Merit & new rank requirements

[sitnikov]

DROP SOME MERIT PLS...OR GIVE A WAY TO INCREASE THEM.

I do not think you will be able to survive long with this attitude. Instead of posting quality content here, you are looking for shortcuts to gain merits. You might not be aware but this might be very much irritating for the readers. I am sure that a lot of members will add you to ignore list because of this or in worst case you may get negative trust for this. Both these scenarios will result in exactly opposite of what you are expecting.

[RivAngE]

DROP SOME MERIT PLS...OR GIVE A WAY TO INCREASE THEM.

With that kind of post you more likely dont receive any merit. Try to keep making quality, constructive posts and you will surely be rewarded over time.

Like this has helped me!
I have 228 posts, about 60%-70% of them are constructive, the rest are just chit-chat like this post, still 2 merits one of which was more like a gift to be honest and not deserved.

PS: Ofcourse I do aggree with you though, I'm just humoring the fact that it's veeeery slow to obtain merit even with constructive posts.

[thithai547]

DROP SOME MERIT PLS...OR GIVE A WAY TO INCREASE THEM.

Your post-history shows that you completely present shit-show, hence you will probably not get any merit if you don't improve your post quality.

[RYXES]

DROP SOME MERIT PLS...OR GIVE A WAY TO INCREASE THEM.

Your post-history shows that you completely present shit-show, hence you will probably not get any merit if you don't improve your post quality.

The irony.

[sitnikov]

DROP SOME MERIT PLS...OR GIVE A WAY TO INCREASE THEM.

With that kind of post you more likely dont receive any merit. Try to keep making quality, constructive posts and you will surely be rewarded over time.

Like this has helped me!
I have 228 posts, about 60%-70% of them are constructive, the rest are just chit-chat like this post, still 2 merits one of which was more like a gift to be honest and not deserved.

PS: Ofcourse I do aggree with you though, I'm just humoring the fact that it's veeeery slow to obtain merit even with constructive posts.

[sitnikov]

DROP SOME MERIT PLS...OR GIVE A WAY TO INCREASE THEM.

With that kind of post you more likely dont receive any merit. Try to keep making quality, constructive posts and you will surely be rewarded over time.

Like this has helped me!
I have 228 posts, about 60%-70% of them are constructive, the rest are just chit-chat like this post, still 2 merits one of which was more like a gift to be honest and not deserved.

PS: Ofcourse I do aggree with you though, I'm just humoring the fact that it's veeeery slow to obtain merit even with constructive posts.

It will of course help you if you are ready to implement the suggestion. You seem to be ignoring it completely even after you have mentioned that you agree to it.

Now some members may find advice rude and judge the person giving it arrogant. But the fact that same advice is being given  multiple members is an evidence of this being necessary, valid and working. When a senior member is giving you some suggestion, it is based on his experience with the forum and we should appreciate it.

[Jet Cash]

DROP SOME MERIT PLS...OR GIVE A WAY TO INCREASE THEM.

My ignore list is getting so big. Why don't these idle beggars learn to read?

[digaran]

DROP SOME MERIT PLS...OR GIVE A WAY TO INCREASE THEM.

My ignore list is getting so big. Why don't these idle beggars learn to read?

Because they don't know how to read. they need you to teach them English. I have a suggestion for them on how to increase merits. everybody must post with one account. and if you want merits, ask a source to review your posts, if a source is reviewing posts, he would know if you are posting with more than one account or not.

[xBoxLive]

DROP SOME MERIT PLS...OR GIVE A WAY TO INCREASE THEM.

My ignore list is getting so big. Why don't these idle beggars learn to read?

Because they don't know how to read. they need you to teach them English. I have a suggestion for them on how to increase merits. everybody must post with one account. and if you want merits, ask a source to review your posts, if a source is reviewing posts, he would know if you are posting with more than one account or not.

Explain how someone reviewing posts will know if a "alt" commented or added to the summary?

[sncc]

Useful infographics

Forum users have helpfully created some infographics to explain the merit system:
paxmao's infographic
ibminer's infographic
8Habits's infographic
JetSet11's infographic
zentdex's infographic
alia_armelle's infographic

Theymos, can you add another infographic which I created a while ago to the above list?  I tried to make a more graphical and intuitive inforgraphic to help people understand the system easily.

https://i.imgur.com/WmwTxaT

[JayJuanGee]

DROP SOME MERIT PLS...OR GIVE A WAY TO INCREASE THEM.

With that kind of post you more likely dont receive any merit. Try to keep making quality, constructive posts and you will surely be rewarded over time.

Like this has helped me!
I have 228 posts, about 60%-70% of them are constructive, the rest are just chit-chat like this post, still 2 merits one of which was more like a gift to be honest and not deserved.

PS: Ofcourse I do aggree with you though, I'm just humoring the fact that it's veeeery slow to obtain merit even with constructive posts.

It will of course help you if you are ready to implement the suggestion. You seem to be ignoring it completely even after you have mentioned that you agree to it.

Now some members may find advice rude and judge the person giving it arrogant. But the fact that same advice is being given  multiple members is an evidence of this being necessary, valid and working. When a senior member is giving you some suggestion, it is based on his experience with the forum and we should appreciate it.

Yes.  I appreciate that each of you recognize that I was attempting to help posters to be able to help themselves into earning more merits.  Merits will not come from predicting the BTC price, for example, or providing one liner quantity (shit) posts.

Largely, members need to attempt to engage with those who are going to read their posts and show some kind of personal insight and contribute something that causes others to think, relate or laugh.  

Members may receive some substantive merits or alternatively some charitable merits, from time to time, and I don't even mind giving a charitable merit here or there or even sending a charitable merit to sitnikov (even though it could have been better explained with a reference link) for identifying the right context for why it appears that even with the passage of time, RivAngE continues to fail / refuse to learn how to post with better substance, even though RivAngE recognized that his/her first received merit from me was received as form of charity.

Correct me if I am wrong, sitnikov, I believe that this is the contextual post that showed that my earlier merit to RivAngE was intended as a kind of inspirational charity, but perhaps subsequent evidence of RivAngE's own admission and complaining about the merit system shows that s/he is failing/refusing to learn how to post in a more engaging and constructive way?

[JayJuanGee]

Useful infographics

Forum users have helpfully created some infographics to explain the merit system:
paxmao's infographic
ibminer's infographic
8Habits's infographic
JetSet11's infographic
zentdex's infographic
alia_armelle's infographic

Theymos, can you add another infographic which I created a while ago to the above list?  I tried to make a more graphical and intuitive inforgraphic to help people understand the system easily.

https://i.imgur.com/IbsbxOr

Is it just me?  Or doesn't that page load too slow and the image is TOO BIG.  I did not even read it because it was loading too slow, and just seeming cumbersome.  If you make the image smaller, sncc, that might help it to load faster and to be more manageable so then others will read the substance? 

[TheQuin]

Is it just me?  Or doesn't that page load too slow and the image is TOO BIG.  I did not even read it because it was loading too slow, and just seeming cumbersome.  If you make the image smaller, sncc, that might help it to load faster and to be more manageable so then others will read the substance? 

Might be your internet, it loaded immediately for me. I'd agree it is too big, ideally, I prefer infographics that fit on one page. Hasn't the whole Merit Infographic thing already been done to death?

[hamza987]

I personally think by merit points it is extremely hard especially for new members to increase their rank and they might lose interest in forum seeing this
I might be wrong personally i like the idea behind this but let's see how it goes.

[JayJuanGee]

I personally think by merit points it is extremely hard especially for new members to increase their rank and they might lose interest in forum seeing this
I might be wrong personally i like the idea behind this but let's see how it goes.

Surely your post is a "must read"  because it has been bolded.    

[Vlada69]

Sending half of the merits right away.

[tsoyens01]

So much grateful for it. Thanks for being fair to all the members here who worked hard on making sure they rank up accordingly. Also, the Merit and new rank requirement is a good avenue for the whole forum community to have a better and healthy exchanging of ideas and not just sharing a blabber all around. This will surely empower the members to produce quality posts over time. This will also for sure encourage highly educated people to join the forum since they don't just see low-quality posts.


Merit for rank up 😘

[ThachSanhTp]

It is hard to receive enough Merit. I have joined Bitcointalk for a long time & be active everyday... but I am still just a Junior Member. I cannot even get 10 Merit to upgrade my level to Full member.
So sad.

[Cryptuz]

actually i disagree with the merit system now. because a newbie like me would be very difficult to get the merit. but at least I will try to improve the quality of my posts.

so with this merit system every users will improve the quality of their posts. hopefully this forum is free from posting not qualified

[sitnikov]

It is hard to receive enough Merit. I have joined Bitcointalk for a long time & be active everyday... but I am still just a Junior Member. I cannot even get 10 Merit to upgrade my level to Full member.
So sad.

First of all, you need to get the basics right. 10 merit points are required for member level and not for full member. For full member you need 100 merit points. Even if you get 6 more merit points and reach 10 in total, your rank will not upgrade. This is because you also need the desired activity for each rank which is 60 for member level. You are short of it by 4 posts.

Do not hurry, if you prove your worth here over time, you will keep getting rewarded with merits.