It is easy to write long texts explaining things but be sure that nobody read it that's why i ask members to create arts, it is a little bit harder to make but it is easily readable by everyone.

Thanks for the modification
+1 sMerit for the new one.

Thanks. I liked the video but i will hold the sMerit (didn't take decision how much but it seems to be +3) until you add some details to avoid misunderstanding :
1- add bitcointalk.org to 0:10 so everyone can understand which forums you are talking about
2- to become x : you need x merit points (it is correct but you need also x activity, so i think that it must be add so can a newbie take the correct and full informations)
Please make a new post for the new video (with a link to my comments here) and delete or edit the previous one.

While it is almost a replica, i liked the style and the perks that you add so ok accepted, +1 sMerit

Great +12 sMerit (10 sMerit for the video & additional +2 sMerit for the effort and the links in the text under the video) but i will hold it until you made some modifications :
1- 0:33 - 0:39 : if you didn't post anything, your activity will not increase. You need to make at least 1 post in order to get 28 activity if your posts is more than 28. I ask you to correct it at your manner (preferably if you didn't make any post it will not increase, if you make at least 1 post per period it could increase, example here we have 30 posts which is more than 28 so if we make 1 post it will increase by 14)
2- 1:33 (+/- few seconds from the two sides) : sMerit is only refilled monthly for merit sources, for the old users they received just 1 time some merit depending from what you said.
3- the video needs to stop at 3 :13
Like juster_me please make a new post for the new video (with a link to my comments here) and delete or edit the previous one.

Well for the video, i am not that experienced to anything related to ico and bounties, the language problem and no sounds or subtitle to judge it, from what i understand it can be helpful for members to rearrange their tweets or other thing maybe so i will consider it with +1 sMerit.
For the photo i laugh when i saw it, a funny way to express things, the only part that i think is inaccurate is the king dress, i actually don't wear it anymore (just joking if you didn't understand it), +2 sMerit
Total : +3 sMerit.

Indeed it is a good, simple and clear educational one, i wasn't aware of it even that i always check the address several times before i sent ; and i made a little research (CryptoShuffler: Trojan stole $140,000 in Bitcoin https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/cryptoshuffler-bitcoin-stealer/19976/)
+5 sMerit

Nice. +3 sMerit calculated like this :
1/ 0 sMerit (replica = posted before and i didn't find any addition)
2/ +1 sMerit (activity could take up to 1 hour though, not sure, but saying that it doesn't update instantly is the point)
3/ +1 sMerit
4/ +1 sMerit (precision : newbie buying copper member could put an image https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2385104), i will give you sMerit and asks you add it

Thanks for posting but i cannot give sMerit to a replica, posting the same content requires additional informations in order to recieve sMerit for it. I already stated it several times.

A better way to explain things, nice +2 sMerit

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I will take a look on the others after few minutes.

I am sorry, this topic is for art only. There is other people that could review your topics/posts and evaluate it, you can find some of them in this section. Good luck.

Thanks

Well, statistics could give good information but i don't really consider it as a must for a newbie to see and learn from it.
+/-, 1 sMerit this time, i don't think i will consider future statistics here

I see that you made changes, it looks slightly better now. Since it is basically texts and as i promised previously, +2 sMerit.

I see new content here, nice
+5 sMerit, I appreciate your contributions here but to let as much people joining us and showing their skills, I will change the rates for image and videos and set a virtual maximum of 10 sMerit per person (if someone will receive from me 10 sMerit then his next contributions will be rewarded by max 1-2 sMerit even if the content is extraordinary)

It could be kept like this imo.
What i initially said is that you keep the link of bitcoin core as it and add under the 3 wallets a little box containing the link that i mentioned

like this :
                          official                         useful                    mobile
   Bitcoin         |bitcoin core|                 |     ...     |              |    ...     |
                     |bitcoin.org |                 |     ...     |              |    ...     |
                            |Other wallets|   | https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet |

and the same thing for bitcoin cash, ethereum, litecoin... it isn't a requirement as i said but it could make your image better and complete

1/ Well as you know the art needs to help newbies but having "keep and support Merit system" in an avatar couldn't help them, so i cannot give any sMerit for this. Waiting for a good contribution from you.
2/ I would thank you for sharing the topic to other ones so they can get involved and collect some sMerit.
3/ I translated what you said with google translate, well not the best instrument, but i always update in the first post every 2-3 days how much sMerit left, this without considering the sMerit given by other members which already participated several times

As i said to abaidudez : I don't mind seeing the same contents repeated but i expect to see better quality so my judgement will become harder.
Besides, there is many things that no one mentioned it like mining (what's mean, difference between cpu/gpu/asics mining, electricity cost and equipements costs, what's mean hash rate...), a good and clear video about different type of wallets (with images for trezor/ledger...), even a video about the TOP historic things about Bitcoin is welcome (a guy buying a pizza with thousands of dollars or someone throwing his hard disk containing a big amount of money, someone buying a car/a house using bitcoin... the only required things is good quality and reference to the source/original topic in bitcointalk)...

Nice, i think it could be a nice addition especially when browsing posts. I think theymos saw it but didn't consider it as a priority for the moment.

Not exactly what i meant but it is my mistake for not showing you what i meant. Not bad like this anyway +4 sMerit and welcome as a member

I mentioned previously that everyone need to prove that he is the one that made the video, you can put your profile name in the video or in the text associated with it or at least make a comment with your name.
In the last seconds the text (...so that other users...) is hiding the merit requirements for F/Sr/Hero members...
Will be reviewed later after you prove that it is yours, meanwhile, i will give it likely under what i specified as a minimum for videos, in other words, encouragement points (1 or 2) depending from the modifications that will be done.


You will not get the senior member rank as planned before but you need 8 months to become hero member? so try to get it as a target in the medium range.
I don't mind seeing the same contents repeated but i expect to see better quality so my judgement will become harder.

Nice and creative, +5 sMerit

Nice and useful.
I want to add for example under bitcoin wallets, you could write, for more wallets visit : https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet (same goes for other coins if it is available in their official site only), it isn't hard to add tho and i recommend it.
For ethereum wallet you need to change bitcoin.org by ethereum.org
For bitcoin cash, i don't have a clue whether it has an official wallet : bitcoin ABC? please verify (or change the "official" title)
Don't know if i missed something but overall it is good work, please just make the required modifications then delete the image containing the error(s) then upload the correct one so i can give you +2 sMerit (or +4 sMerit if you add the link that i suggested for each coins ).
(Yeah, you can put it in imgur and share it in social media/reddit too since it is useful)

(will give comment for the other posts soon)

Ok. Please remove the old image which contains the mistake.

Accepted and great work, i got a new hope here after i noticed that the quality of arts start dropping 
+6 sMerit and i recommend to be add in theymos topic or in FAQ stickied topic.

Not bad, +2 for these two pics
For the two others, a little funny but i cannot give merit for it.

Quoted entirely as it is. This is not your work, this was already posted by AlisaWhishie in this topic, his account link is available in the text under the video. Waiting for a clear explanation from you before asking default trust member to give you a negative trust for this phishy behaviour.

Cannot be merited right now because it contains a mistake : a period doesn't start exactly since your registration on bitcointalk, it is a fixed 14 days starting with Tuesday at a precise time. You can join at the beginning of a period or before an hour from the end, till you made at least 1 post it is the same, both can have max 14 activity.
Will give the reward (1 sM) once this mistake is corrected to avoid confusion

Edit : separating the two images.

I already gave a reward for each participants depending of their works and I will continue doing this until I will not have any sMerit left or if the quality of the arts dropped too much.

Welcome, every good quality art will be accepted for sure.  

You are doing it correctly but the image cannot be seen in bitcointalk until you become a junior member and above.
+1 as an encouragement.

Good and could be better 
+3

Every rank is welcome especially the lower ones.
You could give me a sample of presentation so I could answer you correctly. I mentioned images and videos because it is accessible to everyone easily. A PowerPoint presentation for example could be good but couldn't be accepted because almost no one will download and see it.

Couldn't be accepted for several reasons. I personally feel it as inappropriate and offensive to put a monkey as an avatar for a brand new especially that in this rank they can't have an avatar.
Newbie rank requires at least 1 activity and in this image you put newbie instead of brand new for 0 activity account.
You said messages instead of posts which could add more confusion.
Sorry too many mistakes and could be a little bit offensive for some people so rejected!

As I already mentioned in the rules, altcoins and everything related to it in general couldn't be accepted alone. You can always make another try but read carefully the rules.

I appreciate your help for the community but as you know, only arts are allowed here so waiting for your contribution

+1 sMerit.

Great work, simple and fluent. Think about adding it in beginners and help sub
+9 sMerit.

Bump.

Since anyone can understand what you are explaining in the video then it is acceptable. Text version? didn't understand well but maybe you mean shorena since he has a topic about it with images www.bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0 however, the version explained is the old one with side notes for the new one.
Accepted, a little bit not feeling comfortable with any external program especially when dealing with private keys but everyone has to assume what he is doing.
The spirit of this topic is to see new content but even the old one that may didn't get its chance is also accepted.
+6 sMerit (deserves more if it was in english or has an english subtitles).

LoL, I encourage you but the video cannot be accepted for several reasons :
- No one will likely click on a video after seeing you wearing like this, if you want to hide your identity then you can simply put a teddy bear  or a bitcoin logo in your face as mentioned in the other topic
- Not everyone will understand what you are saying especially if his first language isn't english
- think about adding some explicative "pop-ups" it can be useful.
- I don't like to precise name of escrows but instead you can link to the topic containing the most trusted escrows (you know in case of scam even if/ i know these 2 are highly trusted )
- Less blablabla and more accurate informations is the key to succeed 
Finally, +2 sMerit (out-contest) and waiting enhancements in your future vids

Good. +2 sMerit, you can be a member now

I liked it and I cannot pass without giving it a respectable reward especially after the time you spent in it before my 3rd update, so +5 sMerit and I will wear it for few days with a link to this post. Thanks  

Welcome, please once you create your art, make a new post as i mentioned in the rules to avoid problems.


# For the 2 videos, don't panic i need to verify it first, i will make a new post about it in less than an hour.

LoL, easy and simple more than i ever though, while the forum isn't intended to be a plateform to collect Bitcoin but what you said is true. +1 for the first sentence.

ICO or anything related to altcoins aren't included here and thus won't be credited. However since i am also a member of the community, I could give sometimes +1 sMerit as an encouragement but this isn't a guarantee for anyone to get sMerit later.

Thanks for everyone sharing sMerit here

The image could help recruiting more people to Bitcoin but it is not helping newbies so i cannot give it sMerit. You are free to try again of course within the rules that i mentioned. Thanks.

Thank you, waiting to see it

Good but could be better. For example : long texts are boring to read and don't attract generally many people even if it is complete. You couldn't know what forum you were talking about only after seeing the link which could be mentioned at 3:00.
If this video was simplified and merged somehow with the video that was posted next to your submission it will be awesome  
+5 sMerit as I promised.

Now that was a great theme, i really like it, how did you create it? Which program?
The content couldn't be credited unfortunately as you know but I am looking forward for you to improve it. I can give examples : i can image the character introducing Bitcoin (using the logo) to other characters with a small explicative text. Same thing could be done for blockchain technology, it could be explained with an image pointed by this character....
+2 sMerit for this concept -not related to the contest, it is from me- (waiiiiting for a good work from you)

Unfortunately, this isn't an art and altcoins will not get any credit at least alone. Thanks.

I already said your work. I will likely check similar images in google before giving sMerit to anyone.

Eagle eyes as usual, welcome

I like the idea, it could be done better imo. +1.

Hi, i have 185 sMerit (EDIT: look on the bottom of page how much left) and since I am not that active, I doubt i could give it to the ones that deserve it and need it the most, so I have these ideas :

1- i will give between 1 and 5* sMerit for everyone that could make an image helping newbies to understand anything related to Bitcoin, Blockchain, wallets, FAQ in bitcointalk.org (Merit, ranking, trust, activity...). It is not required to implement all the informations on 1 image! Make it as simple and clear as possible.
(* depending from the number of participants, most will get between 1-2 after acceptance, exceptional work up to 5. The reward could be decreased in case other members already left sMerit for the participant even if the image was posted before in a different topic)

2- I will give between 1-10* sMerit for educative .gif or videos
(* depending from the number of participants, most will get between 3-5 after acceptance, exceptional work up to 10. The reward could be decreased in case other members already left many sMerit for the participant. However videos containing pure texts alone -somehow like a book/newspaper- will not get more than 2 sMerit in most cases after acceptance)

3- I am open for any different idea (making a cartoon or a movie ), anything that could help the Bitcoin community is welcome (no minimum, it will depends on how i see your work Meanwhile the other members are free to give it what they like)

4- Translation of the works that will be posted here to your language is accepted after the approval of the original owner (only 1 sMerit after acceptance).

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Rules :
- I prefer to not make a dedicated art for altcoins but you could mention it briefly.
- Do not copy-paste, only (re)post your work. If you found copying, you will be reported and you will likely get a negative trust.
- Other members are welcome to credit nice works
- Legendary & negative trust will not get any reward from me at least (it depends in reality but to avoid problems in the future)
- The reward may take several days to be delivered, i am not that active-time fault!, (do not blame me )
- First came first served until my sMerit turn to 0 (do not blame me for having 0 sMerit!)
- I will not look to any of your previous posts, i will give you a chance to improve after your hard work.
- Oh yeah, those arts could be used later by the community so think to add your nick in the corner.
- Do not reserve a post please
- Afaik this post do not break any unofficial, hidden rule. If not, please tell me to lock it.
- To apply other rules later or not to apply, that is the question.

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Edit 1:
- Added "and me" "after acceptance" in point 4 to avoid abuse of easily translated texts. (reedited /edit 5)
- Try avoiding duplicated content (will not be credited) unless you have a way better image (no guarantee).
- Do not post 0 effort work, it will only make troubles for everyone.

Edit 2:
- Added precision for point 2 to avoid having multiple images posted as a video.
- 177 sMerit left.

Edit 3 :
- I think the forums don't need more Merit poster (theymos Merit topic contains already several of it)

Precision : February 19, 2018 : 160 sMerit left

Edit 4 : February 20, 2018
- Try always to have a proof of your work by having your nickname on the corner or a link referring to your profile on the video header/comment if your name in YouTube for example is different than the one in bitcointalk. (reedited by adding underline/edit 5)
- 150 sMerit left

Precision : February 25, 2018 : 137 sMerit left
Precision : February 27, 2018 : 127 sMerit left (stats: 58 sMerit sent to 19 arts in 13 days)

Edit 5 : February 28, 2018 (Important changes)
- 2 weeks since we started and after reviewing the quality of art submitted here, I adjusted the rates accordingly and edited the text by removing the minimum part in point 1 & 2 and replacing it by "after acceptance" (which is obvious / min now for all art is 1 sMerit after acceptance). The new rate isn't that important imo since basically all the participants until now get sMerit in the actual ranges (maybe the only ones who will be affected is arts with low-medium quality videos)
- To allow as much people showing their skills, I will set a virtual maximum of 10 sMerit per person : if someone will receive from me 10 sMerit then his next accepted contributions will be rewarded by max 1-2 sMerit per contribution even if the contents are extraordinary.
Precision 1 : for the moment, I don't give sMerit to anything except for arts posted or linked to this topic, so please stop sending me private messages or posting in this topic for a review of non-art contents. Thanks.
Precision 2 : February 28, 2018 : 120 sMerit left (stats: 66 sMerit sent to 22 arts in 2 weeks)

Precision : March 02, 2018 : 106 sMerit left (minus approximately 15 sMerit on-hold for 2 contributors)  (stats without counting the on-hold ones : 80 sMerit sent to 31 arts in 16 days)

Edit 6: March 03, 2018
- Any image containing mostly merit & activity will not be counted because i think we have enough of it for now. Videos are until now accepted but it should have a good quality otherwise it will not be accepted.
- Making this ugly OP a little bit cute
Precision : 89 sMerit left (101 minus 12 sMerit on-hold for user hkdfgkdf)  (stats without counting the on-hold one : 85 sMerit sent to 34 arts in 17 days)

Precision : March 08, 2018 : 72 sMerit left (stats: 114 sMerit sent to 42 arts in 22 days)
Precision : March 09, 2018 : 63 sMerit left (stats: 123 sMerit sent to 50 arts in 23 days)
Precision : March 11, 2018 : 46 sMerit left (stats: 140 sMerit sent to 61 arts in 25 days)
Precision : March 12, 2018 : 29 sMerit left (stats: 157 sMerit sent to 69 arts in 26 days)
Precision : March 13, 2018 : 13 sMerit left (stats: 173 sMerit sent to 74 arts in 27 days)
Precision : March 14, 2018 : 08 sMerit left (stats: 178 sMerit sent to 79 arts in 28 days)
Precision : March 15, 2018 : 05 sMerit left (stats: 179 sMerit sent to 80 arts in 29 days)