Quote from: jademaxsuy on November 11, 2018, 09:19:48 AM

Quote from: jademaxsuy on November 10, 2018, 03:37:04 PM

Selling BCT accounts is not a violation to this forum but it is not recommended. I do believe that most of the BCT accounts for sale are those hacked accounts whereas buying it should be unlikely be done. I would rather stay in this rank than buying hack accounts. I am not saying that your accounts for sale are hacked but most likely most of the users here selling hacked accounts. So buyers should be careful in purchasing an account.

Hello guys!

I still observe that merit is a hot issue in this section after seeing many posts started by the lower ranks that was being discussed over and over again. I know it is annoying but I could not help but to encourage them to be good and do what is right here in the forum.

So, here is my little way on convincing them to stop posting regarding on merit looking thread.

Let us consider if merit is like a lottery jackpot then basing on the data gathered from this post 2 MILLION users and their STATS probably you will know how hard on getting 1 merit over the number of users in the forum which 2 million users scraped by mazdafunsun.

See how huge is the number of the new users (Newbie - Jr. members)

Quote from: mazdafunsun on August 15, 2018, 08:11:00 PM

Since PIE charts are the most common and one of the most intuitive charts to read, here are the distribution of bitcointalk ID's from 1 to 2'000'000 .

I quickly made a table to show the data of user ranks and their chance to get merits if we will consider merit as jackpot on winning lottery. I include the newbie and jr. members number of users in addition to 78,755 number of users from member to legendary rank presented by mazdafunsun.

Code:

Rank N = users (% of users per rank) (% chance on getting 1 merit / N # of users)
Legendary 2140 0.3 333.33
Hero Member 4140 0.7 142.86
Senior Member 8999 1.67 59.88
Full Member 18170 3.37 29.67
Member 27621 5.12 19.53
Jr. Member 60389 11.20 8.92
Newbie 417,536 77.46 1.29

Total 538,997 100

Legendary rank has 333.33 % chance on getting 1 merit for it has only few number of users reaches this rank. Newbie and jr. member has the lowest chance of getting merit with only 1.29% and 8.92 chance on getting 1 merit respectively.

It clearly shows that if merit is like a Lottery Jackpot then newbie and jr. member ranks would hardly get merit. This because newbie and jr. member rank has the largest number of users in the forum. It has only a slight chance on getting merit. I will include also that the newbie/jr. member rank has the greatest number of posts activity stated in this post.

Luckily, getting merit is not like a lottery jackpot because it could be given anytime to those users that has shown unique and constructive posting skills. I could even attest to it before since I was demoted to newbie but was able to rank up even to a member rank. I was grateful that merit source help to reach this rank. Those people are extending help to motivate each users to post constructively and to behave in the forum.

Challenge is still to contribute and to be part meaningfully in this forum. I do hope that lower ranks would also realize how great it is to be part on cryptocurrency discussions. One should stop looking for merits and instead helping one another should be our priority.

So instead of complaining or starting a post to gain merit, it should be joining discussions actively and contribute meaningfully. We should stop starting a low quality post in this section.