Prepare yourself for this forum Mentally

[BitcoinINV]

After talking with some newcomers who were buying coins from me, and talking to another highly trusted member that sells coins as well. We both said the same things about new users, they feel like they walk into a world of shit.

The new user should not feel this way, one must understand first and foremost this is the internet, 75% of it is just crap. You must dig through the crap to find the good stuff, when looking through the forums you will see scam this scam that. Read a little about them beware of other things that seem like it.

 Do not follow the crowd this seems to be the forums biggest downfall. The users buy into a widget/service of some sort and now feel obligated to defend it with out asking simple questions and getting straight answers. Look at what you are investing/buying and see if it sounds logical. Ask yourself, If I did exactly what they are doing could I make money? Beware of business that do not disclose basic information such as specs, deadlines things of that nature. If they are not posting these Items, see if they explain why and does it make sense? Email them see if they will answer your question directly with a acceptable answer.

 If the answer is no I suggest you stay away from it. But if you can not help yourself, and you feel like giving your coins blindly away. Feel free to do so, but donate them to something worth while.

It is your responsibility as a new user to investigate and get answers to your questions until you are satisfied, do not let other members make you feel lesser for asking them, and they will try. Be responsible and hold people accountable, this the way protect yourself on this forum and make it a better place.

Just what I have found to be common in new members, feel free to disagree. But keep it on topic and civil please.

[Digigami]

+1 the internet itself can be a scary place.. this forum is downright insanity at times

[kokjo]

+1 this forum is a scary one. it comes with all the libertards.

[Raoul Duke]

+1 this forum is a scary one. it comes with all the libertards.

You know what they say...

Can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

[Fractalrationality]

Anyone who has been on a messageboard centered around any sort of technological concept is probably used to this.  It's the computer illiterate that will feel most unwelcome.  To be honest I think this is a large part of what is holding the bitcoin economy back.  The everyday consumer(early 30's to mid 40's) generally doesn't have the technological knowhow to do transactions, or understand the reasoning behind bitcoin security.

[Luno]

Try being an intern on wallstreet... same mentality and politeness.

[MooC Tals]

Many still believe in the fairy tale that everyone will be able to sell their house and retire in Florida. How's those reverse mortgage commercials at night? It's not just internet. Its everywhere and if you're out there thinking that government is on your side then I feel sorry for them.  

[D_Thomas]

I found some good info on this forum. Like most other forums, you are going to step on some crap along the way.

Trust but verify...

[kokjo]

(early 30's to mid 40's)

it has nothing to do with age. i got a computer science prof. at the university there is 57, and i think he could grasp the concept of bitcoin better then the most of the users of this forum. but i also know people 18-25 that would never understand what the fuck is going on.

[BitcoinINV]

Try being an intern on wallstreet... same mentality and politeness.

I was a intern at a trading firm. It was more crazy and mentality draining then any job and one person I worked with someone that actually ended up quieting cause he couldn't take it anymore. I would stay all night working on stupid stuff, I.E. Running cable, updating 1000's of computer, reformatting computers, setting up servers. I still swear I only slept only 15 hours the whole time there. All this while people would yell at you, called you names, make you get coffee at 3am. But I can say now I can hot swap and install a server in less than 20mins. Honestly if you can't handle an internet forum, really you shouldn't be in society. Grow a pair and deal with it.

Your right, but we live in a world where spanking your child is child abuse. Death sentences are being abolished, and the Gov pays for things when they go wrong. If we want to get some positive growth in these forums we need some behavior modifications, and this is starting with the new members.

[bennett211085]

(early 30's to mid 40's)

it has nothing to do with age. i got a computer science prof. at the university there is 57, and i think he could grasp the concept of bitcoin better then the most of the users of this forum. but i also know people 18-25 that would never understand what the fuck is going on.

Well I'm cometely new to all this and only just starting to grasp the basics of it.

[deepceleron]

After talking with some newcomers who were buying coins from me, and talking to another highly trusted member that sells coins as well. We both said the same things about new users, they feel like they walk into a world of shit.

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Your right, but we live in a world where spanking your child is child abuse. Death sentences are being abolished, and the Gov pays for things when they go wrong...

OP makes a good point - come here for crypto-currency, get politics.

[enmaku]

At the StackExchange site if you pull that crap we delete your content and ban you. It's all about the moderation.

FWIW I'm not saying the moderation here is "bad" just that it's preferential to freedom of speech over content quality - nor am I saying that this is a bad thing, the world needs freedom of speech too. What I'm saying is that this forum represents one form of communication and sites like StackExchange represent another. Both are tradeoffs and users are free to choose whichever they choose.

[benny32]

Personally, I find a little pressure to be a fine deterrent to new people asking questions that have been answered 100 times before.  If you know you will be lit up like a Christmas tree for asking stupid questions it usually makes you do a little more research prior to posting.

[Maharichi]

+1 this forum is a scary one. it comes with all the libertards.

you may or may not like the "libertards" but if it wasn't for them you would probably be a slave today
your not being slave is probably due to some "tards" like Richard Stallman, Ludwig von Mises, Copernic and such. I am sure most of such people also are/were considered to be "tards" in their time

so show little respect & enjoy what you have here

[kokjo]

+1 this forum is a scary one. it comes with all the libertards.

you may or may not like the "libertards" but if it wasn't for them you would probably be a slave today
your not being slave is probably due to some "tards" like Richard Stallman, Ludwig von Mises, Copernic and such. I am sure most of such people also are/were considered to be "tards" in their time

so show little respect & enjoy what you have here

i like open source, but not Stallman.

The way the libertards behave on this forum is just like a crowd of zombie, praising values they don't understand, reusing all the same arguments, never doing anything original, unable to entertain the idea that something could be better then freedom/liberal values, unable to understand arguments that go against their belief system... and most of them are "Fuck off my property"-types.

they seem to be more enslaved because of their blind belief in freedom.

[Boi qaaf]

Mentally problem? Here?

~Boi'qaaf~

[Maharichi]

+1 this forum is a scary one. it comes with all the libertards.

you may or may not like the "libertards" but if it wasn't for them you would probably be a slave today
your not being slave is probably due to some "tards" like Richard Stallman, Ludwig von Mises, Copernic and such. I am sure most of such people also are/were considered to be "tards" in their time

so show little respect & enjoy what you have here

i like open source, but not Stallman.

saying "i like open source, but not Stallman" is like saying "I like all chocolate cakes, except the ones which have chocolate in them".
stallman is the father of both open source and free software, there would be no linux, no open source, and no free software movement if it wasn't for him

also you come to bitcoin forums saying that you don't like libertards, but Bitcoin is all about being a libertard. without libertards, there would be no bitcoin

[Applejack!]

All forums are the same, just ignore people who bother you.

[kokjo]

+1 this forum is a scary one. it comes with all the libertards.

you may or may not like the "libertards" but if it wasn't for them you would probably be a slave today
your not being slave is probably due to some "tards" like Richard Stallman, Ludwig von Mises, Copernic and such. I am sure most of such people also are/were considered to be "tards" in their time

so show little respect & enjoy what you have here

i like open source, but not Stallman.

saying "i like open source, but not Stallman" is like saying "I like all chocolate cakes, except the ones which have chocolate in them".
stallman is the father of both open source and free software, there would be no linux, no open source, and no free software movement if it wasn't for him

straw man!
its like saying:" hey i like chocolate cake, but do not like the inventor of it, because he think i should ONLY eat chocolate cake, and he is a racist bastard"

its the same with stallman, thinking that everything should be opensource, sure it might be better, but you can't force it on people.
im nearly sure, if stallman could force a GPL licence on every piece of software, then he would. also the way he behaved when Jobs died, i don't say i like apple og Jobs, but nearly celebrating that Jobs died is just not okay.

also you come to bitcoin forums saying that you don't like libertards, but Bitcoin is all about being a libertard. without libertards, there would be no bitcoin

fuck you! im not a libertard, i love paying my taxes. i see bitcoin as an interesting technology, and a efficient way to move value quickly. im not on a rebelion against the governments, or trying to avoid taxes.


did you even read my post? there is a quite big difference between being a libertard, and a relatively wise person that does support liberal ideas.
libertard: FUCK TAXES!!!! BURN THE GOVERNMENT. MY OPINION IS THE ONLY TRUE ONE.
liberal: i think a society would function better, if there was no taxes, because ... (and so on)