Bitcoin Forum

Lets be honest. Its difficult for most of the new members joining on bitcointalk.org to understand the forum, its system, its rules are regulations and the benefits it provides such as quality content, information on coins and technology and bounties and signature campaigns. It usually takes time to get familiar with the system and how it works. It would be much easy to understand if a new overview was created for the site with a basic tutorial which would help and make it much more simpler for the new users to understand the forum. Still the things like personal text, signature, avatar, activity, merit system, etc are a bit unclear to people. Introduction of an automated basic tutorial will help people understand forum better and guide people towards specific topics on forum that are of vital importance such as information on activity, merit, etc.

Please let me know in replies what are your views on the idea of introduction of automated basic tutorials on bitcointalk.org.
Also share some ideas on how to make forum less complicated and simpler.  :)

This has been discussed numerous time before.
and post like thatr one of mine are also abundant.

Maybe I should create a guide topic. These would be the first rules.

1. Read the stickies before posting.
2. Stay away from bounties- don't talk about them, or even read about them.
3, Read the stickies
4. Don't bother about signatures until you achieve member rank
5. Read the stickies.
6, Stay out of the underworld - ICOs ANN threads and the like.
7. Read the stickies
8. Read a thread if you are going to reply to it, and stay on topic.
9 ..............

ps. Did I say that you should read the stickies on any board before you post on it.?

A virtual tour for the beginner could  be helpful although I doubt if this is something can be done on this current forum, may be for the new forum software. There could be course like Idea: Courses (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4609442.0) as theymos proposed will be helpful.

However, I will say all these are not actually necessary for someone who is really interested on the forum. Reading the stickies on the Beginners & Help (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=39.0) board should be enough. Especially, the topic Newbies - Read before posting (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0) by Lauda. Tell what what are you missing on that topic from a beginner's perspective?

um, wont an automated tutorial be better than a user guide? People usually skip reading user guides but a guided tutorial is much easy as it guides you throughout the forum.

Admin made a thread for something similar (regarding tutorials related to bitcoin investing) . I am not sure what is the progress with it.

Regarding, making tutorials on forum rules, how to use the forum and bounties, there are individual threads about all this. May be you can combine all these in one thread and start this initiative yourself.

I think in some past post, I had suggested that new registrations should be made to read the rules and then answer some questions based on what they have read to complete the registration. This will serve dual purpose, everyone will be acquainted with the rules and it will stop spam registrations.

I do agree with this idea of "automated basic tutorial". For old members it is easy to say that read the stickies, rules and all but remember the time when you first joined the forum. The forum is a vast sea of information with classic UI. It is certainly very confusing for new members to learn and adapt to this forum.

Yes, it is their responsibility to read the basic rules before pressing the keys on their keyboard, but if Bitcointalk can make the on-boarding easy, then it should. I particularly like the concept of Reddit side board. If you visit any sub-reddit then there is a side board to the right side and it has basic and most critical rules listed there. It really helps. Of course, Bitcointalk UI might not permit that, but the idea is good.

There is a tutorial, it's on the top bar of the forum : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=help and its clearly written as help. A little due diligence won't hurt.

those members,who skip the rules/guidelines, they are very prone to make mistakes and finally this forum will skip them from the forum .So don't skip the user guide.