Quote from: buyandsale on April 26, 2018, 02:13:10 PM

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Please stop moaning. The answer is Merit should not be removed..

You already had theyoungmillionaire, Indohunter as example started from 0 merit. Not much sure about BTCeminjas but I believe him too started from zero.

Let's compare you and me now.
You have 1 merit, 164 activity and 164 posts.
I have 50 merits, 154 activities and 494 posts

Fundamental differences are:
1. I post regularly you do not post much.
2. I do not care about trolling, when I write I try to make my posts worth reading (not that all the time I am successful). Except few I see large number of your posts are one line shit posts, just a try to increase activity.
3. I focus on engaging with the community, I enjoy my time here, do not worry about merit. You seems like bashing up the community and having difficult time in here.
4. I am trying to provide values, trying to do something good for the forum, you seems like just making posts here and there.
I am sure there are many more difference. I will leave it up to you since you need it more than me (the reasons)

You need to give your readers something to receive merit. It's something you earn not just get.

Quote from: theymos on January 24, 2018, 11:00:11 PM

While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.

Do not beg for merit excessively.

Don't translate the quote wrong way: [Parody] Merit translation

Observe adapt overcome - life will be much easier.

PS: I have seen some members already earned over 100 merits starting from zero so again do not complain. Work for it.

EDIT:

Quote from: zhagedus on April 26, 2018, 04:27:26 PM

I agree because it's difficult to have merit as a new comer...

It's difficult but not impossible

Quote from: buyandsale on April 26, 2018, 02:49:40 PM

proof of merit abuse done on forum https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3402060.0

Stop thinking about others start thinking about working on yourself.