Merits

[coupable]

Good day everyone I'm new to this forum and I really don't know  much about how things arr done here
I'm clear about most of the things but there's just one thing I don't seem to understand
How do I get merits what are the criteria I need in other to increase or gets merits on this forum
Because from what I've read so far you need merits in other to rank up so please I need your advice on this

Don't worry about merits, focus on contributing to the forum, or have decent comment or reply to the topics share information, and make informative post, just don't expect that it will be automatic, it will come.

This is the best answer I have read so far. It is not important to work hard only to get merit as much as it is important to stay active and use the forum in the normal way, that is, enrich your knowledge by reading topics and for others to benefit from your knowledge and skills by participating in discussions. Merit points will come without a doubt.
I am speaking from personal experience, as although I am an old permanent member and have many posts that have earned and still deserve merit points, once I stop being active for a few months, I stop receiving merit points. After I returned to activity here on the forum two days ago, I was surprised yesterday that one of my posts got three merits, although I was not really expecting that.
Yes, it is the constant activity and useful participation that guarantees getting merit, and that is why upgrading accounts is not based only on merit points, but more importantly on activity as well.

[acroman08]

So is it like given by other members in on the forum or by very high ranking members

it is given by other members who have sMerits, it doesn't matter if they are high-ranking members or not as long as they have sMerits they can give merits to other members.

also, regarding the "criteria" for recieving merits. it doesn't have any criteria, as long as you post even if it is "low quality" you can recieve merits from others if they decided to give it to you for some reason but you have to realize that posting high quality/helpful posts would most likely get more merits than the "low quality" posts.

[Pandorak]

[...] How do I get merits what are the criteria I need in other to increase or gets merits on this forum
Because from what I've read so far you need merits in other to rank up so please I need your advice on this

That's right, you have to reach a certain amount of merit to be able to rank up on this forum, as you can see in the quote below.

Rank	Required activity	Required merit
Brand new	0	0
Newbie	1	0
Jr Member	30	1
Member	60	10
Full Member	120	100
Sr. Member	240	250
Hero Member	480	500
Legendary	775-1030	1000

I'm also a new user on this forum (registered early last year), as far as i have observed, you will get merit for your posts which are rated by other users as useful posts which usually contain important information about the bitcoin ecosystem & several useful posts about the forum. You can read Lauda's thread ^[1] to understand it better.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0

[lovesmayfamilis]

OP, firstly, ask yourself why you personally need merits. Why did you come to the forum? You want to increase your rank, but why? In addition, you can say that you are a trader and, as you say, already experienced, which means you have the necessary information. Your communication on the forum will definitely find like-minded people who agree with your posts, and you will definitely get your merits soon. The main thing is "not to go out of your way" so that the goal is to increase your rank and not exchange experience.

But your greeting in the Nigerian section and the statement that people on the forum are very strict made me smile .

Hello everyone I'm happy to be here my experience so far on the platform has been nice I just realised one thing sha the people here are very very strict

People here are different, and people do not like lies. This is radiated in many posts. Therefore, do not rush, and you will definitely get what you want.

[sotelorene]

Yeah, merit is what one need to rank up in this forum but it's not given anyhow, your post must be informative, I mean something that will help or contribute to the forum. And secondly you shouldn't be looking for merit now because you might get discourage after posting and you don't get any perhaps you should focus more on learning and understanding things you don't know before, only then you can adjust from your way of posting. One thing that will help you in this forum is understanding how this forum works and coming with a pattern that will attract people when I say attract I mean information that will be helpful, valuable etc and don't get yourself worked up because of merit the knowledge you will acquired if you learn will be more than having a merit.

[nakamura12]

There are different ways to earn merit and one of it is to make a high quality posts or constructive posts that will surely get merited. My advice for you is that you shouldn't focus on merits but then merits will come to you. Let me ask you, what reason why you want to earn merits?. Will merits one of your goals to achieve as a forum member here in bitcointalk?. Merit is indeed important to rank up. Why do you want to rank up?. To be honest, you don't need high rank to contribute to this forum if that's what you are planning.

[Asiska02]

Good day everyone I'm new to this forum and I really don't know  much about how things arr done here
I'm clear about most of the things but there's just one thing I don't seem to understand
How do I get merits what are the criteria I need in other to increase or gets merits on this forum
Because from what I've read so far you need merits in other to rank up so please I need your advice on this

If your posts are really informative and helpful to the forum, I don’t think you’ll have to spend a long time to get merits and rank up in the forum. If you’re really too focused on whether the merits will come or not, you’ll get discouraged if they don’t come as expected. Allow them to come naturally while you continue to do your own part in contributing and writing good posts in the forum.

[Cityhunter34]

Good day everyone I'm new to this forum and I really don't know  much about how things arr done here
I'm clear about most of the things but there's just one thing I don't seem to understand
How do I get merits what are the criteria I need in other to increase or gets merits on this forum
Because from what I've read so far you need merits in other to rank up so please I need your advice on this

Op as long as this Bitcointalk forum is concerned for you to get merits and rank up is very simple but is just depends on your knowledge and understanding because once you are contributing meaningfully in the forum you are going to earn merit from our senior high rank members very easily, because normally in this forum merits is always awarded to a meaningful post that is very helpful to the forum, as and appreciation. However I would advise you do more of reading the high rank members previous thread because doing that is going to help you gather more knowledge and create a better thread that we earn you a enough merits.

[Alone055]

There are different ways to earn merit and one of it is to make a high quality posts or constructive posts that will surely get merited.

I'm confused. What are the different ways of earning merits? You could say that a person might get merited if their posts are liked by other members, someone might find them helpful, constructive, or even funny, but this doesn't mean a person should become a joker and keep trying to post funny stuff all around the forum only so that they can make others laugh or smile and earn merits for that. The basic criteria is to be helpful and constructive, and you will earn merits over time.

There is one more thing most newbies don't understand. They believe a constructive or high-quality post is a very big post, has a lot of words or sentences, and covers a lot of space in a thread. That isn't true. A single sentence can also be constructive as long as it serves the purpose.