Merit what, why

[poorman1]

Hello community, I have a little confusion so plz help me to solve this. What is Merit and how do we get and what is a benefit

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[Charles-Tim]

Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ

These would be of help:

Merit & new rank requirements
Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?)

[Stalker22]

This question has come up several times on the forum. The first thing you should do is read these old topics that Charles-Tim suggested; if something is still confusing to you, feel free to ask.

And here is another helpful topic:
FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit

[Cantsay]

Hello community, I have a little confusion so plz help me to solve this. What is Merit and how do we get and what is a benefit

In addition to activity, everyone now has a merit score, and you need both a certain activity level and a certain merit score in order to reach higher member ranks. The required scores are:

Rank	Required activity	Required merit
Brand new	0	0
Newbie	1	0
Jr Member	30	1
Member	60	10
Full Member	120	100
Sr. Member	240	250
Hero Member	480	500
Legendary	Random in the range 775-1030	1000

You get merit points when someone sends you some for one of your posts. Additionally, when someone sends you merit points, half of those points can be sent by you to other people.

By the way welcome to the forum and I hope you enjoy your stay here and I will advice you to check out this thread Beginners & Help + Encyclopedia [UPD: +Electrum Board it's a great to start from it has been of great help to me.

[OgNasty]

Hello community, I have a little confusion so plz help me to solve this. What is Merit and how do we get and what is a benefit

If you aren't obsessed with controlling the trust network and you don't care about ranking up, there's very little benefit other than a dopamine hit I guess.  If you earn them you can also send them to others, so I'll shoot you 2 merits so you can try giving 1 away. 

I guess the main benefit is that signature campaigns pay more money the higher you are ranked, so if you make good posts and earn a high rank, you can get paid more for posting. 

[Hodoor]

I think this is the most asked question in the entire planet. you can simply google "merit bitcointalk" and you'll get dozens of similiar threads asking the exact same questions.

Have you tried googling this before making this post ?

[yahoo62278]

Merit is something that is only important for Hero rank and below. Once you reach Legendary it's completely worthless unless you consider bragging rights something worth having. Looks like OG sent you a couple and you have been given links to threads showing what merit is, so you should be able to figure it out from here.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

I think this is the most asked question in the entire planet.

Are you considering the forum is your entire planet? LOL
These points have no use for anything except in this forum.

poorman1, it seems you had a good start. 2 posts, 2 activities and 2 merits. Not bad. The most important for you right now is to get to know the community instead of asking one line questions if you are really into bitcoin community.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Your nickname, OP, made me smile. You are from Pakistan, right? And your question about surviving on this forum suggests that you are most likely not a newbie, but have had the experience of being banned from the forum. It's obvious from the nickname.  
I don't know of any other forums where newbies come with similar questions. Survival on the forum, as it sounds.
I think that you have already created 4 accounts and are finally interested in the rules of the forum.
I may be wrong, but time will tell, but for now, I will show everyone the same newcomer from the Pakistani local section who received a ban three times. Furthermore, I hope you understand everything correctly.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg60935937#msg60935937

Dear community

Hello community:

Hello community,

Hello community,

 

[cryptoaddictchie]

Have you tried googling this before making this post ?

I think its better to use the search function here in forum. Googling merit would have a lot of resources line up and not only about bitcointalk forum but other means to merit.

poorman1, it seems you had a good start. 2 posts, 2 activities and 2 merits. Not bad. The most important for you right now is to get to know the community instead of asking one line questions if you are really into bitcoin community.

Nice track actually but I do hope that he is a natural newbie and a curious fella asking about bitcoin honestly and not just an alt account boosting merit for farm on campaign.

[KingsDen]

Hello Poorman, let me pretend or believe that you are a genuine newcomer and let me not also refer you to other links for further reading. I understand that most newbies find it difficult to open links to read. So I will give you a direct answer in addition to what have been given you already.

My answers are in the context of the forum.

What is merit?
Merit system is a system introduced by the admin of the forum to curtail the rate of spamming in the forum, it also encourages quality posting and conversation in the forum and then enables the growth of the members in the forum in terms of ranks.

Why do you need merits
Merit is not compulsory that you must have it, but if you want to grow from one level to another you need it to be able to rank up.

How do you get merits

You get merits by making quality posts, though quality post is totally subjective because what is quality to me might not be quality to the second man below my reply.  But try your best to make posts that solve problems, answer questions and generally contribute to an ongoing discussions. With that you can be able to recieve merits. You have a good stat, 2 posts, 2 activities, 2 merits. I wish you would keep it up and not betray the kind gesture of Ognasty.

[nutildah]

I may be wrong, but time will tell, but for now, I will show everyone the same newcomer from the Pakistani local section who received a ban three times. Furthermore, I hope you understand everything correctly.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg60935937#msg60935937

...I am brand new here on the bitcointalk forum.
...

(narrator): He wasn't.


It's also a tell somebody's an alt if they write any of their first 5 posts in Meta. This is where you come after you have a basic grasp of what's going on.

[Shamm]

Hello community, I have a little confusion so plz help me to solve this. What is Merit and how do we get and what is a benefit

Wow that fast you have earn two merits already.
Hello Op Good day and welcome to the forum this forum helps you a lot to learn more things about bitcoin and other related crypto currencies. Now you are asking what are the benefits of merits? First, earning merits make you qualify to reach higher ranks.  Second,  through merits makes every user boost their effort to make some quality post or reply and also it helps to the forum to lesser spammers users.

If you aren't obsessed with controlling the trust network and you don't care about ranking up, there's very little benefit other than a dopamine hit I guess.  If you earn them you can also send them to others, so I'll shoot you 2 merits so you can try giving 1 away.  

I guess the main benefit is that signature campaigns pay more money the higher you are ranked, so if you make good posts and earn a high rank, you can get paid more for posting.  

Nice catch OG, this is the reality Words good job.

OP. Now you can enjoy your merits and try to give your sMerits if you feel that post or reply are worthy, good luck .

[Rikafip]

I think its better to use the search function here in forum. Googling merit would have a lot of resources line up and not only about bitcointalk forum but other means to merit.

Imho, using forum search option is a worst way to find anhthing on the forum, both Google and ninjastic.space are far superior.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg60935937#msg60935937

Looks like he didn't waste time and after you reported his previous account, he created another one and now that he got negative attention he will probably ditch this one and show up with a new one. Rinse and repeat, until he figure things out. Nice catch by the way!

[smartaction]

Hello community, I have a little confusion so plz help me to solve this. What is Merit and how do we get and what is a benefit

Merit is basically a special key to up everyone profile rank. Which you will get only based on your post quality and informative .
Now let's talk about its benefits. This will up your rank.  Although activity is also required to rank up but your activity will automatically increase after a certain period of time after you post something.  So it's not a big problem. If you get many merits in a short period of time, it makes everyone think that you are a wise person . If your rank is Sr or above.  And if you have a consistent of regular getting merit history, you've more likely to be accepted into Good and Longterm Signatures campaign And these have many more benefits like these. hope you understand why need merit and what is the benefit

[rat03gopoh]

Benefits for the needs of your forum activities only: one of the requirements to open the limit of posting with pictures and reduce the waiting time to make the next post. Other benefits will depend on your intention to come to this forum.

[FatFork]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg60935937#msg60935937

Looks like he didn't waste time and after you reported his previous account, he created another one and now that he got negative attention he will probably ditch this one and show up with a new one. Rinse and repeat, until he figure things out. Nice catch by the way!

Good lord, he made his first two forum posts and is already being accused of ban evasion on his alt account. This has to be a record! 

Indeed, he seems to have exposed himself already in his first post:

Aaslam alikum community, ...

Aaslam alikum green white community!

I'm no expert, is that perhaps the Pakistani way of writing "Assalam alaikum"?

[Smartvirus]

One question that would never go old on the forum. Somehow, these gen of beginners have got the nerve to come right to meta and lay it there. I know the boards are for everybody but, some questions or subject of discussions doesn't fit better in some boards.

Anyways, there is a saying in my locality that goes
"One who asks questions, never gets to lose his/her way"

All or most of the information you need to know about merit have been given already but, I'll advice you don't make it a primary focus as there are more to the crypto journey you start here in the forum than merits. Be sure to teachable and learn from every foolish suggestion.  Critics come handy here and be sure to suck it up when your hit.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

This question has come up several times on the forum.

Several?  Man, if anyone is curious as to how many times merit has come up as the sole topic of a thread, just search the Meta section for "merit" and take a look at everything going back to January 2018.  Threads like this one have thankfully become less common in the last year or two, but there was a time when the Meta section's first page was full of them.

OP, if you ever find yourself wondering how to earn merits (because it isn't as easy as some people would have you believe), look at the post histories of some of the highest merit earners and pay close attention to how they write, what they're writing about, and--this is also important--what section they're posting in.  All of those factors in addition to how often you post will be a pretty good indicator of what it takes to earn merits.

Dammit, this info and more has already been stickied in Meta.  Don't people look before making threads like this one?

Good lord, he made his first two forum posts and is already being accused of ban evasion on his alt account. This has to be a record! 

I doubt it.  There have been members exposed so fast that it'd make me slap my head again if I could remember where to find examples to link to.  Good catch.

[Mate2237]

OP date of registration:  Date Registered: September 15, 2022, 07:43:36 PM and the OP created this thread on the same time of September 15, 2022, 07:56:44 PM, but just some minutes/seconds differences, that means what

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said is not far from the truth, because a newbie who was introduced by someone to the forum will never ask merit for the very first thread unless the person is a returned user.

By the way my Seniors have explained and some also provided threads which you would read before even asking this question to you, if you really for the forum read them. I also provide one of the useful thread for you to read. Calm down and read this... fillippone

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