Quote from: grahammiranda13 on March 11, 2023, 08:17:32 AM

I have been here since 2017 and have Total time logged in: 16 hours and 55 minutes.

Until the end of 2017, activity based merit was given through Airdop. But you opened the account in 2017 but posted only 8 in 2017 and then no merit was required for Jr Member. There was a merit request for at least member rank. And it takes 60 post & 60 activities to become a member because of which you won't get any merit through airdrop. So now to get merit you must make good quality and informative post. then someone can give you Smerit

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How does this Merit thing work? I am defiantly not asking for free or just handouts but I don't understand it.

If you ask how Merit affects an account and how many merits are required for each rank. then you can follow Theymos topics which link already provide you rat03gopoh

Quote from: rat03gopoh on March 11, 2023, 08:33:40 AM

All explanations are here >> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0

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If I want to give someone a Merit can I not because I am a Newbie? Or do I need to upgrade membership first?

It doesn't matter what rank you are to give merit. it matters how many Smerit you have. If you get merit from someone! then for every 2 merits received1 Smerit will be generated in your account. And you can send that Smerit to any other account. But if someone got the Merits via airdrop then there might be only a few Smerits.
Note that if an account does not have Smerit and it is also a legendary account then no Merit can be sent from that account.