KNOWLEDGE IS BETTER THAN MERIT

[Munir575]

Seeking for knowledge and sharing them should be your major concern in the forum. With lots of effort, hard work and dedication you will be appreciated when your work is genuine, unique and useful while avoiding plagiarism meits will definitely roll in.

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[Alisha-k]

Merits is the reward for the knowledge one has acquired, so like OP has rightly said, forget about getting merits and focus on acquiring knowledge, when you've acquired the right knowledge and you're able to appropriately disseminate the information in your possession then definitely the merits will eventually come.

[Porfirii]

Both merit and knowledge are good... It is not enough to be X, you must seem it too. I have been witness many times on how newbies posts are obviated from a general discussion because of their rank, although their input was interesting. And if knowledge is better, at least it is not so easily measurable, and bounty managers won't be digging on how much you know in order to participate in their campaigns.

[Beparanf]

Both merit and knowledge are good... It is not enough to be X, you must seem it too. I have been witness many times on how newbies posts are obviated from a general discussion because of their rank, although their input was interesting. And if knowledge is better, at least it is not so easily measurable, and bounty managers won't be digging on how much you know in order to participate in their campaigns.

Merits and Knowledge has different use case. You can earn merit by having knowledge but you can't earn knowledge by just having merit here since merit is just a token of appreciation from a person that thinks your post is helpful to him. Simply merits is very subjective while you can have general knowledge without earning merits.

Many new are striving to earn merits by recycling others useful idea. The post is useful but since its repetitive, They will not gonna get merit out of it since merit sender think that it just an old idea.

[og kush420]

CONCLUSION
All these being said, I wish to advise my fellow newbie's to seek for knowledge first before talking about merits. Merits should come when you make a good post, so focus on making quality and educating posts than looking for merits.

Cant agree more. Merit is subjective thing i.e. it follows automatically when you post something which is about sharing knowledge, answering some questions etc. You cant ask someone to give you merits, it will find you eventually. Best way to get merits is to see which posts are getting merits. This will give you idea of what you have to post in order to get merits.

[Peanutswar]

Both merit and knowledge are good... It is not enough to be X, you must seem it too. I have been witness many times on how newbies posts are obviated from a general discussion because of their rank, although their input was interesting. And if knowledge is better, at least it is not so easily measurable, and bounty managers won't be digging on how much you know in order to participate in their campaigns.

Merits and Knowledge has different use case. You can earn merit by having knowledge but you can't earn knowledge by just having merit here since merit is just a token of appreciation from a person that thinks your post is helpful to him. Simply merits is very subjective while you can have general knowledge without earning merits.

Many new are striving to earn merits by recycling others useful idea. The post is useful but since its repetitive, They will not gonna get merit out of it since merit sender think that it just an old idea.

In this forum, there's a lot of information we can get and can use that knowledge to spread awareness and share essential information. In getting merits different persons have their different perspectives so that's why they give some merit to those they think they deserve well we have our merit sources that if they think it's qualified its deserved to get. If you are already knowledgeable member merit is not a problem because it will follow most of the quality posters already got tons of merit helps them to rank up.

[libert19]

This very title of your post screams that you care about merits.

[DdmrDdmr]

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That’s not really currently technically feasible with good results, and even if it were (hypothetically), it would still be the criteria of a conceptually centralized entity, as opposed to a potentially diverse and multiple criteria through forum members (granted that there is a lack of further diversity that many would like).

Conceptually speaking, the overall goal should be that a decent enough poster manages to rank-up at, more or less, the same pace as before the Merit System was introduced. That equates to, roughly, earning one Merit per day on average (a bit more on once transiting from Hero to Legendary). Whilst this is feasible for quite a few (whom often place quite a bit of effort and time), the majority of accounts do struggle, but no conceptual bot type AI would aid too much here, lest it should establish a low bar for meriting, thus prioritizing numbers and quotas over content.

[Falconer]

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That’s not really currently technically feasible with good results, and even if it were (hypothetically), it would still be the criteria of a conceptually centralized entity, as opposed to a potentially diverse and multiple criteria through forum members (granted that there is a lack of further diversity that many would like).

Conceptually speaking, the overall goal should be that a decent enough poster manages to rank-up at, more or less, the same pace as before the Merit System was introduced. That equates to, roughly, earning one Merit per day on average (a bit more on once transiting from Hero to Legendary). Whilst this is feasible for quite a few (whom often place quite a bit of effort and time), the majority of accounts do struggle, but no conceptual bot type AI would aid too much here, lest it should establish a low bar for meriting, thus prioritizing numbers and quotas over content.

Previously I didn't really care about the merit system because I only focused on the quantity rather than the quality of my posts. I agree with the change and improvement and I started to do it a little more purposefully after being motivated by the number of users who managed to rank up after the merit system was born especially by newbie. Why newbie? Yes I think they are much easier to get merit even when they post for the first time in this forum after registering than me as a old member.

The definite step I have taken so far is to make sure that each post I make is much more useful than the previous one and that has given me some merit so far. So when I started ignoring quantity (post count is zero), then I started to feel like this merit system was working for me. I'm sure sooner or later I'll be able to rank up like most of the good posters here. Even though the OP has been inactive since 11 September but I can tell him that the merit and knowledge system will continue to be tied to each other when a poster can share his knowledge with this community.

[Charles-Tim]

Previously I didn't really care about the merit system because I only focused on the quantity rather than the quality of my posts.

The merit system really helped people to improve their posting quality. I am always glad to see people posting about how merit system makes them improve their posting quality.

Why newbie? Yes I think they are much easier to get merit even when they post for the first time in this forum after registering than me as a old member.

Newbies do not receive merit like established members, but very few that read, understand and get more acquainted with this forum, rather than focusing on only posting and joining a campaign always find it easy to rank up. But unfortunately, most of the newbies are not after posting quality, but the ones that focus on quality post achieve ranking up as fast as possible. My observation.

[JayTrain]

A worthy message to the newcomers of the forum, there will be nothing without knowledge, you need to study a lot yourself, it will not come by itself, and most importantly there should be a desire for all this, without this nothing will happen.

[BITCOIN4X]

The definite step I have taken so far is to make sure that each post I make is much more useful than the previous one and that has given me some merit so far. So when I started ignoring quantity (post count is zero), then I started to feel like this merit system was working for me.

The merit system is meant to encourage every user to improve the quality of posts, it's up to who you are and how long you've been in this forum but if you don't have a Legendary rank then you need merit to achieve it and one of the condition is that you have to have quality or useful post.

I'm sure sooner or later I'll be able to rank up like most of the good posters here.

It's a sure thing but everyone can say anything but if they don't have consistency and effort then it will only slow down the achievement. I may not need to suggest much on how you should be able to achieve quality posts because you are one of the old members here, but it is not impossible that you also still have a lot to learn if you were previously a spammer. Ok I can only support your efforts and intention but in the end you have your own way to decide.

KNOWLEDGE IS BETTER THAN MERIT

Knowledge cant be compared with merit because basically these two things are completely different. Knowledge will only help you get merit if you have the desire to apply it in a post. People may say that they don't care about merit or rank, but honestly they know how the merit and rank system works so without thinking about it they can get merit and rank up.

[Falconer]

The merit system really helped people to improve their posting quality. I am always glad to see people posting about how merit system makes them improve their posting quality.

Of course, I'm very grateful for all the support I've get so far, whether by sending me merit or with constructive suggestion. Regardless of whether people provide me merit or not then I just want to use the forum longer than anything I've ever had at the time and by improving the quality of my post I think I can achieve this wish.

To be honest I've been pushing myself to improve post quality because so far quite a number of my post have been deleted due to spam, I've had temporary ban before and I thought this was an opportunity for me to do better if I wanted to use the forum longer. I hope this can be a good basis for me though I'm embarrassed to tell you guys. But an increase like this is expected even though I believe merit and rank are not easy things for me to achieve in a short time.

Ok I can only support your efforts and intention but in the end you have your own way to decide.

Well, I'm glad to hear that.

[Gosgosking]

Yes Knowledge is much better than merit. Knowledge is the first thing that can bring all merit, with no Knowledge no real merit. Knowledge is just the main thing to grow, Knowledge is like food man feeds on to grow.

[JoyMarsha]

Implementation of merits into the forum made it possible for people to deep further into the findings of crypto. No more gibberish posts just to rank up. Knowledge about crypto is good but the number of merits gotten tells us how you have made an impact in the forum positively.
If it is all about grabbing the knowledge about crypto, what's the need of contributing to this forum. We would have all been reading posts. What does come to newbies minds is to get merit first before the knowledge

[SmokerFace]

Yes, agree. Knowledge is more important. We cannot achieve our goals in the absence of proper knowledge.
Without this, you may have to face financial losses as well as disappointment. So it's mandatory to first learn by acquiring proper knowledge and training than to work.

[Trojane]

Even the poster longs for a couple of merits 

We'll, it's actually true but merits isn't a deal or commodity that you obtain from others for money or sort of...
Merit is like a form of appreciation, congratulations or accolades for a post or thread well written; it serves as a motivation to everyone including DT members themselves.. anyone that gets merited for a post develops the urge to make more constructive post,yeah..but you're looking at merit like something you shouldn't need or something you should reject if you're given..not so!
When you have this high intellect to make constructive post, there's no how you can avoid merits; they'll come on their own

[Shamm]

Yes you are right Op, we all know that knowledge is better than anything.
Here in our community/forum it's better that you are knowledgeable, even if your ranks will still newbie but you have a farther knowledge I think you are ahead /better of those legendary members who have little knowledge.
If you have more knowledge and then merits will follow you and it's easy to get.

Zero knowledge Less merits
More knowledge more merits

[Awwal08]

I agree knowledge is better than merit, before I joined the forum, I first seek for knowledge of it no it were about and after that when I started I Began to experience so many things. my first post was deleted I have to read the rules again, my second post I got a merit that is power of knowledge.

[Rashedulislam77]

You are absolutely right.And I agree with you because without any knowledge about this forum and all about Cryptocurrency we can't be successful in Crypto. And if we have much knowledge we can be aware about crypto scams and make our funds secured also. Again as fer I know merit earning isn't so hard if we have helping nature in this forum.