It is good for newbies to make HQ threads from their first post, but it's somewhat impossible. 'A baker does not make perfect cakes or bread from the beginning'.
Newbies who start making good threads from their first post are often suspected to be alts of users who have already been on the forum for a long time, and that suspicion is correct most times.

What I'm saying is that first post does not really matter that much imo, you can start with a bad first post and end up a legendary member, what's most important is to understand the forum better as you stay longer, post quality would then of course get better with time.

How essential is microeconomics going to be to macroeconomics after this pandemic?
Many countries have hitherto payed little or no attention to small scale businesses, private owned firms, subsistence agriculture and industries owned by individuals, the government hardly supports this businesses with loans to boost their growth and provide employment on a small scale through their businesses.

Some developing countries who have exportable natural resources have concentrated solely on foreign trade(macroeconomics)abandoning other small scale areas in their country that can also generate income and improve the economy; now with corona virus pandemic hampering foreign trades to an extent and also creating inflation and recession, most of this exportable resources no longer have the value they use to have before, microeconomics can be the first step in seeing the economy through the recovery process.

Finally, imo microeconomics can speed up the economic recovery process of many countries, if the government can support this small scale businesses more, they will grow faster and can provide more employment, money cash inflow and more individuals will be encouraged to start up small businesses, and with all this the economy will be much better. With foreign trades, import and export and small scale enterprises/businesses booming all at once, national economy will be stronger and can withstand recession, especially in the future.

Any information on any club interested in signing Mario Gotze? He'll be a free agent at the end of the season when he leaves Borussia Dortmund and he can be a good back up option in some big clubs I think, though the article doesn't make mention of any club interested in him for now. Imo though if he wants to start playing regularly again then he should move to a small team with less competition. The MLS and Chinese league are also options to make more money .

Maybe that's why he's buying, paying more preachers to speak and spread the "fake gospel" to more and more fleeceable people, it's possible for a news to gain more credibility and traction to people who care less to research deep into it, when it's coming from more people other than the initial propagator. This pseudonymous writer is definitely working with Roger, or it may even be Roger cloning himself to sing more lies to the ears of his ever listening bunch of choirs.

Mid of 2018 hasn't been too long Imo. Since it was middle of that year(2018)then I'm sure you were in the forum the time the merit system was introduced, so this are the new(important)things I think you missed out on:
Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements
Trust flags
Bumping changes on some boards
There are more, but I think this three are amongst the most important new things to have happened in your absence.

That's what every user should do, whether newbie or legendary, long stay on the forum or newcomers, it should be about good and constructive posts, net positivity, ranking up and last but not least, earning bitcoin should be last on the priority list.

Just like you and also RapTarX, I'll also continue being a good and net positive user on bitcointalk, the forum is now so attached to my daily life and it has been a lifesaver in this boring quarantine period ; congratulations RapTarX, hero rank fits you well.

Imo they would not bid just a little higher to acquire Perisic from inter, they can, but they would not want to because they do not value Perisic, he is definitely not a priority in their plans, they may want him probably as a back up option in the team and for a back up they'll feel that price is fair.

They could also maybe want to stick to that price to see if inter in the end would resolve to sell him to them at that, since Inter also do not want him; we're also coming out of a long halt to soccer, all clubs suffered losses including Bayern, this could be few of the many reasons why they don't want to bid higher and get Perisic.

Many countries are easing lockdowns gradually, I was listening to Donald Trump speak yesterday IIRC and even America is planning on opening up gradually as soon as possible; the virus is still in virtually all countries that was affected, but they can't remain closed anymore, they have to open up.

Now that's where "do it yourself" also comes into play, the government expects citizens to take responsibility at this time, most importantly for their health and safety, to follow guidelines, use face masks...and all other preventive measures as well; you have a duty to yourself now that the nation is opening up even when the virus hasn't been eradicated...so also "do it yourself" will apply in other areas of life, acquiring skills, doing what you can do to get your life and business/livelihood back on track, choosing essential services to use, etc, we'll have to learn to do a lot of things ourselves, as the government struggles to revive the economic situation.

It's impossible to go to a sovereign nation and freeze their funds, if their economy isn't suffering at this time of the corona virus pandemic, then it's because they have developed their economy to the point that it can withstand this kind of plunge. It's every countries duty to use it's own funds, print more money and risk inflation or borrow funds to grow back their economy.

Thankfully it wasn't, newbies still work with many of this ico projects/platforms and I'm sure their email addresses gets spammed the most with scam mails when the projects after their exit scam(most times), still makes more money by selling email addresses to scammers. They should be notified to set aside one "spam" email they'll only use when registering for ico projects or shady websites that should not be trusted, and ignore mails sent to it.

There are new scam/shitcoin projects presented everyday, a list or thread of this scam projects wouldn't cover all this projects, there will still be so much more not included In the list that'll be a scam project. You can just stop investing in them, or you can DYOR, though even after a research many times, you could feel they are legit, but they turn out not to be, the former may just be the only option imo.
If you do not know anything about a project, you haven't done a research to get information on the team or if they have any shady history with investors or bounty hunters, then you should not join such campaign, only if you don't mind either wasting your money/time.

It could be that they are actually not fully back yet or are not yet ready to resume the project again; another reason could be that they may just have changed their contact email address, so the mails you're sending isn't actually getting to the coin janitor team.
After reading their announcement posted above by jawhead999, in a nutshell they buy dead/failed coins because they feel projects don't just die off completely and with effort they'll put into resuscitating this dead or abandoned coins, they will be able to revive the project/coin and also their community. Read their Announcement to get a lucid understanding.

If they come to this decision, then what of some of the Round of 16 games that the teams have only played the first leg and are yet to go for the return match, are they going to end the tie with the first leg result, or will they start the one leg fixtures in the quarter final round.
This is a good decision and I think the teams will stay in the city(instanbul)till the whole tournament is over, only eliminated teams would leave, to reduce the teams travelling too often since that's what they are trying to do by initially cancelling out two leg ties.

Imo online gamblers are not going to start using bitcoin to gamble than fiat because of the halving, that will make them investors or speculators rather than gamblers. The advantages the writer of this article pointed out may be true, but I don't think gamblers are interested in that, as long as they haven't had any issues gambling with fiat, then I don't think they'll want to switch to bitcoin except those interested in bitcoin adoption. I use bitcoin to gamble whenever I feel the need to do, it may be because of my predilection to bitcoin/cryptocurrencies and their adoption. I'd also love to see more gamblers use bitcoin, but alot of them do not care(they just want their profits).
This is true, but it also depends on what the gambler likes to gamble on, myself I only place bets on football games and since there's been no football for a long time now, except recently the Bundesliga returned, I've not had any gambling to do .

They send those emails to random email addresses in their possession, they obviously buy many email addresses or post fake draws/giveaways etc to get them and then send those spam mails to see who shows interest in it. They also blackmail people, by claiming they have compromised your personal data and have some information about you, and you must pay them or else...

Many newbies don't believe it, but your personal information like email addresses for example are sold to scammers when you send then to shady websites or icos, it happens because afterwards you start receiving spam mails.

Many other websites not owned by Binance imo will also consider Binance as number one cryptocurrency exchange, not just coinmarketcap, if that be the case then I don't think there should be any case of manipulation or foul play. Users of Binance on the forum usually recommend it to newbies looking for good crypto exchanges, I believe they are reliable and them being first on CMC is not as a result of their manipulating figures to make themselves top, but that they are actually worthy of that position.
Not it has not, I still trust and use coinmarketcap as I did even before it was acquired by Binance. And I do not also it a biased decision that Binance ranks top exchange on coinmarketcap.

I've not seen this info on any other source, but this three players I'm sure are happy at the club, playing regularly when fit, so there is every indication that they'll want to stay and of course extend their contracts with the German giants.

Few weeks ago there were rumours Bayern were planning a swap deal with city, which will see Alaba head to the Etihad and Sane to Bayern. But Bayern Munich have rubbished those claims; even Neuer was linked with Chelsea, but that was also false. So this three would remain at the club I think and maybe are actually about to extend their contracts(good news for Bayern fans).

The only way I think it's possible to help someone get over their gambling addiction is through advising such person on why they need to stop gambling, and the risks they may face if they do not; I don't think there is anything else that can be done, but more often, they hardly can take this advice and as long as they have money in their pockets, they go on to gamble with it.

Imo curtailing gambling addiction rests on the gambler, it's a personal decision they must take on their own, most times maybe after a huge loss, it could just lead to their self realization that if they don't slow down they may lose something more valuable in the future.

Ico projects or shady crypto websites try so much to get people to give them their email addresses, even when they have no need for this addresses, and are never going to send any legitimate message about the project or their services to these people through that email. But instead sell it to people would try to scam them by spamming their mail. The other time I saw a service on this forum requesting email addresses from people to be eligible for a free giveaway or draw IIRC; isn't it obvious why they needed those addresses, but I wouldn't be surprised that alot of people gave out their email addresses to them.

Congratulations to cryptopreneurbrainboss and to all Nigerians, both on and off the forum, I'm glad this project was a success, and obviously it was surely going to be, as it is handled by trusted users who would even take out of their own private pocket to make it happen.

I'm sure many of those beneficiaries have had their businesses or livelihoods impeded by this virus, supporting them with those items is not a gesture they will forget in a hurry for sure.