I'm a new investor who is talked about Newbie, and I'm know Bitcoin by Ebooks and Internet.    I found that the history of Bitcoin is relatively short, to talk about benefits, it is digital currency, not through convenient medium and relatively fast. But there are many limitations, it is anonymous and easy to be Hackers possession, difficult to universal throughout the world as well as all types of business. I want to borrow money from my parents to buy more Bitcoin, because I believe the value is increasing but they still doubt it is multi level ponzi, should I invest a lot here or not? I need more advice. Thank all of you a lots.

those with Experience here could you please expound Step by Step How and when one moves from one rank to the other in the Bitcoin talk Rankings.

1. Brand new
2. Newbie
3. Jr. Member
5. Full Member
etc
All the way to Legendary

I used to play with my pals in Defense of the Ancient

If you believe that you have quality posts for all 20 of your most recent posts then I will review them and if I agree I will give you 14 merit.

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Sr. Members and below only.

However. if I heavily disagree I will add a neutral feedback to your account indicating that you are a spammer.

I propose here to discuss the objectives and the results of Merit. Why I touched on this question.
I and many new users are faced with the fact that for promotion you need to somehow get Merit.
I began to read a lot about this and ask people about how they got Merit.
I was touched by the fact that many newcomers tend to buy Merit, and do not deserve it from other users, offering quality posts.
I learned the situation about buying Merit, and easily found willing to sell me Merit at a price of $ 28 for 1.
I can afford to buy, but this is against the worthy goal of "Merit". Merit is more than money!
As you see Merit, I did not buy it!

How Is Bitcoin In The Future?
The number of altcoin that popping up sometimes for me to think how  bitcoin 10 years from now Is it still exist or has been replaced with a new type of better currency ? Many altcoins can now be traded with local currency and other altcoins and are not fixated on bitcoins.
Question:
1. What is your Prediction ?
2. And what the reason ?

Maybe that's what I want to ask , hopefully the answer can answer the question in my brain. thanks 

Bitcoin is not dead lol. The price is getting low but bitcoin will not die quickly we can recover it in somehow. Many people thought bitcoin is secretly dying I just wanted to say that its wrong Bitcoin will back soon to higher value.

No as you know, you just didn't understand theymos joke about merit.
Dozens of merit topics and thousands of replies created talking about the merit system and the ranking, after all of that do you think it isn't correct?

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Edit :
BTW, can an automated exam be created here to pass from newbie to junior member? It should contains simple questions about ranking & merit system mainly, if you fail to pass the test, you couldn't be a junior and you should wait 14 days before passing it again.
Junior member will require 1 smerit, they couldn't receive any smerit until they get 1 from the test which can be done whenever they want starting from brand new.

Dear Snappycoco,
I think this one is useful for you. Please read it carefully because it contains basic information about merit system. This one published by hilariousandco (moderator of the forum).
Everything you need to know about forum activity, account ranks and merit
And this one (published by Themis, forum admin)
Merit and new rank system
For more information, you can search or read around Meta board or Beginners & help child board for help.

I would like to ask, the merit points have a supply right? I mean, there is a finite amount of merits that can be given. Then, everytime you give a merit it will be halved, lets say the total merit points is 1M then eventually it will be 500k smerits available if 1M merits are given away. Then 500k merits, there will be just 250k smerits available if it is given away until it reaches the point that we can't give anyone any merit., just imagine there is two accounts 1 has 10 merit and the oter has none, then they give merits to each other, you will see that they will eventually can't give merits anymore.

  how will the members of this forum will rank up? Is there a way to generate a merit points? Or what will you do if no one can give merits anymore? If I am wrong in anyway please tell me, I would like to be informed and to be corrected.

Day by day, it will be hard to get merit points because the supply or amount of merit points are halved.