Don't buy merits

[XUR_TIP]

I heard you can buy merits through telegram links for your bitcointalk account, Brothers and sisters you aren't helping yourself if you buying those merits because you won't even know how better you are getting on the forum with your posts and contributions, and again if you are a bad poster you will always remain the same, abstains from such act

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[Poker Player]

I agree. Those who get the fast lane and try to cheat the system will probably end up like the guy I discovered in the following thread:

Can someone check if there is something wrong with this?

He ended up opening this thread:

I apologise from you alll

But it was useless.

[Luzin]

if you buying those merits because you won't even know how better you are getting on the forum with your posts and contributions, and again if you are a bad poster you will always remain the same, abstains from such act

I won't do that, that's cheating. Anyone who does deserves to be punished. You are right even though the merit increases but the post will not change well, if you were previously a spammer. Even worse, if you get caught, your account will be banned permanently. In addition, the giver of merit will also receive the impact. You are quite diligent in studying and reading, I am doing that now and as a result, my merit increases and ranks up.

[DdmrDdmr]

There was a recent case I recall reading about, whereby a given account was eventually caught after having purchased merits. I’m not going to detail the case here, but these things, besides being unethical on behalf of both parties involved, may be unveil at any point in time in the future, potentially decimating the involved accounts if caught.

To be honest, if one resorts to this type of practice, it’s not as if they’re going to get very far up the ranking ladder anyway, and since the objective behind is nearly always to participate in a campaign, it’s barely going to push far in that direction (plus you miss out on all the necessary training ground to really get very far).

[Upgrade00]

Even worse, if you get caught, your account will be banned permanently. In addition, the giver of merit will also receive the impact.

Merit selling is not a punishable offense by the forum, but obvious sales could get the sender and receiver red tags, which would almost make those merits useless as campaigns usually do not accept red trusted members.
Merits are also always depreciating as it gets rotated around, making merit sales difficult to sustain.

Better to try and learn from the forum, cause, If a user's post qualities poor, they would still find it difficult to be accepted into campaigns regardless of the amount of merits they buy

[Raflesia]

I also often see red tags because of problems with the use of merits and of course it will be strictly prohibited in the campaign if the goal is only like that, so whatever is done in this forum do not abuse anything including selling merits to someone, I've also seen a group on telegram with selling merit at the beginning of merit is applied in this forum so many are caught and it will be a dead end for you especially just want to have merit from bad post quality.

Whatever it is in this forum, it must aim in good faith, meaning make quality posts and see how senior accounts do it, you can follow that step and the more in the future you will understand how to get merits from people and your posts are of such quality.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Buying merits equates to buying an account. What's the difference?  Purchased merits will be fake, and there is always an opportunity to look at those posts that have been judged with fake merit.
I just want to warn all interested buyers. By buying merits, you admit your weakness. We also see the seller, who will also be tagged. After all, he must find posts that supposedly should be good. And if a person himself cannot write a good post, then the merit will look stupid.
And the purchase of accounts and the purchase of merits is revealed sooner or later. The buyer is just starting to relax when he makes a mistake, and after that, he receives a red tag.
Don't do nonsense.

[The Cryptovator]

Merit hunting post anyway.

Keep in mind, merit sales on Telegram is just a scam attempt IMO. Most probably they will skip with your funds. There are ZERO benefits even you succeed to buy merits, because if your post quality isn't good, then it's not going to help you anyway. Besides that, if anyone caught trading merits would lead get negative feedback. Better just concentrate on contribution and build your id this way. I have heard before users getting scams when they attempt to buy merits or forum accounts. Don't go with any wrong way. It's quite easy to earn merits by your contributions.

[finaleshot2016]

Those who purchased merits are only interested in participating in signature campaigns and earning money, not in discussing anything significant about cryptocurrency. It's completely worthless to me, and it's already considered cheating, much like buying an account or joining a campaign with several accounts. The stuff I've learned in crypto and the way I build those contents have been essential in my journey from 100 to 924 merits. If the user really deserves those merits or if it's just random merit from a not-so-special post, you'll notice it on the user. Idk, but lately, some managers have made good posting a necessity. Merit is not a requirement in and of itself; it's just an extra credit that shows you're better than the rest, but if you're recognized as a good poster, it'll be easier for you to be selected.

That's how life works; to stand out from the crowd, you'll need to show off your skills and talent. Do not even buy those certifications and pretend to have completed them when you haven't because it'll make your life harder.

If I don't spend on studying and learning, I won't earn many merits, so it should be a motivating factor for everyone to make quality posts rather than buy merits.  

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Who are readily to sell you merit?

Hacked accounts. They are easily to be detected. So when you buy merit from them, your accounts will be detected too.
If I have a good account with many smerits, it means my account has a good quality. Do I take risk to sell some smerits to you?
I can use my account to get long term income from my posts and contributions here.

I earned 142 merit and only have 4 smerits to send. I sent less than 70 smerit to good posts and did not sell any of them.

[YOSHIE]

I heard you can buy merits through telegram links for your bitcointalk account,

You hear, it's not a sure thing, yes or no, but what you need to know is: in this forum, buying and selling of merit is not allowed.
The applicable rules at a glance: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0

Can I sell merit?

Selling merit is disallowed.

Can I give merit to my alt accounts?

No, this is frowned upon and will almost certainly lead to you receiving negative feedback if discovered.

and again if you are a bad poster you will always remain the same, abstains from such act

yes, it is better, if not done.
Do things that are useful especially for forums and communities here, you will be appreciated, maybe better of all.
Bottom line: do, talk, anyone can, do it is much more difficult, if we don't want to learn and do it.

[Daniel91]

A lot of new users on this forum are ready for anything just to get some merit and thus reach a higher forum rank.
I remember starting a merit giveaway topic in this section last year, I think.
I got very few quality applications from the newbie so I closed that topic.
After that, several newbie members sent me unwanted private messages asking for merits.
Of course, I reported them to the admin.
From begging for merits to trying to buy is a small step and I hope we will succeed in discouraging such a practice.

[CryptocurencyKing]

I agree. Those who get the fast lane and try to cheat the system will probably end up like the guy I discovered in the following thread:

Can someone check if there is something wrong with this?

He ended up opening this thread:

I apologise from you alll

But it was useless.

This is one hell of an interesting fined and read. I'm impressed at some of the works you guys are doing inactually fishing out these menace in the system and being right at it. You could see the user actually agreeing to the obvious suspicion through his plea though, it felt real but, it was obviously for the wrong reason, that which overrides the forums core value and I hope other users could learn from this.

No merit buying, its being said too many times and it would be very important should these telegram groups be reported so, the activities of the actual owners of these groups be watched carefully.

[nakamura12]

Everyone should think that buying merit have consequences so it is not advisable to buy merits. It feels good when you help someone in need without expecting something in return. I have done those things before and I will do it and surely merit will come just like I receive merits before by helping, joining discussions and many more.

[Darkelf11]

There are no rules in giving and receiving merits it's your choice if you want to send to others because it's a subjective thing also that's the reason why we have merit sources so to help other members giving an effort just to earn merit. Merit trading or merit begging is not recommended to the forum because they might abuse the system. It's better if you work hard to our those number of merits.

[AniviaBtc]

If you think that that's a form of investment then you're absolutely wrong with that because earning merit is not that easy especially that it should be worked hard for. In order for you to become a trusted member here, you should work for it and know that earning merit is by making quality and informative posts for the benefit of others. We are here to build a healthy and informed community about the cryptocurrency world and economy. Buying merits is really a form of cheating and it will not help you here in community instead it will just waste your money and earn negative trust which can lead for your account to become useless.

[Connor Britton]

As a newcomer, I don’t know that I can buy and sell merits. I just want to slowly gain merits through my own replies, comments or posts. Although this process is very slow, the efforts I put in for this can make me learn better. Knowledge of cryptocurrency.

[Luzin]

As a newcomer, I don’t know that I can buy and sell merits. I just want to slowly gain merits through my own replies, comments or posts. Although this process is very slow, the efforts I put in for this can make me learn better. Knowledge of cryptocurrency.

That's very good, all need a process to grow to be big. You only need to be diligent in reading and trying, the end goal of your reply post is to have benefits for all members. I am like you. My merit starts from 0. Approximately 1 year I can only move up the rank at this time. All need a process and a willingness to develop. If you buy merit it will be the same, just look at how some high ranks have bad post quality. Maybe you will be like that if you buy merit, even your account can be banned. In the end you have to be patient to achieve it all.

[DdmrDdmr]

<…>Maybe you will be like that if you buy merit, even your account can be banned. <…>

It won’t be banned for the action itself directly, but it can easily lead to gaining negative trust (this is somewhat controversial and not all agree on the cause of action), which will probably defeat the purpose of the purchase made in the first case.

Additionally, merits do leave a trail that sometimes may lead to an account being suspicions of this or that, and that can bring the account under severe scrutiny (which every now and then bears fruitful results of the account actually breaking the rules at some point and ending-up banned for a different matter. Merits can act as a spotlight when they are incoherent or follow a suspicious pattern.

[Rengga Jati]

I heard you can buy merits through telegram links for your bitcointalk account,

Wow, even merit has become something for business with. But of course, this will create high risks. When an ordinary post suddenly gets merit from an account, and then it can be traced in relation to the account activity, it will cause suspicion of the recipient and the account that gives merits.
After all, why we must buy, if we try seriously and optimally, we will get merit from other members as long as our post really deserves that merit. 

I am sure, when he buys merit, it means that he himself is not sure if he is able or even that he is not able to make posts that are likely to get merit.
It may belong to merit abuse

[kawetsriyanto]

As a newcomer, I don’t know that I can buy and sell merits. I just want to slowly gain merits through my own replies, comments or posts.

It is good, just get merits with your own efforts. You don't need to know about buying merits, it will be risky for your account then. If you plan to have a long journey in this forum, just follow the rules and don't do something to risk your account. Buying merits will be easily detected, especially for newbies who have few posts only. Your posts and merits must be in tune, which means the merits on your posts show the quality of that posts. Once you can improve your post quality, then you don't worry that merits will come to your posts easily.

[Hispo]

Even as a Newbie, I can tell that an underground market for merits will only worsen the quality of this community, slowly but steady.
Giving "visibility" to users that might have not earned it and tempting merit-givers with this new kind of "corruption".

I hope this community continues with mostly honest and helping people, right at the moment crypto currency is as relevant as never was before.

 

[cryptoaddictchie]

As a newcomer, I don’t know that I can buy and sell merits. I just want to slowly gain merits through my own replies, comments or posts. Although this process is very slow, the efforts I put in for this can make me learn better. Knowledge of cryptocurrency.

Actually it shouldn't but there are people who are dumb to do business on buying and selling merits. For them they thought they can easily rank up with just buying all the necessary merits needed for their level. It just shows that their priority is to rank up and join money making campaigns and bounty but not to gain privilege by learning something worthwhile. Anyway you are in the right track.

[ShowOff]

Buying merit to move up the ranking is the fastest way to deceive yourself and can negatively impact both buyer and seller as the account's reputation is at stake right after the deal is made. All merit trading will end badly for both actors if proven, they just don't realize that merit trading is a trap that can damage the account's reputation sooner or later. They do not appreciate the potential knowledge and abilities that are in them and they are eager to activate the time bomb called merit trading.

I just want to slowly gain merits through my own replies, comments or posts. Although this process is very slow, the efforts I put in for this can make me learn better. Knowledge of cryptocurrency.

That's to be expected. Naturally you will also get the opportunity to move up the rank and gain enough merit. We all need a process to develop, it take time and effort as well as patience.

[dihari]

To be honest, buying merits is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in forum. It's showed they're lack of confidence to write something useful. It's just prove them, they don't even try to learn something on the forum.
If they try to write something helpful for forum users, I believe they can earn some merits. There's also bunch of old members here support the newbies with merits for doing some useful tasks.
Believe me, buying merits to rank up is not worth for your knowledge and confidence.

[iamsheikhadil]

Lol, I have been observing such related topics here and there about such services, and it's not worth it at all, statistically speaking, if you post goodly, within few months you will get so much merits that you can't apprehend while buying merit is a loss-loss case, it demotivates you from "earning" merits, and the money you pay could have been used in a better way had you just waited patiently by making some good posts and see the merits coming in

[Smartvirus]

To be honest, buying merits is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in forum. It's showed they're lack of confidence to write something useful. It's just prove them, they don't even try to learn something on the forum.

Lol, i almost felt the same way you did while typing this post. Funny but not less annoying. Seriously, its really bad and not just demonstrates in competence in a forum user's inability to compit squarely amongst other users but, also go goes another length to display stupidity. That, that which is offered freely and you can get freely, you tend to be apply so much worth to it as you do bitcoin. It makes me wonder how valuable it could have been should merits have come with a currency value. Perhaps we might have seen it creating ATH time after time (I'm not suggesting a currency value though, no). It would go far in destroying the merit idea. Merit selling isn't good for the forum m, if your really about the forum.

[Trinx01]

I don't even think that there is someone who is doing that thing for just merit, yes merit is really important in Bitcointalk but you don't need to buy it, you may earn merit from the good posts that you may create and remember that earnings o knowledge is much important that gaining merit.

[akirasendo17]

I heard you can buy merits through telegram links for your bitcointalk account, Brothers and sisters you aren't helping yourself if you buying those merits because you won't even know how better you are getting on the forum with your posts and contributions, and again if you are a bad poster you will always remain the same, abstains from such act

if you buy merits just to rank up, it's like telling yourself that you are weak and don't have the guts to learn and reach a goal with your own capability, yes you have money but, a person who will do that should be ashamed of his self, at the same time, you have learned nothing and I'm very sure that account will be worthless, why? he/she doesn't know anything, I'm sure that person will have poor posting skills and topic since he never started from scratch.

[Johnyz]

Why do you need to spend money where you can easily earn merit by just sharing quality post?

Don't fool yourself by doing this one, it might be so hard for you to earn Merit but the moment you get it on a legal way, you'll feel the great achievement especially if you do your best just to get that Merit.

There's should be no rush to rank-up here in the forum, just enjoy the process while learning and don't focus too much on your Merit, it will come in time.

[qwertyup23]

I always find it amusing that people who beg for merit are also the ones who have a post history full of bounty campaigns or spams in the forum.

The reason on why people beg/ask for merits is because this would enable them to participate in campaign signatures if they happen to rank up. However, they are forgetting one crucial factor- their post history. Even if they indeed rank up, they still cannot escape the discretion of campaign managers in choosing the participants. Merits only enable you to participate but it is NOT an absolute guarantee that you would be chosen to participate in campaigns.

Even if they successfully purchase merits, they still won't make it far as quality post contribution cannot be bought.

[macson]

those who buy "merit" are of course just a lazy person who wants to instantly rank up and will not improve the shit-posts he keeps making.

I agree. Those who get the fast lane and try to cheat the system will probably end up like the guy I discovered in the following thread:

Can someone check if there is something wrong with this?

He ended up opening this thread:

I apologise from you alll

But it was useless.

i went to the topic that you have locked down and saw how pathetic his behavior was "lol".

[Alucard1]

I don't understand why those members need to buy merits, if they find it difficult to earn merit then they should motivate themselves to be better, we are all the same here but different with the knowledge we have right now, just imagine that pro or those people who already have good enough knowledge about cryptocurrency also became noob as well as we are, we can make it as motivation in a way that we should think that if they can be better then we can do it as well. Merit is important but knowledge is much worthy.

[Furious 7]

I don't understand why those members need to buy merits, if they find it difficult to earn merit then they should motivate themselves to be better, we are all the same here but different with the knowledge we have right now, just imagine that pro or those people who already have good enough knowledge about cryptocurrency also became noob as well as we are, we can make it as motivation in a way that we should think that if they can be better then we can do it as well. Merit is important but knowledge is much worthy.

Because they only want to get instant merits without motivating themselves or it can be said with not quality posts.
Usually those who buy merits are to move up the ranks from newbie to jr.member and usually it is used in bounty campaigns that they want to use as making money so basically it's useless if we don't see how from ourselves even opportunities it would be very far away if caught in the abuse of merits.
The members who buy the merits are not having worked hard in improving the quality of their posts.

[ShowOff]

To be honest, if one resorts to this type of practice, it’s not as if they’re going to get very far up the ranking ladder anyway, and since the objective behind is nearly always to participate in a campaign, it’s barely going to push far in that direction (plus you miss out on all the necessary training ground to really get very far).

Everything looks right and that's what usually happen to them, but they never seemed to care about that because their main purpose was to join the campaign.

I don't understand why those members need to buy merits, if they find it difficult to earn merit then they should motivate themselves to be better, we are all the same here but different with the knowledge we have right now, just imagine that pro or those people who already have good enough knowledge about cryptocurrency also became noob as well as we are, we can make it as motivation in a way that we should think that if they can be better then we can do it as well. Merit is important but knowledge is much worthy.

Buying merit for rankup is not ethically.
I'm sure all forum users have the ability to do something useful for themselve, but they do take effort and process. Nothing will prevent a single user from rankup after this merit system exists unless they never know how this system works. Merit are synonymous with reward for useful and quality post, one must reach this standard if one is to be rewarded. Even though in practice a person can still have difficulty getting merit even though the delivery looks quality, this is because the merit system is not moderated and as a result the post can still be overlooked. Reporting an unmerited post on the provided thread is fair way from merit source.

[AakZaki]

Enjoy the process and it will be the best way. But don't enjoy it too much, you need to do some effort, of course. make good posts, interact on forums and give your own opinion on some of the read threads.

Doing things instantly is not good.

I started as a newbie and didn't know anything. it took about 4 years to reach its current rank. Not only a ranking, but the journey and experience gained as well as knowledge of bitcoin, cryptocurrency and various other kinds of knowledge.

[cheezcarls]

I heard you can buy merits through telegram links for your bitcointalk account, Brothers and sisters you aren't helping yourself if you buying those merits because you won't even know how better you are getting on the forum with your posts and contributions, and again if you are a bad poster you will always remain the same, abstains from such act

This reminds me of some of my friends back then. The day this forum had implemented merit system, they were disgusted about not ranking up anymore (like they’re just few activities short in gaining the next rank). As a result, they have exchanged merits with one another in some consecutive posts and ended up getting permabanned.

Merits are just a bonus from me. I know that I wanna rank up, but I would rather choose to stop thinking in getting after that rank and instead keep contributing that would help the community, fighting against scammers, etc., as I am already blessed in other ways.

[libert19]

Telegram is filled with scammers, there is high chance even the 'merit sellers' would be scammers.

[yazher]

Don't you dare to try it guys because earning merits in such a way will make your heart unsatisfied and you will just feel bored when you engage in a conversation here in this community. because you don't feel like doing things in your own way you will just post for bounties or alike of it. earning merit is a long process you need to be aware of it. until you get one, you really need to learn a lot and spend your time reading and exploring. After that, merits will come to you even though you are not asking for it. Just be natural and be creative, everyone has their own unique talent and can use it well here. we have lots of different board you can explore to choose anyway.

[Ebede]

If people buy merit with money, I don't think is best option to beginners like me and new user, I think as a new user we have to start somewhere by creating our own device to get our own merit, if not that to get merit is very difficult to am extent, buying merit is like buying account and when will the person stop buying merit from member merit rank to legendary merit rank, because any rank we want  to reach we can reach it with money, which is bad, the best way is to work for our own personal growth because one day somebody will appreciate your work than buying merit else were.

[Daniel91]

It's really stupid to do something like that.
Which is actually the benefit of merit?
All members of this forum have equal rights, can participate equally in all discussions etc.
The only sensible reason to buy merits is the ability to participate in signature campaigns and earn btc.
However, in my opinion, even that is the wrong reason.
Members who run campaign signatures look very well at the quality of posts and the reputation of members who apply for campaigns and merits are not the only or even the main criteria when selecting new campaign members.
Merits you may be able to buy but not reputation or quality on this forum.

[GeorgeJohn]

We have the capacity and the ability to construct a tangible comments or respond that will attract merit, the purpose of someone esearching here to is mpact fresh knowledge to people which is unknown, so when doing such research often it will fetch the user merit in abudant form, because many people hustle for merit by introducing things to the community which is how people that have forum at heart suppose to operates, purchasing merit is like the user is inquisitive to make money, the primary agenda's to be here is to communicate about cryptocurrency more especially Bitcoin, and how to protect you coins from damage and when due to sell, if really you wishes.

[rosebrand]

Actually buying merits isn't  a good idea and it's seen as a wrong did In the forum, buying merits enables a person who isn't due yet for rank up to gain easy access to a new rank with less work, people buy merits  since there find it difficult to gain merit in the forum and this buying of ranks helps shitty posters to be able to rank up easily. So bad even the hard-working memebers find it difficult gaining merit because most people in the forum saves their merits of keep it for a friend and w

[AWMM24]

I heard you can buy merits through telegram links for your bitcointalk account, Brothers and sisters you aren't helping yourself if you buying those merits because you won't even know how better you are getting on the forum with your posts and contributions, and again if you are a bad poster you will always remain the same, abstains from such act

YES.. i  just think that buying merit is just wastage of money. Also you are here to get knowledge don't make this ranking system as competition. Its a rank according to your knowledge and helping other members.

[Stanlo]

There is nothing greater than earning merits yourself in your own way, I could still remember the feeling when I first earned my merit on this forum, the joy of 'yes I'm doing something right' filled the sky lol, do things the right way and you will get positive results, stop taking shortcuts they always end badly

[Call me Fada]

I heard you can buy merits through telegram links for your bitcointalk account, Brothers and sisters you aren't helping yourself if you buying those merits because you won't even know how better you are getting on the forum with your posts and contributions, and again if you are a bad poster you will always remain the same, abstains from such act

   Funny enough I wasn’t aware of all this I’m only hearing this for the first time I never knew all this go on in the forum though not here directly, anyone caught in such act should be seriously penalized. This forum is known for its discipline and decorum. This piece of information amazes me sincerely it wasn’t expected. Let me sound this as a note of warning to those involved in such to stop less further actions would be taken.