- Your "you must wait ____ seconds between ___" counter is reduced by 75%. So if you're naturally of Newbie rank, you only have to wait 360-75% = 90 seconds.
For the point, i think it's not important never
As if we can't post images so what is our ranks???
Newbie ok
We're newbies, so what we doing to upgrade our ranks???
Write premium posts, and get merits how to do this???
Spend time to write the post up to 5 minutes.
And if spend too many time to write quality posts, so it's better than write 100k posts without any merit lol (like many members)
A post doesn't have to be 'premium' or even long. You can get merit for being helpful, informative or even for being funny and you can do that in short posts. I wouldn't concentrate on actively trying to get merit as this can usually be spotted easily and often has the opposite effect as people tend to not want to merit posts when it's obvious users are just fishing for them. Just post as normal and hopefully you will get some merit over time but it's not really essential other than for moving up the ranks which doesn't really effect your ability to post (though it gets a little faster over time).
You can read more about merit and activity here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0I agree with everything you said, hilariousetc. My suggestion for those who want to earn merit and rank up (which really does not provide any actual benefit beyond getting forum status, and of course, being able to join some signature campaigns that have rank as one of their criteria) has been to post about topics and in threads that are truly interesting to yourself. If you have a genuine interest in the topic, you are more likely to engage with the material in such a way in which any post that you make is likely to show that you are interested in the topic and to end up having a higher likelihood of causing others to want to read your post and to inspire them to send smerits in your direction.
Of course, if you are merely interested in seeking bounties and making money or otherwise exclusively profiting from your posting participation, then members will likely NOT be inspired to send smerits (presuming that the members reading those kinds of posts have any smerits to send).
Surely, there can be a decent amount of selfishness in posting in areas of your own interest, and even seeking out information from other members that is of interest to you, yet there are ways to engage in such selfish behaviors that still inspire other members to send smerits.. and yeah, the posts do not even necessarily need to be objectively of high value so long as some other members recognize some kind of value in the posts in a way that inspires them to send an smerit.
By the way, it could take a decent amount of time on the forum (several hundred posts) before any members start to find value in your posts, but of course, there can be ways to browse through some of the posts of members who receive a lot of smerits and get some ideas regarding how they are receiving smerits. There seems to be quite a bit of variety in posting approaches that still result in the member receiving smerits with the passage of time.
