Yet another negatively biased post about the merit system. This solves nothing, just get onboard and try being a next level poster..

3 days in and you want people to vote on how hard it will be? You want to say that 99%+ won't level up.

How about waiting for a month? Trying to be an excellent poster??

Not really. The merit system does the job well by eliminating those who post solely to rank up (ie. account farmers) and those who post solely for signature campaigns. If you were to post quality content or content with sufficient value, then it would probably be merited. Merits doesn't have a use except to give them away so theres no use for us to keep them anyways, just spend it.

It was way too easy to rank up to encourage spam. If anything, merit system shouldn't go, no matter what. Obviously, if you were to post in a topic with thousands of replies, then the possibility of you being merited is low since your point has likely been echoed hundreds of times. Post constructively and I'm sure its not that hard to rank up.

Question is whether you have the attitude to learn and then the consistency to deliver quality posts?  If yes, you are on your way to join the remaining 0.1 % .

That is good for the forum and the main purpose of introducing this new system.


Some good posts might get ignored. But a quality contributor (one making all good posts) will get noticed sooner or later.


Someone solved this for you https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2833350.0

Noticed this new system today. As a fan of the Black Mirror series I'm really diggin' the name: 'merits'.

But seriously: a quick glance at the Meta section of BCT already learns that this new system is very effective in regards to reducing shitposting to level up. Lots and lots of threads with complaints about merits. So yes, members can certainly level up if they are genuinly interested in the world of cryptocurrencies without earning via signature campaigns as the main goal.

The ugliest reality, no matter how good you are posting, if somebody doesn't like you, you can never get any merits from them. if you don't have enough Bitcoins, you have no incentive to post what is considered worthy of getting merits.
If you could be an average poster and earn money, you don't need merits. but if you had to pay something in order to post with a signature, forum could have hired more moderators to moderate existing members.

I had to give you more merits for this... that's it now go impress someone else bud.. 3 more merits till you level up fella

I disagree, I got 10 sMerit points already which are needed for a Newbie/Jr. Member to become a Member am I one of this 0.1%. If you contribute to the community sure you can rank up. Well, I need 80 more points for a Full Member, but I like helping people and I think they will appreciate what I do. I was a newbie just 3 months ago, and here I am, learning and enjoying my time here.
Don't blame the system, blame yourself. And do respect Satoshi and the early adopters, because of them we have more freedom.

Give it time. There's not much decent discussion going on in bitcointalk these days as it's been taken over by shitposters and their generic spam threads but hopefully that will change now once they realise posting in them is largely worthless.

Is that really a bad thing? The main reason people are trying to rank up so quickly is so they paid more for signature campaigns. I think this will actually reduce the amount of shitposts on Bitcointalk, so I am behind it 100%.