Why it's so hard to rank-up?

[GiftedMAN]

3. Limited Knowledge - You can't share what you don't have, and making good topics here requires a good knowledge especially topics about helping people or a guidelines.

Yes, but being active here in the forum for five years is enough time for someone that is a total novice to the forum to have learned so many things about the forum and how one can contribute positively to the growth of the forum or possibly made good research, gather good information that will solve some problems here. You can share the information you once saw that someone in the forum used to solve a particular problem if you are a good reader or should I say learner and you have nothing to lose hence you reference the original owner of the information, you can also get the information you wish to share on the internet but remember to add the link to the source of the information to avoid plagiarism.

[Hamza2424]

I would like to say Rank Up is not at all too hard. As Many / maximum members with Smerits merit you on your poat if its standard and having something unique it doesn't mean you need to discover something just something not in regular posts.

1: Be Active ( Constant Poster )
2: Post in active Community
3: Try to Post more in Local Board ( Easy to Intrect and earn merit)
4: Follow the Trend

[libert19]

]If you get the merit of your spontaneous comments without taking too much time, that's great. But I don't agree with the "don't care, the better" part. Concern for what will be discussed is very important and this will be a reference for how you can digest the topic being discussed.

If something relevant arises in the mind while reading the topic/comment then I comment otherwise move on.

it will only apply to the general topics being discussed, but for some technical topics that require a little more knowledge there will of course be some little research done.

Wdym by general topic? I tell you I rarely research (except checking spelling of words sometimes).

I base my responses on my own past experiences and what could be more concrete than that?

[Accardo]

Ranking up in the forum is not as difficult as you may have thought. The moment you say it's difficult so it'll be. It's clear that you are not dedicated to giving quality contents to forum members which may have affected your merit count regarding your post counts. Invest 1 hour a day reading a specific topic you wish to share here, the time it took to finish reading or researching on the topic don't matter, but reading daily on a topic for 7 hours which accounts for 7 days if you read about it 1 hr each day, such thread will be quality and intuitive because you understand the topic completely and made it easier for people to grasp new knowledge from the thread. A single post with so much time being invested on could get 20 merits from users that finds it helpful. Ranking up in this forum, the ball is on the users Court, if you want to rank definitely you'll rank, it's not a big deal what matters is that you learn for other to learn too. One good thing about knowledge, Unlike money, when you share knowledge, it increases.

[bakasabo]

Ranking-up isnt hard. As usually, all problems and difficulties comes from the head. If you think it is hard, then it will be hard. Some people come here to chat and managed to get to Hero or Legendary ranks. Some people dont even have deep or unique knowledge about cryptocurrency and manage to get top ranks. Sometimes it is enough to leave sharp, smart, relevant comment to get a merit and start ranking-up. Sometimes you can even be far from crypto, but have high cooking skills (pizza competition) or be creative (drawing competition) to get merit and rank up. The only minor difficulty with ranking is time. I've seen a lot of users with 1000+ merit, but not enough activity to reach highest rank. And since now the amount of new users decreased, good number of old users already reached high ranks, it is much easier than in 2018 to rank up.

[Scripture]

3. Limited Knowledge - You can't share what you don't have, and making good topics here requires a good knowledge especially topics about helping people or a guidelines.

Yes, but being active here in the forum for five years is enough time for someone that is a total novice to the forum to have learned so many things about the forum and how one can contribute positively to the growth of the forum or possibly made good research, gather good information that will solve some problems here. You can share the information you once saw that someone in the forum used to solve a particular problem if you are a good reader or should I say learner and you have nothing to lose hence you reference the original owner of the information, you can also get the information you wish to share on the internet but remember to add the link to the source of the information to avoid plagiarism.

Just like what I've said in the OP, I'm not that active and this is why I'm still stuck from this rank and still not knowledgeable enough about the market. I'm still on a learning process, and there's a lot of good suggestions here which I'm starting to follow slowly but surely. Again, I appreciate everyone's comment here, and yes getting more legit information is east to collect now, I should double my effort on doing this.

[JoyMarsha]

Complaining about not ranking up as expected doesn't solve the issue at hand. You have heard different advice from members of the forum. It's now left for you to put it to work. Forget how long you have stayed in this forum, by taking a deep breath to relax and refresh your mind and believe that it's just a matter of time, you would get there(your dream rank) someday with a steady consistent of good posts.
Congrats to full member in advance

[KingsDen]

I am not commenting with respect to Op, but I am generalising from experience.
To rank up in the forum, a user need to do the following;

• Be active in the forum: The forum and forum members remember people they see daily. Out of sight is out of mind, you aren't visible for sometimes, it takes supreme power for merits to reach you.
• Possess quality: If you are a quality poster, people will always want to hand out merits to you. People are sometimes skeptical to merit non quality posts, that's why merits tend to flow to them that possess quality
• As much as you can, be friendly with people and avoid trolling. No one is naturally attracted to a troll or a nastic person

[dataispower]

Is not hard to rank up. What i know that is the barrier of ranking up to people who lacks of merit and lack of time to make research that will make people to know what they don't know, with such kinds of topic and research that gives education of what you don't know and including the newbies that is new here need to be inform concerning what they don't know, with such kinds of topic people that have smerit will give you merit because of your time used to research and present to people to know. With meaningful response people will give merit that will make you to rank up.

[Smartvirus]

• Be active in the forum: The forum and forum members remember people they see daily. Out of sight is out of mind

It really does come down to this "Being Active"

Knowledge is progressive, you gain on it by constantly visiting it. You don't try to lean a thing by staying far off, it's why we practice and in practicing, you gradually build a perfection towards doing whatever you've been practicing about.

We've got several Active users on the forum and still, they don't have any ranks or merits to show for it. Why is that? They've been probably bounty hunting or spamming to the extent they've been known for it and even archived the Wall of shame.
It doesn't mean they aren't good but, they are in ways the forum considers unnecessary. Like, I doubt most regular users on the forum might be able to handle bounty hunting and posting reports the way the bounty hunters do it, except for fbe few that have gone down that lane in the past.

What am I saying, you get better at a thing by repetition and being involved. You do your best to get the most knowledge of it and learn new ways to put it. That would definitely aid you in doing better in the forum.[/list]

[Peanutswar]

Actually the advice I gain always is don't chase the merit instead make your self knowledgeable with the crypto world first by that you can now share information and other important details to help the community by that you can get easily caught the attention of the sources and get merit needed for your rank up. Learning, and sharing is the most ideal thing to do. Don't pressure yourself because the member ranks up immediately we have a different paces of learning.

[PrivacyG]

It really does come down to this "Being Active"

I can not say I am the most active member of this forum.  Sometimes I stay off the forum for up to 3 - 4 days.  Yet I so far earned a ton of Merits.  My personal belief is you do not need to necessarily stay 24 out of 7 to earn a Merit.  You will pretty much earn merit about every time you say something that is not nonsense and that is not repeating what others said before you.  It is very often that I reply to a thread and the next 5 replies 'by coincidence' rephrase half of my post to make it seem like they have something to say when they actually do not.

I am capable of betting my life on the idea that as long as you are a REAL member of the forum, as in you are participating for real with your real ideas that actually make sense and add some value to the thread, it is impossible that you never receive a Merit from somebody.

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Regards,
PrivacyG

[m2017]

It really does come down to this "Being Active"

Being active doesn't guarantee a quick (or just) achievement of the rank, but without the manifestation of activity, the increase in rank is generally impossible. So, one way or another, a lot comes down to activity. Even if you accumulate merit a little bit, it will gradually bring you closer to the rank up. But if you make 1-2 posts a month, then what merit posts can talk about, without which you will never get a new rank. Theoretically, the more posts you make, the higher the likelihood that you will get more than merit. But there are no guarantees that what you say will be useful to others and positively evaluated by them. So, you have to balance between the activity and the quality of the content in the posts.

[decodx]

All in all, forum ranks are good. They give members the opportunity to advance their status through activity, merit and engagement, for example, but also prestige and prominence. These are all measures of each member's position within the community and, besides, motivate one to be more active.

The point is that forum gives you a lot of freedom and possibilities for self-realization, but, at the same time, imposes certain rules and community standards. Only in this case there is a chance to get ahead either in rank or in the level of an expert. So, if you want to achieve the goal of promoting yourself, then you need to be able to play by the rules and know how to live within the framework that was created by all members of the community together.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

First,  I think the question on the subject should have been ~Why it's so hard to rank-up for some users.
This is because ranking up is not difficult for every user here,  the way you (@op) put it in the subject made the ranking-up difficulty look like it's a generalized thing.
I know some users who joined the forum and in a space of a year,  there attained the legendary rank,  so to simply put it,  I would say that ranking up is easy,  but it all depends on one's level of knowledge and activity on the forum.
Like you (@op) said,  one can not give what he or she does not have, those who are very limited in knowledge and don't take out time to learn,  and also do not have enough time to be active on the forum, users in this category will definitely find it difficult to rank up compared to those who are not so limited to knowledge of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies,  and are also pretty much active on the forum.

[PrivacyG]

The point is that forum gives you a lot of freedom and possibilities for self-realization, but, at the same time, imposes certain rules and community standards. Only in this case there is a chance to get ahead either in rank or in the level of an expert. So, if you want to achieve the goal of promoting yourself, then you need to be able to play by the rules and know how to live within the framework that was created by all members of the community together.

I think this forum gives you so much more freedom than the typical Internet forum does.  By imposing standards and rules, the forum is only kept more civilized and fair to everyone.  Because imagine how this website would look if only plagiarism was allowed.

In fact, I sometimes think there are some rules that are not on the forum but there should be.  For example, there are even today some scammers and trolls wandering around yet although everyone knows they are trolls or scammers, they are not banned.  So yes, this forum gives you a ton of freedom unless you are a real jerk or a spammer.

Can someone finally explain why someone is supposed to try their best to properly fit within this framework?  Is this not supposed to come naturally rather than artificially?  If one has to try hard to be one of us, why are they even here besides obvious reasons such as bounties and campaigns?

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Regards,
PrivacyG

[Mate2237]

_These are my mistakes, and I hope you won't do the same so you can be more successful here. Right now, I'm only learning with my experience and hopefully I can give something more helpful in the future.

We thank God that you realized your mistakes and share it here for others to learn. According to the saying, "experience is the best teacher". Now that you have experienced the unexperience nature of life, you have learned yours in the forum. Everyone has their experience in the forum. Reading always give wisdom than knowledge. Yes you will give things that more useful and it will be helpful if only you are reading other users thread and learn and write constructively. Once again delayer is not a barrier, wasted time is not a barrier but how focus and seriousness are you now in the forum is the issue.

[Marvelman]

This forum is basically the perfect way to ask any questions that you have about cryptocurrencies, and not just about Bitcoin. It's a great place to talk to other members of the site and see if they have similar ideas or thoughts that you do. It's a great place to hang out. I don't know where else you can find a number of brilliant minds scattered across the site, ready to help or argue with each other.

How do you promote yourself? Don't limit yourself, and don't be afraid, if you are willing to put time into this forum then you will be able to move forward.

[Renampun]

Higher rank means good opportunities here in the forum, but why its so hard to rank up?
Here's what I realized for almost 5 years here in the forum and still at a lower rank.

1. You can't please everybody here - Even if you create a good topic, you can't expect everyone to appreciate your work and probably will receive little to none merit since we all have different standards and qualifications before we gave out merit.

2. Being Inactive - Don't expect to rank up if you are not active especially on making good contents. I have my busy days and really not active but when I do have a task here, I always make sure to qualify for that but again, that's not enough.

3. Limited Knowledge - You can't share what you don't have, and making good topics here requires a good knowledge especially topics about helping people or a guidelines.


To cut this story short, if you really want to rank up and have a good reputation just do the opposite, stay active, learn more and expect nothing.
These are my mistakes, and I hope you won't do the same so you can be more successful here. Right now, I'm only learning with my experience and hopefully I can give something more helpful in the future.

Don't get me wrong, it's great to be active, but as long as you keep making shit posts, there's no way you'll be able to rank up. stay on topic and stay humble...

[Mpamaegbu]

I joined the forum in 2014, had two large periods of inactivity (approximately 3 years away in 2018) while I wasn't active in the first place when I signed up.

I'm trying to imagine what the atmosphere was like then here in 2014 and few years after that. Was there so much drama or no sparks as encouragement that made you leave? If you don't mind, I would like your response on this.

In 2017 when I came in, I observed there was so much drama and in-house fights. The forum was often tensed. Those who had confrontations, fought like it were physical exchange of blows they had as one could feel it in the harsh words used. I couldn't help but wondered what was going on. Most times I was lost in the terminologies used and couldn't make out anything that was the reason for such fights. It's good to know that it's different now. The forum is friendlier this day.