Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on Today at 09:18:35 AM

OP, why do you need merit?
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maybe grahammiranda13 has now been 'checked' and he would like to get more involved in the forum in order to increase/improve his reputation in order to be able to apply for various BTC signature campaigns in the future and in the long term.

Quote from: grahammiranda13 on Today at 08:17:32 AM

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

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

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

to point 1: your current logtime has very little to do with it
to point 2: if you create a very informative post/thread then the probability is high that you will get a merit. if you have collected a total of 2 merits, you can send 1 merit to another user in return - if you have 4 merits then you can distribute 2 and so on...
to point 3: newbies can also receive/send merits. through the number of merits you receive and through your activity in the forum, your userrank will increase after some time.

if you want to read up more on these points, some of the previous posters (rat03gopoh and lovesmayfamilis) have already posted some interesting links on this topic