Lazy, it is hard to generalise all things like this. Some of us are lazy, sure; some of us are not lazy, it's true.
Which purposes from which users decided to spend their time to collect things (posts/ threads)?
This question is the key one to identify a speficic users are lazy or not.
The fact is we all have to collect things for our personal interests (from news on websites, social media, other forums to posts/ threads inside the bitcointalk.org). After collecting them, we should save them somewhere (through bookmark, spreadsheets, etc.) for later use. Now, it's done with collecting things.
Next, what we should do with such collections on specific aspects?
This step will identify which users are lazy, and which users are not lazy with their collections.
- Lazy users: They usually report posts/ threads/ news that they think are helpful, and comprehensive to hunt for merits.
- Hard-working users: They often sit back a while, to consider which ones have been mentioned detailed enough in things they collected, which ones have not been described or guided well, which ones they can improve better with their knowledge, understandings, and available documents in their collections. They might spend hours, days, or weeks to compose their new guides, with improvements from all current available sources (in and beyond the bitcointalk.org).
It is good to share amazing things you collected, but it is not enough. It will be better if you can withdraw something from what you collected. It shows your
creativeness!
Let's consider more.
- Quality of collections: If your collections are high quality, and unique. It's good to share.
- Creative works (from what you collected): Users should try this approach.
1. Quality of collections: To clarify more, users can not collect low quality things and share them around. Therefore, they should read more, after collecting things, in order to be able to assess quality of collected sources.
I use the collected guides of LoyceV as an example:
[GUIDES] on Bitcointalk. Index thread (until there is a dedicated subforum?). It is a very high quality collection. Forum members can suggest things they think good ones, but LoyceV reject to add into the collection so many times, maybe due to low quality or irrelevant guides.
2. Creative works:
I don't imply that when a user compose their own guide, with some improvements, their new guide will be a better version than all current available sources, but it is their own works, from their hard-working process, and from their initiatives. Such works should be given a round of applause and awards (merits, maybe).
Being creative does not mean that we have to make something totally new, even collections can be creative, like this one:
theymosisms - a collection of posts for reference. It is solely a collection of theymos' posts, but who can deny that the topic is creative? Lots of prominent users have all known about such opinion of theymos, but over years in the forum, no one created such collection. Even prominent users have to spend their time to find out theymos' posts for their reference from time to time. It is one of way to waste our precious time. Someone likely save theymos' posts for their personal interests, but did not share it like @Steamtyme. So, in my opinion, that guy made an excellent creative collection.
When we mention about creativeness, we should call it as creative ideas. All good posts, threads, projects start with creative ideas.
However, please don't publish our new guide if it is not better than current available ones! Just keep it in our computer, and think of ways to improve it. Only when we think it is good enough to be considered as better than current guides, it's time to seriously think of publishing it for forum members to share & help.
Some users even don't care that what they found (by search, or by chance) already answered better in other topics/ sources, because they don't know how to use
search function, or too lazy to spend their time for searching.
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