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15+ days my account is older and I am still on learning stage. And I think it will take 6 month or more to understand it fully.

But here I have noticed the best thing which I want to share.

That is the older members like hero and legendary and others( except the newbies who spam the forum). They always comment on a post if they have knowledge about it and suggest in a right way to the topic creator.

They do not go out from the topic and only share that information which they experienced before or learn from anywhere.

I always read the topic first and than to get information or knowledge I also read the comments of the legendary and heroes members which totally explain the topic.

And they make the topic too much easy to understand.

When I learn a topic from this forum than I make a little research about the topic to learn. ( Is it good please suggest?)

And now I thank to all older members who turn the newbies or others to the right way.

You will just need days to learn the basic things about cryptocurrency that if you are really decided. You can easily learn it if you can get help by someone who had been here for some time that can personally teach you not only the forum but to other areas of cryptocurrency also. It may not be easy at first but as when you will be able to try and successful then it will be rewarding. In my case, after I successfully created wallet and made my first transaction that was very fulfilling and a very new technology and process to me.

Anyway a good or high quality post are not based on which rank you are, there's still many high rank users (merit airdropped) spamming in this forum especially in Altcoin discussion (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0)

Read all the entire post would be better, you could adding or correcting other user opinion if he's doing wrong.

That's good, learning by reading many posts and articles are better than asking/create new topic that has been discussing before.

Welcome you to the forum, Cryptomint9.

With Internet, your life is easier. You can search and find what you need. Sometimes you can get access to documents you need without fee.

On the forum you can Search (top left) before you create your topic or when you want to answer one question of another member. You can contribute with your posts and you don't have to create topics to contribute. If your topic has lower quality than available topics, yours won't get much traffic so please don't create yours if you don't make any creative contributions.

Search is your weapon.

Not only the higher ranks because there are a lot of members right here are creating a good and quality contents but some of them did not too much notice that's the reason too why we are helping the merit source to find those quality threads if you find one I highly recommended to post on this thread created by LoyceV.

[self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5093271.0)

You can be one of them make sure you are still following the rules. For me it's better to make a unique thing, some of the members known because of their project, content construction, the uniqueness you can make your own way to easily notice our forum.

This is true.

In my experience, I've witnessed high rank members claim that they read what I posted and I was expecting answers or recommendations other than what I already said but no!

Like 360 "days"? Each individual have different learning capacity. If you can learn it in 15 days, the others could understand it in 30 or more days. Let's take into consideration the educational background also.

Yep. A easy red flag for those kinds of users(though not literally everyone, of course) are those with 250/500/1000 flat merits. Those who were early enough to be lucky to receive the merit airdrop, but never ever received an sMerit lol. What's funny is that a good number of those kinds of users were already here since around 2013; pretty much almost a decade of activity here but yet you don't see any improvement from them. It's mind boggling!

Carry on mate, I've seen few newbie accounts on this forum that ranks up pretty fast, that's because of how good they are when creating posts and topics, been creative on this forum will surely rank you up fast, just keep focus and do what you do best, even a newbie can surpass old members, it's damn possible all you need is to be more creative, be different

A large number of these accounts are probably someone’s alts to be used solely for bounty campaigns or cheating on various promotions. When I look at their post history, the only thing I see are bounty reports or signature spammers.

What really helps me is the BPIP browser extension (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5224821.0;topicseen) (by suchmoon) that shows "BPIP Rank" and "Earned Merit" for each member. That way, I can easily spot members who haven't earned a single merit in all the time spent on the forum.

Take for example, these jokers: ronaldo8971 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=902229), levik (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=923938) and planetroving (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=484567)
All high-ranking members without any earned merits and the only thing they do is bumping 777Coin thread on a daily basis... Yeah, I guess you're right. Really mind boggling!

I don't know if I'm the only one thinking this but what OP says sounds to me like flattery to high ranked members to see if he can fish some merit. Nice try OP. At least you are not a shitposter. I have seen your post history and it seems that you will make good use of the forum.

You will get used to making topics, remember that we all started from scratch even legendary and hero have to study before they made to that level,
you just have to give your best, at the same members are willing to help, if you have questions, when I was starting its also hard for me but because of others post I slowly learn, some although I need to learn more, because we need to be always updated, sooner or later it will be easy for you.

You are right, there are accounts on the forum that have early registration, and still, participate in bounty campaigns. If you look at the history of such accounts, you can easily find hacked or sold accounts. The first owners were, for example, miners, and after a break of 2-3 years, a person completely forgets about mining and asks various garbage about bitcoin, and of course, rushes to participate in the bounty.

Therefore, OP, do not flatter yourself with high-ranking reviews. Not all of them are who they say they are.
The surest road to knowledge is the gradual study of the forum information. Very soon you will learn how to disassemble the "wheat from the chaff", thereby possibly becoming a good forum member.

Well, our behavior should something similar although you haven't mentioned all the points, newbies would take a bit lesson from this discussion. You are newbies on the forum doesn't mean you can't participate in the constructive discussion. I have seen many Hero/Legendary spammer and low ranked quality poster. So, there is no end to learning, it's not limited to 6 months or years. Honestly, even I achieved Legendary ranks but still I am learning from the forum.

However, I don't know what's is the intention of this post. But sent merits on this thread because I believe newbie's behavior should something similar. I will encourage you to read all the replies before replying to a thread. Although sometimes I can't follow it myself it but would be a good practice. One important point, please use the search button before you create a new thread. So you might get your answer before creating a thread.

I am not sure you are real new member of the forum but skip this matter and I'd argue with you that 6 months are not long enough for you to fully understand the forum. It is a big forum and you won't manage to get through all of its boards, child boards, and discussions. I guess you can misunderstand rules too. You can have good understandings on rules for some boards you often visit but for boards you don't visit regularly, you will miss something.

If you visit a board, pay a few minutes to read Pinned topics.

[Bitcointalk sticky threads] Newbies - read before starting. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5279088.msg55287488#msg55287488)

You don't need to be hero or legendary member to do the same. They and you can follow a rule: only post if you see you have a good information, constructive discussion. If you don't have, skip your post and read only.

Not all Hero or legendary members can give you good advice. You will be trapped by their shitposts if they are shitposters and their advice has non sense.

A newbie today can be a Hero next year. I began as a newbie, stepped like yours now and I am crawling to Hero.

I really do not like topic like this. What OP has done is: Telling good things about older members which are not always true and all these sounds cheesy as well. This is a zero value post.




I trust myself and I believe none of these are honest opinion. In 15+ days you even do not have any idea which account has what characteristics. Have you not seen high rank members to spam, have you not seen high ranked members to take on a newbie, have you not seen a high rank member to insult a low rank, have you not seen high rank members to hate each others, have you not seem personal conflicts between two members?

Don't come to such cheesy conclusion just to earn some merits. I have a feeling that you have an older account without having to earn much merit and now you started this account and trying something different. Creating or having alt account is fine in this forum but if you take this path of being cheesy then you will not go much further. Maybe one or two members will merit you but in the long run you will not have good time.

Thats typical spamming in a discreet manner. Some high ranks are obviously doing a sig quota and even the topics has been going to somewhere aside from the OP topic they still posting.

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OP nice observation, it does not require you a 6months timeframe to grasp all necessary things here in forum. I can tell that you are a good observant and that's why Im not wondering you could easily attained a higher rank with this kind of attitude. Keep it up.

BitcoinTalk Forum is an extraordinary forum. Our seniors here are very helpful. I haven't seen a Beginner ask for help but didn't get the help.

Not all newbie members are spamming the forum. Remember that today's Hero, Legendary member was also a newbie one day. Similarly, not all Hero, Legendary members are always doing constructive posts. However, this number is very low. There are some airdroped Hero, Legendary members who also spamming the forum. I saw a high rank profile who got negative trust for posting spam and so that he can't participate in any signature campaign but now I can't remember his name.

This is not the correct use of the trust system, as far as I understand. Spam posts should be reported to moderators. Negative Trust is used when there is a well-founded suspicion that a member is trying to cheat or deceive other members.

Which is not what should happen really. If the person is spamming, then it’s up to the mods to decide whether the account warrants any type of ban. It is not, on the other hand, something that someone should take into their own hands, and neg-tag an account for spamming. That’s not what Trust is for, and there are quite a bunch of account that overdo this.

Regarding the knowledge-rank association stated in the OP, statistically it may have an echo, as time on the forum lets you get to know the ropes of this and that, but it eventually boils down to the person behind the account, and as you become familiar with the forum, you get to understand which profiles you can trust in their content posting above others.

First thing is that I am a new member who is just learning about the forum. And how could you say that I am not a new member.


All of there who are now legendaries and the heroes they were newbies at first. And they are now ranked up and got the experience. Therefore I am admiring them.


Doesn't matter. If you valued my post as a zero. I am not admiring the legendaries and heroes there can be the newbies too. If they have good experience. I just written that which I got from this forum.

This is why I made a script for displaying earned merit, and now when I want to quickly scroll through a big topic and see if there's any good posts, I simply disregard anyone with a big gap between earned and total merit. I think gradually reducing the so-called airdropped merit and ranking down people who fail to meet the requirements would have helped a little bit with spam, because campaign mangers would only be able to enroll Hero/Legendary members who actually earned a lot of merit and are probably not shitposters.

What you just said is most appropriately true. The forum is filled with all type of members ranging from high ranked who make low quality posts to low ranked members who strive to make constructive posts. Some are here for money, some for knowledge and some for both. It depends on the individual though. What I like about this forum is there are a good number of people here who actively contribute towards the forum and help newbies to learn more. Besides, this is what one should do. Learn and let learn is the motive of many.
This is the best thing because this is how the right knowledge of bitcoin and the blockchain technology is spread throughout the world.

I agree with that. Personally, I'd love to see members without earned merits degraded to lower ranks, but I'm not sure if they'll ever do that. As for displaying earned merits, I use the BPIP Extension (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5224821.0), and I can only say, thanks to suchmoon for that.

There are some managers who take earned merits as a requirement for accepting participants to campaigns, while on the other hand there are those who accept almost anyone without any criteria (I'm not going to call them here they can recognize themselves).

No one will left behind in this forum because we will do our very best to help you, those newbies to understand cryptocurrency world more.

We are here to guide you because we are building a community here that will make bitcoin and blockchain technology become more known and popular by millennials.

Just be patient and feed your curiosity with a lot of information regarding this forum and you can explore anything you want if you like reading a lot of stuffs. As you read, you will also learn and develop critical thinking skills when dealing practically in the market so never hesitate to learn because learning has no limit.

Indeed. This forum is not all about earning cryptocurrencies by joining and participating in signature and bounty campaigns, airdrops, raffles, etc. because, to be honest, this forum helped me a long time ago when I was a newbie in this forum that it helped me to decide where and what can I do with my money, so I could invest and earn in cryptocurrency for my necessities. So this forum is all about working together because many crypto users here, especially those high-rank members, always guide and help beginners earn and use cryptocurrency in their daily lives.

This is really good point here on this forum as its my second day and I am checking few things which are really good hopefully I will be able to have some more good ways of learning about many new things from here with the help of many experienced peoples around here full of energy to give good opinion to others.

Well, not all the hero and legendary are the same because there are several accounts that have been made a long time ago where merit does not exist yet. Besides, there are still some users who have been merit trading just for them to rank up and if it happens you saw one, you should report it. But you must not only focus on higher ranks though because there are lower ranks that are overshadowed and also been providing a contribution.

And that is how the forum should work because several members are only here for profit. If you have knowledge that you think everyone doesn't know then share it because they will do the same. Exchange of everyone's knowledge is a good trade after all.

No doubt, this is the best thing to do rather than creating a topic that is already been discussed. After reading some articles you must support it with little research for you to be able to completely understand it.

Learning a new concept topic is something that is valuable and useful for you before answering or creating a new topic, The problem is that many beginners find it difficult to retain the information they have just learned by doing research and studying it well, without realizing he had already answered and made the same topic.

Basically if you already understand and research a concept, the point is that you have to understand the content of the topic and you can explain it to other members, so that other people can judge that you really understand and master what you learn on the topic, and vice versa the topic you just created.

Well, I think that's because that's how things should be. This is a place for discussion so when you have a knowledge about something, you should share about it so that others can learn from it, too. Those Hero/Legendary members are whom we can say that are more experienced here thus they know more especially about the technicalities. But they're not the only ones who can share valuable knowledge because, personally, I see lower ranks (lower than my rank) who has relevant and informative posts. With that, I think it's just safe to say that the rank doesn't tell all about the knowledge a forum member can give.

Still, that's a good observation. :)

They said that sharing is caring, which is true.

Just give or post information that you know so that other people will become knowledgeable towards a certain topics.

It is also good if you give those newbies some tips that they can use in investing, trading and etc. There are a lot of things that you can learn here in forum, it can also make you aware about those scams that will make you lose your investments. Explore and don't be shy to give us also your opinions and thoughts.