I have considered if this is the right board to post this but I almost had it on the Meta section. Pardon me if I am wrong here.
If I must proceed, I just needed to get some users here especially the beginners of this bitcointalk forum members understand the socio-economy benefits of being here.
While some newbies has requested to be guided on how to make money as a priority of being in the forum, some higher rank users has also complained about the lack of campaigns in the forum which is being boring.
I don't know the aim of other persons for being here in the first place but to me, I am here to explore on my bitcoin journey basically on how I can learn about purchasing and accumulating of bitcoins as my asset on the ways of making profits and how I can also keep my funds safe from scammers.
Along the lines I am also opportuned to acquiring some potential knowledges which is helping me to explore off the crypto space since it is adviced not to rely our incomes in just one basket in that case we should have alternative source of income to enable our bitcoin assets stay enough time for the benefits of making profits.
This forum has also benefited me on building a conducive social lifestyles which I am exploring to attain great prospects.
I am just on the saying that aside joining the forums payable projects such as campaigns and the airdrops and all that, we can still explore and achieve greatly if we can actually put to practice the exercises of discussions in the forum.

Sorry all, I would like to ask, what is your priority/aim of being in the bitcointalk forum in the first place?

What advice would you give a newbie that started trading? Let's say he has decided to leave his comfort zone and get his hands on the it.
Are there pitfalls to avoid? Where is the best place to get started with? Any materials to help grasp the concept faster? Do you mind giving hints on what helped you scale through in your early beginning.

This is not new and it happens long time ago. This is also the reason why I don't like to use that platform since anyone can create the same name with famous people that's why lots of people get exploited and scammed especially if they are new then didn't know that such activities happened there.

That's why its really good to verify always who are those people reaching you out since once you post something in the community you are following for sure that you receive a lot of message from scammers so better not to entertain any of those. Then also remember the word that admin on groups will never send you pm first usually the people do that are frauds.