New collection of badges for self-made users

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Hmph. I'm not going to sit here helping other people earn new shiny badges and see myself get left out. From my perspective, this new badge would make me feel so used.  

Yeah fuck that shit, I’ve only got 482 earned Merit. My account would look shit compared to loads of people then.

Merit 1000+482

At least wait until I get 1000 earned Merit

482 is not bad thou. It shows you really contributed and earned it without any motive of ranking up further. I know there are legendaries who don't care anymore because they already at the top

[lobcmt2]

So I didn't earn my merit?   Or am I an account farmer?

Currently, you have had exactly 2000 merits in total, 1000 from allocated merits, and the rest 1000 merits earned over more than one year.
Congratulations, you are self-made Ledgendary, for now.

[mu_enrico]

@OP, you will stop paying attention after you reach a certain amount of merits. So, I think these badges are not necessary.

Old undeserved high-rank members will be banned or red-tagged sooner or later anyway.

[lobcmt2]

In a way, yes. But it's also nice to show the difference between an account farmer and a user who earned his Merit. I think a Newbie with 20 earned Merit is much more impressive than a Legendary with 0 earned Merit.

I can not disagre with LoyceV at this point.

Old undeserved high-rank members will be banned or red-tagged sooner or later anyway.

I don't think so.
Bans or red tags need reasons to occur, so if they don't violate forum rules, they won't be banned or get red tags from DT members.
Even they are shitposters, and repeatedly posting shit, they won't get bans or red tags if they won't violate forum rules.

[owlcatz]

You guys also need to understand that "Merit" was never "a thing" back in the day, so a lot of us just don't care like we should - We never had to before so why take extra time now, we are all just as busy as before Merit occurred....

[mu_enrico]

Old undeserved high-rank members will be banned or red-tagged sooner or later anyway.

I don't think so.
Bans or red tags need reasons to occur, so if they don't violate forum rules, they won't be banned or get red tags from DT members.
Even they are shitposters, and repeatedly posting shit, they won't get bans or red tags if they won't violate forum rules.

Well, from my limited observations, these members would make mistakes sooner or later, e.g., plagiarism, shitpost, pyramid quotes, etc. It's difficult to change habits, that's why many members got rekt and complain in Meta.

If you want to brag about "self-made," you could put it in your "Personal Text" field.

The reporter badge is more important IMO.

[libert19]

Self made Full/senior/hero members after merit system implementation, are no less than super humans to me. Good job bud!

[Vod]

I want a badge for 1,000 merit "self-made Legendary without topic spamming"  

[Veleor]

I want a badge for 1,000 merit "self-made Legendary without topic spamming"   

How about this one?

[rbynxx]

Can we get a recogntion and an Amen for a self-made Member as well? I know that getting Member account only require few merits for some but for us that who do diligence rather than those who only get from their alts it will be encouraging for use if we will be recognised too. Hoping OP might update the thread.

[LoyceV]

In a way, yes. But it's also nice to show the difference between an account farmer and a user who earned his Merit.

So I didn't earn my merit?   Or am I an account farmer?

No, I was in no way pointing at you
Welcome to Self-made Legendary status!

[Crypto-DesignService]

In a way, yes. But it's also nice to show the difference between an account farmer and a user who earned his Merit. I think a Newbie with 20 earned Merit is much more impressive than a Legendary with 0 earned Merit.

I think this is the main reason why the thread is created but the problem is the implementation. We can't use different badges for self-made to old accounts because it gives a gap.

I like the idea of DdmrDdmr and iasenko.

Though I'm leaning more on this option than the other one.

Merit: 10+256

This idea is very simple, you show airdropped merit for old accounts(in black) and merits received for both old and created account where merit is introduced(in green). No way of having different badges to one another, it provides a very understandable detail that no one will think of why this one has a different badge to this one.

[r1s2g3]

I guess changing the colour from silver to platanium will solve the badge problem of badges color.

But badge will make things too much difficult to understand. For a same rank of ranked up Senior Member  ,badges should be different if somebody ranked from  Member to Senior Member, Newbie to Senior Member or Full Member to Senior Member. For a same rank you have to create so many badges that it will  not look practical and easy to remember.

[Crypto-DesignService]

I guess changing the colour from silver to platanium will solve the badge problem of badges color.

Platinum is exclusive only for satoshi's account.

[theyoungmillionaire]

I want a badge for 1,000 merit "self-made Legendary without topic spamming"  

From the maker of reporter badge, I give you Bitcointalk Order of Merit (BOoM) Badge:


When hover:


You can PM me theymos for April 01,2019 Badge.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

You guys also need to understand that "Merit" was never "a thing" back in the day, so a lot of us just don't care like we should - We never had to before so why take extra time now, we are all just as busy as before Merit occurred....

You might care in the future if theymos adds a new rank for e.g. -

Activity: 2000
Merit: 2000

I know I would any way, I want to hold the top rank

[owlcatz]

You guys also need to understand that "Merit" was never "a thing" back in the day, so a lot of us just don't care like we should - We never had to before so why take extra time now, we are all just as busy as before Merit occurred....

You might care in the future if theymos adds a new rank for e.g. -

Activity: 2000
Merit: 2000

I know I would any way, I want to hold the top rank

Honestly? Nah, I wouldn't care. I have a life outside this place.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

You guys also need to understand that "Merit" was never "a thing" back in the day, so a lot of us just don't care like we should - We never had to before so why take extra time now, we are all just as busy as before Merit occurred....

You might care in the future if theymos adds a new rank for e.g. -

Activity: 2000
Merit: 2000

I know I would any way, I want to hold the top rank

Honestly? Nah, I wouldn't care. I have a life outside this place.

Oh yeah obviously, I totally get that

[LoyceV]

Activity: 2000
Merit: 2000

That's going to take me another 1.5 years, you'll probably beat me to it.

[notocactus]

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Congratulations for your new milestone, LoyceV!
3000 merits, 2000 merits earned.
Those ones make you are one of outstandings in the forum.
I think that it is right time to give your account a name-calling, something like post-Ledgendary.
How about this term?