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On the Topic of Merit giving, Many people on this platform have both shared their various opinion, On how to ear merit.
Today, I'm bringing In some key factors I really think, that needs to be considered before earning merit. Although I haven't earn a single merit, but I think it's best for new members coming to know all of this informations

1. Share useful content - Sharing informative things that covers the BlockChain and crypto world, Community and the rest with Uniqueness, I think its enough to earn you a merit. Copy paste have you must have read is not a good idea, that's because you might be marked or banned, penalized for doing such. So be careful when doing such thing. So as not to be banned for Plagiarism

2. Contribution - with clear consciousness and understanding the point of the writers, its brought to mind, the most important ways to achieve Merit is to know how to make relevant contribution to any Generic post. Like what one of the member says in a Posting genuinely benefits others to learn and understand even more.

3. Creation of content - Every writers mindset should be based on who is getting, or benefitting from his content. There should be Concentration more on who is benefiting from your posts, because the uniqueness of your content can easily earn you a merit on this platform. A good writer who post consistently like one of the Admin said is widely well respected. Because his contribution is always helping people to learn on the platform. The community is always happy to have informative content

4. Translate articles - Translation of things also help others, Since the major purpose of the community is to Learning and teaching everything about Crypto Currency and related subjects matter there off, Any one who's Translation is able to teach and impact someone positively should be sure to get merit from community users.
Translate interesting articles into other languages involves leaving a links to the sources, that's probably distinguished you from others who try to steal content from people

5. Assistance -  Assisting people to gain the clear knowledge, understanding, and the technical aspects of the blockchain. And all shit coin and altcoin benefits a lot. This can cause an Admin to merit you. A lot of people on this platform always look forward to those people, helping and assisting the people on the platform

6. Spamming in any of the topic is very bad, Try as much as you can to avoid this, as you can easily get banned or penalized for doing this, be come the moderators by clearing off and reporting any of the Spams,

6. Become a detective is probably complex for most , But it's worthy it, I'm sure more Admin will probably share more light on this, Report merit abusers, or bounty cheaters.

What more do we probably needs to learn, Concerning, the Topic thereof how to earn Merit

You are really an weird case.

You have zero merits, and you put so much effort in your post. There is no plagiarism as long as I could find.

Then I checked your post history, you have only bounty reports in your history.

Why don't you try to act more naturally here? Try to engage in some discussion,  and contribute to it.
Your post has zero content... although I would like to give you some merits, this is not the way imo.

Everything you said is repeated all over the forum, and the merit system was implemented so that users who are solely bounty hunters could not rank up. Which is your case.

You're very right, like I said In the post, I made mentioned of it that others members must have said stuff like this, and I also quoted what other members have said, No bad blood in here, only trying to assist and share with others what I've learnt too

It's not just a matter of writing guides. Practice what you preach. What have you done so far in the points you have listed except doing exactly the opposite like bounty spamming?

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This thread was the reason for the guide: 💥 [Merit Giveaway] - Post useful threads and earn merit 💥 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5215727)

Many concept of merit guide was posted here but coming from a legitimate bounty hunter is so awkward. I admire you for being such a hardworking user in terms of bounty.

Some users here look into post history and see the user posts to check whether the users has credible for creating post such as this and mentioning those sweet words that could encourage newbies.

You have a chance to improve. Instead of directly posting your reports to some bounty thread why not try to join some discussion while doing that. Bounty isnt prohibited but your account must served a purpose for at least to discuss something about forum or anything that relates to bitcoin it is not just simply a tool for bounty campaign.

Thanks for the encouragement, I sincerely appreciate you, God bless you

There is no unique contents you can share if you don't spend your time to learn about them, write them by yourself. Sharing the others' works mostly end as plagiarism if you don't mind to add source link to your posts. Plagiarism, when being detected will be permanently banned, and the forum as well as moderators who make bans don't mind which rank you have.
It is not the good way to do. Generic posts are mainly trash is the first reason. The second reason is don't try to join any discussion you see because you have your own ability to discuss with the others, and that ability depends upon your knowledge. Join the one you are familiar with and have knowledge about that.
Making your contents (topics?) is good but before starting to do that, you have to search for any available topics on the problem you want to make your topic on that. If there are available topics, and their contents are much better than what you have in your mind, stop thinking of making your own one.
Translate works of the others have some risks: one of them is plagiarism. If you do any translation, remember to ask for acceptance from the authors and leave source links in your translation. The forum has rule on translation too.
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My guess is that OP wants to rank up (and maybe join some signature campaigns). And seeing those previously posted topics might have motivated him to follow suit.

We get it, those things get tiresome and all, but perhaps we should cut him some slack. Who knows, he'll learn the ropes over time :)

It seems to me that OP did his homework very well.
Now is time that he start to practise his own  suggestions and earn first merits.
Good luck.

This reminded me of a user in our local board who posted some trading psychology but upon looking at his/her post history (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1916345;sa=showPosts), most of it are bounty reports. My guess is that the OP and the user I mentioned are both alt accounts and they were hoping to get merits for their non-bounty posts.

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Instead of "sharing" what you say you learned, why not prove to the community that you really understood the lessons in your OP and that you are applying them first? It doesn't look that way at the moment and your immediate submission of this post to a merit giveaway thread shows your real intention here.

Or someone's alt preparing to juice this thread later on and for rank up intention at least member rank for bounty hunting isn't it?, IMO. :D

I agree on @Bttzed03, just prove your self first before doing this, upon reading your post above you have a good writing English skills and I didn't have doubt you will achieve the rank you desire. That is not easy just like what you think, that isn't like a single snap of Thano's finger.
Giving a time frame at least 2-6 months reading in the forum will become a good quality poster as what @TMAN says on TMAN'S guide to getting merit. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3182178.0).

I believed you can do it, I'm more worst before compared to you now. My English skills were so poor before and I'm still improving this until now. No need to hurry man, just give enough time on reading the forum and no one will criticize you. 

Sadly you are the one who is spamming on B&H board. Why suddenly you are realizing that merit is important? Because just took a look on your post history, all of them are bounty report. This is also one kind of soft spam (IMO). Why you just do not stick with bounty? Merit isn't required for participate on shit coin bounty. I am assuming you just need one merit to become Jr. Member and spam all over forum by wearing signature campaign. I am not insulting you, but you should sticked with bounty report rather than signature campaign.

Whatever you wrote it has been discussed multiple time on this section. Usually I don't like to see merit post, but you made it. The question is, you know everything about merits but why even you haven't earned single merit? And you are talking about merit how to earn. This is really hilarious, I am not going to feed you and I will discourage everyone else.

Your thread just encouraging spam, so better if you locked this thread from lower left.

Obviously, This post will help me in future for gaining up my rank.
But, after reading this now it is clear that it is not so easy to earn
merit. I need to spend enough time on the forum and have to do work hard.
If I can give something good to the forum, I'll get something out of it.  :)

I guess op knows how to earn merit, and he/she can apply it to himself.

Earning a merit is indeed a combination of effort and quality. Just like what you have listed, all of it needs effort in order to be done properly. Effort in terms of giving your time and sharing your knowledge just to make a useful and quality content for the users and the forum itself.

Next is quality. The effort you exerted would be meaningless if there's no quality in it. It should be helpful and useful to everyone.

Lastly, we should also not forget about our attitude towards the people we encounter here in the forum. It's better to be nice and to be humble. Let's not boast too much even if we've achieved a lot. Instead use it to inspire newbies.

You have talent in writing it seems this long post of yours isnt a copy paste one but your not using it on most beneficial aspect of this forum. But your profile speaks how you stay here in forum. Mostly compilations of bounty reports. Meaning your only doing bounty campaign here in forum. How can you earn merits if your post is irelevant. No one will merit you for your report post. I suggest clean up your account and instead doing bounty join some worth while fiscussion here.

Thank you so much sir, I really do appreciate, But my fear is this, what's the penalty for cleaning up this bounty report, I hope my account won't be banned as a result of this...

Many topics related to earning merits in the past got a lot of it. I cannot blame the OP for trying to do the same :D Sadly for him, many users seems to be fed up reading the same topics.

There is no penalty really. Posts are simply part of a user's activity. Thus, if you remove your posts, your activity count will be reduced also. For higher rank users, that would lead to a lowering in rank. Since your account is still a newbie, you shouldn't be worrying about that.

I don't see any point in hiding your post history now. It's up to you if you still want to remove them but, if I were you, I would focus on posting more good stuff instead.

Helping others is exactly a good source of merit. But you can follow the suggestion of upper rank members. They always say that don't run behind merit. Share your knowledge and skill, be creative merit will run behind you. I always try to follow them. Newbies today can be legendary in the future.

LOL Don't make me laugh  :D What do we have here? A guy at this forum for over 6 months with 30 posts and still not have any merit yet  ??? most posts are in report format, exactly what effect did you give to this community? Nothing! And now you're teaching others how to get merit when you haven't  :P How silly!

I think much better if you delete your bounty report post after the rewards has been given to you. Your account is just on an entry level, and starting from now on do some posting like a real and natural person talking to others. The suggestion is good but apply this first to yourself. I am not in the time of merit system was implemented so I dont have to brag any of those merits cause I am indeed a senior rank already before its inception. So you can start from scratch. Anyway a lots of users has rank up by the merits system so it isn't impossible for anyone to do it.

My tip/suggestion for you (to get your posts merited) is to learn/pay attention on how do you write your posts. I mean the punctuation signs, typos, and many.. too many common words starting with capital letter when is not the case.
Better post a shorter message, written well, than a long post with a lot of mistakes.
Last but not least, congratulations for your effort on this guide post!

Grammar, vocabulary, and capitalization correctness don't help you earn merits. If what you do is only repeat what people already discuss.

I agree because it is better if I can read a short post rather than a too long one, which both present a same idea.

What i learnt from members regarding progress of merits,

I found this forum is made for conversations about crypto and make useful post for other members, Who really help each other.

Be loyal to your work and don't try be greedy for merit , but your dedications will get rewarded by seniour members with merits.

I will say no to this. Not all of the forum members are English speakers or fluent on that language, we should not consider that (for me) what we need to value is the meaning and the depth of the person's reply or topic if that reply/post helps you give it a merit, or if you like the post considering that it's very informative not only for you but, for the whole community give it a merit! Correct grammar and punctuation's will make your post/reply outstanding but, what is the point of making it perfect if you are just gonna talk nonsense.

Don't get me wrong that is a good thing, but for me, I will choose to merit the guy that having a informational content with errors in grammar than a guy that have a perfect grammar etc, but talking nonsense.

Now you need to apply to yourself what you are suggesting to do, that will help to increase your merits.
It is better to bring new ideas, useful ideas, or just help anytime soon whenever somebody is asking a question, and help with knowledge from our own experience.

There are many ways to acquire merit but I think the best way to achieve merit is to use one's own knowledge and talents You can not be tempted to say that there are many places in the forum You have to post your mind well after your post so that no one else can benefit from your post Every place needs to be well considered before posting.

i think nothing change mate because i feel like OP created this thread for a chance of at least earning 1 merit to become a Junior account.
because after he received a 1 merit from a give away he forgot this thread and back to his usual way and that is bounty reporting.

you can check it here in His post History that says it all,so literally he get what he wants even not on this thread but on another.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2624657;sa=showPosts

Ok thanks you for this info.
Ok,  well,  I guess he tried different approaches and finally achieved his goal 😁
At least he made some effort and didn't just beg for merits.
With merits he can rank up but can't get reputation in this forum.
It's completely different matter and if he will start to spam this forum his forum account will soon become useless.

But what about those who are just a beginner and delve into the subject of crypto? I just want to ask questions, learn new things. Or this is not welcome, is it?

Everyone (who is not a scammer or a spammer) is welcome. If you want to ask, go ahead. The only advice I could give you on that matter is to try to make you questions meaningful and not tremendously trivial. That is, read on the topic before launching a question (so you’ve at least got some context) and avoid blank blackboard type questions where no prior effort has been made on your (one’s) behalf.

Don't underestimate juniors. No matter what the intention of OP creator had, You must not forget that everyone starts from the beginning.
In my understanding the creator just express ideas of gaining some knowledge in crypto community or forum. Article has useful guidelines which will surely help newbies to add meaningful post not any trash.

I remember started my journey in this crypto world 2 years ago. I started my struggle on collecting faucet everyday. After few days I learn that it is so low job for anyone to earn any penny. I also learn cryptocurrency mining, promotion, trading day by day. I learn to work on a forum to gain huge awareness of my promotion. I started posting on blog and forums and receive huge popularity on my social network. But one day I discover that my Twitter account was suspended due to posting spam (Airdrop). I fortunately recover my account and start thinking what will be the best approach for digital marketing and how to avoid spam posting. Then I change my direction to bounty hunting. I start my hunting with valuable resources gained from airdrop experience. Now I feel comfortable with my job with high number of social media followers that even higher rank member will find difficult to achieve. I am not a Millionaire but account with million followers follow me. 

I will advise all new member not to lose your hope. Try to write meaningful criticism, answers question what other member posted, identify scam project early and move forward. I would like to thank all for reading my post.

Everyone starts from scratch.

But the real big question here for you, Do you think bounty hunting is going to be your all-time job?

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If you have a mindset like that then I advise you to change it, bounty hunting may not last forever and IMO not ever for a year or two.

So why we need this forum, its just a place to know more about cryptocurrencies by this you can be an investor and stat making in millions and can say proudly I don't have a million followers but I am making in millions. :D

Looking at the size of the forum (in terms of users) I think is very difficult not to repeat what other members said.
How I figured out is a big user base forum? If I look at the threads started, I see they get a lot of replies very quickly, this means is a lot of activity and a lot of users around (online).
Everyone have something to say, everyone wants to contribute but since there are a lot of users, you will find it difficult to find a subject it wasn't discussed already. Everything you need to know you can find using search.

But I agree the merit subject is everywhere. If you search for it, you'll get 1000 results :D

There are more merit sources than ever & their source allowances have been increased a few times. The forum seems dead atm though, it’s the quietest I can remember seeing for some time.

You can follow all the recommended practices but it doesn’t mean you’ll receive merit. Speaking from my own personal experience I’m receiving less merit than I have for some time. My posting is exactly the same but I’m definitely getting less merit.

The forum just seems really quiet, I guess it coincides with the price of bitcoin being relatively dull, low volatility etc.

Yeah mate but i have just express my own opinion in this matter since thats how the things goes ,looking at his post History it seems that there are bounty campaigns that requires Him to be at least Jr.Member so he pushed to gain one.

But i am not pointing that is bad like what the other posters quoted me as i am not underestimating anyone and i am commenting according to my observation and research.

Anyway case seems to be closed because OP never did comeback to check this thread or even make a comment.

I sometimes see newbies trying to farm merit by writing guides or educational posts, but because they are newbies, they either beat a dead horse or involuntarily spread misconceptions. So, if you think that you can earn merit by creating useful threads, make sure that you are creating a unique content and that you perfectly understand what you are writing about, and not just copypasting material from some shitty crypto blogs and news sites.

At first, we would see the merit system as a headache since it hinders us from ranking up but as time passes by, we can already appreciate its essence somehow. It pushes bounty hunters to post knowledgeable and related posts in every topic which benefits the newbies who wants to recieve real informations. We can now trust those post more right now since we know that everyone is trying to give out informations that is well studied by everyone.

This is the best thing that you need to do, practice those things do all of them, Be consistent i think you're a good poster you construct sentences well that's one point and the way you form the topic is also good all you need to do is to be consistent, you're right contribution is one thing that will help you to gather merits so don't only post bounty reports but also make a topic that will help and interests someone here in the forum. you can achieve greater and better than this.

Ok,  I also don't want to underestimate anyone here;  everybody deserve respect.
OP made some effort to receive merits and didn't just beg for merits.
He didn't create unique content and obviously he have own reasons to try to rank up in the forum.
My point is that such topic will not help him but if he practise advices from his own posts it will help him to achieve higher forum ranks.
If he made honest effort to increase quality of his posts reward will come.
It's up to him.

Nah, they will not ban you, but your post history will be an indication that you are only posting on this forum to make some money. Yes, as you saw.. people actually scrutinize everything you do. My suggestion to you are to stop hunting profit and start posting constructively in other sections of this forum.

Also take your time to properly research every post you make, before you post something. DO NOT simply copy & paste from other people's posts and be creative with your content creation.  ;)

You had a bad start, but you can turn things around by putting a lot more effort into your posting and to drop the bounty hunting for small profits.  ;)

A good post history full of constructive posts will be a lot more profitable for you in the end and even if it is not profitable, it would be very educational for you in the long run.  ;)  <Knowledge is power>

I think you're wrong, I've never been away from the thread, As it concerns me so much than you could ever think or imagine, I've learnt to pay attention, And take corrections from every member of the forum, irrespective of their ranks, I was having 60 post before now, But take a look I clear them off, for over 2 weeks now, I haven't even been involved in bounty, So I think you're wrong... Not making comment on every suggestion doesn't change the fact that I appreciate you sharing your opinion, Like every other person I'm just a human, And I'm still learning

Thanks, Sir, I'll do my best. The first impression was that it’s scary even to write something here among the big experts.

Scared for what? Don't be. You're not a criminal nor am I, so chill out as this is a place where you can speak freely (by saying freely, I mean with facts and evidences). If what you've spoken does not butthurt anybody intentionally (or even if it does in cases where you try to expose some scams), it's fine. I'd say nobody's a born expert and everyone learns from their mistakes. Be concentrated towards your goal and your name will also be called among those big experts some day soon based on your experiences.

We are not experts really.
We all still learning and making mistakes.
If you wants to learn about bitcoin and crypto or become part of btc community, get new connections or ideas, you came to the right place.
Users don't like scamers here but if you are new and need help don't worry, just ask! :)