What or how does it feels to grow in rank?!

[TheArchaeologist]

<snip> and have to find ways how to acquire more merits and be innovative in doing so.

I thought the whole idea of the merit-system was to get awarded for making quality posts, you make those the merits will follow. If it is about thinking of strategies to acquire more I think it defeats the original purpose. Just my two cents..

[1715166739]

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[Mor254]

When your rank is upgraded, you will feel satisfied and willing to work harder than before. I have been struggling to get merit points in order to make my account better by providing useful content to the rest of the members. We should not make our primary goal only. Upgrading the account we must also take advantage of other topics and login.  In serious discussions, over time our account will be upgraded

[Smartvirus]

Having your first merit is projects a feeling of your actually doing something and your now being noticed and appreciated for it. Growing in rank on the other hand is like a lip unto the light and motivates you to think and post quality.

[Mrengage]

The forum is quite an otherly and well moderated one such that one with the mindset of boosting in ranks regardless of what he or she posts is an abolished fantasy which is commendable. It ensures purity of the forum, lives no room for ambiguous rubbish and motivates newbies to think, research and understand what the forum and world of Bitcoin as a cryptocurrency and other alternate cryptos are all about. Each time you want to type, it's just got to be the right content and if you don't, you can barely grow in rank. Hence, these lives a lot of we newbies in wonder how it really feels.
Have you ever wondered what it felt like to grow in rank?
That's a question for the newbies as I am myself one. This question has and still puzzles my mind on how it really feels. I guess a lot of you with ranks now where once in these shoes. I guess I'll find out in time by experience soon enough how it does feel. In the meantime, how about some you guys tell us, how you really felt.
We would love to hear it!
How about experienced

I won't go far to reading of what you wrote down here, so as not to pick out some errors (grammar errors)😂😂🤣 but. In my own terms growing in a rank is a beautiful thing and mostly it shows am contributing specifically to the forum helping those who really needs understanding.

[Eureka_07]

Ranking up really does feel great. Specially if you worked hard to attain it.
It is an achievement to grow even more. There will be more opportunities that awaits you every step that you've made.

Personally, I want to rank up here, but I know I cannot achieve it if my contents are very low in quality.
So as much as I can, my posts should get better as I make more.

You guys should do it too, if you want to rank up, make quality post, some people will appreciate it and add merits on it that is a big help to you on ranking up.

[alik111]

For me growing rank up in this forum is really very very hard because no one is going to send you merit's freely.
I mean no one is going to send  you merit without any  good effort from you.
So Ranking up in this forum is the best moment and it feels like someone wins World cup.

[Smartvirus]

For me growing rank up in this forum is really very very hard because no one is going to send you merit's freely.
I mean no one is going to send  you merit without any  good effort from you.

For a fact, nothing good comes easy! Else, non of us would have loved to struggle over anything. You just have to know that we are our own competition, we have to compete with our lazy self everyday, the part of us that always makes us feel as though we can't level up with the others, as if we can't get it right. The part that says others had an edge over you and so they got it easier. So it might always seem but then, they made use of the available information and resources at their disposal which was quite limited not like we have enough now but it's okay. We just have to flow with the tides we find ourselves in.
Keep testifying and get motivated.

[mr.smith]

For me growing rank up in this forum is really very very hard because no one is going to send you merit's freely.
I mean no one is going to send  you merit without any  good effort from you.
So Ranking up in this forum is the best moment and it feels like someone wins World cup.

So far I already have two merits so I am on my way from newbie to junior I did not even noticed that I have two merits already I just do what I love doing and that is reading and giving my opinion and asking a question, I take it one post at a time and let the readers decide if I deserve it.

[glowing10]

If you follow the path you will reach on the other side and if you ready to go the extra mile then just create your own path and surely the other side might be unexplored and something new which you will be discovering it. Just do your best and share the knowledge so that those who are unaware knows it and rest of the thing will help us to learn and re-learn without much worrying about the rank.

[Fhhhfd]

This is probably the best answer in my observation. Actually it depends what you are expert in. You know what you want and how to achieve you goal. This forum is best for learning cryptocurrency. Bitcoin market capital is small just 200 B but it will explode very soon. Based on bitcoin other crypto will also grow. I am here to learn some lesson about cryptocurrency.

[DdmrDdmr]

The Legendary rank has a special element of uncertainty associated to it, and that is the fact that the specific required Activity is unknown by the account, being somewhere in between the range of 775 and 1030 (*). That’s a pretty wide range, that leaves these legendary-to-be accounts wondering every fortnight if their Activity will surpass the threshold set for their account.

The longer the wait, the more the thrive I figure, although some accounts, for multiple reasons, seem to have dropped the towel in the process. This is a short list of some of those Hero Members that are waiting for their Activity to chime-in:

Code:

user_id   name                                    posts     activity  merit     DateCreate   DateLastAc   URL
1169179   BitCryptex                              1879      1022      1548      2017-09-25   2020-07-31   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1169179
657268    Lionidas                                3305      1008      1012      2015-11-19   2019-03-02   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=657268
1339716   coinlocket$                             6251      994       1308      2017-11-22   2020-07-31   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1339716
4839      fornit                                  987       987       1001      2011-02-20   2018-02-11   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=4839
245722    Bitcoinmeetups.org                      983       983       1002      2014-02-09   2020-07-12   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=245722
230980    patmast3r                               2897      980       1001      2014-01-27   2018-01-27   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=230980
238821    david123                                2018      966       1002      2014-02-04   2019-02-16   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=238821
120714    gdassori                                1002      966       1002      2013-05-20   2019-05-16   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=120714
185404    illodin                                 4838      966       1003      2013-12-09   2018-03-04   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=185404
34011     abracadabra                             956       956       1001      2011-07-14   2018-11-07   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=34011
35354     dancupid                                955       955       1002      2011-07-22   2020-07-20   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35354
380642    bennana                                 952       952       1001      2014-09-23   2019-04-13   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=380642
394642    Cripto DeD                              3151      952       1002      2014-11-13   2019-05-16   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=394642
12346     Explodicle                              950       950       1001      2011-05-13   2020-06-03   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=12346
223359    noise23                                 942       942       1002      2014-01-19   2020-07-31   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=223359
493987    xRaVeNx                                 1614      938       1009      2015-03-26   2020-07-13   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=493987
1582324   DdmrDdmr                                5139      938       4013      2018-01-04   2020-07-31   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1582324
182223    murderouskirk                           1354      938       1002      2013-12-06   2018-11-25   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=182223
56297     Bitware                                 937       937       1001      2012-04-19   2020-01-08   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=56297
3722      Unthinkingbit                           935       935       1008      2011-01-25   2019-11-15   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3722
166737    JuanHungLo                              935       935       1001      2013-11-22   2020-07-13   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=166737
73326     elbill                                  970       924       1004      2012-11-24   2019-01-15   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=73326
1311641   tvplus006                               2496      924       1271      2017-11-14   2020-07-31   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1311641
1554927   bitmover                                4777      924       1656      2017-12-31   2020-07-31   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1554927
341982    mexxer-2                                4082      924       1003      2014-06-10   2019-10-04   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=341982
183495    otrkid70                                923       923       1014      2013-12-08   2018-05-09   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=183495
106965    TracerX                                 918       918       1002      2013-04-26   2018-06-01   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=106965
451278    leps                                    918       918       1001      2015-02-19   2020-07-16   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=451278
339196    yohannc                                 916       916       1012      2014-06-03   2020-07-29   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=339196
36319     SgtMoth                                 911       911       1004      2011-07-28   2019-06-26   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=36319
17928     piuk                                    1267      910       1001      2011-06-03   2015-06-19   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=17928
61493     CaptChadd                               1250      910       1005      2012-07-05   2020-04-09   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=61493
183158    JorgeStolfi                             7226      910       1002      2013-12-07   2019-11-30   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=183158
64396     Mapuo                                   909       909       1002      2012-08-16   2020-07-04   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=64396

That above is a list of Hero accounts that have already surpassed at least half of the required Activity interval, and have yet not reached their personal Activity requirement for Legendary (data as of last Friday).

Note how  @BitCryptex will need to wait until the next Activity window, which should be his last wait (his requires activity is therefore somewhere between 1023 and 1030).

(*) The specific value depends on your UserId:

Just to remind that the Activity required to reach the Legendary rank is a random value that depends on the UserId of the profile, and a secretSeed which, for obvious reasons, we do not have:

<…> Currently this randomness is done with a single SQL query, which is very convenient.

Code:

update smf_members 
set ID_POST_GROUP=21 
where ID_POST_GROUP=8 
and activity>=775 and activity>=775+conv(substr(sha1(concatenate(ID_MEMBER,secretSeed)), 1, 2), 16, 10)

<…>

Note: I had to replace "concat" with "concatenate" in the above quote to be able to publish the post.

[Onuohakk]

There's this joy it brings when ranked up to another level.
If you set your goals right, ranking up won't be an issue. This forum is all about sharing informative and educational knowledge about cryptocurrency.
If you're to pass your ideas or thoughts right for others to learn from, you'll be appreciated upon with a merit.

[celemoore]

It took awhile before i actually noticed i was merited. I must say it feels good to know someone sees what you're doing and commend you for contributing to the forum. I love contributing and if merits comes it will be great but not gonna hawk for it as it will defeat the purpose of the forum. I think just relax, be yourself and contribute positively and meaningfully

[Erumo]

It took awhile before i actually noticed i was merited. I must say it feels good to know someone sees what you're doing and commend you for contributing to the forum. I love contributing and if merits comes it will be great but not gonna hawk for it as it will defeat the purpose of the forum. I think just relax, be yourself and contribute positively and meaningfully

Yes, this is always feel good when you rank up you alt. But sadly the moment you feelings change from good to bad come quick and you feel the bitter of consequences. I hope this little act of your wont stop you from "contributing" to forum.

I simply don't understand why don't you continue to post with your first account?

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[celemoore]

It took awhile before i actually noticed i was merited. I must say it feels good to know someone sees what you're doing and commend you for contributing to the forum. I love contributing and if merits comes it will be great but not gonna hawk for it as it will defeat the purpose of the forum. I think just relax, be yourself and contribute positively and meaningfully

Yes, this is always feel good when you rank up you alt. But sadly the moment you feelings change from good to bad come quick and you feel the bitter of consequences. I hope this little act of your wont stop you from "contributing" to forum.

I simply don't understand why don't you continue to post with your first account?

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Oh that account was restricted, I was a noob and didn't understand how the forum works. I'm sure I won't be the first to be restricted for being naive. It took time for me to understand what the forum is about. I did ask for advice and simply realised its not about just posting something but being meaningful and contributing positively. If I may ask,  what was your purpose for the digging to the past? 😁

[DdmrDdmr]

<…>

This seems a pretty honest answer, but unfortunately you’ve just confessed to being the owner of a banned account (restricted is an euphemism for banned). Being that so, the forum rules state that:

<…> 25. Ban evasion (using or creating accounts while one of your accounts is banned) is not allowed.[e] <…>
<…> 25. If you get banned (temporarily or permanently) and create a new account to continue posting / sending PMs, it's considered ban evasion. The only exception is creating a thread in Meta about your ban.<…>

What that means is that, in an account of a person is banned, so are all his past, present and future account, except for the possibility of using and Alt Account to plead for the case to be revised on Meta (which normally does not get reverted)...

Archieve: http://archive.is/UwM3D

[celemoore]

<…>

This seems a pretty honest answer, but unfortunately you’ve just confessed to being the owner of a banned account (restricted is an euphemism for banned). Being that so, the forum rules state that:

<…> 25. Ban evasion (using or creating accounts while one of your accounts is banned) is not allowed.[e] <…>
<…> 25. If you get banned (temporarily or permanently) and create a new account to continue posting / sending PMs, it's considered ban evasion. The only exception is creating a thread in Meta about your ban.<…>

What that means is that, in an account of a person is banned, so are all his past, present and future account, except for the possibility of using and Alt Account to plead for the case to be revised on Meta (which normally does not get reverted)...

Archieve: http://archive.is/UwM3D

I honestly didn't know that. How do i plead with the new account? Would have done that if i knew. Could i please have a link i could do this on?

[DdmrDdmr]

<...>

Basically, you need to create a thread on Meta, with a title that helps to identify that you are appealing the ban of a certain account. People normally label the thread something like “Ban Appeal - xxxxx”. The core of the OP should depict the account that was banned, the message you received, the type of ban, and the reasons that you consider that should be considered for the ban to be revoked or mitigated (i.e. signature ban for a certain period of time). You can see what others have done by either using the forum’s search engine, or using google with a search pattern such as:  site:bitcointalk.org ban appeal.

In all fairness, your current account (@celemoore) is technically ban evading, since once one of your accounts is banned, so are all your accounts. Additionally, ban appeals rarely succeed, and it is not unusual for account that appeals to come out scorched...

[celemoore]

In all fairness, your current account (@celemoore) is technically ban evading, since once one of your accounts is banned, so are all your accounts. Additionally, ban appeals rarely succeed, and it is not unusual for account that appeals to come out scorched...

[/quote]

Alright! Thanks for the detailed info, it's much appreciated.