Full Member thanks to the Merit system. Now Legendary :)

[TheQuin]

Does only two members being able to reach full member after the merit system supports your claim ?

Firstly, I'm not sure if that statistic is accurate. Secondly, the old activity based system requires 120 days to get to Full Member and the system has only been in place 56 days. So however many have managed it they have done extremely well. We'll have a better idea how it is working in another couple of months time.

[ilcapitano]

Firstly, I'm not sure if that statistic is accurate. Secondly, the old activity based system requires 120 days to get to Full Member and the system has only been in place 56 days. So however many have managed it they have done extremely well. We'll have a better idea how it is working in another couple of months time.

120 days and 100 merits, constructive users can surely get them. Of course, user can not get one merit each day, some days get, some days don't, but in general they will get 100 merits or more over 120 days if they are really construcitve users in the forum.

[snakey]

Merit system is no joke. It reminds me of stackoverflow where you get rep for good answer/question.
Congratulation to OP :>)

[MoonJeina]

That's really good man !!
I didn't see that coming so soon to be honest ! I just check your post quality and its is definitely good and you deserve every inch of your success . With all the merit abuses going on I thought that this would get difficult for smaller ranks to get the level up . But that is incredibly good . I See the hope for myself now !! 

[Silent26]

First of all, congratulations bro. Looks like you were given what you really deserved. There's no doubt that you're a good poster. I checked your posts and I'm amazed by your posts (very informative posts) and makes me feel so sad and jealous. I don't have working brains like yours to make posts with such a very informative posts. That's why I felt jealous, if you will look in my posts all you can see is trash compared to yours. I'm already a Full Member but I believed that my posts activities are the reason why I ranked up. If merit system has been implemented long time ago. I will never made it to Full Member. I know I can, but it will take a long time before it happens.

But, although my posts are not good as yours. I never spam (did I?). Because whenever I create a post. I always assure that I'm not breaking any rules. Hehe sorry, My emotions brought me here. By the way, all I'm trying to say is Congratulations and I really admired you. Keep up the good work bro. I'm pretty sure that you will reach Senior Member rank and up in time.

[oaktree]

When the merit system first started, people were giving them out freely. I rarely see posts with merits on them anymore though - I guess most users have distributed everything they had to give and they've run out.

This subforum is pretty much the only place still giving merits out.

[Daboy_Lyle]

Tell me again that it's not possible to rank up. After hugablack now it's my turn.
Two months, 92 merit for a guy that had no idea what blockchain was 4 months ago.
Thank you people for sharing your knowledge and being nice to me answering all my questions. Thanks for giving me the chance to learn. I have a lot more to learn but I promise to share what I know with the newcomers.

You nailed it. You made a lot of constructive and useful posts. It seems like ranking up now isn't easy like when it's my first time here. Merit helps me to become a good poster. I need 9 merits to become member? That's it?

[Tyrantt]

Congrats! I've been telling people here to not post just for the sake of merit and to unleast read once what they've wrote to see if it makes sense and merit will make it's way to you.
You will get merit if you deserve it and if there are posts that do deserve merit but did not get merited, that's good because that shows that you can write quality posts. Cheers!

This subforum is pretty much the only place still giving merits out.

Well that's because there's the least spamming and nonsense posting in this section. Just compare it to the Bitcoin Discussion section and you'll see.  

[Vannie12]

Tell me again that it's not possible to rank up. After hugablack now it's my turn.
Two months, 92 merit for a guy that had no idea what blockchain was 4 months ago.
Thank you people for sharing your knowledge and being nice to me answering all my questions. Thanks for giving me the chance to learn. I have a lot more to learn but I promise to share what I know with the newcomers.

At least I know that not only Nullius ( the Genius ) is lined up for a promotion ( not being sarcastic ). Since we all knew him for quite sometime, I thought he is the only one who can only Go rank just by waiting his activities to follow.
Good for you and it is a good fuel for some of us to continue what we have started here, thanks bud. I may tell you that it is quite longer for the next line but let us make this journey worth it not just for our own but also to this forum. I am loving the forum just like I love my home now. Hopefully, I can stay longer here until I turn into a beautiful butterfly. Hoping that this molds me well.

Goodbye, you've been promoted to full member.
Your luck is not like my bad luck, it is very difficult to get the reward for the rankings, I can not do anything, my intelligence is not like your intelligence, that's why I almost do not get the reward, I give up and wait for good

Of course we are unique individuals and that what makes us more valuable. You just have to express it in your own way. If you are really into cryptos, I think you could put up your own motivation to make your own journey here as exciting as you can. I am not that good of a writer too and I don't get rewards as frequent as others and that is because I have School days and classes on weekends, I lack knowledge and time. But I expess my interest as hard as I could, not just to get rewards but to actually be a part of something big and it feels good to be here.

[TheBeardedBaby]

I've been away today and I am surprised to see the thread so active.

No need to answer to every each of you but I'll try to summarize what I think after reading all those comments.
First thank you guys for the support.  For those who think that only two guys manage to rank up, I will disappoint you. While looking for merit abusers found at least two more guys already ranked up to full members, unfortunately I don't remember those names so I have no proof, just my word.

There are many new Members, tho. I guess you will say that 10 merit is not so big obstacle, well it is for most of the newbies, trust me. When you see a newbie or Jr.Member with 0 Merit you won't pay so much attention to his comments as if he had 1 Merit. I've already seen this and I'm trying to change it. Getting your first merit is not easy, especially if you are posting in sections like Mining and Pools. Well, I see that the situation there is a bit better now, you see some merited posts from time to time.

Some of you are asking for tips or how I did it. I was a bit surprised when I joined here. It took me quite some time only to get oriented in the forum structure. Asking for help, got couple of posts deleted as spam and then I started reading. I learns about the bounties /did't knew when I joined/ and got involved in a scam project. Learned my lesson and moved on. Been reading a lot only to get to know the system in the forum. Then you meet some hero/legendary commenting around and it start to be more interesting.

As you go deeper also in the history and you find satoshi, Hal Finney, Gavin and many other founders /reading a lot/, and you see the forum is just one big family, DTs (DT1 and DT2) gather in camps and fighting in between, some accusing others of being scammers, pedophiles, being on pills,some extortion attempts or some sort of this, everyone keeping their interests, it is really colorful here / especially reading nullius posts, damn he has sense of humor and quite some knowledge/. Then you see the other side, the quite shitposters gathering activity in the dark corners of the forum /the off-topic and the bounties, quoting every week report just to provide better life for their families, sir/. They are just silent participants in the ICO generator machine spitting new and new useless coins and tokens /well,some can be useful for sure but this is very rare/ unaware of the merit system, they pop-up from time to time in the Meta with their broken English(*) to ask why they are still Jr after they reach the activity, and finally how the merit system broke their life.

Then you start understanding how everything is working here, you start find things which you think are not right, missing or just not logical. You ask why this has to be like this, and how to make things better, is there any way for me to help to improve this ecosystem here? How can I help with what I do? Then you reach the point of being a member in the real meaning, a member of this crazy family. The merit will come eventually.

This is what I have been trough for those :  

Code:

Total time logged in: 17 days, 15 hours and 12 minutes.

And I don't regret a single second that I spent with you guys.

Ups,I’m afraid I got carried away! (*) Apologies for my English tho, I'm just an NNES.

[vlad230]

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

I'm mainly posting in the altcoin mining boards so, this may be a reason why I am seeing such low merits being sent around there.
Maybe things will improve after a couple of merit sources are assigned there.

What about the merit distribution? Did you get merit naturally for your posts or did you "hunt" for it by posting in review threads?

[lobcmt2]

That's it. That is what newbies should do first when they join the forum

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Some of you are asking for tips or how I did it. I was a bit surprised when I joined here. It took me quite some time only to get oriented in the forum structure. Asking for help, got couple of posts deleted as spam and then I started reading.

Another reason why newbies or even Junior members (who are not experienced, knowledgeable enough) should stay away from bounty board.

I learns about the bounties /did't knew when I joined/ and got involved in a scam project.

Yeah, the forum is a good place for learn-by-mistakes learners.

Learned my lesson and moved on. Been reading a lot only to get to know the system in the forum.

Exactly! There are lots of knowledgeable, generous, active higher ranked members who are readily to share their knowledge, skills, experiences to forum's newcomers.

Then you meet some hero/legendary commenting around and it start to be more interesting.

Like this one:
BBcode Lessions & Tutorials
Lots of shit posters complained that merit system only supported by higher ranked members due to the system mainly protect priviledges of higher ranked members. I don't think so, and the above topic demonstrates that fact. They are readily to help lower ranked members to move up, to get money legally, and to make the forum better place.

[LogitechMouse]

Tell me again that it's not possible to rank up. After hugablack now it's my turn.
Two months, 92 merit for a guy that had no idea what blockchain was 4 months ago.
Thank you people for sharing your knowledge and being nice to me answering all my questions. Thanks for giving me the chance to learn. I have a lot more to learn but I promise to share what I know with the newcomers.

You deserve to be a full member since you helped many people in this forum already with your high quality posts. This is the proof that we can rank up too just like other people. We just need knowledge and effort to do high quality posts.

To all newbies who are reading this, make @iasenko a model and think that you can rank up too just like him.

[krishnaverma]

When the merit system first started, people were giving them out freely. I rarely see posts with merits on them anymore though - I guess most users have distributed everything they had to give and they've run out.

This subforum is pretty much the only place still giving merits out.

I have also observed this and I am not sure what has happened to merit sources. I rarely see posts getting merits in meta now. As per my experience, if 10 merits were being given in an hour when the merit system was introduced, now only one merit is being given per hour. I am talking about the meta section specifically. Other sections like bitcoin discussion always got less merits. 

[Beerwizzard]

Congrats anyway, you have done a great job but I would poing out one thing. hugablack recieved a good part by participating on different forms of merit giveaways. Also a good part of your merits is also coming from merit related posts and threads. Ofcourse you have probably done a good job but it doesn't really contribute the forum discussion. Implementing a merit system to let people talk about merit, throw merit for that talks, look for merit abusers, get rewarded for that stuff etc. doesnt seem like a great achievement and a significant forum improvement.
P.S. Sometimes it feels like I can create a new thread with my own analysis of pros and cons of merit system (there will be too much to let them drown in spam of already existing threads) but this section already got too much merit talks. Most of them are baseless and people woll hardly take serious anything new.

[TheBeardedBaby]

Congrats anyway, you have done a great job but I would poing out one thing. hugablack recieved a good part by participating on different forms of merit giveaways. Also a good part of your merits is also coming from merit related posts and threads. Ofcourse you have probably done a good job but it doesn't really contribute the forum discussion. Implementing a merit system to let people talk about merit, throw merit for that talks, look for merit abusers, get rewarded for that stuff etc. doesnt seem like a great achievement and a significant forum improvement.
P.S. Sometimes it feels like I can create a new thread with my own analysis of pros and cons of merit system (there will be too much to let them drown in spam of already existing threads) but this section already got too much merit talks. Most of them are baseless and people woll hardly take serious anything new.

You are probably right, I was rather new when the discussions about the new changes stated. I was still unaware of the whole system here but I saw some flaws /well, at least for me as a newbie/ and  decided to give my opinion.

~snip, like this one, just follow the original link~

Back then I was thinking like "hey, I can tell theymos what it can be changed so the forum can do better" and for me at that time he was like, you know, he is The Guy - "hey me and Satoshi were drinking coffee together every morning for more than two yeas or so." /that's how a newbie thinks, I guess/. So I got involved in this pre-merit discussion, It was very interesting for me but I did't had the knowledge to be more helpful /I'm still faaaar from what I want to be, but it's a log way ahead/ so I started coming with ideas of what I, as a newbie, can do to help the others. I saw many people were asking the same questions about the activity and ranking and I made the activity calculator, which I was thinking that should have been done years before me and tried to make it more popular so the newbies can stop asking the same questions all the time. Had some other ideas how to list all the bounties and browse them by different criteria,but by being more familiar with the system here I saw that this was a lost cause.

After a few weeks came the Merit system. I was already aware that there's gonna be some changes, but no one knew what will happen /well except theymos/. Then everyone stated discussing how the system had to be adjusted, I was also enthusiastic about it, reading and suggesting. Then I stated collection points from some Legendaries and it was like WOW, I'm just nobody here but hey some Legends do appreciate what I'm trying to do and it's so great/well noob thinking again, I know/. That gave me more enthusiasm to continue and I did. Well, I "grew up" in a way and my perception for the forum did change too.

I did't help much for the bitcoin development, it's true. I got some people involved in crypto and help them to open wallets and buy some btc so I can say that I tried to popularize it, tho. I'm trying to do what I can and learn in the mean time. I have family, kid and full time job / plus a "new" old house, which I renovate at the moment so we can move in hopefully in April/ so I'm pretty short in terms of free time, but I'm still attending a free course for blockchain on edx. Hope will improve my understanding of the all the aspects of the blockchain system and be more productive here.

Meta is where everything started. If everyone was informed with a PM about the changes, things could have been different. All the sMerit I got, I distributed to newbies and people deserving it. I think I walked a long way to this rank, and the honor to wear an avatar. I'll continue doing what I like, reporting rule-breakers and learn.

Enough said.
Cheers!

[btcsmlcmnr]

That's right. That is the way users in the forum should focus on to improve themselves before thinking of earning merits to rank up. They will probably hard to get merits if keep showing their shit show here. Even if they can rank up with bought / exchanged merits, it doesn't make sense at all, because they will not contribute anything useful to the forum. They only consider the forum as their landfill to dump their shits, hence they will be ignore by other users, campaigns' managers, merit-give-away users, etc. Consequently, they will be eliminate out of the forum somehow and sometime in the future.

Some of you are asking for tips or how I did it. I was a bit surprised when I joined here. It took me quite some time only to get oriented in the forum structure. Asking for help, got couple of posts deleted as spam and then I started reading. I learns about the bounties /did't knew when I joined/ and got involved in a scam project. Learned my lesson and moved on.
~
Then you start understanding how everything is working here, you start find things which you think are not right, missing or just not logical. You ask why this has to be like this, and how to make things better, is there any way for me to help to improve this ecosystem here? How can I help with what I do? Then you reach the point of being a member in the real meaning, a member of this crazy family.

Yeah. You are right! Merits will automatically come to helpful, constructive users. No need to beg for merits. That's what you have got, very impressive.

The merit will come eventually.

Congratulations, iasenko!

[DeadCoin]

Though there are struggles in getting merits by members, it’s good that you ranked up with merits and shown a positive path to the rest. Yes, though it takes time to get merit, it’s satisfying when a quality post is made from one's end. The work fulfills the day you work. Just keep contributing more to the forum and to the crypto community. Let’s take this merit system positive accepting why it was implemented. To say the fact, its seriously a good move from the moderators to fill the sections with accurate and needed information which is really contributed from us via quality posts. Let’s keep moving positive.

[criz2fer]

Tell me again that it's not possible to rank up. After hugablack now it's my turn.
Two months, 92 merit for a guy that had no idea what blockchain was 4 months ago.
Thank you people for sharing your knowledge and being nice to me answering all my questions. Thanks for giving me the chance to learn. I have a lot more to learn but I promise to share what I know with the newcomers.

Next rank-Sr Member. By the way, just have to say thanks for including my thread at your topic.

Learning more with the help of merit system would really make us challenge our self to improve. We have a long way to go, lets just enjoy the forum.

[Qspace]

I still haven't 0 merits. Can you guys share with me the way you earn merits?