Merit isn't everything in bitcointalk!

[DavidPham]

I see quite a few topics created just for the sake of increasing merit. Instead of that, people should focus on a number of key topics. Too many redundant topics are created

[bdbountyon]

There is no hard and fast rules for gaining merit. If your boss wants then you can get promotion. If your interviewers wants then you will be hired.
Merit is important for every newbies. People who are trying there best but did not get any reward then they will lose hope. Many members have no patience. On the other hand who are gaining merits regularly they will not give up. They will continue to hunt merits.

[slackovic]

There is no hard and fast rules for gaining merit. If your boss wants then you can get promotion. If your interviewers wants then you will be hired.
Merit is important for every newbies. People who are trying there best but did not get any reward then they will lose hope. Many members have no patience. On the other hand who are gaining merits regularly they will not give up. They will continue to hunt merits.

Like it's been written on a number of other topics... Every user who thinks that his post deserves a Merit but didn't get one can try applying on the Merit Giveaway topic. Owner of that thread (and probably other users) will review posts and Merit the ones that truly deserve a Merit.

[masulum]

Merit is important for every newbies. People who are trying there best but did not get any reward then they will lose hope. Many members have no patience. On the other hand who are gaining merits regularly they will not give up. They will continue to hunt merits.

Merit important for newbies because he/she thinking to hard about merit and forget the most important behind merit is quality posts and member who have smerit. If you are docus on merit you will always say is hard to get merit. But, if you are focus on good post and quality post, it will easy for you to get merit.

[iamsheikhadil]

it was an impossible achievement in my mind when I joined initially here.

Nothing is impossible here, if we are desperate to achieve it then we will surely for that we need to have enough patience.

But people choose faster way so they switch the section from the posting habit because they feel that if we post on those sections then we will get merits for sure and if you create a thread then there is guaranteed merit for you such kind of mindset is wrong.

Yeah exactly! This is very hard to resist especially if no one notices our posts for long time then we start to become desperate and change our approach or posting sections and ultimately we lose our consistency and interest and give up. That is hard to overcome but once done, then the rest of the journey is smooth 

[Negotiation]

I see quite a few topics created just for the sake of increasing merit. Instead of that, people should focus on a number of key topics. Too many redundant topics are created

Gaining skills is more important than gaining merit If you have the skills then you can achieve merit Therefore you should try to increase your skills and talents without running after merit. You just have to be more discriminating with the help you render toward other people Patiently try to analyze different places and if you work according to the rules of the forum you will be able to achieve such merit.

[jademaxsuy]

Yes merit is not everything. Knowledge should be everything as it is the reason why people earn merit in this forum and also earn money. There are some people here earn btc not because of his/her merit but because of his/her knowledge in the field of cryptocurrency technologies like mining for example.

[akirasendo17]

well its kinda both i think lets keep it real, you join to learn about crypto currency, and also to earn merit , first learning what is crypto currency but a long the way, you are earning merit, i mean what are you going to do with that merit ofcourse there are bounties, im sure you'll be happy to join those if you find out you can earn a small amount,

[cryptoaddictchie]

Like it's been written on a number of other topics... Every user who thinks that his post deserves a Merit but didn't get one

I dont think OP is trying to farm merits here. He just wanted to emphasis among other users about quality posting. Its not about merit at all, but the contributions made and how those post of them are being liked or helped others.

Maybe thats a mistake for a lot of who wanted to earn merits, they doing the posting to earn merits, and higher rank even merit sources will surely noticed if you are posting to help or trying to farm.

well its kinda both i think lets keep it real, you join to learn about crypto currency, and also to earn merit

Yes but some uses their time to earn only which is why they are having a hard time to earn merits. They are prioritizing the perks but not the actual objective to be here.

[cheater detector]

Merit isn't everything in bitcointalk, but merit is everything if you want to rank up and join signature campaign. And the fact is "mostly user join this forum to join signature campaign and earn extra money". It's why most people ask about how to get merit

[Greatdev]

Sorry for another topic about merit guys! But I wanted to tell this to everyone, especially to newbies.

A high number of merits earned by an individual is a sign that he is a quality poster but it doesn't mean every less earned member is not knowledgeable enough. Earning merits depends on a lot of factors like which section we would like to post/discuss and which local board we belong to. So some members can earn more if their board and section have high active members and merit sources.

Actually what I wanted to tell is, if you are not making enough merits even after you are giving your maximum effort doesn't mean that you are not deserved to be on bitcointalk at someday you will get caught by the merits sources until that keep posting and learn new things which you are being yourself.

Good advice, few newbies are on rush to gaining higher ranks for only one reason, to make money through signature campaign on this forum, why the rush? Creating good posts and topics will earn you merits one day, most times not instantly

[ShowOff]

Merit isn't everything in bitcointalk, but merit is everything if you want to rank up and join signature campaign. And the fact is "mostly user join this forum to join signature campaign and earn extra money". It's why most people ask about how to get merit

It is true that every user who wants to get a higher ranking then that user must make a good quality post so that other users can send merit as an award for him. For those who can post quality things, I dont think they will think about how they will get merit because they will receive merit regularly for their useful posts. While merit is important to move up the ranks and join a signature campaign, its not good to keep thinking about it. Just improve the quality of posts and we will get merit naturally.

So far I think that the merit has succeeded in turning most users to no longer be junk posters, spam and other bad things if they want to be promoted and join a signature campaign. Quality posters are what campaign managers need to help promote a company or project. Without merit, eligible posters can still join the signature campaign, because there are several campaigns that do not make it one of the requirements for participants.

[pankaj1234]

Merits might be not everything in bitcointalk but merit has their places in bitcointalk. Because when any bounty is going with signature campaign ,has lots of funds towards signature category and every big merit member taking part in that take away big portion of that bounty. Even some bounty comes with the headlines that only member category can join this bounty.
So in my opinion merits isn't everything but good to have some with their brilliant work.

[xxjumperxx]

So I have been a member for a while here but I was never really active.
I registered here and it was just information overload when I first got here. So much knowledge, so much info, soooo much content.

I am slowly finding my way and joining some of the interesting subjects and well there are some really cool people on here!
Yes I had to find out what merit is and what its for.
I now don't solely post for merit, I just like to share my knowledge, I love to inform and learn more!

Merit isnt everything, it will come and if it doesn't oh well =)

[KiloFoxtrot]

This is so true, merit system is far from perfect, for example I see many posts that I think deserve at least some merit, but I'm always out of smerit, and I know that I have no chance of becoming a merit source, because that position is for very established forum users only.

Hope there could be a workaround for this, like if one established member has simply lost smerit, maybe it could be forwarded to a more established forum user so that other newbie forum users could be recognized somehow (if deserving).

Plus, the whole goal of this forum is to learn about Bitcoin, not earning merit or money. You can do this even without creating an account here.

I totally on agree this, of course.

[Coyster]

This is so true, merit system is far from perfect, for example I see many posts that I think deserve at least some merit, but I'm always out of smerit, and I know that I have no chance of becoming a merit source, because that position is for very established forum users only.

Hope there could be a workaround for this, like if one established member has simply lost smerit, maybe it could be forwarded to a more established forum user so that other newbie forum users could be recognized somehow (if deserving).

You didn't understand what the poster wrote, many times users that aren't merit sources may want to give merits to a post, but have none to give, so they skip the post as they can't merit it;  but Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source can help. What hatshepsut93 meant was he also finds himself in that position and is not a merit source.

Merit sources are established members, who get refilled with smerits every month to give them to good posts on the forum, though I consider hatshepsut93 a very good user and should apply to be a merit source if he feels the need to.

Finally, smerits don't get lost, you send them to good posts and a newbie cannot be recognized or established, it's takes a lot of time to get that status, and efforts to.

[masulum]

Finally, smerits don't get lost, you send them to good posts and a newbie cannot be recognized or established, it's takes a lot of time to get that status, and efforts to.

Yep you are right, lot of member give a merit with a stranger in this forum no matter he/she just joined within 1-3 days if he can give a good post, constructive, informative, fun or anything and make member who have smerit happy with that post, he/she will give a merit. In the end, not because how difficult member get merit, but how members try to contribute for this forum to make a better forum. Newbie or member who stuck with current level are to busy to blame member with lot of merit or merit source just give a merit for some other, but they are never try to change their post activity so no one give them merit.

[iamsheikhadil]

Merit isn't everything in bitcointalk, but merit is everything if you want to rank up and join signature campaign. And the fact is "mostly user join this forum to join signature campaign and earn extra money". It's why most people ask about how to get merit

Well that's a brutal truth and open secret  
Sometimes I find the people shouting loudest against sig campaigns to be those who are in one of the highest paying campaigns. And many of them haven't earnt a single merit (they got it airdropped) .. nothing against them, it's fine, but cringy but, have patience, work hard and you will see the fruit. Post consistently and in good quality and none can stop ya

[pealr12]

Heres my opinion about that. 
 
Merit is important especially to the members who are empty pocket, they need merit to join in signature and earn.

And for other people merit is not important ,what they want is to educate themselves about crypto, looking for threads that will help them maximize thier knowledge about digital currencies.

[ShowOff]

Heres my opinion about that. 
 
Merit is important especially to the members who are empty pocket, they need merit to join in signature and earn.

And for other people merit is not important ,what they want is to educate themselves about crypto, looking for threads that will help them maximize thier knowledge about digital currencies.

And not infrequently, merit sources and other users will be happy to provide merit for users like this. Merit currently has many functions and some of them are:

• As a condition for rank up
• Encourage users to post useful things
• As a condition to join a signature campaign (not necessarily for multiple campaigns)
• Help the forum to minimize the number of spam posts, junk and useless posts and prevent shit poster to move rank up

Merit as a condition for joining a signature campaign in my opinion is to make it easier for managers when choosing suitable participants to fill the available slots and I think only good posters have a large amount of merit and it is not a mistake if managers and campaigns employ them to promote the site or project.