Getting Some Merit really boosted my motivation

[Arenga pinnata]

This may seem trivial to those who already rank high in the forums. but it really means a lot to beginners. Gaining Some Merits actually can revive dormant Motivation. But still I also realize that just motivation is not enough. but also must be accompanied by an increase in insight. with more diligent reading and so on.
Other beginners must also feel this way, right? I doubt if only I feel this pleasure.

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[Awaklara]

that means you have the motivation to get a better rank. stay on your path, and soon you too rank up.
you know what you have to do, and don't get complacent. You can also continue to help this Merit system run well by distributing your sMerit. there's no point in you keeping it.
keep it up. maybe in the future, you will feel very bored. but hopefully, you can still be in the forum.

[Poker Player]

Other beginners must also feel this way, right? I doubt if only I feel this pleasure.

Well, it's always nice to get merits but it was in my case, and I think in most people's case, it was more motivating at the beginning, when I was in the lower ranks. Now that I'm at the highest rank that can be reached, it's always nice to see that you've been given merits but the feeling is more monotonous, more routine.

By the way, what you should start doing is to send merits yourself, I see you haven't sent any.

[deals112]

Absolutely! I completely understand your perspective. Gaining merits may seem insignificant to experienced forum members, but for beginners like us, it revitalizes our motivation. However, motivation alone is insufficient; we must actively enhance our knowledge through diligent reading and continuous learning. It's reassuring to know that other beginners share this sentiment too.

[Zaguru12]

Other beginners must also feel this way, right? I doubt if only I feel this pleasure.

Definitely they do, everyone feels this sense of pride and honor whenever they feel they have done a thing or two and people acknowledges them, this gets them going and that is what the merit is for.
One advice I would be giving is do not get carried away in trying to get them but learn and create a purpose why you are here and allow them to come through by themselves. But once you are obsessed on getting them it leads you to making mistakes and if they don’t come you get frustrated and lose interest in the forum.

[ImThour]

Even being a Legendary, I like it when I receive merit(s). It shows that you have contributed something which others appreciate. That's what the main goal of this forum is.
Make your contribution and let community decide if it's good or not. If it is, they will show their support with merit(s). A newbie getting merit is a sign of progress on his/her understanding of this forum.

[Nheer]

Its just like working for money and you are being paid for the work done and then you are being told the more you work the more the payment and without working there won’t be any payment, you will be motivated to work hard everyday so you can earn more money. Earning your first merits can be a huge motivation the feeling is actually pleasing and you wouldn’t want the feeling to stop. I was merited with my first post though when I joined this forum I wanted to understand bitcoin technically, i was not after the merits i just tried to engage myself in discussions and ask questions about things i wanted to learn more about and I noticed there is a special feeling when you receive merits.
Ranking up maybe challenging but merit hunting shouldn’t be your purpose on the forum, just try and make reasonable contributions to the forum and the merits will flow in naturally when someone admires your post or contributions.

[Kalam001]

This may seem trivial to those who already rank high in the forums. but it really means a lot to beginners. Gaining Some Merits actually can revive dormant Motivation. But still I also realize that just motivation is not enough. but also must be accompanied by an increase in insight. with more diligent reading and so on.
Other beginners must also feel this way, right? I doubt if only I feel this pleasure.

Receiving praise or even views and comments after each post is actually very encouraging and shows me that the time I spent researching and developing that particular topic or project was worthwhile. It also helps to dispel any unclear or perplexing doubts and questions. However, I don't think it is necessary for every post to be praised with merits, views, or comments because it may also serve as a way of knowing and learning some crucial things about that specific topic or project. As a result, I will firmly advise all beginners to post constantly and do more research rather than to become disheartened by a lack of views, comments, or merit.

[cryptoaddictchie]

This may seem trivial to those who already rank high in the forums. but it really means a lot to beginners. Gaining Some Merits actually can revive dormant Motivation.

Even on high ranks we still get a joyful feeling when we received merits. It does means that we are beinf helpful or someone must have like the response or topic that being shared. Receiving merits are one of the best feeling when you are here in forum and I understand what you means since you have a goal to rank by means of merits. It will eventually come anyway, just be motivated always and do your best to contribute in this forum.

[CageMabok]

This may seem trivial to those who already rank high in the forums. but it really means a lot to beginners. Gaining Some Merits actually can revive dormant Motivation. But still I also realize that just motivation is not enough. but also must be accompanied by an increase in insight. with more diligent reading and so on.
Other beginners must also feel this way, right? I doubt if only I feel this pleasure.

Nothing seems trivial in any way in this forum mate, although others may see it as trivial in their own judgement. But I personally never take it as a trivial thing because everyone needs effort to achieve what they want, and that effort is how you try to add insight and apply it where you can apply it because motivation is built through the desire of everyone who wants to be better. So I consider nothing seemingly trivial in terms of merit.

[zaim7413]

Motivation must be supported by increasing insight in order to produce quality posts, Newbies must feel how difficult it is to get merit, but all of these are just wrong assumptions in my opinion. Motivation needs to be fired with high willpower, you must try to increase your rank in a way that is commonly used by other senior members.
Nothing prevents anyone from increasing account rank, sooner or later you will get a high rank as long as you continue to add insight by reading useful information on forums and outside forums to improve posting quality.

[isaac_clarke22]

Even on high ranks we still get a joyful feeling when we received merits. It does means that we are beinf helpful or someone must have like the response or topic that being shared. Receiving merits are one of the best feeling when you are here in forum and I understand what you means since you have a goal to rank by means of merits. It will eventually come anyway, just be motivated always and do your best to contribute in this forum.

Although I don't look too much on my merit count, whenever I accidentally notice changes in my merit count, it feels like an interaction already even if I don't get reply/ies in my post.

It's nice to somehow meet an internet stranger sometimes.

Even being a Legendary, I like it when I receive merit(s). It shows that you have contributed something which others appreciate. That's what the main goal of this forum is.
Make your contribution and let community decide if it's good or not. If it is, they will show their support with merit(s). A newbie getting merit is a sign of progress on his/her understanding of this forum.

Reminds me when I get an upvote in a 4 year old comment I made in Reddit.

[yudi09]

This may seem trivial to those who already rank high in the forums. but it really means a lot to beginners. Gaining Some Merits actually can revive dormant Motivation. But still I also realize that just motivation is not enough. but also must be accompanied by an increase in insight. with more diligent reading and so on.
Other beginners must also feel this way, right? I doubt if only I feel this pleasure.

Ranking up is a motivation and for me it is still a motivation. Getting some rewards can indeed add enthusiasm to keep trying to give the best because everyone will not keep sMerit in their pocket when they find something unique and useful from someone else.
Some time ago, my sMerit was empty because I principally kept sMerit not good. But right now my sMerit is filled with as many as 4 that I can take out. Maybe I'll put one out for you after this post.

Here you know what you have to do to get people to send you some merit.
Don't force yourself to get it, but focus on the useful things you need to do so that people see you as unique with your own character.

I see from the 55 posts you have made, you already have 11 merits which means you can issue 5 merits to other people who you think are worthy of giving. Don't let sMerit settle down because by distributing sMerit, we are already running the merit system as expected.

[SatoPrincess]

I’m not so old in the forum that I can’t remember what it was like to have my first merit, that 1 merit was enough motivation to make me do more. Reaching a total of 100 merits to become full member is the most gratifying feeling one can get in the forum because merits seem to be a hard task for newbies. As you increase your ranks and become more active in the community, you become less excited about merits and ranks.

[BRINIRHA]

Everyone likes it when their efforts are appreciated. and also for all users in this forum. So it's not even a matter of low rank or high rank. But I think everyone will feel the same way. It's just to a different degree. And maybe it's true that for beginners getting Merit can foster higher motivation and enthusiasm. Because I've ever been in that position. when I first joined this forum. But what's more important is to focus on our goals on adding insight and believe me the quality of your posts will increase by itself and getting Merit will be more enjoyable. And the most difficult thing to maintain is our level of consistency in maintaining quality. because sometimes the influence of problems from real life can also affect our mood here.

[Nwada001]

I actually understand how you feel; I have also been there before. I was among those who created their account and abandoned it because of the fear of what to post and how to do the right thing here in this forum. Until when I took a bold step after 3-4 from when my account was created I dropped my first post and comment asking questions and dropping some few contribution under some post, immediately I earned my merit which was during October 2022, I became motivated and was no longer afraid of posting, like I was before. Those merits show me that people are okay with what I said; my idea or my question was reasonable, which made me start posting, and by doing that, I was also open to learning more.
 
Even as a high-ranking member's earned merit is to some point still motivational, it makes one put more effort into doing what he or she did that earned them those merits.

[Despairo]

I think merit is really motivating most of users in this forum, when you're still a newbie, you might think getting one merit is really big. But after you have reach at least Senior Member rank which is need 250 merits, you would be think the first merit you get is more valuable than the other 249 merits.

Absolutely! I completely understand your perspective. Gaining merits may seem insignificant to experienced forum members, but for beginners like us, it revitalizes our motivation.

Dude, you have not yet received any single merit, how you can know the feel after getting merit from someone? it doesn't make sense. When I was a newbie and not get any single merit, I can't expect merit is really motivating me to keep posting and increase my quality.

[Yamane_Keto]

If your goal in posting here is to get paid contributions, merit will be an incentive for you, but it is a temporary incentive, so soon you will see that you will make these posts quickly to be paid, and so on.
Always try to search for topics that you do not know anything about and learn from them, as this makes you able to open any topic in the forum and you will have a minimum understanding of it, if not active participation in it.

Otherwise your posts will be within the limits of Bitcoin Discussion, Economics, Altcoin Discussion as it is hard to see with all those posts and therefore less likely to get merits.

[Dunamisx]

This may seem trivial to those who already rank high in the forums. but it really means a lot to beginners. Gaining Some Merits actually can revive dormant Motivation.

Don't get it wrong, merits shouldn't be your motivation to being active on the forum, i bet it's not because of merits you're joining the bitcoin community, you're expected to engage on discussions either you get merits or not as long as you wish to stay, there are many high ranks members always active and barely gets merits even when they post, the taughts in your post is what gives the reader the conviction that it's merit deserving.

But still I also realize that just motivation is not enough. but also must be accompanied by an increase in insight. with more diligent reading and so on.

How do you cope if you don't receive merits for long, will there still be motivation at all, also know that the higher you go in rank the more the requirements from you increases in other for you to have better opportunities through the quality of what you offer to the forum.

[BD Crypto]

This may seem trivial to those who already rank high in the forums. but it really means a lot to beginners. Gaining Some Merits actually can revive dormant Motivation. But still I also realize that just motivation is not enough.

Everyone feels the same as like you and when it was my starting I thought that Higher Rankers gets more merits but the reality is that they are mostly active and we'll educated about the crypto. And the most important thing is about their contribution in this forum.
Anyway if you are on the right path you can also grow your rank very fast. The right path means contributing in this forum, Making unique posts, helping others and sharing resources.
Always believe on yourself and spend times in the forum and always learn from others then spread our learning so that you can make more quality posts and boost our motivation.