Promotion with merit system and new rank requirements. It's possible.

[tranthidung]

I updated OP with the point #7, from theymos. Admin clearly emphasize that post quality does not soley depends on your post-length and your English. They are componental factors, but minor ones. Ideas are more important, and writers have to put decent efforts to read, learn, have their own collections of good posts, threads, categorize them for later use. If you see a good posts, threads, but you don't note them down, next time you will have to search and it takes more time to find them (sometimes you don't remember exactly keywords should be used to search)

(7) Ideas that I took from theymos' Writing a welcome message

If you make ten thousand posts in a week, your activity will be capped and you will still be a Newbie. If you make ten thousand useless posts over any period of time, you will gain zero merit and you will still be a Newbie. You can rank up only by making good posts consistently. It's quality over quantity.

When trying to write quality posts, a lot of people act as though they're writing a book report for school: putting facts that we already know into their own words. Nobody wants to read that, and you will not get merit for it. Moreover, the length of your post and the quality of your English are only minor factors. In trying to write a quality post worthy of merit, you should offer new ideas, personal experiences, or perspectives that other forum users will actually find new and interesting.

[Daffadile]

People don't use the system properly and have dormant merits sitting in their account. The people that do award merits do not get given enough to be rewarded. Look a the very post for example. You got some merit from a few people but nothing substantial. The only one was the 20 merits someone gave you. If you never got that you would only have a few merits. I do not think a post like this deserves only a handful of merits it deserves much more. That is my problem with this system. All you need it to get neg trust once from someone that doesn like you and it all goes to shit. You cant even work your neg trust off or anything. Ridiculous.

[qwertyup23]

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Congratulations for breaking the most difficult barrier in achieving what seems to be impossible but hindsight, but manageable once you get the hang of it.

I actually stumbled upon your profile and there became a point wherein I used your comments history as my reference in-order to gain merits myself. Basically, your account became my point-of-reference in terms of gaining merits! I'm still far in achieving the luxurious Hero Member rank, but I'll get there soon!

Youre story is very inspiring. I am bit ashamed of myself, Ive checked youre profile registration date and I am way older but still in the rank of member. But now youre Hero rank, I guess I really need to pay attention on posting here and make some quality and humorous post. Thanks, for this.

Well the beauty behind creating quality threads is that you contribute to the forum while at the same time gaining merits to yourself! There is this relationship that forms that harmonizes the posts you create and the merits you earn. The core of earning merits stems from making quality posts and contributing to the forum. Merits are only the by-product of that contribution or a reward.

[tranthidung]

I'm still far in achieving the luxurious Hero Member rank, but I'll get there soon!

There is neither luxurious rank nor expensive account in the forum. Everyone have same rights to make good posts, and contributions, from which they will get what they do deserve. To be honest (as you can see in my story), I only wished that I would be a Full Member when merit system kicked-off, but time passed and I became a Full Member around late of 2018 or early of 2019. Then, my mind changed, I thought as "I will never be a Senior Member". Then, I actually became a Senior member, then a Hero Member. Now, I moved one-fifth of my journey to a Legendary rank.

Well the beauty behind creating quality threads is that you contribute to the forum while at the same time gaining merits to yourself! There is this relationship that forms that harmonizes the posts you create and the merits you earn. The core of earning merits stems from making quality posts and contributing to the forum. Merits are only the by-product of that contribution or a reward.

The beauty is when you contribute, you simultaneously learn lots of good things. You self-learn before finish your topics, then after publishing them in the forum, you will do get help from others, from which you will learn many more things. It's a kinda beautiful mutual contribution.

• Ask others > Learn > Good
• Ask yourself > Self-learn > Compose & publish your topic(s) > Learn from others > Great!

[DdmrDdmr]

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I’m pretty sure the original intention of the Merit System was for it to be more dynamic, with less dependency on Merit Sources for merit distribution in relation to the merits awarded by regular users.

Earning a few merits should not deem difficult. Earning a lot on the other hand is pretty demanding in terms of investing time, and obviously becomes more of a challenge the higher the rank due to the amount required to move on to the next rank.
Nevertheless, doing the maths, you need to consistently manage to earn 1 merit per day (a bit more really) in order to rank-up at the same pace as you would before de Merit System. That is, for merits to pace up at roughly the same rate as activity. OP is currently there, and probably will make it to Legendary without merits being much of an issue (at the expense of time of course). The OPs post has currently only been merited by (now) four people, and the balance for a single posts is pretty much above average.

Note: As to the negative feedback, you can try to PM whom ever gave it to you to see if they would reconsider in light of the changes that tool place a few months ago. The core focus should really be trade related, and I have seen some negative trust removed in light of this in other people’s cases . There is no guarantee though, and some will deem impossible even to revise, since the person who gave the negative trust is not necessarily around anymore.

[Negotiation]

I agree with all of you, it is currently very difficult to rank up in this forum. Many people cannot increase their accounts even by promoting intellectual property. It is a very difficult and difficult thing, especially in the field of children. Also if you can post good quality then it is possible to increase the rank.

[tranthidung]

I agree with all of you, it is currently very difficult to rank up in this forum. Many people cannot increase their accounts even by promoting intellectual property. It is a very difficult and difficult thing, especially in the field of children. Also if you can post good quality then it is possible to increase the rank.

There is no correlations between intellectual property, field of children, post quality, merits and ranks up. If you want to make good posts, you have to prepare enough for it: from knowledge, language (writing, in particular), and time (to read, write and to scan around the forum). It is not easy, and you can not log in your account and spend 5 minutes per day. Such short time is a big barrier if you want to make good posts and contribute something to the community.

[tranthidung]

I wrote the topic when I was just ranked up to Senior Member. My feeling and experience described in OP can be fitted with Full members who are in-progress to Sr. Member rank.

It is my story and matches with your rank, your current difficulties. So spend some time to read it.  

[nakamura12]

I wrote the topic when I was just ranked up to Senior Member. My feeling and experience described in OP can be fitted with Full members who are in-progress to Sr. Member rank.

It is my story and matches with your rank, your current difficulties. So spend some time to read it.  

I totally can relate this story when I am reaching Sf. Member rank that time and this time it is another journey from Sr. Member rank to Hero. I believe that I can do it since I saw it with my own eyes that I achieved this rank through hard work and it bear fruit just like you. I have seen your rank before and this time I am shock to see that you achieved a new milestone not too long. This is inspiring achievement that as long as we care for our posting style and prefer the quality over quantity. WELL DESERVED.  - NAKAMURA12