Benefits of earning merits?

[Mpamaegbu]

Oh, mine! I thought we've put to rest discussions centred on the usefulness of merit in this forum as all that is ubiquitous now. Sigh!

OP, use the search button; either here or generally go on Google. It won't hurt your thumbs.

[Alone055]

The primary purpose of introducing the Merit system by Theymos was to make the forum less spammy because when there was no Merit system, one could literally create an account, make a bunch of shit posts all around the forum and keep growing the rank and then sell the account and then create another one and repeat the process. Some even used to create and farm hundreds of accounts because there was no restriction on growing your rank as all it needed was for you to make at least a few posts every 14 days to qualify for the activity points which were the only requirement for ranking up before.

[SatoPrincess]

Trying to make friends in an anonymous surrounding should be your goal. Unless you understand how to be a friend with those who can give you merits, you won't make any difference.

Your statement is misleading, merits isn’t shared amongst friends and I hope newbies don’t take this the wrong way and start sending unsolicited pms to other members in an attempt to start a friendship. In my opinion, making friends should not be a priority here. You can make friends on Facebook. The primary purpose of bitcointalk is to discuss the technical and non technical aspects of bitcoin.

Oh, mine! I thought we've put to rest discussions centred on the usefulness of merit in this forum as all that is ubiquitous now. Sigh!

Merit and rank will forever be a continuous discussion as long as the merit system is in place and we have newbies coming into the forum. Eighty percent of the topics on Beginners & help would not exist if the OPs used the search engine to make their enquiry.

[SamReomo]

What are the advantages of earning merit? One of the advantages I know is that we can increase our rank by earning merit and activities.

The merits you earn can help you to rank up on forum and they also show that you're a good and contributing member of the forum. Even if you're new to this forum still you can earn merits if you contribute good information on forum. The merits aren't auto-given to you for your good posts but are given by the members of the forum. Some members who are known as merit sources get a certain amount of smerits per month.

Those members send you merits mostly because their job is to help and support all good posts that a member makes and other than merit sources each member gets a 1 sendable merit if he/she gets 2 merits from others. Like you have 2 merits which  philipma1957 sent you, now you're eligible to send 1 merit to any user you want and that's how merit system works.

The most proper advantage of merit is to rank up and the members who make effort to create posts will get merits. It means that anyone who contributes good and helpful information on this forum will get some merits for his/her contribution.

And, if someone has good number of merits then those members are known to be as good contributors. The campaign managers will often accept such members in their signature campaigns because the managers know that such members can write helpful posts that can help the advertisers that want to get exposure to their site from this forum.

In simple words merits are your lucky points that will help you to to have a good status on this forum if you follow the rules and don't do anything that's against the rules.

[Sandra_hakeem]

OP, the advantage of receiving merit will be for those who are able to figure it out on their own. By attracting more attention to yourself with questions, the answers to which are replete with each topic, you simply lose the opportunity to receive these merits. As you can see, this is very annoying, so press the buttons on your phone or computer more actively, and luck will not leave you.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.msg28856522#msg28856522

Exactly!!... So annoying. ..and I keep asking, Don't these guys ever wanna quit?? Why I'm I feeling he's out here chasing clout? Cus if not, what's the purpose of asking a question he's already given an answer to? Was he expecting peeps to be saying the same thing differently? For him - is that a way to think outside the box?...
I'm just so tired of reading stuffs like this... honestly.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

[The Sceptical Chymist]

At 12,345 merits your dick becomes so smart it can use the search function!

I'm really torn as to whether I should give you a couple of merits for the above post.  It gave me a chuckle, and that's rare coming from a lower-ranked member (no offense, but it's true), but others might see it as frivolous merit-giving.

Ah, fuck it.  Since when did I ever care what the community at large thinks of my merit source duties?  True, I do take constructive criticism from members I respect quite seriously but I don't think they'd mind.  Consider the 2 merits I'm giving you to have come out of my personal stash in any case.

What's the significance?  Searching for that probably wouldn't give someone a clear answer, no matter how many threads showed up in the results.  There's really only one reason why it's important aside from bragging rights: you can earn more money through bounties/sig campaigns because you get more signature space.  If that weren't the case, rank would probably be less than 1/10th the issue it is and has been for years.  On other forums I've been involved with that have nothing to do with crypto, I've never seen posts talking about rank.  Ever.

Edit: I didn't read through all the posts before posting the above, and now that I read a few more I see the reason I gave was already written.  Consider my post to be confirming anyone who wrote the same--because it's true, sig campaigns are really the only reason merit is important.  I never read through the entirety of threads like this since I've probably seen at least a hundred of them in the past 5 years.