Short story: A Journey of Newbie Become a High Rank Member Since Merit System
Motivation for newbie
I see a lot of newbies afraid they are can't be ranked up in this forum. The first factor is "merit" system. Many newbies starting to post with questions about
"how to earn merit?". Is wrong to ask about that? No, it's not wrong. Newbie register on this forum just seeing about merit on their profile and start to ask about that, before reading
FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit. Why it happens? Because (IMO) many of them don't look at Meta board first, and prefer to get instant answers and decide to create new topics on Beginner and Helps board.
Do I Need To Become an Expert, to Be a Legendary and Got Merit In This Forum?This question comes from my mind on beginning 2018 when the
merit system started by Theymos. I think, I will not become a
"Full Member" and will stick on "Member" status during that year and thinking if my merits was receive it's just a lucky gift. I never think about becoming
"Hero Member", what I think always about
impossible, impossible and impossible to become higher level in this forum. Why I think impossible?
- I am not an expert about Bitcoin and altcoins
- I am not an expert in trading
- I am can't write good English (until today still like this, but it's better than 2017 when I joined this forum, I think
)
- I am not a programmer
- etc... with hundread reasons.
There are many reasons, why I think wouldn't become a Hero member like today. Hero Member position just a dream for me in the past. But, everything is change on this year. I can be a Hero member from nothing. Lots of my post deleted by moderator and mostly from the local board. Moderator deleted my post because OOT or even tagged as spammers. When
I think already create a good post, it still deleted with some reason.
From that story, I try to make a good post with my
limited knowledge about
Bitcoin, security, privacy, trading strategy. I make few threads, few posts with my knowledge and share it in local board, I am happy many members help me to learn something new about crypto, trading strategy and anything related to this forum and crypto world. With this limited knowledge, I share it and some of members happy with my post, as a gift from my contribution, they give me some merit.
In conclusions, Do I need to be an expert, to be a legendary member and got merit in this forum?The answer is.
No, you don't need to be an expert to be a higher rank in this forum. What you need just starts with these little things- Try to share a little knowledge to others, and make them know about something new in crypto or this forum.
- Share some idea to members, even you are don't know about it or you create from searching over internet.
- Don't afraid about mistakes or misunderstanding about your post/thread, another member will give a feedback and give a correction to your post/thread. This mistake will bring you to new levels of your knowledge in the future and you can share it to another member below your levels.
- You are here not to teach someone who already become an expert, but you can teach someone who doesn't know about something that you know.
- You don't need to create something "hard" to understand for newbies to get merit, you can start with simple thing you know.
- Expert starting same like you without any knowledge, but make this forum as a "virtual schools" will bring you become an expert. You want to learn about Bitcoin, you can find in [ DO NOT POST SESC LINKS #1]Bitcoin board[/url] section, you want to learn about trading, you can search trading discussion section. This forum was doesn't have a limit to someone who want to learn about crypto related especially about Bitcoin. Even you are a newbie, it doesn't mean you are nothing. All members will be happy if more newbie on crypto coming to this forum. Because, this forum is the right place for them. If newbies want to ask something about crypto or learn a lot of things in crypto world. Thousand members will help, supporting and teaching them careful and stay safe from scammers. A Lot of education can be found here and it will help you to be an expert in the future.
One more thing I can say to all newbies on this forum to start your journey from zero to hero.
Knowledge from one person is limited. But in the community, knowledge becomes unlimited. Share it, ask if you need and grow together.
Ps: If your current rank is Full member, Sr. Member, Hero or Legendary want to share your short story, you can share with me here 
