Don't PM for merit, no magic tricks for earning merits: advice for forum newbies

[Exitoral]

When I was a newbie the first thing I did was to read the rules. People fail to do that as they do also to terms and conditions. No body reads that. We should have the habit to always read rules and regulations and also terms and conditions. Laziness is not encouraged here. Let's me guided newbies.

[Akaenyi]

Since merit is earned in this forum by other members given you at their own free will there is nothing anybody can do if their posts are not getting merit. It means that your post have to meet the quality standard of one or more people to get merit, if it is not happening yet then you have to focus on learning and being active as a newbie. Begging of merit is downgrading, if you are not getting merit yet you should try not to let it bother you because there are other benefits in the forum like increasing your knowledge by learning for free.

My observation is that if you are not a very technical person it means that your merit rise will be gradual, you can focus on boards that you can make quality posts and somehow somebody will notice and give you merit. Merit hunt is a distraction for newbies because you cannot force anybody to give them to you, you should try and make quality posts and leave the rest.

[348Judah]

Any newbie that is willing to learn and follow the due process will see that this forum is nothing so difficult to comprehend, we may not achieve better results without learning and this is why we have to get used to how the forum is, which starts by reading the rules and regulation and checking occasionally some of the pinned threads on how we could make a quality post and that saves the rest.

[CryptSafe]

I think he or she is curious about the merit system and want to know more from you as a reputable member. Sometimes one's innocence can put them into trouble and they will not have idea what they did that nobody is looking at them to merit them because they already put them in their ignore list.  I believe if you had put up the name of that newbie, that holder would have been tagged or nuked by the admin and for sure taggs would go in for it.

One thing I will advise newbie members is that they should be real, organic and make good contributions to the platform. Also they should be themselves and work on their strength on the platform because copying some other person's pattern would yield them no results. So putting efforts to learn and grow up on the platform should be a major focus if they want grow up her on this platform as members.

[Rikafip]

Begging in form of any form is against the rules of the forum. So, directly or indirectly asking for merit from a member is wrong.

Call me naive, but I didn't get the impression that he was actually begging for merit in the post that OP quoted, and instead he wanted to know what he can do to earn more merit.

Sending unsolicited messages is also not welcome, so let others take note.

That he is guilty of, and it can easily get you into trouble if the person you send a PM to decides to report you.

[BitBakerr1]

I have gotten a message like this before asking me to give him merit till date I didn’t reply the user, and now his doing very well, when you start something newly you will always feel you can’t make it or pass through it you will see it as something that is very difficult but if you should put your mind in it, you can actually do it. There’s nothing impossible in this life the same way other people did it that’s same way you can also do it.
I think newbies are just in a rush to rank up and that is why they are sending messages to people for help, if a newbie always visit this forum and contribute very well his going to rank up just like others.

[SilverCryptoBullet]

That he is guilty of, and it can easily get you into trouble if the person you send a PM to decides to report you.

It can cause a ban on your account but the ban severity depends on how many people you sent PMs, how many reports they made about your account, and how many PMs you sent in a long or short time.

Especially if this PM sending action is repeated many times, the ban will be more likely used for your account, and it will be even a permanent ban when your account is banned like third or fourth time.

[leonair]

Those who do not know about the forum rules and who have no creativity in them send such messages. Merit is not something to beg for. Maximum Newbies do not understand these things clearly. They see that members with high ranks always get merit, so they think that if they message big members and ask for help, they will give merit. It is like the concept of social media, if you are by their side, you will get by their side, if you follow them, you will get 100% follow back.

Just go to PROFILE - Personal Message Options - Allow newbies to send you PMs. turn off Allow newbies PMs and just avoid such spam pm by Newbies.

[Charcol]

I am quoting a few below, and even others who think that the newbie is begging or asking for merit may have started writing without reading the OP's post properly. I do not see anywhere in the quote that the newbie asked for merit. Rather, he clearly says that he did not come to ask for merit. Rather, he came to know what other users, including @The Cryptovator, consider when giving merit to other people's posts. I do not think it is a crime, because a newbie would definitely not know this. And maybe he sees @The Cryptovator as his role model. However, the mistake of the new user is that he asked through (pm). He should probably have asked by posting on the forum. Then @The Cryptovator and other legends could have answered his question. However, @The Cryptovator must be thanked because he gave the right answer.

Begging in form of any form is against the rules of the forum. So, directly or indirectly asking for merit from a member is wrong.

All I see here is desperation from them newbies that randomly send such messages soliciting merits.

Maybe they are even not newbies as if the PM receivers are merit sources, I assume that such Newbies truly knew which forum members are merit sources, and they beg merit from merit sources by sending PMs. By knowing that information, I guess they also knew that the forum is against merit begging but you know with newbie accounts, what will they lose?

It could have been better had it been that what they sent are links to quality post and not for soliciting for merits, moreover all these are not even an excuse to PM a merit source or any individual for merit, to me is even against the forum rule because it is not expected that we should beg or ask for merit to be given to us,