I think you didn't get the difference between these 2 above points. I will explain to you my point. There are two categories of people, In common they write good English and develop his idea clearly, but they are not same, one will get some merit and the other one not. Why? The member who can get the merit point, he introduced a very great idea with a new content, I mean by a new content is something not found yet in the forum, something original, the other one he can write good but the problem is he can't get points because of the content of his post.

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For members who already posts high quality content which they deserve merit points and they didn't get any single one yet, they need to post more to be involved in the forum to be seen.

I want to try my luck again here if my new posts are worth some merit points. I already got 10 points because i didn't have many posts history and you split the amount. I hope that i can get the other part of points if i really deserve it.

That's true that, there are a lot of people as you said in Jr member rank or maybe a member are writing good posts and didn't get any single merit point yet. The problem is divided into two things:

1- Members write long posts with good English and nice formed, but they didn't get any merit, why? I think here that the content of his post does not deserve a merit point unless he post an original post which it help others or the forum in general.
2- Members write good quality posts which high content and they didn't get any merit points, It can happen because this post is not yet shown to the right person, but if you continue to do the same, you will be merited soon.

I agree with you, Germany is a great country which it interssed about new technology around the world, So as you said, they surely understood the prospects of bitcoin and how much he is very important to make the country more richer. This step will be followed by other countries as you said, I think until now there aren't a lot of countries that legalize bitcoin to be used freely by people.

That's true, recently, it's too hard to predict the market movement. There is a hundred of crypto increase and decrease each day, but the most of them follow bitcoin movement. To make a good profit from trading you should have a good knowledge about many cryptocurrencies and always search about news. Investing in a lot of cryptocurrencies are good, but you should be careful when splitting your money, because there are some shitty coins, just pump one time and then drop until the coin disappears.

I agree, Merit system is an awesome way to improve the forums from shit posters. A lot of members, to not say all of them try hardly to improve their quality posts to get some merit points as it is required for ranking up. I think more than 60% of shitposters improve their posts due to the system, especially low ranks members. I think theymos choose the right system to improve this forum, he is very clever.

To be honest, Few numbers of spammers will not give up easily from the bitcointalk forum and joining signature campaigns, They usually find some shitty solution to rank up by abusing the merit system. We should focus more to find them and make some investigations, Merit system is a very great way to find alt accounts and scammers, In addition, you can see which one is posting shit posts and high quality posts by simply looking for his merit points.

Three years ago, I made a bet in directbet.eu, which is a great gambling site accept different cryptocurrencies and I won around 2.7 BTC in parlay bet. This day, I didn't believe how much I won because I was young (Under 20 years), I kept around 50% of this money until now, and the other half I use it to gamble again and buying some stuffs from the internet, It's a wonderful day, I hope that I can win this amount again.

That's true, This technology of paying using digital money it developed too much in the last few years, There is a lot of people use cryptocurrencies today for different purpose, one of them, is an investment. I think there is a high percent of people who use cryptocurrencies for investment, because they feel that bitcoin price will increase too much in the future, so they take the opportunity to buy more when bitcoin price drop.

This is a very good advice to people who want to get some merit points. The problem is people spam threads and they don't care about the quality of their posts, they think that if they posts too much, they have more chance to get some merit points, Or this is wrong. If anyone focus to make a great post, it will be better than shitty 10 posts, In addition, your chance to get merit of the only high quality post bigger than in 10 bad posts.

Be careful, this is a purely scam, recently there is a lot of fishy mail sent to scam people, They sent everyday thousands of mails to scam everyone they found idiot to click and complete the procedure and they got scammed finally. So the point is to ignore any kind of these emails to be safe.

I agree with you, Usually bitcoin's fees depend on how much unconfirmed transactions in the mempool. So if there is more unconfirmed bitcoin transaction, then the fees will be higher and vice versa. The recent drop of bitcoin price from 19k to less than 10k$ affect the number of unconfirmed transactions and then the price of bitcoin transaction fees, From now, I think bitcoin will increase in a few weeks later, in addition fees will increase a bit and it will be around 1-2$.

It's a nice initiative to do for members, because there are a hundred of people each day posts good quality posts and they didn't get any single merit until now. All people, especially highly ranked ones, should help each other and read posts in different sections and merit only high quality posts which they found helpful or informative, I hope that the 2 winners here deserve this merit which you will give to them.

Rules should be applied to all people, whatever the rank. So every member should gain merit to rank up, else he will stay in his current rank forever. I respect your suggestion, but I don't think that is fair for high rank members, (Sr member to legendary)

If you post high quality posts and you deserve merit points, you will reach the next rank as soon as possible if you have enough activities.

So did you think that getting 10 merit points is easy? People spend hours and hours to read carefully and build their knowledge related to the field of cryptocurrencies to be able to get some merit points when they post anything. That's right, that 10 points is too low compared to 150 for Full member or 250 for Sr member to rank up, but to get these points you should improve too much the quality posts including the ideas.

I agree with you, there is not any other way to get some merit points except wrote high quality posts or to improve the forums by sharing useful information/ to help others etc. People will surely awards anyone posts any informative post which help anyone to solve some problems related to cryptocurrencies, the only thing to do first is to improve your English, because even if the content of the post is great and the writing is too bad, I don't think you will deserve a single point of merit.

I think that Poloniex is one of the best platform for trading, I already use it for a long time and I didn't have any problem with it until now, All things I did (Deposit & Withdraws) go successfully without any problems, the best thing about it is the quick transactions, low exchanging fees and the security on the site, I am a bit surprised that you are hacked, I bet that you didn't secure your account carefully.

That's true, Merit points will be awarded only for high quality posts, so even if you have a high potential (I mean a lot of activities) and all of them are shit posts, you will not be eligible to rank up. I bet that there are a lot of people posts everyday from the first day of the new system and they didn't get any single points of merit system because of the low quality posts.

That's true, this new system of merit points is very good for the forums, It's not for trade, Anyone who trades merit points should be punished by getting a negative trust or permabanned. Honestly, This is an awesome challenge for everyone to improve their quality posts. I am sure, that the forum will be cleaner after a few months, spammers and shit posters will quit the forum soon.

Honestly, yes, From the beginning I didn't think that the new system of merit will work as it was expected, but I was wrong, day by day, I saw that there is a hundred of high quality posts wrote every day in different sections, People they want to rank up, and the only thing to do is to improve the quality posts to get merit points to eligible to reach the next rank. It's a very smart move by theymos to improve the forum.