Is merit necessary for my survival here

[Eldestyoung]

Greetings everyone!

I really want to know if merit is necessary in other to secure my account, my friend who introduced this site to me said, I must have merit

Please how do I get this merit and how is it important.

[EL MOHA]

No merit is not necessarily for you to secure your account, keeping your password save and not breaking the forum rules is what is necessary to protect or secure your account from either been banned or hacked.

It is not a must to have merit, merit is just one of those criteria’s needed to grow your account to different ranks, but account ranks also isn’t so important if you aren’t after it you can simply just learn a two or thing that brought you here and leave it. But if you need to engage in contests or signature campaigns you need rank.

To grow in rank you just need to either create good and educative threads, or reply posts with knowledgeable answers

[_act_]

Read this merit and new rank requirement: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.msg28856522#msg28856522

If you are sent 2 merits, you will have one smerit that you can send to someone.

Merit are sent to good posts. Take a look at the posts that are sent merit and read more than post and you will understand more about posts that are sent merit so that you will post like that. They are good and useful posts.

[Hatchy]

Greetings everyone!

I really want to know if merit is necessary in other to secure my account, my friend who introduced this site to me said, I must have merit

Sure thing, buddy, merit is very important here on the forum. But since you're new here, don't stress too much about merits. They're used to level up and show how helpful you've been in the forum. The merit system was added recently to cut down on spammers and boost the quality of posts. As you explore the forum, you'll hear about "quality posting," and doing that might earn you merits. As a newbie, focus on getting to know the forum, what it's all about, and how you can make good contributions. Merits will come along the way. So, take it easy and welcome to Bitcointalk!

[Adbitco]

Without merits you can post and involved in deep conversation with other member here in fact you are free to do whatever thing you wish to do but you won't increase in rank that is the only disadvantage with the merits of a thing, so alternatively for you to increase rank you need the merits to move from level 1 another level respectively that is to say you must need the merits for rank changing and that comes with creating high quality post or being so helpful to the community.

[Churchillvv]

First merit doesn't secure your account, the forum is a free conversational ground for everyone but due to spamming (posts that do not make sense) the merit system was introduced to stop people from posting anyhow, for you to earn merit you have to make good post.

You might not understand what we very body here will be saying as you are new here, so you should go and read the following threads, and try to understand them before you keep posting.

• Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ
• FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit
• Newbies - Read before posting

If you succeed in reading the three above you will eventually enjoy your stay in the forum and the merit your friend told you about will not longer be your problem.

Goodluck reading them....

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Is merit necessary for my survival here

I really want to know if merit is necessary in other to secure my account,

NO
 For your survival here, you need knowledge about most of the discussion that fly in the forum. Don't forget you are in a Bitcoin forum. If you are not very knowledgeable about Bitcoin, crypto, investment, programing, economics, mining, etc., then you should live an open mind and ready to learn from others. On the forum, we share knowledge, ideas and learn from one another on issues that relates to Bitcoin and the above list. You will earn merit if you contribute a very relevant comments on any topic on this forum or if you create a very relevant topic.

[Sanitough]

Greetings everyone!

I really want to know if merit is necessary in other to secure my account, my friend who introduced this site to me said, I must have merit

Please how do I get this merit and how is it important.

If you aim to participate in signature campaigns and get decent income, then you have to earn and secure your merits so that you will be qualified for any campaign. However, if your intention is just to engage in the forum and learn all about crypto, then earning merits is not necessary at all. Your account will always be secured as long as you didn't violate the rules. And as long as you respect the ideas of other forum members, your account will always be safe from banning or getting restricted from the forum.

[Renampun]

Greetings everyone!

I really want to know if merit is necessary in other to secure my account, my friend who introduced this site to me said, I must have merit

Please how do I get this merit and how is it important.

First of all, merit is a system introduced by moderators as a condition for you to be able to move up in rank, merit is not something that makes it difficult for you to survive in this forum. is merit important? Of course merit is very important, it is impossible for your account to rise in ranking if you don't have enough merit.
Before the introduction of the merit system, there was a lot of cheating that occurred in this forum, there were many accounts of breeders who appeared and they even sold/purchased accounts, so with good consideration, the moderators in this forum created a merit system to suppress those cheating acts.

[Egii Nna]

I really want to know if merit is necessary in other to secure my account, my friend who introduced this site to me said, I must have merit

To all indications, your friend that introduces you to this site didn’t orient you well based on the forum because if he does that, he won’t tell you to just acquire merit while he was supposed to share some links for you so that you will use those links to read and know the rules of the forum itself, how accounts work, and how merit and ranks are. With this, you won’t have to come to ask such questions, though asking questions is the best thing to do because asking questions helps a lot and will encourage your stay in the forum.

Merit is not necessary to secure your account, but it will help to increase your rank in the forum, so even if you have a lot of postings and you don’t have merit, you will still maintain your rank as a newbie, but if you have merit, you will see your rank increasing. Though I see they have already shared the link, you will understand this more there, so I will encourage you to go and read it well and understand how it works.

Please how do I get this merit and how is it important.

You can acquire or get merit due to your quality postings that are of use to the forum, and to achieve this, you are supposed to have a broad knowledge of bitcoin and how it works in order to be able to respond to others when they create a thread or ask questions.
And if you read and didn't understand it, you can create a thread yourself to ask questions when others find your thread, so educationally, they might give you merit in order to arouse your interest, so I will encourage you to do quality posts and always engage in research.

[Queentoshi]

I really want to know if merit is necessary in other to secure my account, my friend who introduced this site to me said, I must have merit

This is because your friend introduced you to the forum as a place to make money, that is why he mentioned merits, instead of pushing you to be focused on learning. You do not need to have merits to be in the forum, because the forum is a place to learn, you can be in this forum without merits, be able to read topics and also comment freely. Merit is not a requirement to be in the forum, just a requirement if you want to be eligible for signature campaigns.

[Darker45]

First and foremost, you already have an account here. You've already made posts, even opened threads. You're a newbie and has zero merit. That means you can secure an account in this forum, engage in discussions, and read other users' posts without merit.

As for survival, it's simply a matter of following the rules. Plagiarism, for example, could cause you a permanent ban. Merit isn't required for survival.

Merit is important for ranking up, though.

[salad daging]

No need for merit to secure your account, just a hard password and your account's secrets will be safe, or add 2FA to your profile to secure your account extra.

Then is merit important? Obviously important you can earn merit from your contribution posts, with merit you can level up to a higher rank if you continue to earn merit, when you have earned a lot of merit and then the rank is high you can also look for work in the signature campaign so that's why I say it's important.

Earning merits depends on the posts you make, when the posts you make are useful for others then rest assured they will definitely give merits, as long as you don't ask or beg for merits.

[Razmirraz]

You only need to save your password to maintain account security and avoid any bans on the forum to protect your account from negative trust and the worst possibility of your account being banned. Merit is only needed to rank up, you only need to make quality posts to get merit or answer other members' questions with quality answers. Always take advantage of your time on the forum to read useful threads, the more you read the more you understand the rules and how merit works.

[Peanutswar]

• Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ
• FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit
• Newbies - Read before posting

These pinned post threads have already been shared with you by @Churchillvv and those are already pinned in the main board of the thread so the newcomers sees those immediately as their guide I guess you can use them for your headstart in the community, there's no easy path take time to read this.

I really want to know if merit is necessary in other to secure my account, my friend who introduced this site to me said, I must have merit
Please how do I get this merit and how is it important.

Merit doesn't secure your account at all, and doesn't mean the higher the merit the higher the security level of your account, from the word merit it's like a token of appreciation to the people who committed a lot of things that contribute and help to the community or other member itself. Mostly people want to have a merit immediately so they can rank up and participate into Signature campaigns.

In terms of security you can now check out the new feature added which is the 2FA feature

[m2017]

Greetings everyone!

I really want to know if merit is necessary in other to secure my account, my friend who introduced this site to me said, I must have merit

Please how do I get this merit and how is it important.

Hello to you too.
What kind of merit protection are you talking about? Merit is required for promotion through the ranking system. To secure your account, you need a good, reliable and complex password (which it is advisable to change periodically), and you can also use the new function for protecting your account that has appeared on the forum - 2FA.

To get merit, I think you need to first of all be active (participate in various types of activities on the forum). If you do nothing, then you won’t get any merit. But the main way to get it is through high-quality posts, which will be highly appreciated by other forum participants. And what kind of posts you should write is the subject of your personal search. How important are merits? Exactly as much as you need and depends on your desire.

[Helena Yu]

Answer to your question: To secure your account you need well setup email, strong password and sign a message from your Bitcoin address (don't lose it).

General answer: You're not necessary to post, earn merit, become a good guy, create a fake story, etc. You can become a silent reader and that's fine.

my friend who introduced this site to me said, I must have merit

I would leave a neutral feedback to your friend account since he spreading lies.

[Abbatty]

Greetings everyone!

I really want to know if merit is necessary in other to secure my account, my friend who introduced this site to me said, I must have merit

Please how do I get this merit and how is it important.

You can’t be blamed for not having a good orientation before joining the forum, your friend probably told you about joining campaigns to earn and to do that he told you need merits.

This is a forum where we discuss mainly about bitcoin and share knowledge amongst ourselves. This is a forum where you gain knowledge about bitcoin and blockchain technology and if your motive is to earn merits and participate in paid campaigns then it will be difficult for you without having any knowledge. Merits is one of the requirements to grow in rank but the major requirement is your contribution to the forum, to earn merits you have to be useful to the community one way or the other and merits have nothing to do with securing your account…

If you want to secure your account then you probably need to look into this latest security feature on this thread - 2FA Added and set up a 2FA to increase the security level of your account.

[Cantsay]

Greetings everyone!

I really want to know if merit is necessary in other to secure my account, my friend who introduced this site to me said, I must have merit

It all depends on what brought you to the forum, if you’re here solely to engage in discussion about bitcoin and crypto then you actually don’t need merits but if you’re here to rank up so that you can be a part of a signature campaign then you’d need to earn yourself some merits. But there’s more advantages in the former, because if you engage in discussions here there’s a high chance that you’ll earn merits even when you’re not looking for it… but if you’re just fixated on the merit part you might be discouraged if you’re unable to earn then in the first few weeks of your registration here.

Please how do I get this merit and how is it important.

You get them when people send it to you, take note that there is no shortcut to earning merits — just look for some materials to help you learn about bitcoin after you have gotten the basics you can come back to the forum and contribute to discussions and also ask questions that should be enough to help you earn merits.

[EarnOnVictor]

I really want to know if merit is necessary in other to secure my account, my friend who introduced this site to me said, I must have merit

Please how do I get this merit and how is it important.

By the way, if your friend introduced you to the forum as you claimed and also told you you need merits to secure your account, why can't you ask the friend how? That would have been easier. That's by the way, the merit is never needed to secure your account, that is a misconception, no account expires here unless you are banned. And you can be banned only if you are disobeying the rules of the forum. However, you need merits to grow in the forum, we have different ranks and as you are a newbie, you might need merits to rank up to another stage, and it goes on like that. All these are not necessary if you are just learning from here and imparting knowledge alone.

But if you must rank up, the below links should help you;

[1] Main rules/guides of the forum (Unofficial): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0
[2] Ranking up: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0
     And https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.msg1861412#msg1861412
[3] Specifically for newbies: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0