It can be done (from member to hero)

[Bttzed03]

Congratulations hero member, and it's very good that you only bump this topic to celebrate a new achievement, it will be a bit messy to create new topics for them differently, I commend you for that effort in doing the right thing.

Thank you. One topic is enough for me to post new achievements.

for me my next goal is to make it to snr member. I think this goals should be taken one step at at time, gradually moving from one rank to another, and in the end achieving it finally,

Yes, one step/rank at a time. You are doing well, you will be a senior member before you know it.

though I know some members are more intelligent than others, so they may get to their goals faster, but everyone in the end should make sure they are doing their best for themselves and also for the forum.

It is true that some members here are exceptional. You don't have to compete with them, just focus on your personal goals. You will get there eventually.

[yazher]

Congratulations Bro, I see you already became a Hero Member. I know it was hard but you made it. you are now one of the few who managed to get to that rank. I hope someday we can earn that rank too.

[Bttzed03]

Congratulations Bro, I see you already became a Hero Member. I know it was hard but you made it. you are now one of the few who managed to get to that rank. I hope someday we can earn that rank too.

Thanks! You already earned a lot of merits and was able to rank up faster than many users here. The next 100+ merits for the next rank is certainly doable for you.

[Lambowei]

So do you think there's any hope for me? 

[lina2018]

Thanks for share your journey. I think like me lots of new members are inspired

[Findingnemo]

So do you think there's any hope for me? 

Yes if you read what he is trying to say from his rank up the journey.

There are a lot more other stories like this, so read them and get an idea of what are do's and dont's if you want to rank up.

My story: Anyone can Rank-up! [Motivational Thread from a noob]

[Zionatin]

Instead of people "spamming" for activity, people now make messages they know will be popular and reply to people more likely to notice them. Or supporting popular opinion to get more views. It is basically targeting traffic. You can post well and hardly ever get merits. The system is broken. So many selfish people sit with merits and not give them out. How does this help? If you want to rank up you need to help others too.
I am sorry but ranking up is not just based on quality. Many times people won't even see or read your comment. I don't post in the most popular threads to is it to my disadvantage etc etc

It feels like a popularity contest in school. I just watch rather I don't really care for merits. I don't need merits to know I can post well and help others. Another thing is I am empty and have no more merits to give please tell me how that helps??

I have 3 whole merits lol ....

I have 0 merits to send and it has been that way for weeks and weeks.

[BITCOIN4X]

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If you want to rank up you need to help others too.

I think you have said the right thing, receiving and giving is something that must be done for this merit system to function.

I am sorry but ranking up is not just based on quality. Many times people won't even see or read your comment. I don't post in the most popular threads to is it to my disadvantage etc etc

Theymos has said it clearly,,,

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I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
 - Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
 - Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.

While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.
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When someone wants to increase the ranking of his account, he must improve quality. Merit is basically to force people to post something of quality so they can go higher until Legendary.

So, if someone has managed to improve the quality of his posts and get out of his bad habits such as low quality posts, spam, junk then he has the right to get a new rank when the posts, activities, and merit are sufficient.

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Another thing is I am empty and have no more merits to give please tell me how that helps??

Get 2 merit and so 1 sMerit can be sent to other people.

The trick as, Find threads like this and comment.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5211780.0

[DdmrDdmr]

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I don’t find it to be as you mention for the most, but everyone has got a different story and perspective. There are a bunch of accounts that do get merited regularly, due to the content of their posts, and, in the process, they may create some for themselves some kind of lateral posting reputation towards the account, as a result of the sum of the posts the account has made.

Altcoin Discussion and Bitcoin discussion are not amongst the most merited boards as you say (that is where you post most), but more likely, the effect of the sheer number of posts that are made there, make one’s posts disappear into the oblivion within no longer that a few hours.

If you want to take a peak at merits per board over the last few months (I’ve filtered from July 2019 onwards for a more recent view on distribution): https://public.tableau.com/shared/YZB289526?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link
 

[Bttzed03]

@Zionatin your post history tells us that you often comment on the two most active boards as pointed out by DdmrDdmr. You may be right that there are selfish people but there are also some who are distributing smerits. Two most notable members who does that are tk808 and CryptopreneurBrainboss but even they can't keep up with the number of posts that is why they have to make their own merit giveaway threads to make it easier for them (tk808 thread, CryptopreneurBrainboss thread).

I don't post in the most popular threads to is it to my disadvantage etc etc

What do you mean by most popular threads? From your post history, you have been commenting on threads with multiple pages of replies already. I think that's another reason why you don't get merited. Your comments may be good but it's probably redundant. There could be more than five users who have said the same thing in the previous comments which is often the case in Altcoin & Bitcoin boards.