Legendary one day?

[InvoKing]

Boys stay on topic please. I can understand someone dreaming about becoming a junior member one day and made an off-topic post here or created a new topic to celebrate but talking about merit here isn't kewl.

Seems to me that we are largely on topic, because there are new requirements that are present in order to aspire to becoming Legendary some day, and that is the system of merits and whether regular mortal members are going to be able to rank up to Legendary in similar time frames as they were able to previously, or how much they might have to bust their butts (or otherwise to be exceptional in order to be able to aspire to achieving such rank, which includes passing through the various levels to become Legendary).  Sufficiently on topic in my humble bumble point of view in order to post in this thread (even though such topic of merit is beaten up in a lot of other threads, too, especially in recent times (as you seem to be implying with your suggestion that we might arguably be off topic, here).

Nah, I just want to stop the merit discussion there before random members join the party and start whining about how merit broke their lives 

[bitart]

Boys stay on topic please. I can understand someone dreaming about becoming a junior member one day and made an off-topic post here or created a new topic to celebrate but talking about merit here isn't kewl.

Seems to me that we are largely on topic, because there are new requirements that are present in order to aspire to becoming Legendary some day, and that is the system of merits and whether regular mortal members are going to be able to rank up to Legendary in similar time frames as they were able to previously, or how much they might have to bust their butts (or otherwise to be exceptional in order to be able to aspire to achieving such rank, which includes passing through the various levels to become Legendary).  Sufficiently on topic in my humble bumble point of view in order to post in this thread (even though such topic of merit is beaten up in a lot of other threads, too, especially in recent times (as you seem to be implying with your suggestion that we might arguably be off topic, here).

Nah, I just want to stop the merit discussion there before random members join the party and start whining about how merit broke their lives 

Just don't panic As long as there's no merit mentioned in the subject of the topic, they won't show up here
Anyway, according to my understanding, they (newbies) could start a topic like 'Jr. Member one day?' because now, after the merit system it's harder to become a Jr. than it was to become a Legendary before the merit system...

[JayJuanGee]

Boys stay on topic please. I can understand someone dreaming about becoming a junior member one day and made an off-topic post here or created a new topic to celebrate but talking about merit here isn't kewl.

Seems to me that we are largely on topic, because there are new requirements that are present in order to aspire to becoming Legendary some day, and that is the system of merits and whether regular mortal members are going to be able to rank up to Legendary in similar time frames as they were able to previously, or how much they might have to bust their butts (or otherwise to be exceptional in order to be able to aspire to achieving such rank, which includes passing through the various levels to become Legendary).  Sufficiently on topic in my humble bumble point of view in order to post in this thread (even though such topic of merit is beaten up in a lot of other threads, too, especially in recent times (as you seem to be implying with your suggestion that we might arguably be off topic, here).

Nah, I just want to stop the merit discussion there before random members join the party and start whining about how merit broke their lives 

Just don't panic As long as there's no merit mentioned in the subject of the topic, they won't show up here
Anyway, according to my understanding, they (newbies) could start a topic like 'Jr. Member one day?' because now, after the merit system it's harder to become a Jr. than it was to become a Legendary before the merit system...

Personally, I wonder if some of the information/disinformation battles within the crypto space are coming from the same newer forum members battling to become Jr. Members (and surely within some of the higher ranks too), with such exaggerations about what is actually going on?   

You know bitcoin is broken/dead, and we are going to be having alt projects (aka bitcoin 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0) flippening, rippling, cashening, dashening, and/or ICOpening?  Soon ^tm in order to remedy the bitcoin grandpa calamity situation.   Also, Legendary members don't deserve to be Legendary because they got their rank for free.. blah blah blah.

[Little Mouse]

@OP
Can you please update your list by listing  A-Bolt
He is hanging with Hero membership on 1021 activities.

[JayJuanGee]

@OP
Can you please update your list by listing  A-Bolt
He is hanging with Hero membership on 1021 activities.

What is OP supposed to do? 

Seems that the forum algorithm is the same as it has been through the past years, and only time to worry about A-Bolt would be if his activity were to go over 1030 and if he still had not been ranked up to Legendary.  Right?   

The current activity of A-Bolt is still below 1030, so such level is still within the parameters of the algorithm about randomly when he is ranked up to Legendary.

[defaced]

Is the algo different now?

[S_Therapist]

Is the algo different now?

I don't know what algo are you talking about. If it is for rank, I think it's still same as it was back in the day. The only requirement which had been added to the system is merit.

[Quickseller]

Is the algo different now?

No but now you need 1000 merit along with the activity requirements.

[bitart]

Is the algo different now?

No but now you need 1000 merit along with the activity requirements.

This means if merit is not pouring on you, you'll easily reach the required 1030 activity or even more while you will still waiting for the merits to come, so in the end nowdays the algo is not important at all... (unless you already have the 1000 merits, airdropped or earned)

[Master of Shitcoins]

Honestly, if OP wouldn't have been Legendary before introduction of merit this would be almost impossible today. Since January he received 7 merits and I think this amount is above the avarage merit received per user. there are many having only 0, 1 or 2.
Merit is still distributed only in low numbers.

[JayJuanGee]

Is the algo different now?

No but now you need 1000 merit along with the activity requirements.

This means if merit is not pouring on you, you'll easily reach the required 1030 activity or even more while you will still waiting for the merits to come, so in the end nowdays the algo is not important at all... (unless you already have the 1000 merits, airdropped or earned)

I would imagine that if you surpass the 1030 (high end of the range) activity level of the algorithm, then as soon as you reach 1000 merits, you will rank up.   After you surpass 1030, petition the forum to become a test case... (otherwise known as merit begging with a pretext   - -----   

hahahahaha.. just kidding.  I don't endorse merit begging, even if it is of the subtle sort.  If you are really interested in ranking up to legendary (and you conclude that it matters to you) (admittedly going from hero to legendary seems to have become the most challenging), I do endorse, considering various creative ways to contribute to the forum to attract members to want to merit your posts.  There are a few very high merit earning members who could serve as emulation models.. and even though it still seems likely to take (you specifically, bitart) longer than it would have taken, you still may be able to engage in posting conduct that could cause you to rank up within a year or two (others have shown that but concededly it may be that some of those high merit earners are especially talented beyond mere mortal capabilities, perhaps?). 

[JayJuanGee]

Honestly, if OP wouldn't have been Legendary before introduction of merit this would be almost impossible today. Since January he received 7 merits and I think this amount is above the avarage merit received per user. there are many having only 0, 1 or 2.
Merit is still distributed only in low numbers.

You seem like a bit of a pessimist, Master of Shitcoins.

Upon superficial glance of your post history, you do seem to have a fairly decent post history and that you have made a decent amount of substantive contributions to the forum, even with few posts.

Regarding comparing yourself to OP or saying what may or may not have happened to OP, that comes off as something resembling either crying over spilled milk or just being bitter about someone earning status (rank) under previous rules...

I will concede that OP has not earned very many merits since the introduction of this new merit system, but really who gives a ratt's ass? 

As long as OP does not do anything really stupid (in the sense of forum rules, banning or suspension blah blah blah), s/he/it is going to retain his/her/its rank forever and ever and ever, and unless the forum rules change dramatically, OP can also be a lazy ass non contributor and NOT earn one more merit and still retain his/her/its rank forever and ever and ever...

In sum, OP has been grandfathered into his/her/its, legendary rank and in the end, that point is largely irrelevant in terms of conditions that are necessary for any forum members who either joined the forum after the implementation of the merit system or who was already a member of the forum without first earning or having airdropped sufficient merits for ranking up to legendary status at the time of the implementation of the merit system.

[S_Therapist]

Honestly, if OP wouldn't have been Legendary before introduction of merit this would be almost impossible today. Since January he received 7 merits and I think this amount is above the avarage merit received per user. there are many having only 0, 1 or 2.
Merit is still distributed only in low numbers.

OP is neither too much active nowadays nor he is trying to hunt merits, jk.
He made this awesome thread before the merit system was introduced. At present we can see some interesting threads but most of those are objective, kinda merit beggars.