First 2020 user who reached the 1000 Merit milestone

[bullrun2024bro]

Hey Bitcointalk community,

yesterday was a special day for me since I received my 1000th merit. This makes me the first user (newbie) who registered in 2020 to reach this milestone.

My Bitcointalk history:

I registered here on Bitcointalk on January 9th, 2020 and on September 23th, 2020 I received my 1000th merit.


First Merit: January 14th, 2020
1000 Merit: September 23th, 2020
Days until 1000 Merit: 253 days (8 month and 9 days) from my first Merit; 258 days (8 month and 14 days) from my registration date
Average Merit per day: 3.9~ Merit
Merit transactions: 686 from 106 profiles
Month with most Merit: May 2020 (156); March 2020 (144); August 2020 (143)
Posts until 1000 Merit: 1354


Why am I starting this thread?

First of all I would like to thank everyone, who supported me on my journey here on Bitcointalk. I know there are many "newbies" out there who are trying to cheat the merit system and try to gain a few merit just to enter well-paid signature campaigns - that's why I am very thankful to everyone who gave me a fair chance to prove myself and show that I am not a shitposter.

Nevertheless the main reason why I am starting this thread is that I would like to encourage other newbies to write quality posts and contribute something meaningful to our community. Writing meaningful posts might feel difficult at the beginning, but if you are willing to invest some of your free time, I am sure you can do it too - and believe me other members will reward you sooner or later, if you are writing good posts.

I remember when I saw Ratimov's thread First Newbie of 2019 who received 1000 merits !!! here in the Meta-Section at the beginning of the year and I replied the following:

Wow congratulations, that's very impressive. Just 7 month for 1K Merits, sounds damn fast. Especially your last 4 months are outstanding. Almost 200 Merits every month. You must be delivering brilliant content. Keep up the good work, the forum needs more people like you!  

Ah btw, your success is a nice incentive to achieve my Merit goals too, but I still got a long way to go.  

His thread indeed was an incentive for me to work on my post quality and it really encouraged me to write quality posts. That's why I really hope this thread will help some other newbies to reach their goals and to create high quality content. Ratimov and I did it - you can do it too!

I am very happy to be part of this awesome community. Thank you guys!



Sources:
(1.) https://bpip.org/Profile?id=2744352  
(2.) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2744352
(3.) https://public.tableau.com/profile/ddmrddmr#!/vizhome/BitcointalkMeritDashboard/GlobalSummary/

[LFC_Bitcoin]

That’s pretty special, OP. Congrats on what is really a great achievement here, it’s not easy to get respect here as a newbie so getting 1000 Merit in under 12 months, starting from 0 is very impressive.

You’ve reached the required Merit level to become a Legendary Member before you’ve even become a Hero Member

Great work, keep it up. I have a bunch of Merit to distribute so + 5 for the achievement

[bitmover]

Congratulations OP.

That is certainly an impressive mark. 1000 merits and 280 activity!! 

Most of your merits are in your local, german.

You can see your merit stats here. https://bitcoindata.science/supertable.html

sadly i don't update this very often and it is about a month old now. but you can see where you got most of yours merits. At least 85% in local.

[NotATether]

Hats off to you. It's rare to see new people earning hundreds of merit so quickly, most of us stagnate a few months in.

Now let's see if I can become the second 2020 newbie to hit 1000 merits 

[zasad@]

Congratulations!
I hope I understood correctly that you are not a new person in the world of cryptocurrencies?
I will be waiting for your interview.

I understand how much effort you put into getting that much merit. Keep moving in the same direction and overtake Ratimov
I find it much harder to get merit in the local forum because there is less activity.

[bitmover]

I find it much harder to get merit in the local forum because there is less activity.

Well, that certainly depends on what local board you are talking about.
There are some locals where there are lack of merit sources or lack of activity. But in local where there is a good activity and some merit source, it is a good place to get merit.

My local board, portuguese, lacks activity... I am the merit source there, and there are very few new posts per day to merit...

[bullrun2024bro]

Thanks for your kind words @Ratimov, @LFC_Bitcoin, @bitmover, @NotATether & @zasad@. I really appreciate it!  

I hope I understood correctly that you are not a new person in the world of cryptocurrencies? I will be waiting for your interview.

Thanks a lot for your request. I am happy to post the answers to your questions in your thread within the next few weeks.

I understand how much effort you put into getting that much merit. Keep moving in the same direction and overtake Ratimov

Haha no way! Ratimov earns his merit faster than one can spell the word Bitcoin. There is no chance to beat him!  

I find it much harder to get merit in the local forum because there is less activity.

Luckily the German board is very active and a great place to receive merit. If you put some time into your posts most users will be happy to reward you. Especially our merit sources are doing an outstanding job.

Congratulations OP. You can see your merit stats here. https://bitcoindata.science/supertable.html

Thanks a lot for sharing these statistics. I will look into them of course!  

[zasad@]

My local board, portuguese, lacks activity... I am the merit source there, and there are very few new posts per day to merit...

This is the problem. If you write good posts in your local forum, then most of the merit you will get from merit sources.
And other participants will not be able to give you merit, because they do not have it or very little.
For a good publication in the local forum, you can get 10-20 merit, and for a useful publication in the main section, the reward is higher.
Therefore, I find that earning merit in a local forum is much more difficult.

[Pffrt]

Cool achievement. I didn't even notice you getting merit such faster, I thought Rikafip, Ratimov and zasad to be the recent fastest merit earner. Great job, anyway. Keep up.

I find it much harder to get merit in the local forum because there is less activity.

My local board, portuguese, lacks activity... I am the merit source there, and there are very few new posts per day to merit...

And when it comes to my local, wait, I mean my local thread (no board for Bengali yet), there's a few activities lately but no merit sources yet. In fact, there was very few people sharing merit in that thread until BitcoinDream quoted a few post in his merit source aapplication.

[Findingnemo]

Earned enough to become a Legendary but still lacking the activity. Good to have you as one of our fellow participants of Bustadice hope you are helping the community with your contributions on local board.

Don't stop there just keep doing the things as same as you are doing right now.

[mole0815]

Hey bro!

Nice thread and if you have reached this milestone in record time you can celebrate it.
The performance and motivation you show here every day is quite impressive. I know how much work is behind it and you you are leading the ranking that Lakai01 regularly creates for us since a long time and you are undisputedly on the 1st place.

Keep up the good work, stay a helpful user for the bitcointalk community and especially for the DACH area and keep going towards 2000!

Have a nice weekend and ciao

[DdmrDdmr]

<…> We are waiting for the DdmrDdmr data dump to see your result in the background.

Are you referring to the data in the first 4 tables of this thread?: Nº días necesarios para llegar a 1K, 2K, 3K y 4K méritos (in Spanish, but the tables are easy to interpret).


I’ve just updated all the tables on that thread:

- The first posts display the amount of time an account took to reach 1k and/or 2k and or 3k and or 4k earned merits. Here I’m considering as a starting point the most recent date between the date of the Merit System kick-off, and the date the account was created (not first merited on).

- Subsequent tables on posts number 8 and 9 display the shortest time interval than an account took to reach 1k and/or 2k and or 3k and or 4k earned merits, from any point in time.

In both cases, I’m counting the number of distinct days needed (disregarding the time). I readjusted the content of the first 4 posts accordingly, in relation to prior calculus updates, so as to be aligned to the remaining tables (+1 day).

According to my data, @bullrun2020bro is the sixth quickest to reach 1k earned merits (259 days since account creation in his case), although the shortest period of time to gain 1k merits was 245 days (2020-01-24 .. 2020-09-24) – 20th fastest 1k earned interval.

[bullrun2024bro]

According to my data, @bullrun2020bro is the sixth quickest to reach 1k earned merits (259 days since account creation in his case), although the shortest period of time to gain 1k merits was 245 days (2020-01-24 .. 2020-09-24) – 20th fastest 1k earned interval.

Thanks for sharing your stats @DdmrDdmr. The sixth quickest to reach 1000 merit... only beaten by theymos, satoshi, LoyceV, DdmrDdmr & Ratimov... sounds damn good to me. Or what do you guys think? 

2 forum newcomers with relatively recent registration showed the same result. That's interesting. 

Well, now it's up to the next record-breaking beginners, if he breaks the record in 259 days, he will break both mine and bullrun2020bro.

Haha, that was a close race my friend! But don't worry, I'll do my best to beat you at the 2000 merit mark. 

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Most of your merits are in your local, german.

Ah, I was wondering why I didn't recognize OP's username--especially since he's earned over 1000 merits in less than a year.  That just goes to show you how important it is to have merit sources on the local boards.

Average Merit per day: 3.9~ Merit

That's....incredible.  I don't know who else has a stat like that, but the only member I can think of off the top of my head would be nullius when he was active.  I wish I could read German so I could take a look at what you wrote in the German board. 

Anyway, congrats on getting all that merit.  It looks like you're doing a pretty good job of spreading the sMerits you've earned around as well, so props to you for not being stingy.  Now all you have to do is wait until you have enough activity to climb the ranks--but hey, the hard part is over for you at least.

[Upgrade00]

@bullrun2020bro, you make the rest of us look bad  
Congratulations on your achievement on the forum and the near record breaking time it took you to get there. I can't read most of your posts, but the ones which I can were quite impressive and educative.
A self made (potential) legendary member in less than a year is quite commendable and a testament of how the merit system works and how, with enough effort anyone can climb up the rank rungs to the top.

[Raflesia]

This is very impressive that many bullrun2020bro people have achieved considerable merit to move up the ranks and have been waiting for Hero Member => Legendary less than a year is something that can motivate a lot of people especially in contributing to this forum you are very active in those threads that means you have done your best in this forum. I say congratulations and this is really amazing.

Ratimov, zasad@ Rikafip and bullrun2020bro are the people I observe in posting even I want to be like him.
I should be able to.   lol

[FIFA worldcup]

Many congratulations to you on achieving this milestone in so less time. This is just an impossible task which you have attain successfully.

I will closely look at your post history to see how can i improve myself.  

[UmerIdrees]

I find it much harder to get merit in the local forum because there is less activity.

Well, that certainly depends on what local board you are talking about.
There are some locals where there are lack of merit sources or lack of activity. But in local where there is a good activity and some merit source, it is a good place to get merit.

My local board, portuguese, lacks activity... I am the merit source there, and there are very few new posts per day to merit...

Same is the case with our local board Pakistan where there is not only lack of activity but also there is no local merit source who can read local language and give merits on good posts. However i will take this learning to my local board and will share with them that we should support each other.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Congrats buddy, we are in the same campaign, and I see your name pop up after every week to get the weekly bonuses.  . I'm still a long way to go, started the campaign as member (both of us), and now I'm just a few merits to Senior member status. So you are one of my inspirations to at least finished the year as Senior or Hero status. 

[Bitcoin577]

According to my data, @bullrun2020bro is the sixth quickest to reach 1k earned merits (259 days since account creation in his case), although the shortest period of time to gain 1k merits was 245 days (2020-01-24 .. 2020-09-24) – 20th fastest 1k earned interval.

Thanks for sharing your stats @DdmrDdmr. The sixth quickest to reach 1000 merit... only beaten by theymos, satoshi, LoyceV, DdmrDdmr & Ratimov... sounds damn good to me. Or what do you guys think? 

2 forum newcomers with relatively recent registration showed the same result. That's interesting. 

Well, now it's up to the next record-breaking beginners, if he breaks the record in 259 days, he will break both mine and bullrun2020bro.

Haha, that was a close race my friend! But don't worry, I'll do my best to beat you at the 2000 merit mark. 

This is not easy task for any one you done great job as now you are example for many other newbies like me we have to follow these good things for reaching this milestone and need some good community back up as well because without this its not possible to achieve targets like this great work and many congratulations for this all.