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I know that bitcointalk is trying to remove spammers and so on, but I am finding difficult to get the needed Merit to get back to Jr. Member. I am an active member, do a lot of bounties, translations and so on, and suddently I am a newbie again. How do you guy's got your Merit ? Asking ?

Well, write a useful post for users of this forum once an active participant and all though someone will give merit. But if you want to participate in the signature campaign, then there is a chance that in the future they will not look at the rank, but at the user's activity. Your Activity: 108 is not bad for a newbie. We are waiting for this update because it is more loyal to all users.

Just be helpful on this forum, and you will get your merit. But unfortunately, nowadays it is not easy to earn a merit, because, nobody want to share their merit and to draw attention from the moderators is pretty difficult. Best of luck bro.

I just looked at your message history and see that you are a shitposter.

You are the reason they put this rule and if you don't improve your message quality you always stay as a newbie.

The trouble is that even with usefull posts, its difficult to get any merit. And at the speed new threads appear it vanishes very fast from the first page and its simply forgotten.

In addition to what your friends are talking about, you can help people who ask this style like you. If you have a language other than English, you can translate the news shared in English to your language. When a new product of a project is released or an update to the product, you can write a detailed article about that update or product. All this will come back to you as a merit.

If you are a good translator, I think it is not difficult to get a merits. I have seen many good translations that have been confirmed by the Bounty Manager, and the high-ranking Bounty Manager will also send merit to a good translator.
And I suggest you not to participate in too many social media bounty campaigns, which will make your posting history look very bad. Usually, many high ranked members are less willing to send meirt to members who are full of links in the history of those posts.

Shiposter ? Wow, in what did you based that ?

Thanks, will hope that by the next translations I got some merit. I do not do social media bounties, mostly only translations (ANN / Website / ...)

Translating ANN / Website is enough. Of course, I think it may be more difficult to translate white papers, and will get more recognition.
Try to translate some excellent projects and avoid those scams.
I believe that a good translation is easy to get a merit, at least easier than me because of my broken English.  ;D
Good luck for you!

Honestly speaking, it is just too hard to get merit if our mindset is only joining bounties. We even be tempted to buy merits on the black market but don't ever do that as it will cause you more harm than good.

Why not just purchase a copper rank upgrade rather than complaining about the merit system? Copper rank allows you to post images and wear member ranked-signatures which I think is enough for a translator to continue their work/applications. I know most bounty campaigns only accept Jr. member and above ranks but there are also few bounty campaigns out there that accepts copper ranks (despite them being a newbie/brandnew); just search around. Also, if your portfolio for your recent translations is impeccable, I'm you wouldn't have a hard time getting reservations.  ;)

First before I give my own view, you need to know the major aim of creating this forum is not for bounty related activities but to get useful information about crypto through contribution of meaning post by member on the forum. I checked your previous post up till those posted 2 months ago and I can you are not really contributing something meaningful. almost all your posts are within the bounties board and they are majorly questions. you can improve by helping others through contribution that will be helpful. doing this might one day get you a merit. Although I am not in anyway in support of the merit group because I do not think it will stand a test of time.

Duly noted. Thanks.

I felt for you people when i saw that down grading that we noticed in the forum.You can get your merit through the few merit source who are members of the forum though there are not known but the forum moderators said if we are serious and active in the forum that we may find them. Writing and posting a quality post is one of the ways to get merit, You can also contribute to resolve issue that a member brought to the forum.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

There are newbie who are good posters even made better post than some hero member who went the grace of ranking up before new rule was implemented on the forum, try to post good and constructive posts your post may be merited by merit givers.

Its just too hard to get merit this days,  even what do catch the moderators attention we cant really suggest that because a lots of good quality comment has been made with merit rewards,  and a lot of short and simple comment have been rewarded too.  This do make me think that some merit was trade not rewarded.
If the moderators can at least make a list of what should be compiled in a comment to make it good at least to some standard (maybe no short comment or just recommend what someone has said and so on)  maybe this will give people clue of what they are facing or make clear to people to already know their comment or thread is no where near been rewarded with merit.

Hi mate, i know that this topic is an old issue, but dont lose hope, write good articles and be more informative in your post, be helpful, a good post that can catch more attention, in this way, some users could recognize your input, don't listen to others that are bringing you down, i suggest be more positive in life, regarding this situation. Keep up the good work.

Friend I encountered this situation during a company. Lucky admins bounty were loyal and we all protected the steaks, since the bounty just ended and the signature must be worn.
You can get a merit, recently I saw one article a novice very cool so she got as many as 5 merit. To get it you have to work on several articles. For a bounty community.
There was also a topic about posting articles. The best new ones received Merit.
Perhaps this topic was in the Russian branch. Due to low loyalty, it became impossible to get Merita for a beginner.

Everything is simple, you need to be useful to the community and everything will be fine. For example - I am a designer. And recently made several images, illustrations and elements for the designer on the topic of blockchain and cryptography. Now I want to put it in open access and get merit from grateful users who downloaded this art. I think this is quite legitimate and, as far as I understand, does not contradict the rules of the forum.

If you would just give an effort in posting and understanding what you are posting maybe you could attract a person who would able to give you a merit. Since, you're just focused on making posts for yourself try to post for the community that may give you a chance.

I understand your sentiments that you are really in need of a merit and it's not just you who needed the most where there are many just wanted to have one. I believe that aiming for a merit is really  a hard thing but if you desire to get it, you need to work for it where you should have to post very informative and constructive post that could also give benefit to the reader. Just continue to do good quality postings and merit will come to you where you will not be expecting for it.

This happened not only to you, dude. Many people are getting back to the newbie when this new rule applied. The way to get merit is, you have to write a good and constructive thread in this forum. Hope you will get the merit soon.

Hi 'bay' julerz, I may ask question if how much a minimum amount needed to buy a copper and to become a copper member ? , this is very useful information to those getting back to newbie status .

A lot of rush in bitcoin, so bitcoin try to remove spammers. Last month many changes in bitcoin replace many ranks. I also do 20 bounties my rank is also replace from jr member to newbie. I m also try to again rank of jr member or take merit from somebody to pay, otherwise again i m waiting to promote my rank from newbie to jr member on behalf of posts.

On behalf of posts isn't enough, without merit you're stuck at newbie (like me)

I checked your all post and you participating only couple of ANN thread translation. But there are no any single constructive or good quality post.
If you make one liner post merit is unexpected for you. You do not have to ask merit to do make helpful post.

You will have a more difficult time getting merit if most of your post/comments are short and on ANN sections. There are some brilliant suggestions from the replies. Apply them and you'll get some merit/s soon.

well, the contribution to the community is important to gain rank. it might be a bit later than you think. it takes time for people to see your work deem worthy.

Yes, there are indeed many of our friends here who have experienced the same thing as you, without a single merit, those who are already in the Jr member rank will automatically become beginners again, it has become a predetermined rule, you
can do nothing but make constructive posts, so that there will be someone who will give you merit, and you will be able to return to the rank of Junior members again.

Ofcourse, the quality of a post matters in this forum. If your post is useful to others and valuable then definitely you will get merit. Your effort and knowledge about crypto market is needed in this community. If this goes will merit and rank will come on your way.

Ranking is fully depends on Merit system. If one post a constructive on tropic post, then forum moderators give Merit and then ranking ups.... September 17 Forum administrator ruled minimum one merit for newbie for ranking up to junior member.

According to the bitcointalk rule, the only medium to get merit is to post a high quality post on any thread on bitcointalk. Therefore, its totally impossible to get merit if you keep posting garbage on bitcointalk.

Well I think I have come across some posts where the person that initiated the thread were given two to three merits. If you can come up with a post tgat really catch the attention of people and quite informative, some members will be willing to give you some merits.

You also able to join into a thread that offering merit for doing things they asked. if you succeed to perform the task they ask, then they will give you some merit, or you could just make some useful post/thread and wait for anyone to give you merit.

Maybe you should buy copper member batch if you really want to move up. It will be difficult for you to get merits. It being manipulated

I thought that merit is a bad idea, however, i found some people that got full members making really usefull posts and changed my mind

If you want better chances of gettin merits, have some good quality posts in mining and serious forum topics.  Altcoin discussions are usually treated lowly considering the number of members use this topics to spam members with useless documents.

I agree that getting merit is really hard. Sooner or later you somebody all the same will give the merit and the funny thing is that you will not be better or worse to write, just it will happen someday.

After the update, many people have become newcomers again , but to earn Merita is not necessary to write huge articles, you can just help other users and do the translation.

This system seems to be very nice and it is logic decision to have it. Classification is very necessary jere because it gives according rights for the participants.

Buddy! I won't cajole you into believing you get merit on a platter of gold. This is something that will cost you your blood and sweat. The major way to go about it as we all know is posting relevant and helpful posts. Even thou you may not get the merit as fast as possible, it will come depending if you don't give up easily.

This topic has been widely repeated in this forum probably due to the serious rules being implemented by Theymos in relation to minimize spammers in this forum. In my opinion to the subject, If you really wanted to aim for a merit, just ensure to contribute good quality post that could give good information to the readers of the forum. Merit will come soon and do not lose hope for merit will come along. Just believe in yourself and continue your quest.

I feel you, even me I am thinking on how I could earn a merit. when someone ask me if on teaching them to earn in bitcointalk I refused to teach them not that I do not want them to earn crypto but the merit that they need to earn because not every campaign wil accept a newbie and as a newbie you really need to work hard but there is no possible you can earn a 1 merit.

I haven't received any merit and I have so many quality post and I have no luck getting one. And to think i have to earned 90 merits for me to become a Full Member and I think I will be stuck as a Member and I'm good with it.

Try to create a one interesting topic for discussions about bitcoin/altcoins which can attract attentions to many members of this forum you can research a good topic and share it with us and please avoid posting one liner posts or just a one word questions try to elaborate your sentences and make a quality post. 

Nothing contradictory at all. Good job. This is what this forum needs and why the merit system was introduced in the first place. The truth is that most people believe that this system was put in place only to reduce the spam in this forum.

This is partially true since it does help in decreasing the spam in this forum, but it also primarily helps in more constructive quality discussions which is what this forum needs to grow in the long term.

There is no perfect way to acquire merit. Its completely random in my opinion, but high quality posts do tend to help gather more merit over time which is why it is better to focus on improving your post quality over time.

I think you should make really good topics in here, but make sure if you're really serious with it and not only fill with useless topic and 1 of them must get merit from someone. Just keep posting and you will get it.

Not everyone is good English. I know a lot of good news, but because my English is not good, I'm not confident in writing a good posts .
everyone joins in the forum for many different purposes. I joined the forum to see information on BCT and market situation and I joined the bounty campaign to make money investing. We advertise for the ICO so it goes to success .
We not useless. Don't discriminate against us.

agree with you!
On Russian topics it is very difficult to get merit. but of course nothing is impossible

Don't despair friends, our fate is the same. for the time being I did, the bounty still runs plus learning and reading in this Bitcoin forum.
Or you can buy copper members here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote

Just a suggestion, for now I am still trying to get a ranking

1. Can I ask you why you have posted it here? Any reason? Or you don't know where to post those kinds of threads.
2. I think you don't deserve a merit because you know nothing about the forum.
3. Please move the thread to help and beginners. Have a look on the below of thread and you will find the way of moving thread.

With posts like this:


You should not expect any merit anytime soon. How does doing bounties help other members of the forum. Try to be useful in the forum. Try to help other members. You do a lot about bounties right? Share with us how we can be a good bounty hunter. Share your wisdom. .

Also, what intrigues me is that you do a lot of translations but you seem to have a poor knowledge of the English language. I am sure when you do bounties you double check your grammar, maybe try to do it when you write your posts too huh? Install grammarly, it will help you.

Sadly, "posting quality post" is not a good criteria to earn a merit as I observe and read the discussions between high rank members.
You need to consistently write quality posts and at the very least, reduce bounty campaign reports (but how to do this one if you are into bounty also?).  I do not know but some high-ranked members are allergic to bounty campaign reports that even though you post a quality post that deserve a merit, they will scan your history and the moment that they see a bounty related post then they will judge you as a spammer and you will not earn a single merit.

You completely took that post out of context, see the original post, and the conversation where that was written.

Maybe you should not make a thread about demoted and how to get merits but you should make a thread that can help other people to know about new knowledge or you can make with informative thread. Or if you wanna to always to be bounty hunter you can buy copper membership or if not you should learn again about this forum. Maybe it like very hard to do this but if you change your mind i think every one can do it.