Advice for somebody thinking of starting to mine?

[edwardceng]

yeah, if @OP still want do mining, should having a strategy and a good management to reducing loss and setting to bring back his investment also should have the knowledge to switch the coins whether use manual switch coins or automatically like NH if I assumed he/she want to use mining rig but for buying some coins is too risky if than use mining rig.

[seopro1001]

What would your advice be for somebody to start a rig for alts coins etc? Or buy a share in a BTC mining operation?

I think that depends on many factors such as capital, where you live, prices ... You should to look carefully. If the electricity price is low, you have a moderate amount of capital, you can consider buying a rig and self-digging alts coins, but it takes you much time to manage. If you have a large amount of capital you can invest to buy shares in a BTC mining operation, you will not take much time to manage, but if your capital is small, you maybe don't have profitable with this plan.