This Brand New Member is Here to Stay

[Masplanc]

You are welcome. It's nice to have you in Bitcoin forum, like you said you are new in ln the cryptocurrency world this to say the forum is expecting what you have in you can impact others. you are much welcome, just try to build a good reputation which starts from now which will keep you last in the forum and you will enjoy this good reputation in time to come.

[Dripstoil]

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Hi there,
I hope you have a wonderful time in here. Feel free to read around and feel free to join conversation as well.
I never had any proper introduction back in 2017, but it felt nice to at least join a conversation in my first post. This post somehow made me feel nostalgic.

Thank you mate for the compliment. I've been on here since morning reading as much as I could. So much great information loaded in here.

You are welcome. It's nice to have you in Bitcoin forum, like you said you are new in ln the cryptocurrency world this to say the forum is expecting what you have in you can impact others. you are much welcome, just try to build a good reputation which starts from now which will keep you last in the forum and you will enjoy this good reputation in time to come.

Thanks for the comment. Yeah, I understand the importance of good Reputation in an community, both offline and online. I'm putting all the advice and recommendations to work.

Dripstoil.

[Upgrade00]

I usually do not comment on threads like these, cause they are usually merit/attention hunting posts made with very little quality or care. This could yet be one of the same, but the OP obviously put effort into making it and also to reply follow up comments.

Ito everyone who's contributing to keep this place the biggest and healthiest place to discuss Bitcoin and make deals.

Welcome to this community, in your time browsing through you'll identify the accounts that contribute positively and those who troll. The forum is a healthy place, but you will need to grow a thick skin, cause; this is the internet. Also, when making deals, beware of scams which are not moderated here.

[AhmadM]

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Well, pretending to become a newbie play isn't something new here, as time goes those accounts found out were actually alt of others that got banned or has bad reputation later on. Thats why some people here have such kinds of thoughts, so understand and don't be discouraged just because of it.

FYI, this forum is totally against plagiarism and gives a permanent ban to anyone who does so. In case you share something that took from other sources/articles then you have to embed the sources link in your post.

Anyway welcome dude, cheers!

[worle1bm]

So welcome to best crypto and Bitcoin related forum to start your journey and best wishes for your long future here and hope you contribute best and be part of healthy conversations here.Slowly you will find yourself in best position as you have already Kick-started with 4 merits and soon you will be junior member within a month which will boost you morale and keep your journey going in smooth way.As you said you are here to stay so keep up that word and you only need to focus on quality posting and rest everything will come with it.

[LoyceV]

The level of hostility here to an new user is quite unbecoming to say the fact. You guys are acting as if someone is here to take your piece of meat. Why that?

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, so welcome to the forum.

The reason for this "hostility", which I would rather call skepticism, is that we are sick of seeing newbies creating threads like this one to fish for merits, people who are later found to be alt accounts of other accounts that have been banned or red trusted.

A lot has been written about this already, but I especially like eddie13's post on the subject:

Should never have put the temporary illusion of safety above personal liberty..
ie tagging and chasing away “likely scammers” and crushing the unique economic dynamic of account sales..

This forum started acting like protecting idiots is more important than letting users express their free wills..

How many countless good and intelligent users have been chased away because they “might” scam..

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I'm hoping we can slowly turn this around a bit.

I really trust LoyceV. Since LoyceV believed you, I tend to do so too.

Don't mistake someone who (claims) I whitelisted (them) for me vouching for a user. First, you can verify who I whitelisted (and in this case it's true), but basically all I ask from a user is to convince me they're not going to spam. Most failed to convince me, some succeeded. Until now, none of them has been banned, so I take it I'm on the right track.
I'm just trying to do my share in helping real users who get hit by evil fees without deserving it.

People are used to not trusting newbies, so don't be surprised

I don't trust most Legendary users either "Trust" doesn't come easy in crypto.

[Porfirii]

Congratulations for the whitelisting, Dripstoil, and welcome to this (oldest, as you said) very best Bitcoin forum ever!

I hope it's true the sentence that you are here to stay and to read from you from now on and to keep learning together and with the help of other members too.

[qwertyup23]

The level of hostility here to an new user is quite unbecoming to say the fact. You guys are acting as if someone is here to take your piece of meat. Why that?

Please, be rest assured that I'm more of adding values rather than taking. Not every newbie that is here is coming straight off from the wood.

Peace!

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, so welcome to the forum.

The reason for this "hostility", which I would rather call skepticism, is that we are sick of seeing newbies creating threads like this one to fish for merits, people who are later found to be alt accounts of other accounts that have been banned or red trusted.

This is the internet and we don't know anything more about you than you are someone behind a nickname, so understand our skepticism. If you make good use of the forum, you will gain merits and reputation.

The problem with most newbies is that there is a stigma created and branded towards them due to their notorious spamming and begging across the forum. In addition to that problem, most newbies also are the ones that are involved into scams, etc. which completely affects genuine newbie users in the forum.

Though the number of merits of a user is NOT an absolute indicator of his trust rating, most newbies that do not earn merits (but are actually decent users) gets affected by this whole stigma. That is the reason on why "newbies" are sometimes frowned upon by some users.

[UserU]

Welcome to bitcointalk forum.
I hope you are not creating this "introduce yourself" topic just to get some merits.

Well, it has already happened

To be a Member soon?

[Dripstoil]

So welcome to best crypto and Bitcoin related forum.... hope you contribute best and be part of healthy conversations here. Slowly you will find yourself in best position as you have already Kick-started with 4 merits and soon...

Thank you guys for the kind words and encouragement. My aim is to contribute to the healthy conversations going on here. And thanks to LoyceV and everyone for the kind words, the Merits, and the recommendations.

The reason for this "hostility", which I would rather call skepticism, is that we are sick of seeing newbies creating threads like this one to fish for merits, people who are later found to be alt accounts of other accounts that have been banned or red trusted.

Quite understandable, and as someone who is running content platforms, I quite agree with you. 90% of blog post we moderate every day are spams or outside scam attempts. And 99% are always from brand new accounts.

Welcome to bitcointalk forum.
I hope you are not creating this "introduce yourself" topic just to get some merits.

Well, it has already happened

To be a Member soon?

I'm flattered really. When I created this thread, the only thing on my mind was to say hello to the community. Little did I know it would be well received.

I'm already addicted