Before you begin to read this guide I would like to state that this guide is based on my personal experiences, some points may have been covered in earlier guides, some I may have changed to suit to my preferences. This is not a fixed guide but you can use it as a base to grow up, and earn more merits on this forum.
1) Affirmations: I’m a big believer of affirmations and each day I give out affirmations like, I’ll post constructive and helpful posts and if it’s worty for a merit I’ll get one if not I’ll not fret and happily post again the next day.
I would suggest you to create similar affirmations, and do note not that not each day you’ll be rewarded merits but this will definitely ease the pressure on your mind when you’re writing your posts.
The key reason why I feel people should give out positive affirmations before posting is, because most of the posts here begin negatively or end up saying leave me a merit etc. These posts shows the lack of confidence in themselves, and that’s the reason why they fail to get merits.
2) Keep it simple: Ever since merits came many users felt the way to go ahead was to make their posts as detailed, and long so others would see their posts useful and leave merits. I feel this is a wrong approach and I would suggest you’ll to trim down your content, and you’ll be surprised because you’ll receive more merits for those simple posts.
3) Build Relationships through your posts: How many times have you actually tried to build a relationship here with fellow members through your posts, I’ll bet not many times because those users may not be merit sources and hence you never felt the need to build a connection with them. It goes without saying but you need to post meaningful posts in the forum to build your reputation, and once that’s done merits will follow.
4) Avoid targeting Merit Sources: It’s an open secret that they hate being pestered for merits, but if you post good posts then believe me they do notice and they’ll definitely drop those big bounty of merits on you. Though it’s not easy for all to receive those big bounty merits from them, but follow their advices and in time you’ll receive merits from them.
5) Jack of all trades, Master of None: Many users here post across all sections, but fail to specialise in one or two particular niche stop doing that. I highly recommended choose one or two particular sections and then start posting research based posts, and build your reputation out there. Once you do that merits will automatically follow you, provided you don’t drop your standards.
6) Never stop reading: I have kept 10 minutes out of my daily schedule to visit this section to read any new tips or guides that can pop up out here which will further help me improve my skills. Hence it’s a kind suggestion never stop reading guides out here, you never know what you might learn.
This thread has covered mostly all the guides relating on merits, and hence I’m not individually posting all the links:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5189040.07) Make sure your posts are constructive and helpful: I can’t stress how important post quality is, but since every guide has covered it in details I’ll keep it short here focus on quality rather than quantity.
That’s it I’ll add more tips if I implement them, but this is more than enough for now good luck to all.
