Forum Ranks Overview (ranks/activity/merit/badges/limits)

Forum Ranks Overview
New forum ranks explained

Ranks

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Rank	Minimum Activity	Minimum Merit	Signature Limitations	Tag
Brand new	0	0
Newbie	1	0	No styling. No links. Max 50 characters per post.
Jr. Member	30	1	Max 150 characters per post.
Member	60	10	Links allowed. Maximum 4000 characters.
Full Member	120	100	Colors allowed. Personal images allowed.
Sr. Member	240	250	Font size allowed.
Hero Member	480	500	Background color allowed.
Legendary	775-1030	1000

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Special Rank	Description	Tag
Legendary	You are guaranteed to become Legendary somewhere between 775 and 1030 activity, but the exact point in this range at which you become Legendary is random per user. Gets 5 gold coins under his name of which the last is half dark blue.
Donator	Manually applied by administration after 10 BTC donation, and gets 5 gold coins under his name of which the last is half green. 5 coins are shown regardless of post count when user is a Donator.
VIP	Manually applied by administration after 50 BTC donation, and gets 5 gold coins under his name of which the last is half purple. 5 coins are shown regardless of post count when user is a VIP.

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Staff Rank	Description	Tag
Moderator	Shown when moderators of specific sections post within those sections. Gets 5 gold coins, of which the last is shown as half faded-out gray.
Global Moderator	Applied to Staff that have moderation privileges in all boards. Gets 5 gold coins, of which the last is half teal colored.
Administrator	Has all available permissions and can appoint moderators and perform other administrative tasks. Gets 5 gold coins, of which the last is shown half red regardless of post count.
Founder	Reserved for Satoshi, gets 5 platinum coins under his name.

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Paid Memberships	Description	Tag
Copper [buy now]	Some of the same permissions as Member-rank members, such as reduced signature styling restrictions. (But none of the PM-related restrictions are currently lifted, such as the style limit or per-hour PM limit). Your "you must wait ____ seconds between ___" counter is reduced by 75%. So if you're naturally of Newbie rank, you only have to wait 360-75% = 90 seconds. If you paid an "evil IP" registration fee, then whatever you paid (in BTC terms) is subtracted from the upgrade fee. If you paid a registration fee a long time ago, you might even get a free Copper Membership due to the increase in BTC price.

Badges

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Badge	Description
Bitcoin expert	Dev&Tech only. People with this badge know enough about the Bitcoin network to reimplement something very like it from scratch. They are capable of intelligently discussing the Bitcoin network: current protocol, possible attacks, proposed changes, etc. Criteria: Recommendation by an existing Bitcoin expert or core dev and approval by a forum administrator.
Bitcoin-Qt core developer	Dev&Tech only. These are the core developers of Satoshi's Bitcoin client. They are listed here. Core developers are among the top contributors to Bitcoin-Qt, and they are all bitcoin experts, though they don't also get that badge.
The Glider (hacker symbol)	Awarded for people who have responsibly disclosed forum security flaws.

Personal Messages Limits

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Minimum Activity	Minimum seconds between post	Maximum PM recipients	PMs per hour
0	360	3	5
16	74	5	30
30	60	5	60
60	30	5	60
100	12	10	120
200	10	15	120
300	8	20	120

Activity System

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Activity Formula	time = number of two-week periods in which you've posted since your registration activity = min(time * 14, posts)
Activity Limitations	You can get up to 14 Activity points in a 14 days period. Activity is updated every hour.

Merit System

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What is Merit

You get merit points when someone sends you some for one of your posts. Additionally, when someone sends you merit points,
half of those points can be sent by you to other people.

Who generates Merit

Certain users are designated as Merit Sources. They can create new merit out of nothing, up to a limited number per month
(which differs per source). I will not be posting a definitive list of Merit Sources (so that people don't bug them too much),
though you'll soon figure out who they are if you pay attention.

How should we use Merit

You should give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with. Do not beg for merit excessively.
Trade or sell Merit is forbidden.

How to become a Merit Source

Be a somewhat established member. Collect TEN posts written in the last couple of months that have not received nearly enough
merit for how good they are, and post quotes for them all in a new Meta thread. We will take a look at your history and maybe
make you a source.

What is sMerit

You earn 0.5 sMerit every 1 Merit you receive. You can send sMerit, they have no other purpose. You cannot send your own Merit.
When someone gives Merit to you they lose sMerit of the amount transfered and you gain Merit as well as sMerit (which in case you
can send again). Example: Should I send 10 Merit to you for a post, my sMerit would decrease by 10. Your Merit would increase by
10 and your sMerit would increase by 5. Merits are exclusively earned, but the sMerit part you also get keeps the circulation flowing.

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Merit infographic:

CHANGELOG

Code:

27/09/2018: Added Copper Membership and formatted.
23/09/2018: Updated Jr. Member requirements.
01/06/2018: Added new links and link to infographics.
15/02/2018: Formatted text.
28/01/2018: Draft.

This page is under construction.