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Having relocated to a new place because of work or joined the Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency community because of money, it takes courage to do both and succeed where others fail.
I had to relive life as if I was born a new. On the contrary, one common trait that seemed to bother most, as I have come to see, is that of trying to fix everything.
When someone knows what is wrong, instead of ignoring or finding a way around it, they try to report it or complain about it or act in animalistic manner without fixing anything in total.
I have also realized that it is always better to let things flow, in the sense that one just overlooks the problem and firstly seeks peace of mind and ordered reasoning. If after making the case known to a superior and nothing is done still, with being calm and appearing unbothered, the fuss will somehow become clearer and solutions will surface. I.e. give the problem a day or two, if it doesn't present a solution, please seek further advice or a mentor.

As with the case of this forum, newbies should try to be calm as with the merit and post section rush that is more of a trend these days. Be calm and take your time to understand the way things get done here, mostly as regards comment style, presentation of work, organization of reference and links,  terms and languages being used. You will see how things just flow with ease.

You have a nice advise for everyone, but letting things flow has its limitations. Some things may insist to get solved on it's own, like in the activities of this forum. If a newbie is calm and reads the forum without being creative with their writing they may not get merited by members. I think with the last sentences of your thread being implemented by a newbie that wish to climb the ranking lather they can easily get there. That is when the merits will start flowing.

It does have it's limits and that's where complaint comes if you really can't find a solution for that problem. If it's about ranking then complaining about it doesn't make difference since that system is used to prevent people who only come here in forum which such goal like increasing their rank to join bounty campaigns or a bounty hunter that only spam the forum which many people doesn't like it or frowned upon. If a person really want to join this forum to learn and such then the merit system is nothing for a person to worry about and I see such person achieve that and now have enough merits to become a legendary member.

Merit flows only when quality posts are been made,and to be calm in Bitcoin requires patience .Moreover,bitcoin is a thing of patience, if one is not patient enough it seems as if nothing is working but if patience is applied the result is usually big, as a beginner in bitcoin trading you have to expect lot because before  everything big comes a big risk, most times people give up because of little patience and fear of losing money and so on but when they finally accept the risk and wait patiently they surely have good results. Another thing about bitcoin trading is to understand the margin reading and the rest to know when coin is high or low so that you won't sell at a rate by which you lose.

it's important for newbies to brand themselves right away after they read all the rules and fully memorize them, what I mean by branding themselves is to post on topics and categories where they are comfortable posting and have knowledge on the subjects and try to increase their knowledge daily so they can participate in a healthy discussion.
Merits will eventually come when members perceived you as someone who has authority on the subject.

One unnoticed behavior that breeds poor quality post is the attitude by some newbie making it a compulsory task on themselves that they must have to make a certain number of post or comments per day irrespective of whatever only for them to end up ditching out series of garbage for a post or comments.
Energy that should have been used to produce a single quality material contributing to the forum it's rather spent with a wrong perspective. The sooner newbies conceives that the forum is about quality and not quantity the easier the merits will flow in many ways than one for them.
In a nutshell, go for quality over quantity, for that's were the secret of merit lies.

No one should even need to take posting this seriously. All you need to do is to not spam, not plagiarize, and don't post useless stuff. That's pretty much it. For some reason people here tend to talk about Bitcointalk as some ultra-complicated thing that you need to study.

Great advice to the members, both newbie and other members who have been rank up to another levels, because I think everyone will like to go to another level of rank up, having a merit is not that difficult but you have to be calm with anything you do in the forum, you rush to got merit won't help if you are not making any creative post or comment in the forum, you have to read and understand what you is posted before you bring your own ideas and when your ideas are good believe me you will get a merit without expecting it, also we are here to grow up each other in many ways.

Philosophical post. But the problem is that your efforts will not be taken into account by those who are in a hurry. Someone who comes here to learn about bitcoin will rarely spam; they don't care about merit. But when you see that a person, day after day, creates a bunch of unnecessary topics and leads manuals, being an amateur and not caring at all about the answers in his open topic, this suggests that he will soon leave the forum. Since such people always make a bunch of mistakes.

You are right about patience. Patience is a character trait of a person who is constant in achieving his goal and is present everywhere and in everything. Even if, at first, he does not get much success. It is always necessary to study deeper than to acquire superficial knowledge, and only after that should you declare yourself a guru who is ready to teach everyone.

It's understandable because of the signature campaign that pays people to post on this forum, but it's a wrong mindset in a hurry to get more merits to rank so you can join in a signature campaign, its a good motivation but if you just post for the sake of posting and going in a flow of discussion is not your interest you will be exposed as a spammer I have seen so many posts that are redundant, they just read other people's post and just rephrase it to make it appear unique.

Or we could just enjoy and relax while we are learning here. Some people make it so serious to be here, that even the concept of patience have been forgotten. Most newbies questions nowadays are about getting into higher rank and merits, since they are excited or curious what does it feel like to be on these levels. Lets just instinct take over, the moment we let it flow naturally they could even sense potential merits along the way without even realizing thay they improving slowly.

For some, the forum is much more than a "forum", and then we shouldn't be surprised that they have a slightly different way of thinking. Maybe it's just a matter of wanting to advance in the ranks, which have now become more difficult to reach than before, although I don't understand if the OP is talking about his personal success that he achieved with the help of this forum.

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Few follow the line of greater resistance, and most go towards bounty campaigns or think that by plagiarizing/paraphrasing they will succeed in deceiving someone that they are something they are not. To some extent, I can understand that some members, even though they are beginners themselves, want to help others, although sometimes they exaggerate in this - or what is even worse, they give not only wrong but also very risky advice.

Of course, the golden rule is that you should not believe in anything blindly, but that you should look at most things critically - because even if five people claim that something is true, who is to say that a sixth person will not appear and prove that they are wrong?

Everything about life is with determination, you choose what you want and work towards getting it done, everyone here was once a newbie and we learn and grow each day, but don't let money be your first priority, work on yourself first and give to the community before you can start expecting back from the community with time, if opportunities comes.


Try to fix everything and end up damaging the whole thing and disappointing yourself, thesame thing happens when you're trying to please everyone, you may end up displeasing everyone, what i will advise is for you to put in your efforts and do the best and leave the rest, your little significant impact will always be remembered.


There's no how you can be smarter than the experienced members here, they have also passed through those stages and know how to identify one if trying to phish for merit, you merit base on how you're touched by someone post and not by sweet mouth or attempts to phish for merits.

People always make use of that statement and sometimes I don't feel okay with it, but it all depends on the situation at hand, being calm and letting things flow do not improve things sometimes, rather it makes thing slow and sometimes you won't be able to achieve that thing, so you have to work on it. Being calm and just be watching things flow is hardly going to make you climb that higher place you are aiming at. so, forget about being calm to let things flow and make move that will make the things flow.

No matter about some people motivation to get many merit points and get rank up for participating in signature campaign due not break rule and keep on the line with highest post qualities. Spammer post based on individual values and not all people will viewed with some user post as spammer based on their opinion in writing.

Keep having unique post and always present with new ideas how to get highest qualities post in Bitcointalk forum, I think some one coming from blogger or content writer have easy how to get good post qualities and seems not problem reaching account to higher level.

That's a very vital advise you just gave above, because the issue about Newbie advising other Newbie on how to get merits or how to behave on the forum has become like a norm to me, and each day we see more threads like this, which is one thing that can never be stopped. But I have come to notice that on this forum there are two sets of people, (I.e those who come here with the mindset to only make money) who always goes about looking for shortcut to earning merits and (those who come here to learn more about Bitcoin and it's ecosystem) who are always patient and end up ripping the fruit of their labour.

But on the contrary, I agree with O.P that it's more advisable newbies first learn to understand how the forum works before going after merit, as you will get to learn a lot from the forum

We all know why they were desperate to rank up despite of the things we always tell/advice to them and it's a one thing that will determine who's just here to shitpost or to join signature campaign. This is the reason why merit has been created to stop these kind of people.

Anyway, if they aren't here for what I've said, then taking time to pass by and let all things sort on their own if it's beyond of your grasp. There are things that we cannot control especially the time so instead of worrying about on how to get this and that why don't we just enjoy the journey till we get there?

For me i think the whole issue on patience and impatience is basically the fact that all humans either portraits one of the two in their lifestyle. Its quite clear that Many users came to the forum to earn a living through participating in signature campaign which many have achieved but the feat in which this was acheived is also based on the same perseverance and patience that these users exercised by patiently learning and improving themselves on the different areas of the forum because in order for one to be successful you must be hard working and learn to patient because there's no short cut to it. I think these popular saying has always live up to their meanings
~ patience is a virtue
~the patient dog eat the fatest bone
~slow and steady wins the race
So if there is any newbie who feel there is constant need to grow up so fast by posting countless gibrish in order to attain merits and rank up fast, i think you would probably get stuck in one spot for maybe a gazillion years to come >:( .so my advice to everyone is you just do well to learn patiently and always remember you can't offer what you don't have upstairs so you need to read and learn and simply follow all the instructions and guidance on the forum and you would be a step closer in acheive your purposed goal.

Also im giving a welcome all of those newbies era in this time and we are looking forward with your contributions and contents in the community recently some of the newbie here came across because they want to learn things related to the bitcoin and upon exploring I guess some of them want to earn at the same time that's why they chase too much with the rank system which is really takes a lot of time to get into that but but there's nothing impossible if you are a newbie came across the community with have a lot of contributions for sure the merit will follows. Better invest in knowledge and set a goal. Ranking system is not a race.

believe naturally is a gradual process and for you to be successful in life,you must be patients in whatever goal you want to achieve, all you need to do is to stay focus and add effort to make your dream come true. Don't put bounty campaigns or signature campaign first,if not you will lose focus on the purpose of creating this forum which is to educate people about bitcoin.

The same way it applies here in the forum, as a newbie, you don't rush to rank up. Read more about the rules and regulations  in the forum and don't be eager to be merited. Your contributions with time will be noticed by forum members if you are learning or not due to your response on topics and on the thread created by you. Patience and hardwork is the only key here for you to rank up.

I understand. After reading your long post, I see that you are talking about earning merits to have a chance to participate in the signature campaign. Getting more merits would automatically mean that you are a good poster and have contributed to the discussions in the forum.

It's hard to rank up now because of the system change. Back in the day, you just needed to be active in posting, and your merit would grow. But it's a good decision that the system has changed to prevent abuse from posters just to have a higher chance of participating in the signature campaign. In my case, I just continue to be active, with or without a campaign, as this forum has been a big help for me to ease my financial burden. While there may not be much to earn from the signature campaign, there are more significant opportunities in the crypto space that I learned about in this forum.

So for newbies, my advice is to stay calm and post with passion. If you love the forum, eventually you will be rewarded

Your post is highly recommended, and newbies will undoubtedly learn something useful from it. The mindset that newbies brought with them when they joined the forum is often the reason why they rush to achieve greater heights or participate in other activities that will make them relevant in the forum. Some people are told a lot of things, and when they finally join, things don't go as planned.

They gradually begin to learn and follow along with the activities here. It's critical to always do your own research on anything you've been introduced to; this will give you a better picture of what you'll go through if you decide to follow that path, as well as reduce disappointments.

Great advice for new members like me. Indeed, basically we have to believe and continue to consistently learn in this forum because there is so much knowledge and insight. Often reading it will make us know a lot so that it will be very influential with our posts. And really let it naturally flow by itself but still have to be consistent.

From my childhood I have always had this problem of relating what my mother used to tell me and the reality in the environment I live. My mother would always advise me that anything that is left on its own cannot solve itself. That is to say only problem left unsolved would remain unsolved till it is being attended to.
Having that in mind I always try to fix every problem I have straight away in my own capacities.

But on the contrary, my mother would also tell me that silence solves some problems. That whatever thing that is so difficult for you to do, just keep silent for some time you can be surprised how the problem would just passed away. Trying to relate these two things have been difficult even to this moment. So most times I approach the problem immediately, most times I use the approach of silence to solve some problems

It seems to me that a lot of members come to this forum because of certain expectations, and these are usually expectations of a financial nature.
However, as in everything in life, if you want to achieve something, you have to make an effort and invest something, usually your time, knowledge and experience.
You can't get something for nothing, that's not how things work in real life, and even on this forum.
So, if you want to get merits in order to progress on the forum and later achieve a certain financial benefit from it through signature campaigns and in other ways, you have to make an effort and contribute to the forum community in some way.
This means you have to be patient and calm and slowly build your reputation on this forum. Nothing is achieved overnight.

every one of us here hasdifferent reasons why we are here and why we are staying here some of us are joining this community to promote our business or let's say casino. Some of us here join because we want to learn a lot such as investing tips and how to start investing and to know more about crypto. But some of us joining here share their knowledge about crypto and some of us join because of joining bounties to get tokens. But as newbies before whatever brought us here we must do our responsibility to contribute here in our forum to grow more.   and also we need to calm down and think wisely. Don't be greedy if a newbie wants to rank up faster then he/she must follow the rules and regulations to have a higher rank through honesty and hard work.

Your mom is a wise woman.
In my encounter most times apart from keeping silent and letting the problem slide or trying to fix it immediately, one way I have learnt to solve them is by combining both words of wisdom your mom gave. I.e., I attempt to solve the problem at first, if it gets too difficult, I ignore it for as long as any duration I please, while I try to chill somewhere or focus on another task.
I have come to realize that when I do this, I have a somewhat cleared perspective of how to go about resolving the problem thereby actually resolving the problem. I think Albert Einstein had the style of staying with a problem longer.
 Well, it finally depends on the patience and discipline to be calm and reason long and hard.

Thank you for the advice you have conveyed, especially for me who is still a beginner. Indeed, sometimes we are too hasty to get merit, and want to quickly move up the rankings. In fact, if we post only to get rewards, but don't take lessons or knowledge from others, it will be difficult. I mean, like you said, just let it flow and keep it cool. There is no need to rush to get the reward, as long as we try.

it has to be like that, do everything slowly and carefully, so that the results will be maximized.
joining this forum is something good and positive, so we as members should not pollute this forum with something that is not good, for example like spam.
use our creativity and knowledge about bitcoin or crypto, so that our writing is useful for all reading forum members.