How to earn merit

[Daniel91]

But I don’t think theymos will implement any changes to the merit system, I am sure he has already done the math as to how many rank ups are possible with present merit sources, if he does implement the change then i think he will reduce the refill merit amount to the merit sources.

I sincerely hope that theymos is not considering reducing the amount of merit available for merit sources.
It seems to me that the need for merits is great and many merit sources do not have enough merit to reward every quality post.
I think it's important that there's always a balance between the number of merits available and the number of quality posts and right now I'm not sure if that's quite the case.
Of course, only theymos has all the data but obviously some merit sources are inactive and on the other hand we have a lot of quality applications for new merit sources here.
I personally hope that soon we will see new merit sources and that those who are inactive will be removed as merit source or at least have their number of available merits reduced.

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[Lucius]

There is already plenty of drama regarding old legendary accounts who received enough airdropped merits to become legendary and then were never rewarded any sMerits by other members.   

It's not just Legendary rank, but we can discuss all the ranks that got airdropped merits, and then they didn't justify it in any way - which is the best indication that they would never be able to achieve anything in the current system.

It should not be forgotten that for some members all airdropped merits were not a fair move - because why did I get 1000 merits as a gift and someone has to earn them in a hard way? What people forget is the fact that the forum existed long before the merit system, and that the rules were completely different - so everyone was rewarded with the amount of merit for their current rank, which in some cases proved to be a justified move - anyone who earned at least as many merits as he received as a gift definitely justified his airdropped merits.

[ScamViruS]

For me, the best way to earn merit was pointed long ago by some user who I have forgotten the name of. They said that you could qualify for a merit if you have a quality post, interesting and witty post or you contributed something really important to the forum.

That user was right. If you do not post quality posts, your merit expectations will not be correct. You can contribute to the forum in different ways, and if your contribution is really beneficial to the forum members then you can get merit from the merit source.

So you have to make helpful posts according to your talent, and if those posts are acceptable then you can get more merit than you expect. There are many new members who are constantly contributing to the forum and they are getting the merit they deserve.

[YOSHIE]

Already two pages of members advise you, how to do the best to get Merit, of course it all starts with hard work and sincerity.

With your sincerity and honesty in making this topic I give you (1).

Just a few reviews:
I think that Merit is like someone planting a young plant: planting, starting from seeds, watering, fertilizing, being cared for and does not escape the knowledge that someone has.
For that hard work will produce good and sweet plants/fruits.

You need to do the best of the best.

[Quickseller]

IMO the required amounts in order to rank up are a bit on the high side.  The amount of merit required to rank to the next rank is 1, then 10 (10x), 100(10x), 250(2.5x), 500(2x), and finally 1000(2x).

Well yes but if someone manages to make it to 200 merits then they are pretty good with writing posts that others think are helpful to the community, and it’ll be easy for them to advance in ranks since they’re already in radar of the people who merited them before.

IMO if someone can get enough merit to become a full member (100) in a reasonable amount of time, they will eventually get enough merit to become a hero or even a legendary member without too much delay. The issue that I have seen is that some users are not able to rank up on a timely basis, so there are full members, and senior members with much more activity than needed to rank up to the next rank.

[GeorgeJohn]

I'm just responding to this thread because of the caution or the topic sentence, it's obvious to the forum that the only possible measures a community user can earn a merit is through research and it's more especially been innovative to the community by creating a topic that is not related to any topic in the community that are meaningful and educative to bitcointalk old user and new users, the major reason while some people stay stagnant via earning merit here is the inability for them to be creative, creativity is the pathways of earning merit using Ratimov and Charles Tim as primary example.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Everyone's opion would be helpful if it advances my chances for getting good sums of merits for my posts.

I enjoy reviewing post history, it says alot about people. I just did to yours, you're not spamming that's all I can say but if you want to receive more merits then you have to do better than what you're currently doing, that's improve. I have seen what others have said so I'm choosing my words carefully to avoid repeating. I went through your merit record and found out I merited your posts in a board not many visit to look for meritable posts, that's to say if you keep writing merit worthy posts you'll receive them in no time irrespective of the boards.

Already you're recieving merits so you won't say your posts aren't been merited but if you need the large numbers of merits then you have show reasons for it, make very outstanding posts basically to pass knowledge to the community and the merit reward will come. Chances are, if you're just after the merits, it won't come your way.

When threads are been created, even without much thinking you can easily identify those topic that were just created for merit hunting, don't make such posts, make yours to either be informative, educative and not basic things overemphasize in a way to look very important.

[jamyr]

worldofcoins :

Be meritorious, be lucky, be helpful, be informative, be this, be that, do this, do that. . . . . . .

Today I feel like saying be yourself, and do not focus on earning merits, I had a taste and its really addictive.

Tomorrow I might mistakenly consider this as a merit-fishing gimmick.

As an aside, I did just receive a few source sMerits (though not that many), so I'll look at your posts later on today.  Sound good?  And if you want another post history review, drop me a PM no sooner than one month from today and I'll be happy to oblige.

Are you the last of your kind?(this is a compliment so you can maybe do the same for me.)  

[philipma1957]

I like an old post you made at the beginning of the 2017 runup.

I gave it a merit.

I also merited this thread.

[aysg76]

You have earned some merits and there is the answer to your post.The merit system was introduced here on the forum by theymos to encourage the members to enhance their knowledge and post quality content and restricts members to abuse forum for posting anything which is not relevant and this has helped a lot seriously.Getting merits is not a tough task if you are capable of it like making quality posts and sharing your knowledge and thoughts with fellow members here.So follow the forum rules and try to make some threads sharing useful and new information and giving effective contributions to the forum which will help you to achieve your goal.I think you already have started the merit journey so try to keep it and try to contribute in healthy discussions as well.

[UserU]

Are you the last of your kind?(this is a compliment so you can maybe do the same for me.) 

Of course, he's the one and only Pharmacist we know hanging around