and try to focus on something more constructive, like learning the basics of Blockchain and crypto economy.

it is has always been like that in every forum. Newbies are left with nothing but getting there comments deleted and warning.
these days every project seems to register on BITCOINTALK. yet admins here will ban accounts with signature calling them spam while most them has signatures attached to there profile.. i found it difficult to understand why
Newbies are not allowed to expressed them selves. i  believed that there was a time this forum was pleading for  members.
Now that it is famous, it has chosen to punish new members unnecessary leaving them with no choice than kick them out whenever they made mistakes.