Quote from: DdmrDdmr on June 29, 2019, 08:46:34 PM

As you can see, 9 Old Era Newbies have made it to Hero, 40 Newbies (34+6) have reached Sr. Member, 111 Newbies (25+86) to Full Member, 3.357 to Member and 10.433 to Jr. Member.
Those youre really focusing on now are the 9 Newbies that made it to Hero (nobody has had time (Activity) yet to make it to Legendary from Newbie starting from scratch under the Merit System).

I am one of those 9. Created an account with 0 merits, newbie.

I am going to confess that when I discovered this forum the merit system was just implemented, I though "I am fuked, i will never rank up". It was very hard to earn my firsts merits. One by one, really hard. My objective was to become one day a Full member (100 merits). It wasn`t effortless, but I enjoyed the path.

I learned a lot here, and after a few months I was more worried about building a reputation here and enjoying the forum than about ranking up...

The advice I can give you is: Enjoy the forum, read mastering bitcoin, watch you tube videos about great people in the ecosystem (vitalik buterin, antonopoulos, etc), study whateever you like here.

If you enjoy politics, go to politics and society board. If you make constructive posts there, you will be merited. Do you like statistics? Make some statistics about anything forum/bitcoin related and post here. Do you like religion? Go to off topic board. There is space here to rank up the way you like. Make your own path, there are no strict rules about how to rank up.

Quote from: gentlemand on June 29, 2019, 10:29:34 PM

Meta appears to be where the merit rains. I'm not completely sure why.

In my opinion, this is a problem with the merit system. People are incentive to post there because it is easy to get merits there, and it is not a session where there are bitcoin or cryptocurrency related discussions, which is the focus of the forum.