Merit & new rank requirements

[JayJuanGee]

So far I never received any merit 

So much trash posts

I quickly looked at your post history, and I confirm, there seems to be a lot of trash there.

[tranthidung]

So far I never received any merit 

So much trash posts

To improve your post quality, you should have to do the following two essential tasks simultaneously or seperately:
1) Learning and sharpening your English skills, including reading and writing skills. Reading skills will help you to read English documents, articles, topics on crypto easier and more efficiently. You can not learn anything if you are not able to understand what others wrote. Writing skills will help you to express your ideas better, help readers easier to get your ideas and avoid serious misunderstandings.
2) Spending more time to learn about crypto knowledge and basic stuffs of the forum.
You will get nothing if you join the forum without basic knowledge on crypto ecosystem as well as basic structures, functions, useful features of the forum.

For instance:
You can find and learn a lot of things by yourself if you know how to use the forum function:
[Tips] Guide for forum search
Furthermore, you should keep following topics, threads of constructive, famous users in the forum, such as Jet Cash, TMAN, The Pharmacist, iasenko, nullius, hugeblack, zentdex, mdayonliner, etc.
You can learn lots of invaluable things from them, for free.

Best regards, mate.

[coinlocket$]

Weekly update




Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JPgXwaG5tjRUrbZeE8Un-d6noQE_6Fwm6uxLC_qcAKY/edit?usp=sharing

Closer to my prediction to 3.5k sMerit/week (after airdrop)

[JayJuanGee]

Weekly update




Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JPgXwaG5tjRUrbZeE8Un-d6noQE_6Fwm6uxLC_qcAKY/edit?usp=sharing

Closer to my prediction to 3.5k sMerit/week (after airdrop)

What "airdrop"?

[FractalUniverse]

What "airdrop"?

the merit IMO?   free merits at the beginning [based on rank minimum at that time]

[JayJuanGee]

What "airdrop"?

the merit IMO?   free merits at the beginning [based on rank minimum at that time]

O.k.   airdrop, means the initial distribution of merits that took place on about January 24... o.k.  comment makes sense in that context.

[coinlocket$]

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O.k.   airdrop, means the initial distribution of merits that took place on about January 24... o.k.  comment makes sense in that context.

Yes the initial "airdropped free distribution based on rank/activity". Sorry if I wasn't clear.

[borderline]

merit system don't work.. for example i write a lot of translation for a lot of project and make some guide but none of this post was merited... so my possibility to go up in the rank it's 0..

[JayJuanGee]

merit system don't work.. for example i write a lot of translation for a lot of project and make some guide but none of this post was merited... so my possibility to go up in the rank it's 0..

You should just frame your likelihood of receiving merit as zero (like you already did) and give up.  

That is the best attitude.  

Furthermore, psych yourself into getting jaded, disgruntled and bitter, too - if you are not those things, already.  

Seems like you are going to have a great approach to merit and life in general, too.. Surely, you are inspiring me, and perhaps some other members, too.

[borderline]

Seems like you are going to have a great approach to merit and life in general, too.. Surely, you are inspiring me, and perhaps some other members, too.

if you're not kidding me thanks!

[kaicrypzen]

Seems like you are going to have a great approach to merit and life in general, too.. Surely, you are inspiring me, and perhaps some other members, too.

if you're not kidding me thanks!

Well, it seems to me that JayJuanGee is certainly being sarcastic. Are you also being sarcastic by thanking them ?

In a not-so-constructive manner , JayJuanGee is telling you that you are adopting a negative attitude towards not receiving Merit and that you'll end up/seem to be believing that you'll never get any.

merit system don't work.. for example i write a lot of translation for a lot of project and make some guide but none of this post was merited... so my possibility to go up in the rank it's 0..

On one hand, guides and translations could be Merit-worthy for a lot of users, but if they don't have sMerit to give, or if the ones who have don't come across your posts, your posts won't get merited. On the other, users with sMerit to give may simply not find them useful. It's a very subjective measure.

I think it's healthy to just use the forum as if the Merit system didn't exist. Otherwise, you can find threads whose original posters are available to review your history and potentially award your posts merit points. Also, there are threads where you can complete tasks to get merit points. You can also take a look at Merit stats to get an idea about the kind of posts that are merited the most.

[CryptoCoin101]

As long as you don't start any posts you won't have any merits even 2+ years actively replying in this forum. Is this right?

[CryptoCoin101]

As long as you don't start any posts you won't have any merits even 2+ years actively replying in this forum. Is this right?

Nevermind. I did some research and found users that have merits with them after 300+ activity without starting a thread. With this,

Is there an activity threshold that creates some default merit?
Or is my question doesn't make sense?

[DdmrDdmr]

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Is there an activity threshold that creates some default merit?
Or is my question doesn't make sense?

There is no merit to posting per se (and thus gaining activity); any "bot" can do that. The merit is in changing the mind-set as a preamble to moving ahead.
No change -> no merit.

[vphasitha01]

Is there any system to find out about merit manipulation?
I just seen that some random reply got 51 merits today.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=679791.msg36085177#msg36085177

I think anyone can spent their merits as they wish, but why cannot we introduce rules for merit manipulation?

[The Cryptovator]

If you want to be a merit source:

 1. Be a somewhat established member.

I am not clear about this point, for be a merit source there is need any rank requirement ? Like hero or legendary? Or any rank can be merit source?
What does actually mean established member's?
Sorry for that question. I am not clear that matter that's why I ask.

[coinlocket$]

If you want to be a merit source:

 1. Be a somewhat established member.

I am not clear about this point, for be a merit source there is need any rank requirement ? Like hero or legendary? Or any rank can be merit source?
What does actually mean established member's?
Sorry for that question. I am not clear that matter that's why I ask.

As far as I know any rank can ask for to be a source, we have no rank limitation BUT, until now the majority of sources are members with legendary rank.
I saw 2 sources with rank of full member.

[LoyceV]

What does actually mean established member's?

My assumption/guess: theymos is looking for members who have shown they can contribute to the site. I'd say that also means many other users know your username by now.

[botany]

As long as you don't start any posts you won't have any merits even 2+ years actively replying in this forum. Is this right?

Nevermind. I did some research and found users that have merits with them after 300+ activity without starting a thread. With this,

Is there an activity threshold that creates some default merit?
Or is my question doesn't make sense?

Less than 7% of merits awarded are to new topics. Isn't that a surprising statistic?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4181253.0


The 'default' merit that you are talking about was distributed to higher ranked accounts when the merit system was introduced.

[shahzadafzal]

Less than 7% of merits awarded are to new topics. Isn't that a surprising statistic?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4181253.0

Well I guess Post Number is referring to the post number in a topic, it does not mean new or old topic.

For example 6.81% of the time opening post got merits

and for post# 501+ i guess this is due to mega threads like Wall Observer, if we exclude this, I'm sure percentage will be much higher on opening post.