What is merit all about?

[bestcandy]

Greeting everyone. I was newly introduced into the system by a friend who made me to have so much interest in the system with the zeal and the passion to learn and gain adequate experience on the system but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.

[Hatchy]

I will be grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light that to enable understand in details.  

I believe you should check this post out to understand what the merit is all about
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0

The merit system was implemented in 2018 the forum Admin due to the rampant increase of shit posters and the need for quality post on the forum. It is the reward you get for creating good, useful, quality and helpful post here on the forum. I believed your friend should have informed you a bit about the merit along side as a requirement for you to rank up. When you make good post you are rewarded merits by members who finds your post of quality and helpful to him or the community. For every one merit you earn, you have 0.5 smerits(sendable merit) so if you earn two merits, you get 1 smerits which you can give to other members you find their post helpful.

[I_Anime]

Greeting everyone. I was newly introduced into the system by a friend who made me to have so much interest in the system with the zeal and the passion to learn and gain adequate experience on the system but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.

I can see yah new to this forum , so I will say at first welcome Mate.

I wanted to provide a link that would actually help but I can see that hatchy has already done a great work sending it to you already.

But let me just add some enlightenment, merit is like a way users shows appreciation whenever they found your post  contributing or helpful to them.

One thing you need to know is that the chances of you getting more merit depends on your contribution to the forum and how quality and helpful your post is.

One thing have also took noticed of is that the more you are eager to earn merits the more your chances of you earning any dropped. So all you got to do is to focus on what the forum offers , which Is wide knowledge concerning the Crypto space and the more you learn ,

the more you see yourself growing . And more you see yourself earning merits .

Let's me drop some common tips that would help increase the quality of yah post.

*Always take your time when replying or creating a thread , you have all the time so don't need to be in hurry.

* Always read through all the reply in a post to gain More understanding (due to learning from different sources) and also to avoid repeating what someone has said already, before posting

*Whenever you encounter any thread That you are not too familiar with the concept, is better to not reply and learn more about it than endup going off-topic due to not having a good understanding about that topic

[Lida93]

Greeting everyone. I was newly introduced into the system by a friend who made me to have so much interest in the system with the zeal and the passion to learn and gain adequate experience on the system but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.

A piece of advise I strongly suggest you will be needing to keep you going progressively on the forum, which is, don't go chasing for merits as that will be the wrong way to go. Rather, go for knowledge, learn and add to the little I believe you already know and heard about cryptocurrency  as a newbie. Your growth in the forum is in how much of a beneficial knowledge you can give/contribute to the community. That's the secret of how merit are attracted which in extension is the purpose of the meriting system.

You will want to read this below:
Newbies read before posting
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0

[Hazink]

Since you want to learn and know what merit is really all about,. I don't know much, but with the little knowledge I have about merit, I will tell you for free that it's something that's given to someone based on the kind of post or contribution that the person gives to the forum and someone else, like the idea or knowledge that you shared, and as a result of that, he or she will reward you with merit for a job well done.
 
And for every merit you earn, you will be given half of it as a spendable merit (which is also referred to as smerit), and this smerit can also be sent to another person whom you might also like and who will want to appreciate it.
 
Less I forget, this merit is also essential to your rank up on this forum. Aside from the activity requirements, you also need merit before you can obtain a new rank. Every rank requires a certain number of merits that will complement that position.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

If you search, you can find many topics about Merit with a Merit & new rank requirement thread that was given in above posts.

Newbies - Read before posting is another thread for newbies to start.

Two topics about forum ranks and merit. The last topic is from ChatGPT answers and you can nearly get everything you need with ChatGPT about merit, how to earn it.

FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit
I asked ChatGPT on how to earn merit on Bitcointalk

[Cityhunter34]

Greeting everyone. I was newly introduced into the system by a friend who made me to have so much interest in the system with the zeal and the passion to learn and gain adequate experience on the system but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.

For someone to earn merit in this forum is very easy, but it depends on how quality of your post is, because I have been in this forum for long now and I have come across some many threads in the forum were our senior men always advice us to make quality post, so my advice for you is that as a newbie that you are, you should try and focus on reading the forum rules and regulations, so that you could be able to create a wonderful post, them you can start to earn merits. Here is a links for you to know more about the forum
Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit

[SamReomo]

but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.

Merit is all about quality, helpfulness, and useful contribution of a member in form of his/her posts/thread. A merit shows that how useful a post is and the posts/threads that get many merits often because they have been helpful for many members. Consider merit as a reward for your contribution on this forum, if you make good, contributive posts/threads, which are helpful for the community then you'll get a reward for your contribution that's a merit given to you by a member of the forum with sMerits.

Most of the sMerits are in the possession of the merit sources because the administrator of the forum Theymos has accepted them as merit source and has allocated a certain amount of merits for those merit sources. If I'm not wrong then all of those merit sources get some spendable merits per month automatically, and then they send those merits to the members who make good posts. If you as a member can make good and valuable posts then you'll also get some merits.

The merit system basically helps signature campaigns and the campaign managers as it's the best step taken against account farmers. If someone who makes low quality posts that aren't helpful at all then that person never gets higher ranks that are needed to qualify for signature campaigns. In simple words, all those members who make low-quality posts that don't get merits may not be able to rank up on the forum if they have created their accounts after the implementation of the merit system.

[Mrbluntzy]

To be honest, during my first month on this community, I didn't even know how the merit works, I didn't feel much concern about it until I started to receive the merit too. It surprises me how a newbie that has just been on the forum for 6 days is already asking about the merit system, there are other important rules about the community which you need to know about, if you go against those rules, you will face the consequences. Get to know the forum rules, stay active on the forum and you will even know how the merit works.

[AirtelBuzz]

To be honest, during my first month on this community, I didn't even know how the merit works, I didn't feel much concern about it until I started to receive the merit too. It surprises me how a newbie that has just been on the forum for 6 days is already asking about the merit system, there are other important rules about the community which you need to know about, if you go against those rules, you will face the consequences. Get to know the forum rules, stay active on the forum and you will even know how the merit works.

Maybe he is new to this forum and even he doesn't know how Merit works? For which maybe he wanted to know about Merit. I think its not wrong to ask because as a newbie many members ask such questions we should answer them properly. In fact, one of the reasons why people are so concerned about merit is that it shows their worth. Maybe all members of this forum have the right to ask all kinds of forum related questions, I think asking about merit is also within the rules of this forum.

Apprentices need to know from the very beginning how merit works and how to earn merit or how much merit earns a rank or how much activity earns a rank membership. Whenever a member's post is constructively informative, if someone likes that post, they can give it a merit gift.

[Marvelman]

Greeting everyone. I was newly introduced into the system by a friend who made me to have so much interest in the system with the zeal and the passion to learn and gain adequate experience on the system but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.

Whoa, let's ease up on the zeal and passion stuff.  This isn't a cult, it's just an online community. A big message board if you know what those are.  Same idea here, we just focus more on certain topics.

Anyway you asked about merit right? Thats basically like getting points for being helpful.  Ask good questions, share useful information, just be a solid member of the community.  Do that and you'll be golden here.

[Cricktor]

Merit is the forum's currency for appreciation of quality of a user's posts. Besides activity it is also required to level up your account status. If you're only interested in the latter, it will be a hard ride. Not impossible, but hard work. As you pretend to be interested in crypto coin stuff, you should focus more an that than on merit and such.

Learn to use the built-in forum search or use https://ninjastic.space/search which gives you a nice search experience. Don't be lazy and don't ask for spoon feeding, both not very much appreciated here...
If you had searched the Merit topic or followed pinned threads you would've found a lot about it already. Newbies seem to fear search or the effort involved. I'm deliberately maybe a bit provocative...

Try to structure your sentences a bit more, 445 characters in an endless sentence I don't consider reading friendly.

[Faisal2202]

Greeting everyone. I was newly introduced into the system by a friend who made me to have so much interest in the system with the zeal and the passion to learn and gain adequate experience on the system but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.

Merits are like tokens, valueless as in the context of money but have great value in terms of rank. As this forum system has a mechanism to rank people on the basis of how much merits they earned. If you have 100 merits then you are full, if you have 250 then you are senior members but not only merits are required but activity as well. Read this post to get an idea.

Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?

Besides ranking, merits are achieved/earned by contributing to the forum, like by providing useful replies, and topics, and bringing something to the forum that makes it more famous I guess. Overall, you have to contribute by legit ways, as fake ways have there own consequences. Best of Luck.

[Zigabel]

Greeting everyone. I was newly introduced into the system by a friend who made me to have so much interest in the system with the zeal and the passion to learn and gain adequate experience on the system but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.

Merits is a system of rewarding people for the quality of their post and when a certain number of it has been accumulated it will be used to rank up on the forum but then before you will be able to rank up well enough, you will need to have a certain amount of activities aswell so in as much as you are Ben merited for the quality of your post, your activities should aswell correspond with the total number of post you have been able to make so it will making you eligible to rank up.

Yo may have to just make sure to study a d increase your knowledge about cryptocurrency and there are many post on the forum that elaborates on things you should know about cryptocurrency and even other aspects of financial activities which will help your knowledge well enough. There are other post too which talks about merits well enough that's if you are not satisfied with this explanation you can always make reference to them in the beginners and help board.

[Princess Leah]

It surprises me how a newbie that has just been on the forum for 6 days is already asking about the merit system, there are other important rules about the community which you need to know about, if you go against those rules, you will face the consequences. Get to know the forum rules, stay active on the forum and you will even know how the merit works.

Maybe he is new to this forum and even he doesn't know how Merit works? For which maybe he wanted to know about Merit. I think its not wrong to ask because as a newbie many members ask such questions we should answer them properly. In fact, one of the reasons why people are so concerned about merit is that it shows their worth. Maybe all members of this forum have the right to ask all kinds of forum related questions, I think asking about merit is also within the rules of this forum.

Apprentices need to know from the very beginning how merit works and how to earn merit or how much merit earns a rank or how much activity earns a rank membership. Whenever a member's post is constructively informative, if someone likes that post, they can give it a merit gift.

Yeah he's a newbie with about 5 post and 6 activities and from his profile I think the account was created recently hence the question, however I see no wrong in the question he asked cause it's better for someone to ask questions when they got no clue about things in the forum, especially fo newbies. It shows their willingness to learn and as an old member of the forum you're in position to help newbies get more knowledge about the forum.

 Yes there are some other important rules and regulations about the forum, but that doesn't mean knowing how the merits works and it's benefits in the forum is not important as well, infact it's one of the most important thing every forum member needs to take note of cause asides the activity the merits is one of the key criteria to ranking up.

 Well my advice to newbies is that they should take their time to study the forum properly, learn the policy of the forum and don't fail to ask questions concerning things you come across and have no clue of, there are lots of members that would be willing to guide you through your journey here.

[m2017]

Greeting everyone. I was newly introduced into the system by a friend who made me to have so much interest in the system with the zeal and the passion to learn and gain adequate experience on the system but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.

If your goals are to gain knowledge about bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies), as well as to share experiences and communicate on this forum, then in principle you don’t really need merit (there is no need to strive to get it). You can do all this from your Newbie account, except that you can't publish pictures here until you receive Member rank. If you really want, you can get Cooper member rank for a small donation to the forum. So, if you don’t have long-term goals of moving up the rank system, then you can’t even pay attention to merit (as well as activity).

[Dzwaafu11]

Greeting everyone. I was newly introduced into the system by a friend who made me to have so much interest in the system with the zeal and the passion to learn and gain adequate experience on the system but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.

you are welcome to the forum.

Merit is just like a reward for your content. If you post meaningful and constructive content, that will help the forum members merit your post, so for you to get the merit, you are going to take your time in writing or creating posts so that people will give you their smerit. It is also used to determine your rank in the forum. There is a certain number of merits that you will get before you reach the rank. For example, if you have 10 merits with 60 activities, you will be a member rank in the forum, and if you have 100 merits, you will be a full member. and any merit you get, you will get half of it as spendable merit, which you can also send to other people's posts.

But for you to get these merits, you must learn many things on the forum. Since you just joined the forum, I believe engaging in some discussion will be a challenge for you, so you need to learn about crypto currency and some other things. In fact, just take a look at the other people's posts, and you will learn from their posts.

[Hamza2424]

Greeting everyone. I was newly introduced into the system by a friend who made me to have so much interest in the system with the zeal and the passion to learn and gain adequate experience on the system but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.

Here on Bitcoin Talk merits work for you to rank up you on a higher position if you start to get merits one by one and sometimes you get more than merits at a time this will help you to rank up, the more you rank up you may get more reputation on the forum and now you may think how you can earn merits on the forum... For this forum need your good contribution, quality post and your quality post will be appreciated by your senior members in the form of merits.

i am sharing a thread that will help you to understand the system of merits and positions on BitcoinTalk. You just need to give it a look, and then you will easily understand it.... here is the link to the thread...>>>FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit. This thread is started by the moderator itself hilariousandco.

[JMBitcointernational]

Greeting everyone. I was newly introduced into the system by a friend who made me to have so much interest in the system with the zeal and the passion to learn and gain adequate experience on the system but one of the major problem I'm having now is that I'm not well clarify of what merit entails and as such I will be very grateful if any good minded person can kindly throw more light on that to enable me understand in details and also benefit from the system.

This is a nice question from you op and I know you must have seen so many responses
And to add to what others have written there are ranks in this forum starting from newbie to legendary and for you to attain those  ranks you have number of merits to earn in other to achieve that and for you to earn merits , there is need for you to make a quality contribution in any discussion you engage on or starting a new topic with a quality post .

Op this forum is filled with intelligent persons and your post must be quality enough to impress any of the merit source for them to award merits to you.And outside the merits source any member of the forum can also give you merits if he or she has a sendable merits and it all also depend on the quality of your post or contribution as well.

Lastly , before making post I will suggest you read some of the threads of the high ranked members to know how to start a quality post or contribute in a discussion. I will also advice you not to focus on merits now learn to write quality posts and merits  will come when you don’t even expect it . Once again welcome to the forum .

[PrivacyG]

If I am being honest with you, I have never researched what the Forum says about Merit precisely.  But I think there is some sort of 'common sense' along the Forum Members about who deserves Merit.

Typically, the people who send out Merits either do it to support some body who put a lot of effort into a Reply or Thread, which I think is the universal acceptance of who Merits should be sent to.  You write a well constructed post or you share knowledge of yours that is relevant.  As a reward, you earn Merits which allow you to grow your account.

But then there are also people who send out Merits because they agree with a post.  Which I think is a controversial way of distributing Merits and I always choose NOT to do it but show support through my own Replies instead.  This is controversial because while opinions are important, in my opinion it should not be a reason to earn Merits.  Particularly if the opinion is not well constructed but just agreed with.

However.  While controversial, there are people earning a TON of Merits not even for opinions or knowledge, but kind of randomly.  Check out the Wall Observer thread in the Speculation Board and tell me why so much Merit is sent out to so many people.

Well.  Now I am going to get bashed for what I just said!  I just do not understand how that Thread works if you ask me, I never understand it.  Particularly if you are out of touch with it for a few days, you will understand nothing.

My opinion is.  Show effort and you will earn Merits and implicitly grow your account to higher Bitcoin Talk ranks.  This is the best way to do it.  BUT.  The higher ranked you are, the harder it becomes to earn Merits.  You need to continue sharing more and more knowledge, helping out more and proving you deserve more over all.  As a Newbie, I really think it is very easy to grow your account if you show interest in becoming a more reputable Member of the Forum.

Good luck.