For your interest, there you go:
TMAN's guide to getting merits
Full Member thanks to merit system (iasenko)
Tips – Guides for forum search
The English language improvement thread

Hope that my links to useful topics can help you get valuable tutorials and rank up to higher positions in the forum.

I totally agree with all of your four key points. Follow those ones, then users in the forum can improve the quality of their posts over time. They have to sharpen their skills day by day to make sure that their post quality rising gradually over time.

You are missing very important step. This is backing up wallet first before doing anything. If you don't back up wallet, and doing something wrong or your Hard disk destroyed by accidents, you will probably lose all of your coins in your wallet. Be careful, backing up wallet is extremely important to save your coins.

I feel like losing my breath when reading your thread, which contains only two sentences but the second one is extremely long, hard to follow and catch your main ideas.
I think that your thread (above mine) is good example for how to write a good post (both format, vocabularies, and sentence structure - including linking words). You actually missed linking words, which made your second sentence too difficult to understand, in your thread.

Good ideas won't always result in good thread!

It will rocket up for sure. Personally, you should not worry about this. What I think you should do at the moment is shut your computer/ laptop down; let your coins in the wallet/ exchanges several weeks; don't pay too much about Bitshares in the next few weeks.
All lost are paper lost at the moment, don't worry because you won't lose nothing if you keep holding your Bitshares.

I think you should not answer such a non-sense question. The more rare merit system is, the more meritorious high-quality posts are. 

Yes, it is democratic system despite of the fact that there are abuser, beggers of the merit system. Those sort of users will be charged with expensive charges like permanent bans. I think you should not pay your attention that way. Keep focus on your internal changes to adapt with the system.

Hi dev,

Thank you for the guide on syncing wallet. I remember that I have mined several LUXcoins, not much, and I have not upgraded my wallet so far behind current version. I almost used the second or third version of LUXcoin wallet. I have tried to open it but it can not be opened. Can I fix the problem and keep my coins, then transfer them to newest version of wallet safely, dev?

Thank you for your help if possible.

Wrong, some users joined the forum for their own interest, particularly focus on knowledge, discussions, etc. They don't care about rank. Over the time I have spent in the forum, by chance I have seen several Senior Member, Hero or Ledgendary even don't wear any signature codes. They don't care about that and ranking up process, too.
Recently, from second half of the year 2017 in particular, lots of newcomers joined the forum simply concentrate on getting free money from signature campaigns, bounties, airdrops, etc. I think that trend is due mainly to hot growth of crypto-ecosystem (Bitcoin and top altcoins for example in the last year). Side-effects of the movements is the forum now abundant with shitty posts, spammers, fudders, account farmers, etc. Merit system has solved and will solve the issuse. It's good for all users in the forum, generally.

You are likely too lazy to use search function of both Google and the forum. There are so many available topics about the same question as yours. You should search before creating new topics or new threads. After reading my thread, please spend a couple of minutes to look around following boards (Meta; Beginners & help), you can easily see that your question has answered repeatedly in many old topics and threads.

My recommendations for you to earn merits is be helpful, be creative, be eagerly to learn, be generous (to give your sMerits away when you have more sMerits in your account); keep doing those things daily, then merits will suddenly come to your account.

Good luck.

Best regards,

Actually, you are lack of 10 more activities for next rank (Senior member), at the moment I write the thread. Additionally, you need 250 Merit points totally for the rank, by which I mean you need 146 more merit scores to rank up.
In order to earn merits, you have to compose and publish posts which are useful, helpful, constructive, high-quality. those sort of posts usually help other users in the forum solve their problems. By posting that way, some other users will be satisfied with your threads, then some of them will sent their sMerits to your account.

Let contribute and Good luck.

Exactly! More and more people want to own at least one Solaris masternode, and they have been waiting good price to buy more. The fact is, one Solaris masternode is worthy and a little bit expensive at the moment. Therefore, the number of masternode will not be increased dramatically in the future, that means the ROI for masternodes' owners might be stable for a long period of time. It's good news for them, right?

I have been a little bit busy recent weeks, so thanks for your information about the breaking new for Vsync project. One more day before something happen for our Vsync community. Actually, Vsync has had several good features, such as instant send, private send, fast transaction speed, and masternode of course. I hope that with upcoming released ones, we will see more promising, potential features. Thanks again and of course I give you one merit, that's all I can give you, only one.

Masternodes.online is a good one which can and will give us very precise, informative statistics on our masternode and different ones, that in turn will help investors have an overview about profit of each masternode. It will be very useful for them before making decision whether they should buy and own a masternode or not. Let's go to masternode.online and try asking to be listed there as soon as possible.

It is fairer if users have been allocated merit points which correspond to their current activities, not with the required merits for their ranks. Additionally, users which have been still lack a couple of activities to be ranked up to higher levels should be exceptions, by which I meant users who will be upgraded in the next counted round of their acitivities. I know that the idea is hard to implement or go back to implement it, everything finished by Theymos, so we have to accept and follow new rules. it just my opinion.

With its original ideas, the project might change the world entirely, specifically in transportation area. Applying AI into autonomous vehicles is excellent ideas, then Cube might become a huge competitor of Tesla in bussiness world. Good luck with your project, devs.

It will only be fly to the moon if the project is good, by which I mean it's is a good one internally. I will wait to see its roadmap to discover and analyse how developers can work, develope the project, keep it on track and might satisfy investors' expectation.

Withdraw Bitcoin is expensive with higher and higher transaction fees. So I simply recommend that we should use Bitcoin to buy Dogecoin, then withdraw those Dogecoins. Then sell Doge coin to get Bitcoin again at other exchanges. That is what I mean.

By now, we can buy real-estate with Bitcoin in countires like the USA, the UAE, etc. The project has excellent ideas, which can be further developed. But the question is how to keep the project really under development and on track? there are abundant abandoned ICOs.

Oh, thanks for the very valuable information about the real project and the announcement. I will spend couple of hours to discover more about the project and re-check, compare them with the announcement before going to final judgement about the ANN by myself. Anyway, thank you very much, again.

It might be due to FOMO effects. Everyone are worrying that they will miss the train of Bitcoin Gold if they do not buy it as soon as possible. After the effects, diaster will appear. It's only my theory. Let's give the market a couple of days, then results will show up for you.