Personally I don't care of the user's language skills are poor as long as they are producing something of substance useful to others and not whoring affiliate links. It just so happens the people who do that stuff most also have poor language skills so they tend to get grouped together easily.

Unfortunately, very often poor English skills become a huge obstacle to understanding and interpreting a written comment. Sometimes the grammar suffers so much that it becomes impossible to grasp the meaning. No matter how ingenious your way of thinking is, but if you aren`t able to share it and convey your point of view to others, then you`ll remain unnoticed. Therefore, I fully agree that in order to become a full-fledged member of the forum and even more so to get merit, it`s necessary to improve your language. Otherwise, you simply lose the opportunity of communication, which is the foundation of the bitcointalk community.

Lol, I just saw this thread and I couldn't resist laughing at how entitled it sounds reads like.

Only a few people like :


are taking the humane side of the discussion.

And to anyone supporting the fact that people who have bad english, are automatically to be shunned and disregarded, holy shit.

By what right do you think you can force someone else to learn your language? Because it's among the top spoken languages on the planet? What if I told you that outside of your USA, UK, and a bunch of other places where english is the native language, there's actually people who can spend a lifetime not speaking english! Unbelievable right???

Sarcasm aside, to anyone who actually feels entitled to a language just because they were born with it, and not just that, automatically assume everyone else should learn it to talk with them, I wish you get stuck some day outside of your country in a place where they only speak spanish, or arabic, or one of the many chinese dialects. (Only these 3 make about 24% of the planet's population, with your beloved english barely at a 6%)

People need to get their heads out of their asses, if everyone was entitled like you are, you have no idea how backwards the world would be, do you think every scientist who contributed to massive advancements in science knew perfect english? Do you think businesses and trade relations were all built on english contracts? Just out of the top of my head, I youtubed "interview founder of tencent", and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGnby27ypRo

You, with your amazing english, go tell this guy, the founder of one of the biggest fucking octopus companies on the planet, "go work on your english".

There needs to be merit sources in the local boards, most people accept that.   This isnt the first time I've seen a forum equate poor English or poor sentence formation with spam or pointless posts.   There is some correlation though your point is fair, there is a space for people to post in their own languages.    Its not really discrimination then but yea its slightly unfair about how alot of the internet is in this particular language.
   In the future it might be one of the Asian languages, populations would suggest thats highly possible


I'm not going to be absolute about it.  IF someone comes onto to the forum to post e=mc^2 in otherwise bad grammar, its unfortunate but also they are a genius and hopefully I'd recognise and merit a good post anyway.   Its hard to do so when the post isnt readable though.  If theres nothing original in the post then mostly every other factor is of no consequence anyway


Thats a hell of a disparity thats puzzling, I'll look through their posts and see if theres any excuse to give at least 1 merit

Well, the OPs guide could have been a little more elaborate an attempt to give a proper guidelines on how to get merits as it seemed to only cover their own idea.

Users who live in English speaking regions would still not get merited if they have little knowledge of the forum and no desire to read and learn.
Confining those who are not native speakers would limit their growth, and command of the English language.
Through attempts, corrections, more attempts they could become better in their use of the language.
But then, that is not a ticket to get merit on any post.
They still need relevant knowledge on cryptocurrency.

I believe that the basic knowledge to gain merits is knowledge and being friendly in the forum. Probably, if one has a hard time getting merit then there should be a problem like getting ignore on those high ranks or the merit source. There were many users here that they ignore after seeing no chance of getting merit to even at least 1 or ignore if one does not do good in the forum and always complaining.

In the end it is really the knowledge that will get you their for it is the source of the witty words that you will going to use and post as a reply or to start a new thread. As the high rank user's suggest to take some time to start a post carefully check before posting it.

Being friendly on the forum counts for absolutely nothing,the OP of this thread is actually not friendly on the forum(at least to cheaters,plagiarists,copy/pasters)

Just as the original posts point out, it takes time to learn,and if one follows the due process required to rank up, then it wouldn't be much of a problem..

Though this doesn't happen is just merely few months,it could take a few years in some cases

Of course it covers his own ideas, why would he want to copy other people's ideas. The guy is smart enough to think for himself, not like some of the spambies who don't even understand the stuff they are copying.

There are so many threads about getting merit, that any halfway intelligent guy can read them, and use the best ideas. If you can't manage that, then yo need to go back to school.