Understanding the Dynamics of growing in ranks in the forum

[WillyAp]

Well the FAQ says you can only get 14 activity points every two week period.

Ranks and activity:

Brand New: 0 posts
Newbie: 1-29 activity
Jr. Member: 30-59 activity
Member:   60-119 activity
Full Member: 120-239 activity
Sr. Member: 240-479 activity
Hero Member: 480 activity
Legendary: Somewhere between 775 and 1030 activity

Merit:

In addition to Activity you now need Merit to achieve each rank. The required merit is detailed below:

Brand new: 0
Newbie:   0
Jr Member: 1
Member: 10
Full Member: 100
Sr. Member: 250
Hero Member: 500
Legendary: 1000

So what is the rate of activity points and merit? Every 500 Activity points 1 merit?
I got a Postcount of: 249 and have therefore 249 Activitypoints. I Registered on the Date: May 31, 2018, 08:55:21 PM so I have earned how many  activity points?  at 14 each fortnight it should be 1820.
 
Someone shed some light please  
 

[TelolettOm]

-snip- well I still need clarity and detailed explanation on how I can successfully grow in ranks in this forum.

You need 2 things to grow your ranks:
1. Activity
2. Merits

To improve activity, you need to be actively involved in varied discussions in this forum. Since you are a newbie, I suggest you post daily (around 5 posts is enough). Your priority should be your local board, I think the best place to begin your journey in this forum is your local board. Where do you come from, dude?

To get merits, it is more complicated than improving activity. You need to have quality posts, so people can appreciate your posts with merits. To have quality posts, you need to learn how to post properly. Post properly will be related to the way you deliver your idea in your post and how good the content of your post is. Your post must also be easy to understand, interesting, and use correct words. In addition, you must avoid plagiarism and make off-topic posts.


It won't be easy to improve activity and merits. It must take a long time to grow your rank. But if you learn seriously and want to do efforts constantly, I'm sure you will grow your rank successfully. Good luck, dude... 

[dzungmobile]

Well the FAQ says you can only get 14 activity points every two week period.
 
Someone shed some light please  

Answers are in the FAQ topic. You can find them by reading it again.

So what is the rate of activity points and merit? Every 500 Activity points 1 merit?

No, merit points and activity points don't have correlation, except old members who got airdropped merit when merit system kicks off in late 2017.
Merit & new rank requirements
Adjustment/improvement history of merit system

I got a Postcount of: 249 and have therefore 249 Activitypoints. I Registered on the Date: May 31, 2018, 08:55:21 PM so I have earned how many  activity points?  at 14 each fortnight it should be 1820.

Except airdropped merit (read above), you will only to receive merit if you make good posts that are appreciated by forum members who will send their smerit to your account.

If you write zero-valued posts, you will not receive merit.

Welcome message

Forum rank

When you start out, you are a Newbie, and you will run into various annoying limits. These limits will be reduced to the point where you shouldn't usually notice them after you have participated in the forum for a few weeks. If you are on the forum to talk, then that's all you really need to know about rank. Don't worry about it too much, and you will eventually rank up.

If you want to maximize your rank, then you need to increase two statistics which are listed on your profile:

• Activity, which is maximized by posting once per day on average. Posting more than that is useless in raising your activity.
• Merit, which is gained by making good posts.

If you make ten thousand posts in a week, your activity will be capped and you will still be a Newbie. If you make ten thousand useless posts over any period of time, you will gain zero merit and you will still be a Newbie. You can rank up only by making good posts consistently. It's quality over quantity.

When trying to write quality posts, a lot of people act as though they're writing a book report for school: putting facts that we already know into their own words. Nobody wants to read that, and you will not get merit for it. Moreover, the length of your post and the quality of your English are only minor factors. In trying to write a quality post worthy of merit, you should offer new ideas, personal experiences, or perspectives that other forum users will actually find new and interesting.

[Poker Player]

I am a newbie. And though I read a lot before registering on the forum, well I still need clarity and detailed explanation on how I can successfully grow in ranks in this forum.

The first thing I'm going to do is to welcome you.

That said, I have to say that expecting us to hand you something on a platter that you can easily find on your own doesn't give me a very good impression. Besides the fact that your interest in the ranks makes me think that you are more interested in climbing the ranks to earn money than in participating in the forum out of genuine interest. It would give me a much better impression if after having read as much as you are supposed to have done, you would like us to help you understand more about Bitcoin, for example how it works, what are its most debated issues, like scalability and second layer solutions, things like that.

You need to read and search before posting. [Guide] Searching effectively

In 2023 it should be obvious, and also by simply using the forum regularly he would learn these things without having to explicitly search right at the beginning when he's just registered.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

well I still need clarity and detailed explanation on how I can successfully grow in ranks in this forum.

Well, if you must know, a tree was once a seed before it germinated to became a tree. Also, a tree cannot make a forest.

All I have said above is just parables, but to be honest with you, if you want to increase your rank, you should get to know the serious rules of the forum, which are: don't plagerize, don't spam, don't spin comments, don't use AI to post, and develop a good skin so that you don't shy away because of criticism from some users. If you must increase your rank, then you need to learn from the posting styles of other reputable members and also be unique in your own posting style. Let your post be unique and not just some gibberish.

Why I said a tree cannot make a forest is because only you can not increase your rank by yourself, and to do so, you need the help of others who will award merits to you. So, if you want to win merit from reputable users, you must be a good poster and post interesting stuff. Avoid forum drama in boards like meta and reputation; otherwise, you might be seen as someone who is only hunting for merit. If you are good at making quality posts, you will not be blacklisted on the ignor list of high-ranking members that are supposed to even give merit to you.

I believe I have talked long enough. Good luck 🤞.

Cheers 🥂, Dr.Bitcoin_Strange 👺👺