I am on the way to Legendary rank, after 2 years (only lack of activities)

[Bttzed03]

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Wow! I can't believe it. It seems that you are only posting just for fun. I've never seen a member like you before — a member which doesn't attracted by the opportunity offered by signature campaigns. Now I believe that it's really possible to go here with only pure intentions of learning .

I'm even more surprised that you just found out about that actually given that your account is already 2 years old. Try to lurk around other boards that you seldom visit and you will probably see more high ranking accounts not wearing any paid signature.

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[evgenia_volkova]

Highly inspiring. Will walk with this inspiration and come up with a upper rank one day. Thanks/

[tranthidung]

Unlock and bump for my 2^nd anniversary (8/11/2017 - 8/11/2019).

@iasenko indirectly reminds me about it with that thread: My second birthday in forum. A retrospective view. . He created his account only one day before mine.

I don't create a new thread for my 2^nd anniversary because it is unnecessary to repeat telling my stories. You can see them in OP.

To make lives of newbies easiser, I quoted some stories I made at different rank levels. From what I experienced, I think reading relevant stories for each current and target ranks is more helpful and inspirational. It is irrelevant and uninspirational if you tell a story of a self-made Hero member to a newbie (I could be wrong) because that newbie will feel overloading, something like that.

So if you are newbies and read this post, please choose relevant stories to read.

• If you are a Member: read stories of self-made Full members
• If you are a Full member: read stories of self-made Senior members
• If you are a Senior member: read stories of self-made Hero members
• If you are a Hero member: read stories of self-made or half-self-made Legendary members

Say thanks to merit system. Finally, I am a Full Member, next a self-made Senior
Promotion with merit system and new rank requirements. It's possible.
I am on the way to Hero Member rank. Within less than 2 years from register day

Please don't spam!

[MichaelX]

Inspiring story to read. I like to read a lot anyway. Been around a little bit longer than you, but all I really do is read. Learn something new every day.

[tranthidung]

Code:

1 X 14 = 14
2 X 14 = 28
3 X 14 = 42   --  Jr. Member ( 1.5 month)
.......
5 X 14 = 70   --  Member (2.5 month)
.......
9 X 14 = 126   --  Full Member (4.5 month)
.......
18 X 14 = 252   --  Senior Member (8.5 month)
......
35 X 14 = 490   --  Hero Member (1.3 years)
..........
56 X 14 = 784  -- Legendary lucky rank starts  (2 years)
......
77 X 14 = 1092  -- Not achieved yet, wait for this update -> Legendary rank achieved! (3 years)

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Ranks	Time-required (old system)	Between ranks	My spent period (since reg. day)	My time between ranks
__________________	____________________________	__________________	________________________________	_________________________
Full Member	4.5 months	n/a	~ 13 months	n/a
Senior Member	8.5 months	4 months	~ 16 months	~ 3 months
Hero Member	15.6 months	~7 months	~ 19.5 months	~ 3.5 months

I earned my 600^th merits on 9^th September 2019.
I earned my 700^th merits on 2^nd October 2019.

I earned my 800^th and 900^th merits within October to late of November.

Since late of July, 4 months passed and I managed to earn 445 merits (19.5 months for first 500 merits and 4 months for next 445 merits. It's awesome). My raw merit-earning rate is above 100 merits per month. I wish and also believe that I will manage my decent efforts to earn 55 more merits to have enough amount for the coming important event: The 2^nd anniversary of the merit system.

I am sure I will get it but I decided to move this thread from Beginners and help to Meta. It seems there are limited attention from newbies in B & H.

[tranthidung]

Let's count it down guys. Only 45 more merits and I will fully get my achievement for this year, but it does not a matter. I bump the thread because I hope my adventure here can inspire you (who have still dissapointed with the merit system) and you are future of the forum.

I need hundreds of activity points to become Legendary and with my merit earning rate, I will get enough merits before getting enough activity points. Saying the truth, my mind has nearly (just nearly, and it is a lie if I say I completely free of merit-related thoughts) been free of merits when my total merits (all self-earned) surpassed my total activity points (about 2 months ago).

Let's make a quick review on my journey:
- I did stucked at member rank for months since Jan. 2018.
- I received an amazing support from LoyceV (via merit data dump) weeks before the 1st anniversary of the merit system.
- From which, I built up my career here: ranked up to Full member rank first around the 1st anniversary, and now when the 2nd anniversary is coming, I am on the way to my 1000th merits.

My advice is:
- Finding the things you are good at (for me, it is statistics), and concentrating most of your works on it (the things you can do best). In the meantime, trying to expand your knowledge and skills to the others and someday you will manage them too.

[tranthidung]

Finally, after more than two years, I received my 1000 ^th merit today, that is meaningful gift for me with the Christmas to come.

I thank to all of you, who help me with advice, knowledge, data dumps, and merits, of course.

For newbies, you can make it too; just don't give up and improve yourself.

[BITCOIN4X]

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For newbies, you can make it too; just don't give up and improve yourself.

"Never give up & keep trying". That is the key to success. I do it.
I have just been promoted to senior member, although it is not easy for me to achieve it. But now I have reached that rank before the end of year holidays.

I have written a little of my story in the thread [Motivation of BITCOIN4X] From Newbi to Senior Member & Now OTW to Hero Member the goal is to provide motivation and solutions to everyone who wants to move up the rankings. It is a pride when we are able to give good things to others. Congratulations to you and myself.

[tranthidung]

"Never give up & keep trying". That is the key to success. I do it.

You are here too, in my list of inspirational stories form self-promoted users, but I have some things to contribute for your coming journey.

(1) There is a typo in your topic title: it should be Newbie, rather than Newbi.

(2) My story released many months ago might be helpful for you too: Promotion with merit system and new rank requirements. It's possible.. Different stories that were written and released at different phases might be helpful for very specific target users at defined ranks.

(3) When you reach the Hero member rank, your life (to rank up) will become easier and less 'stressful'. Why I said so? Because you need 500 more merits to rank up from Senior member to Hero member, and it is truly challenging so you might not think of too much about the next rank. You simply read, learn and write, your minds are free and when you have less pressure whenever you type anything, your posts naturally become better, in quality.

(4) You should choose as good topic title as possible. Because the title is a hook. People will never read your contents if they are not impressed with your topic title. Topic title does not make sure they will read all your contents, but when their eyes caught by the title, they will spend some time to read your topic. Make your topic title, post more attractive

(5) Your total self-earned merits are not completely reflect your quality.
I meant, if there are two users who both self-earned 1000 merits, it does not equal that they stay at the same level of quality (in terms of post quality). There are lots of ways to self-earned merits. Two posts received 1 merit for each likely do not have same quality of contributions or given information.

It is good to self-earn merits to rank up to higher ranks but it does not serve as a proof that you are better than the others.


Happy holidays!

[BITCOIN4X]

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Thank you for giving me advice, I think it will make me more proficient in writing suitable and interesting topic titles. It is true what you say, the amount of merit received cannot guarantee a person quality but can prove that many things that are meaningful in that person writing might be motivation, knowledge, problem solving and trying to answer other users questions.

I think the post evaluation criteria are very different, where for members who have a higher level of knowledge judging it is not useful but not so for members whose knowledge is still low. Then there is also merit given to posts based on efforts that have been made, either making threads or writing something that seems useful to others but not to the merit sender.

[gentlemand]

(3) When you reach the Hero member rank, your life (to rank up) will become easier and less 'stressful'. Why I said so? Because you need 500 more merits to rank up from Senior member to Hero member, and it is truly challenging so you might not think of too much about the next rank. You simply read, learn and write, your minds are free and when you have less pressure whenever you type anything, your posts naturally become better, in quality.

Is there anyone out there keeping notes on whether people rank up from hero to legendary faster from nothing to hero? It seems that the members who achieve it gather momentum along the way.

[DdmrDdmr]

<...>Is there anyone out there keeping notes on whether people rank up from hero to legendary faster from nothing to hero? It seems that the members who achieve it gather momentum along the way.

I figure that the idea is to compare the same "500 earned merit requirement" between the two groups you’ve mentioned. I haven't really tackled the speed concept here (i.e. number of days it took from/to), but the final outcome is as follows: https://public.tableau.com/views/BitcointalkMeritDashboard/Ranked-up?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link

28 Heroes have ranked up to Legendary, whilst 32 Newbies have made it to Hero. The former figure though is effective, meaning that they need to meet the magic activity number to make the rank requirement effective in addition (so there is a potential delay there in comparison to Newbies turned Heroes).

[gentlemand]

The former figure though is effective, meaning that they need to meet the magic activity number to make the rank requirement effective in addition (so there is a potential delay there in comparison to Newbies turned Heroes).

Good point. I should've rephrased that. I can imagine there are quite a few people with enough merit who will have quite a wait before the activity catches up. Mine happened right near the end of the predicted period.

[DdmrDdmr]

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In terms of Heroes waiting to rank-up to Legendaries needing merits in the process, therefore waiting for the Activity to snap the right value between 775 and 1030, I make it 17 currently:
https://public.tableau.com/shared/3DRK8YH9P?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link

@witcher_sense is the first person within the list to have started out as a Newbie during Merit System kick-off, and that has currently got a higher Activity than his fellow Newbie pursuers on the list. That is a slight advantage on his track to becoming the first Legendary from Newbie under the Merit System, but the Activity magic number range is wide enough to nullify that advantage.

[MichaelX]

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Wow! I can't believe it. It seems that you are only posting just for fun. I've never seen a member like you before — a member which doesn't attracted by the opportunity offered by signature campaigns. Now I believe that it's really possible to go here with only pure intentions of learning

It takes awhile to rank up, maybe at that point the incentive might be good enough or not, it really depends on how you value your time and if you are already gainfully employed or earning coin elsewhere. So yeah, for now this is fun and it is also fun to watch others gain activity, merits and rank. It's like compound interest. It goes up slowly over the weeks, months, years.