So I'm waiting for something to finish downloading, I thought to use this time to tell you that you're wrong. It's gonna be a good one tho.

Quote from: MOG247 on May 29, 2018, 06:36:18 PM

What a nice suggestion! It keeps wondering me if I would ever made it to member in this forum let alone ranking to full member or senior member with the kind of upgrading system bitcointalk.org adopts. Where on earth would a member get 100 merits to become a full member when some higher ranked members are stingy of their merits.

It's not. With those posts, probably not. On this forum and no they're not.

Quote from: Vispilio on May 29, 2018, 06:42:37 PM

The Merit system is broken, very few people actually send merit to valuable posts, the vast majority of it gets circulated between old timers who know eachother personally on
the forum, and it doesn't help that most of these guys are on the Bitcoin related forums;
so while altcoin proponents now probably outnumber the Bitcoin maximalists, the merit distribution is disproportionately in favor of Bitcoin sympathizers...

It's not, works 99% as intended. Give me usernames of those users. Because altcoin discussion (just as bitcoin discussion) is spam.

Quote from: bigcash2011 on May 29, 2018, 06:45:12 PM

Yeah i agree that new merit system has prohibited new members to gain timely ranks, so it is an excellent and workable suggestion that if an account fails to earn required number of merit points in a year to advance to the next rank, he will be automatically promoted to next rank after one year of activity according to forum rules,
I hope forum administrators and moderators will have serious look over this suggestion and hopefully will implement it.

Because most have no posts to be merited on. No it's not and what's the purpose of merit then? They won't and they won't.

Quote from: Ayamj on May 29, 2018, 06:49:59 PM

i want my rank to increase oo what should i do

Not write posts like that, mainly.

Quote from: pjusmfox on May 29, 2018, 07:11:25 PM

I support your view that accounts should be upgraded automatically for more than 6 months. This will not cause the abuse of false accounts. Many newbie have not been upgraded. This will hurt the enthusiasm of new people in the community, and it will be bad for the development of the forum.

It's nonsense. What? That's just make account farming available again. What? That's because most of them are in for the bounties or simply spam. If they are not ready to improve themselves, well... bad news for them.

Quote from: IrenNTA on May 29, 2018, 07:19:30 PM

Merit system doesn't encourage me at all. All I see is that the system doesn't work as it was intended. The number of spam messages haven't decreased so much. But to get a higher rank will take almost eternity now.

Yeah, I can see that. It works just as intended, you're just salty. "so much" still something, right? Probably will if you're not ready to improve and accept the fact that merit is here to stay.

Quote from: TeQuiero on May 30, 2018, 03:36:59 AM

It's rare to hear something like this from a mid-ranked member like you or are you just struggling to rank up like us, LOL. Btw, I totally agree with OP's idea. Theymos admitted failure of merit system, too. But it seems like he has not figured out a better way yet.

Oh c'mon, you've got merit so you know you can write good posts, even I have merited you before for helping me out. It's a bad idea btw. He did, really? This one's fine imo.

Quote from: 2beAmillionaire on June 01, 2018, 12:33:56 AM

It is a good one idea,100% i agree with this! Those who have efforts while participating the bitcointalk forum for a long time period,they will have an assurance of ranking up even it will takes a long time.

You're here for one month. So what's stopping you?

REALITY CHECK: You're all just greedy and want everything right at this moment without any effort. None of you are as good as you think. Merit is working as intended. Improve and think about what you're posting. There are no shortcuts here, your posts just don't stand out at all and have no significance.

Also, I still have some sMerit left (keeping it for cases like these) to prove you a point. Reply here or send me a link of your post that you think deserves merit. And here's the catch: You either can't find one at all, it's not worth merit or it's actually worth some merit. Now, if there's anyone who gets merited from this post, that'll prove to you that it's possible to write quality posts and rank up.

sorry for the long post, everyone.