I must be honest when I signed up for this forum merit was the least thing in my mind. I was just hear to improve my knowledge on cryptocurrency and as things goes and to show the merit system is transparent and effective I got some merit on my first post
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5071197.msg48003780#msg48003780
Well I must say I was very happy and encouraged to improve more and more and as we could have it am a member and heading for a full member rank

My word about merit is simple have a good post history and even if it's a post that has taken a while you could still get merited for it. Delete any redundant and unhelpful post that can make your post history poor

Well you are near to rank up OP. Have you tried to join merit giveaway thread from from other users? Here are some link that might help you rank up to next level.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5124376.0 (Quickseller)

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5097635.0 ( cabalism13)

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5124596.0 (Ognasty.)

Hope it can help you OP and congratulations in advance on ranking up.

When the Merit System was Implemented, I never thought that I was gonna Rank up to Member Position with my little knowledge about cryptocurrency, As times pass my determination to learn got me here. I keep posting some useful tips on our local board because I believe in saying that "sharing is Caring" I kept doing that until one day I notice that I already ranked up because of the merit that I received from my translation posts. Keep in mind that I don't really know how to speak English very well, but it didn't stop me from trying although all I can do was translating some useful topics, That's all I need to help my fellow countrymen understand what I have learned this few years.

in conclusion, the merit system will not gonna affect the user If he/she was only here to learn about Bitcoins and some other priceless knowledge here in the forum, But if he/she is here for other reasons, which is a lot of you already know, then the merit system will gonna hurt him/her like a one-sided love that never blooms.

 

You guys are lucky to get even a single merit for free. I had to earn for each. I'm self made senior member. Earned 266 merits - around 200 in last 120 days.



But as you can see it wasn't like that always. First months was very frustrating. I felt like none is giving those merits. I spend so many time on long topics, well described answers (2 pages in world just to answer someone question) and still 0 merits. But after some time hitting a wall with my had i final break throw. Now merits are coming in each day.

Do your job, do it as good as you can. Remember - every good post you made is on forum (it won't disappear after a week) and will earn merit sooner or later. Sometimes i get merits from posts close to one-year-old.



Damn you are good Top 55 most merited with 400 activity. Great job. You are too modest

Congrats on ranking up. I really like helping those who deserve to rank up. I even have a service for it back then > https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/3108981.0

I've seen your posts and I'm happy to be the one giving you the needed merit

It has been really fantastic to see your dedication , your journey and ofcourse how the merit system will eventually help the real hardworking people to grow further.  
It also shows that if a person is dedicated and willing, he can change and become an example for others.  

I was in the same situation as you @tbct_mt2 only merit system caught me at senior rank.

Registered long time ago and never rushed to achieve higher rank or to be recognized on the forum like DT1 or something. At start lack of knowledge and writing skills hold me back from posting at all. In two first years, I wrote only a couple of posts mostly in promotions or spammy threads. Anyways I was promoted to senior member rank despite my writing and posting skills where at newbie level at best. When merit shows up I realized that I have to do something with the quality of my posts and that I will have to contribute to the forum a lot to be able to rank up. I thought this is impossible to get 250 merits at all. Today I am Hero Member and only thanks to merit system I can post like a pro and my English skills are much better. Lately contributing to the forum is a pleasure for me because organically I am involved in many discussions and members quote and ask questions in my threads.

If you stop to think about the merits and start to contribute they will find you.

Merit system improves a lot of users, and makes them more creative just like you.
You deserve that rank and you can still go high just continue helping people and be a good inspiration to us.
I'm also like you before who are being tagged as a non English poster, and I can say because of the merit system I was able to free myself from that. Congrats to you mate, keep that job well! 

Merit = subjective meaningless garbage. Nobody with anything other than a feeble mind would even try to mount an argument to the contrary.

It is also the dangerous "carrot" to accompany the old "stick" of red trust that leads to group think and suppression of free speech and natural flow.

Most merit is given on political grounds especially on meta and rep (where HUGE amounts of merit are given to a tiny fraction of the board)

MOST huge merit holders can not even present 5 examples of their best posts that are not just totally mediocre garbage or worse. In debate most of them crumble under any kind of pressure and reveal their minds are 3rd rate at best.

Some of the very best and most important posts have zero merit. Some of the smartest people on this board have hardly any earned merits.

Bogus, dangerous , misleading junk.

Merit on top of all this allows select groups of scum to entrench themselves in power to cream off the best sig spots and hold others out from competing fairly for those spots with these bogus and gamed metrics of merit and trust.

There can be no denial of this.

Read here for an excellent insight into MERIT and TRUST - that was BEFORE merit became for some weird reason TRUST also.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5088852.0

Luckily theymos just pulled the rug from the trust abusers to a large degree (not totally) BUT you will find that their corrupt campaign managers will still try to probably use the OLD gamed part to refuse entry to their gamed sig campaigns.

Which... SURPRISE SURPRISE  are filled (top paying btc ones) with MERIT SOURCES and merit cyclers and DT members - what a fucking shock

Are these the most capable posters here LOL  these are mostly low functioning fools who spout random crap that suits their agendas that fall apart under mild scrutiny. They then scream "trolling" or "bullshit" because they KNOW they have no chance to defeat your valid and independently verifiable instances that you present that crush their spurious arguments. Then when that fails they will try to weaponize anything they can to silence your or get you banned.

Meta board is a WASTE OF TIME. Since most that frequent it are already enjoying the spoils of gaming these foolish systems they will NEVER agree that they need changing. Of course not that would mean they have to compete fairly against ALL other members. They would not want that.


https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5088852.0

read, understand , accept.