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I see a lot of newbies struggling to accomplish what they would like to with their posts. They are unable to present their ideas in a way that is palatable to other users. They are regularly ignorant of the rules, guidelines, expectations and have no semblance of what is appropriate for each board. My goal with this thread is to combat these issues on an individual-basis.

This is how we're going to do this -

Submit up to 3 of your posts that you believe to be the greatest representation(s) of your contribution(s) around the forum. I'm searching for posts that are well-thought out, creative, nuanced, insightful, helpful, informative, unique, interesting and overall make the community a bit shinier. I believe there are too many members that are too arrogant or too afraid to honestly self-analyze their posting behavior around the forum. I will give my feedback on each of your posts, and if I find your thread/post to have the aforementioned qualities then I will join the discussion, watch the thread and use your submission as a reference for future questions about post-quality and anything relevant to the original intent of the post/thread.

In addition to reviewing the posts you have submitted, I will also take a peek at your 20-40 most recent posts and give my feedback regarding those as well. The purpose of this thread is to give the feedback necessary to allow users to make positive adjustments to the way they conduct themselves around the forum. Also, I have a hard time finding interesting discussions, so maybe this will work as a proxy for that as well.

You can write a comment, a request or whatever else, but leave the links plain, one per line, without any numbers, bullets or tags in front of them or behind them. If a link is on that line, nothing else should be.

Do not post useless comments or unproductive posts here; they will be deleted and go unanswered.

Local-Rule : Do not format your links with tags, hyperlinks, lists or line-breaks. I will delete/reject your submissions instantly.
Local-Rule : Do not post more than 3-links in one post, do not post another submissions until I have responded to your first and you have made the adjustments suggested.
Local-Rule : Only submit posts written in English.
Local-Rule : No Discussion of Merit


Disclaimer - This is strictly my opinion and any constructive disagreement from other members is welcomed into this discussion.

Friendly bump here, put the word "merit" in the subject and you gonna have some more success :)

Looks like the person that posted theirs for review deleted their post. I was planning to get around to that today, but if anybody else is interested I'm around and willing.


That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I'm not going to be giving out merit for this service, and so it seems a little strange that all of the sudden nobody is interested in hearing my opinion their posts. Makes me think I was being taken for a run at my merit with the last thread. I'm open to the possibility that it is simply due to the change from Service to this section, but more realistically it seems like people were hungry for the merit even if they had no chance at receiving it. Just the fact that "merit" was involved in the title of the thread was enough to attract them.

wowoooo great work you have 210 active post and Merit: 194 thats great i want to know how you get merit .and how i ll get start my merit ?plz help

It was me. I can't actually recall why exactly I did it. Sometimes I go to my post history and delete some comments which lately I think they were unnecessary.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4178434.0

I  wasn't going to post here, as this service looks focused on newbies. But I can see they are not giving it much attention...

I wrote this one some other day , I really liked this post and did a lot of research. However it didn't have a good reception.

Well, reading through your post history it seems evident to me that your posts are not entirely your own. There is certainly more than one person writing posts for your account. I do not know if this means your account is shared, sold, if you plagiarize or if someone else is writing some of your posts. There might be an entirely separate explanation altogether, but whatever the case is I would suggest you stop it.


Fair enough, thanks for letting me know so that I don't feel like a crazy person.


Your intentions seem to be in the right place, so I'm not going to come down on you too hard. The posts you provided are good examples of helpful contributions to the community. There's nothing wrong with that, but looking through your recent posts and even just reading these submissions carefully let's me know that you should work on your English skills. Your posts are all extremely choppy, and quite honestly a little difficult to read. Sometimes I have to think more than I should have to in order to understand what you are trying to say. My biggest suggestion would be to work on your English skills, refrain from getting involved in drama, and try to elaborate/clarify your thoughts more clearly. Don't get lazy when it comes to typing, because if what you have to say is important or helpful then it is worth the few extra keystrokes and seconds.


It is primarily focused around newbies, and people that are seeking to improve their posting habits. That was the original intention of my thread anyways, along with finding interesting topics to get involved in. Now that I've removed the merit incentive, it unfortunately seems like most of the interest has drifted away. It's possible that moving it from Services to this board also makes it much less "visible" to most users around the forum. I doubt this board gets as much traffic.

Funny enough I actually already read that thread the other day when you originally posted it. It's actually on my watchlist, and it provoked some decent amount of thought on the subject. As for the quality of your posts, I'm not sure what I can offer in order for you to improve your posting behavior. You don't seem to force posts out simply to get a +1 post, or whatever else would be the goal. When you have an interesting or intelligible thought you present it in a very cohesive and palatable manner. You don't spam around and you don't stretch your posts unnecessarily, so overall I'd say just keep doing your thing.

Well, guess what are they here for? Why would they improve their post quality for no reason? Everything gravitate around the money, and merit means more money. Easy peasy ...
So, don't be disappointed. That's live.

Thanks for your nice reviews. I will try my best to improve myself.

i am a new member here and don't have full awareness about posting rules so you made me well understand about posting behavior in your post and i learnt a lot from you thanks a lot.....

That makes me feel dirty. They should want to improve their post quality in order to more clearly and efficiently convey their thoughts. They should want to improve their post quality because it will open all sorts of opportunities for them if they are able to articulate their thoughts and speech in a way that is attractive to others. I'm not saying they should want to improve themselves for no reason, what I am saying is that there is an endless sea of reasons and merit should not be the primary motivation. Maybe I am being naive, but I'd like to think that there are members arriving on the forum that are not solely driven by money and merit.


 :-*


Here's a friendly tip for a new user; when you are quoting a post from another user it is normally appropriate to -snip- and "trim" the post down so that you are not completely re-posting everything they already have. It is regular that people only quote the specific part(s) they are responding to. That being said, could you please explain a little more about how I helped you understand more about posting behavior? I don't believe I've ever given you a direct review, nor have you requested one in any of my threads. I'm very interested to hear how I've assisted you in anyway.

What a nice thread. I especially like the part about not giving merit. Why should you? You're already helping people, spending your precious time analysing their posts and trying to make it easier for them to earn merit on their own. You're teaching them to fish instead of giving fish. Keep it up! :)
And last but not least a word of advice for newbie posters. When you create a thread asking for help, don't expect merit. You actually should give merit to those who spend their time trying to help you, not the other way round.

Well, for sure there are people here for many different reasons, not only for the money/merit, it's a good way to filter them through your service.

I wish I could improve my English too since it's getting worse and worse with the time. I know what is needed to be done to get it on higher level but I have no time and will. Learning another foreign language at the moment and all together are 4 different languages at the same time, it's really a mess. None of them is good anymore.

I read what I wrote till now and I'm very disappointed with my clumsy way of expressing, it's just horrible. It used to be better 10 years ago...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4401590.msg39156414#msg39156414

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2705607.msg38974531#msg38974531

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4427333.msg39520228#msg39520228

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2578193.msg39040806#msg39040806

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2653920.msg39754613#msg39754613

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4130696.msg39336141#msg39336141

Can I get merit from this post? I really need one merit again to become member.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4438063.msg39647664#msg39647664

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3108981.0
Use this service. Iasenko has a service helping members who need 1 merit to rank up, just like you.

Hello. Look at my topics please.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3779939.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3878788.0

He is not providing merit for our post in this threads.He just helping us to improve our post in future.
I agree that you deadly need 1 merit for getting the status of Member.But don't beg like this.
As till now you got 9 merit , definitely you will soon get 1 merit .

My suggestion there are other threads ,which are give away merit to the quality post.you can post there.

Thank you for your well thought out post. I'm new in this forum and I have not tried posting a useful and informative subject yet. I'm reading and learning through the posts and quoting some of it which I could relate into. I think the key to creating a good and worthy posts is learning considerably prior to laying thoughts out through posts worthy to be discussed. If one isn't confident yet and ideas are still cluttered, it is better to read and learn more. With that, sufficient knowledge will be accumulated resulting to worthwhile contributions on this forum.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4434503.msg39601400#msg39601400

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4383451.msg39084177#msg39084177

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4330176.msg38815915#msg38815915