You mean success to improve quality post or to understand the rules and regulations that governed the forum? Well, if you mean what you said, you can achieve success to understand all the discussions section to know where to post to display quality post and where not to post.

I will advise you to try and locate your local board op, because they know how to use their local language to teach their users in the local board to improve in the forum, I believe you will improve easily to achieve your success.

Don't be tired of studying anything that related to BTC and crypto, and it will make people in the forum to begin to see you like someone that know BTC and crypto in the forum.

This is almost everyone's first step in the forum, we all come to learn here, but when we see other ranks making money through signature campaigns, we then decide to make more effort to rank up, and ranking up is possible if you will be dedicated and write important threads that will be beneficial to other forum members, as well as by asking good questions that will benefit a lot of newbies and also by interacting with others towards sharing a better idea that will solve problems in the forum.

Believing in yourself is good and it helps you in the forum to rank up fast, and when you learn from your mistakes and improve yourself in good condition.

Some newbies are desperate to rank up, and as a result of that, they make silly errors, which include plagiarism, that will affect their accounts in the forum.
With time and dedication, everything will be possible if you give your time to learning in this forum.

someone like me that hasn't earned a single merit yet truly has a long way to go and looking at the number of merit you've accumulated so far, it almost seems like an impossible hight to reach as a member of this forum. But this is a motivation I have to hold on to in knowing that once upon a time, you where once like me and maybe didn't know most things like myself and that you've grown to this hight only means that if I put in the discipline and dedication, I will also grow past this level in the form.

Aprt from deciding to learn and grow gradually, are there special things that you did differently from others that might have started this journey with you at the time you joined the forum but couldn't continue up till now? Growing up to 800 merit isn't a small feet and obviously didn't come from mere learning about gambling and other crypto related things, can you advice me on how to patiently grow from being a mere newbie to become an higher rank member?

Yes you can merge it all into a single utxo using a single transaction  and not by just merging it directly in the same address..
I get what you  are trying to ask here , it's just this same way you are sending  to the other wallet I.e you spend all your UTXO in a single transaction  to a new wallet(lets say you did this while the mempoolis less congested)... if the other wallet is an electrum or uses the number of your total   inputs for calculation of fee then you've just saved yourself    some change from consolidation.
However instead of using a new wallet, You can just use a new address (since electrum supports multiple address), in the process of consolidation fee is calculated the same way you spend your  UTXO  to another wallet [ @ hosseinimr93 did mention that]... so you will have to pay even if the transaction is within wallet. After you're  done with the consolidation  you should have a new INPUT in a different address within the same wallet.
Note: the idea of consolidation is generally for when the mempool is less congested
Also, you can choose to receive UTXO in a new address every time you receive, with that you  won't need to worry about consolidation but if you need to spend more the you will have to do it using a multiple transaction each from one address

OP your aspiration should be an almost same goal of everyone who are craving to rank up. Perhaps there had been multiple newbies whom had curiously been complaining on how they do not receive merits on their posts even when they are doing there best.

So stay quite long in the forum and contributing to your best when merits is not flowing to rank you to the next level and you have attained a long margin of post actually feels like.... You think you are doing things at your best but it all feels rubbish.

It actually feels discouraging and most especially when you see your mayes ranking and you are just stagnant. So it is kinda challenging and mentally draining when you have been here for long and activities like signature campaigns would be opened for a specific rank but you can not participate simply because your rank is not up to it.

So, we all want to rank up so that we can not be restricted from the forums activities by which some are attractively rewarded by either by honorary recognitions or some sort of leadership positions in the forum.

That's inspiring.

The problem is, that most newbies don't understand that it's a steady process and it needs to be taken that way. You can't join the forum, start making posts, and see yourself going up in the ranks immediately. Even to become a good enough poster to start getting merits, you need some time and that time must be put into learning how things work and what should and shouldn't be done in the forum.

Not being able to make constructive and quality posts and then getting frustrated and angry for not getting merits is not the way to do it. When you want to achieve something, you will need to put in some effort for it, and if you are not putting in any effort, you can't blame anyone but yourself for not reaching the destination you wish to reach.

But you quit your job in a bull market, not bear market. 2024 is not a year of bearish market but bullish market indeed. If you want to see bear market, you will need to wait for 2025, 2026, next two years.

If you think of buying and holding, consider DCA strategy next two years.
https://dcabtc.com/

El Salvador and MicroStrategy use DCA strategy for their investment in Bitcoin and succeed, see their Investment ROIs.
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El Salvador Nayib Bukele Portfolio Tracker

In fact, if you want to learn Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, you don't need to leave work. You even have enough free time to read information on forums during your breaks or holidays.
I think you quit your job because of your discomfort with the pressure. Now that you are in the forum, maybe you have read some information regarding rules and also general knowledge regarding Bitcoin. Maybe you have found other interests such as Bitcoin investment or trading. or you can get other interests, keep looking for information in the forum.

day5

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Welcome to the forum.

As a start, read this: Newbies - Read before posting

After that, you should keep reading the pinned posts in each section you visit because they contain the necessary information about the section and the forum as well. Make sure you read more and post less as a newbie when you are not yet knowledgeable enough because that wouldn't look good. Post only when you need to. After some time, you will get to know almost everything around the forum, and if you are an attentive reader and have a good understanding, you will understand everything about the industry as well.

I wish you good luck.