Quote from: BlackBoss_ on Today at 09:10:30 AM

Quote from: Cryptohygenic on Today at 07:33:57 AM

You earn merits as rewards of your good offers and not my compassionate.

Good offers sound like negotiation offers for merit exchanges, do you mean so?

Merit is for highlighting good and quality posts to encourage forum posters to make more quality posts. You don't need to give others any offer to deal with, posting naturally with your knowledge and quality contribution, if other forum members see your posts are helpful, they will send you merit.

You don't need to exchange merits through "offers" and the best way to gain merit is Making Good Posts.
Welcome message.
Merit & new rank requirements.

Quote from: theymos on September 23, 2018, 08:58:25 PM

Forum rank

When you start out, you are a Newbie, and you will run into various annoying limits. These limits will be reduced to the point where you shouldn't usually notice them after you have participated in the forum for a few weeks. If you are on the forum to talk, then that's all you really need to know about rank. Don't worry about it too much, and you will eventually rank up.

If you want to maximize your rank, then you need to increase two statistics which are listed on your profile:

Activity, which is maximized by posting once per day on average. Posting more than that is useless in raising your activity.
Merit, which is gained by making good posts.

If you make ten thousand posts in a week, your activity will be capped and you will still be a Newbie. If you make ten thousand useless posts over any period of time, you will gain zero merit and you will still be a Newbie. You can rank up only by making good posts consistently. It's quality over quantity.

When trying to write quality posts, a lot of people act as though they're writing a book report for school: putting facts that we already know into their own words. Nobody wants to read that, and you will not get merit for it. Moreover, the length of your post and the quality of your English are only minor factors. In trying to write a quality post worthy of merit, you should offer new ideas, personal experiences, or perspectives that other forum users will actually find new and interesting.

Quote from: theymos on January 24, 2018, 11:00:11 PM

I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
- Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
- Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.

I am obviously lost with your mentioned of merit exchange. Is that a new coin exchange or what? Because what I can recall is the talk about how one can earn merits in the bitcointalk forum which I referred to be a means of forum users efforts of what help that that they can offers to to other users with a high quality of contributions.
I also highlighted it clearly that merits can also be earned by means of users supporting the bitcointalk forum with an quality offers that is to enhance usability of the forum.