I earned my first merit How to use it.

[imdad123]

good to see you can tip to any other for its good post.and if you more merits then your rank will improved day by day

[Bitcoinislife09]

It was great to see that I earned my first merit today. Thanks GOD for that. I feel so good now. Hopefully, I'll gain more merit in the future. Everyone will pray for me.

But how do I use this merit?
Thanks.

Great new for a newbie it is hard to earn merits since you need a user to send you before you get merit you could make comments or post to earn merits.
Also, Merit cannot be use you could see it in your profile and if you have enough merits you could rank up in the forum.

[Maartinn]

I am very happy to see your joy. It would be great if I had one or two such merits. If I had a merit, I would have kept it carefully. Merit is now more than money, more than gold, more than diamond.

[DdmrDdmr]

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I think you are still confused here. The Merits that you receive cannot be sent. You send the sMerits that you have. Your Merit counter never decreases (unless you’ve been exceptionally naughty …).

It’s something like this:

- Say I start with 0 Merits (Merits 0; sMerits 0)
- I receive 1 Merit (Merits 1; sMerits 0 + there is half a virtual sMerit there, but you cannot see nor use it yet)
- I receive another Merit (Merits 2; sMerits 1)
- I receive another Merit (Merits 3; sMerits 1 + 0,5 virtual one)
- I now send 1 sMerit ((Merits 3; sMerits 0 + 0,5 virtual one), I cannot send any more yet.
- I receive another Merit (Merits 4; sMerits 1)
- and so on.

Merits: Never decreases, cannot be sent.
sMerits: decreases. For every 2 Merits received, you also get 1 sMerits to send. You can only send whole sMerit numbers (not 0,5 sMerits).

I send sMerits, the recipient receives Merits (and additionally gets sMerits to send on a ratio on 1 sMerit for every 2 Merits received).

[Coyster]

I am very happy to see your joy. It would be great if I had one or two such merits. If I had a merit, I would have kept it carefully. Merit is now more than money, more than gold, more than diamond.

Merit is not what you think it is, it is not a treasure to be kept, look how it works, merits are given to you when another user thinks your post is good and informative and they agree with it or may not(effort can earn you merits too).

So whenever you start posting well, and earn merits, you don't need to keep it carefully  , it doesn't decrease, what you can lose is your Smerits whenever you decide to give it out to some other user and that(smerit)also shouldn't be hoarded.

[Mahanton]

It was great to see that I earned my first merit today. Thanks GOD for that. I feel so good now. Hopefully, I'll gain more merit in the future. Everyone will pray for me.

But how do I use this merit?
Thanks.

I know the feels on receiving your first ever merit which something boost you up even further to make some constructive and helpful post yet someone recognize your post.

Merit cant be used yet this is only a primary requirement for your account to rank up and already been mentioned that a number of merits you earned you'll gain some smerits which
can be used on meriting others.

[UserU]

As we are speaking right now, OP has 5 Merits so that's like 2 and a half

[virasog]

As we are speaking right now, OP has 5 Merits so that's like 2 and a half

OP is gaining merit very quickly and got 9 merits by now. It seems OP still does not know how and where to use his smerits ?  

I hope he will start spending his smerits as indicated by many people here and does not hoard his smerits.

[tbct_mt2]

OP is gaining merit very quickly and got 9 merits by now. It seems OP still does not know how and where to use his smerits ?  

I hope he will start spending his smerits as indicated by many people here and does not hoard his smerits.

The best method to learn how to use sMerits from received merits is practice. Send your sMerits one or two times will help users understand how their sMerits can be used.
It is my personal habits but I always to keep some sMerits in my pocket, around 5 to 10, just in cases someone help me or I see some interesting topics or posts, I can give my small amount of sMerits as an indirect thanks to their good posts.

You can bookmark good posts/ topics you see, and come back later when you have sMerits to give them some. But most of time you will forget to do this. Having some sMerits reserved for future good posts is the best one.

[Legit_Alt+]

With a single merit you will move from newbies to junior member why with 10 merit you will move from junior member to member, while with 100 merit you will move to full member rank. That how the merit works it help you increase your rank and reputation on bitcointalk though many person now buy it even when they don't merit have any. You willcome acrosspost on bitcointalkforum with more than 30 merit just simple question as, I don't it this was the primary aim of adding merit to this forum. Please let top abusing merit...

[finaleshot2016]

Just send it to someone that is really helpful.

It's the only thing matters when giving merits but most of the time you can use it when you appreciate someone's post. I hope that you use it in a good way 'cause you might get tagged if you abuse the merit system.

No pressure, it's just a reminder, be mindful on what post you're trying to merit.
If you want continuous merit gain, just be yourself and express all your knowledge and ideas in this forum, people here like intellectual persons. 

[nakamura12]

Just send it to someone that is really helpful.

It's the only thing matters when giving merits but most of the time you can use it when you appreciate someone's post. I hope that you use it in a good way 'cause you might get tagged if you abuse the merit system.

No pressure, it's just a reminder, be mindful on what post you're trying to merit.
If you want continuous merit gain, just be yourself and express all your knowledge and ideas in this forum, people here like intellectual persons.  

At some point the op did reconsider what you have suggested to send it to someone that is helpful by doing a merit contest. In such short time the op did well and while many people have help op earning merits then op also wants to help newbies earn their merits. I'm sure you'd seen the thread op created.

[noormcs5]

As we are speaking right now, OP has 5 Merits so that's like 2 and a half

OP is gaining merit very quickly and got 9 merits by now. It seems OP still does not know how and where to use his smerits ?  

I hope he will start spending his smerits as indicated by many people here and does not hoard his smerits.

I just checked the OP merit history and was surprised to see he haven't spend any merit yet. I do not understand the purpose of him asking this question when he seems to have no planing spending his smerits.

[UserU]

I just checked the OP merit history and was surprised to see he haven't spend any merit yet. I do not understand the purpose of him asking this question when he seems to have no planing spending his smerits.

Maybe he's hodling them, just like Bitcoin.

[Realroy]

woah! i had no idea these merits were of any use or if they represented anything. great info!

[coin-investor]

It was great to see that I earned my first merit today. Thanks GOD for that. I feel so good now. Hopefully, I'll gain more merit in the future. Everyone will pray for me.

But how do I use this merit?
Thanks.

I'm surprised that you got 2 merits for asking this kind of question, is it pity or what anyway I don't want to question those guys who gave you merits it's up to us, maybe I just have my own guidelines on who should I give, and asking questions is not one of them, just providing answer and a good information about many subjects.

[DdmrDdmr]

<…> I'm surprised that you got 2 merits for asking this kind of question, is it pity or what anyway I don't want to question those guys who gave you merits it's up to us, maybe I just have my own guidelines on who should I give, and asking questions is not one of them, just providing answer and a good information about many subjects.

Asking questions, although not top of the list, is definitively one of the criteria on my agenda that can be merited. For example, the question in the OP:

- Is a decent question.
- Can serve multiple people in doubt when they obtain their first merit (generating 0,5 sMerits).
- Shows an attitude towards wanting to participate in a System from the start, specifically on the awarding side of the system.
- The question comes from a Newbie (presumably) who, on balance, is trying to learn and participate in a positive way.
- Newbie profiles may be looked at with a more laxed criteria than others.
- Having awarded 3.852 sMerits as of last Friday, in 3.451 TXs, to 800 different profiles, criteria needs to be diverse.

[noormcs5]

It was great to see that I earned my first merit today. Thanks GOD for that. I feel so good now. Hopefully, I'll gain more merit in the future. Everyone will pray for me.

But how do I use this merit?
Thanks.

I'm surprised that you got 2 merits for asking this kind of question, is it pity or what anyway I don't want to question those guys who gave you merits it's up to us, maybe I just have my own guidelines on who should I give, and asking questions is not one of them, just providing answer and a good information about many subjects.

He can get merit for any text he writes. That's none of our business because there are people who could like his questions and can give him merit.
I am happy for the OP that he got the merits but i also want him to spend his smerits so others can benefit too.

[The-Devil]

I'm surprised that you got 2 merits for asking this kind of question, is it pity or what anyway I don't want to question those guys who gave you merits it's up to us, maybe I just have my own guidelines on who should I give, and asking questions is not one of them, just providing answer and a good information about many subjects.

I think this forum is created for discussion. Anyone who does not know will ask any question. I didn't know how to use merit. So I asked this question. I think maybe more people have come to know the answer through the question. I asked the question only to know and I got my answer. That is why I am grateful to everyone. Please take the matter positively.
Thank you

[UserU]

Right now as we speak, congrats. You're a Member