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Hi everyone! I have observed different interest boards of the bitcoin talk forum and noticed a major part of the forum contents, especially responses, are of high quality because they exist a good number of members who know how to respond to threads, but unregistered readers, the guests, I don't know why you chose not to create an account - if responding to threads is the problem this simple guide will help to get you started in responding to threads like the ranked members through the power of quote button.

Active Members who consistently read these forums must have noticed that the effective responses carry quotes of each statement, line, or paragraph in a post with responses, according to the contributor's view, anger, corrections, and excitement on the thread. However, remember that they are no absolute answers a good reason why yours is needed to make the forum informative. The guides should be cemented in your brain ;D to enable you to make great comments that may yield merits but, building your activity with quality contents is way better.

1) A question about the meaning of a bitcoin term, sentence, the reason why a particular phrase appears in the thread; or the reason why the OP chose to begin or end as he or she did.

2) A comment on what you think the thread is about and why you are interested or not interested in that idea.

3) An observation, in quote, about a particular description, line, or sentence to which you had a strong reaction, you liked it; you disliked it; it made you angry, happy, sad, puzzled, or uncomfortable. This method is effective in the forum and adds to the quality of any response that follows this step.

4) A connection between the thread and other crypto posts you have read, experienced or observed in your research about bitcoin. A link to the other blog is always needed to help readers understand your response better. 

Note that responding to threads is a place to begin in the forum, when done the right way, these 4 guides will be of great help to everyone not only the guests. Thank you!

+1 for effort, but do we really need this? Just respond to threads like how you would respond in a normal conversation, with the only difference that you don't need to respond immediately hence you have a bit more time to think about your response. There's really no need to overthink/overanalyze it.

Uh...bruh, it is hard to understand this topic, the guide kind of makes it even more difficult to respond to topics >:( i don't feel there should even be a guide to teach people how to reply to a topic. There are thousands of topics all around the forum, all of them on different subjects, the way you respond to topic A can't be the same way you respond to topic Z, because they both have different contents, and different replies are needed. Just read a topic and respond to it the way you understand it, if you don't understand it too much, only read and don't respond.

You are on the step 3 of the thread, you showed your reaction on the thread which is most likely, you are sad of such a rule (not a rule but a guide to anybody that needs it or like minds) Your responses are accepted just share your thoughts, hope you read the thread again and understand it can guide our guests to create accounts and get started.

  I don't think they is a way you can respond to threads without falling in between one of the steps above, your response on the thread is on step 2) you gave a reason why you are not interested on the thread.

How do we exactly define the term effective ? There are many ways on how to improve your post quality and the basic and most important of them is to acquire knowledge for the same which comes from learning new things.But I have not seen something like how to particularly respond to a thread and don't think we can limit it.

Your reply can be short, long or in any manner but it should be on point, explaining your thoughts clearly and it must be on topic.When you have knowledge about something you are posting upon on the forum it will be automatically effective as it would help others to gain knowledge out of it.

For example if you agree/disagree with some part of the post you can quote reply that particular part in your post and express your thoughts or make corrections if you have adequate knowledge about it and hence it would be termed as effective posting.

Actually it is quite complicated, like mk4 said, we can just response on how we usually do reply on such topic and post here. Even me, I am more comfortable on how I tell what i wanted to say and on which subject I am going to focus on his topic. Its not like we should check or familiairize the guide you stated here. But thanks for the heads up, since what you said is correct.

I would say effective response is:

1. Only quote the part you want to reply.
2. Compress the image to make it light and resize using width= after img tag.
3. Don't reply if you don't add anything new about to the topic (don't repetition).
4. Write to the point and not make a wall of text.
5. Don't post in a row.

Last but not least, don't post if you're only trying to fill your campaign quota requirement.

We are still on same line, I pointed “guests" who may not know where to start from in terms of thread response, my question is won't the guide help them? Another thing is those responses that tend to tackle each statements accordingly aren't they effective to the readers understanding? I never said its a particular way of responding to a thread, watch the post closely you'll understand that many responses in the forum already follow this method and anybody who wish to can do the same way. Even your method of response is also a part of this guide, and its not a must to use the quote button, but if I didn't quote your response how will readers or guests understand fully whom and what post I'm referring to, I don't see anything wrong in the guides above, you may have understood it differently. And I'll try as much as I could to clarify you if needs arise thanks for your response.


You see the laughing emoji where I mentioned “cement it on your brain" the guide must not be followed accordingly, it can be used in any manner once you respond to a thread you've already followed the guide, hope you get this point, its the main reason I referred to guests who may have not opened an account here because of not knowing how to go about responding on threads, I think some people could have that as a reason and such guests won't hesitate to check this thread when they see it, I'm glad they are many effective responses here that will guide them.

Despite my response being what you've described doesn't really change the fact that this "advice thread" doesn't really need to exist, doesn't it? It's like saying a controversial opinion but saying that you're expecting to receive a bit of backlash.

respond spontaneously about the topic being discussed without having to burden the mind to overanalyze. I prefer to respond to threads with the knowledge I have and this will give a different response than others. also requires some references if it is needed for responses in the form of valid data.

I think effectively responding to any thread is a lot easier that it may seem. It probably requires only three things, which are basically common-sense:

1. Relevance. Your response should be on topic or connected to the discussion.
2. Knowledge/information. If you're not contributing any useful knowledge or information to the discussion, I guess your response isn't effective at all.
3. Proper sentence construction. Not necessarily perfect, of course. Just enough for sense to be there. Otherwise, how could your response be effective if you failed to bring out your point or idea clearly?

The most effective response on threads, in my opinion, is a reply adding something useful (in terms of informative value)  into conversation or discussion. If you just express your agreement or disagreement with the author without providing arguments or counter-arguments, it is considered a poorly-written reply of almost zero value for both the author and other readers. If you agree with the author, you either don't reply at all (you can say you value what they are saying by meriting their post) or, in case you feel you desperately want to say something, you reply in a smart way presenting valid arguments and providing source links supporting your opinion. The same principles apply to the cases where you feel the need to correct the author or express your disagreement with what they wrote. Try to back up your arguments with links to reliable sources of information, do not be unfounded, and express your opinion coherently so that other users could also learn something from your reply.

OP, unfortunately, guests or newbies who come to the forum will not read your instructions. They don't know how to find the forum rules; can we expect attention to all the guides created that will soon be history? 
Just look around. How many newbies care about how to properly post topics or questions, and how do they react by creating multiple posts? This forum is dear to you and to us, but for a newbie, until he joins the life of the forum, this is incomprehensible, and there is nothing we can do about it except to direct them constantly from topic to topic; read the rules.

Although that I'm a little on the confuse side to your thread and the reason or need for it, what I can make from the above quote is that you can quote a post and write what you think about it, you can use the emojis on the page to speak something in the quote you are making like you can use grin ( ;D) to show you are laughing or trying to smile or make humour from the post. Also if you don't understand the way to quote or use some emojis, ads, or other specifications, you can preview a post that has used that writing form you are trying to do likewise and see how it was done. Well maybe that is what I understand from your thread.

These members you see don't just do that overnight, they have sacrifice enough strength, time and commitment to learning and adaptation, no one is born with it all, we are learn so special and unique qualities in life.


I don't think there's a need for persuasion here, if a guest finds the forum interesting enough to him and need to ask a question, make contributions or stay on the forum then he will personally make that discovery when he tries to post but couldn't until he register, some only come over to check for updates and go while some still need to stay for more reasons best known to them, so not staying is not as a result of inability to respond to threads but a choice from such person, depending on his need if met or not.

 
 

Some people naturally absorb and doesn't give out. Some guest users are comfortable getting information and may not want to reply. I could remember my high school days, a very good friend of mine doesn't ask questions, whether he understands or not, he moves on. Likewise in the forum, some people haven't created a single thread. That is their nature.

Then for everyone who wishes to contribute to the forum discussion, they should approach it like a normal conversation and only to reply when there is an absolute need to and when you are sure you have a value to add. But what is said is not the reality. Many lower-ranked users don't know posting etiquette and they feed on the kindness of the forum to post in any manner they wish.

If this post is for guests I don't think they will find this thread without putting "for guest" keyword in the title and here we're talking the effectiveness of a post.

For any member, I guess anyone can actually do respond when knowing there is a quote button and by observing other posts. Quoting only necessary, its either answering their questions, correcting other by facts and stats. If its an opinionated thread then expect an opinionated response.

I bet there's no need to explain these things, as long the response isnt off topic to the thread then it's fine.

There are no hard cut rules as to how you should engage a thread here on forum, for me, you don't need to be under pressure to impress anybody, just settle down and express yourself well. Read and understand the point of a discussion, go through other comments if other forum users have already engaged it, If you really understand the topic, you should have a striking response to give back, just same as having a conversation with someone. Don't feel under pressure to engage every thread, if you let pressure in especially as a newbie, you may soon if not careful, plagiarize.

For me, I only response on what I usually do, what I know and what I feel about it. It's their decision not to create an account so your persuasion won't work I think. If they really want to respond to threads then they should have created an account already rather than being a guest lurking in the forum.

This was what I was feeling to the thread as well.
Surely users are already doing what the OP mentioned subconsciously. It is like how one should effectively eat his/her food and how should s/he chew.

@OP No offense to the OP, but I feel like there is no point of discussing on how people should post. It is either you respond to a thread, respond/reply to other users replying to the thread or do not respond at all.  That is pretty much the "tldr" of the thread. Appreciate your writing though.

Have simple formula, if something pops up in mind while reading then respond otherwise ignore and move on. Works for me.

You're right and i also supported that, why should everyone trolling around create an account if he doesn't think of doing that the first place, this will help reduce the number of shitposters and unserios minded users that may just coincidentally jump into the forum with gabage from somewhere else, I will also like yo advise thise that creates threads to also haveba follow up onthe discussions going on there, not that you just create a thread and forget about it, i believe why it was first created is for members to contribute, then we mist also learn to be active with those kind of threads and tou must not create a thread unless you have something tangible to present.

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You're right and i also supported that, why should everyone trolling around create an account if he doesn't think of doing that the first place, this will help reduce the number of shitposters and unserios minded users that may just coincidentally jump into the forum with gabage from somewhere else, I will also like yo advise thise that creates threads to also haveba follow up onthe discussions going on there, not that you just create a thread and forget about it, i believe why it was first created is for members to contribute, then we mist also learn to be active with those kind of threads and tou must not create a thread unless you have something tangible to present.
[/quote] Finally, someone who understands what I meant. I wouldn't troll someone just by creating an account and then do whatever what I want because I believe that no one will entertain me of that's what these guys think when trolling when if we do that then that means we are just doing what a shitpostetd do even you know that you are just trolling to start with. Even though no one are trolling anyone in my opinion do that means it better stays that way.

I think these tips are written so that the answers are not deleted on the forum as "irrelevant." In this case, yes, this is not bad advice. And in general, I agree with the general opinion: as in any forum, you need to answer the way you would answer the interlocutor in a real conversation.

Making a response on threads should be base on individuals decision to which thread they see better understanding of before responding to it, this beings in when the idea of a quality post is required, it's just the same interpretation wjen it is required of your not to just respond to a thread but your response must be promptly accurate and on point, that's why you find out that any off point as a resoonse deserve the direct placement to off topic without hesitation by the moderators, we must not talk except we have something to offer or ask.