The reason people join bitcointalk forum

[Ziskinberg]

Well, people had come and spent their time in here for something, and that is for learning purposes. But along that side, they had also known that they can earn money which makes them eager to join the forum. In fact, we see the existence of SCAMMERs here (that is obviously for money), joining bounties and signature campaigns.

Generally, people had come majority for the sake of earning money while they are learning. Only a few had come because they want to learn and know about crypto. That was my assessment.

[Viscore]

The zeal to make money has made many to learn more about bitcoin even if their main motive of joining the bitcointalk forum is to just make money to earn a living.

I don't think if their main motive just to earn money they're learn about Bitcoin, instead they're learn how to join bounties, how to hide using alt to cheat the bounties and how to fulfill the requirements with less effort. It's really wrong motive to think this forum only to earn money, they wouldn't care with forum... that's why altcoin discussion is messed up.

I see most people who joined signature campaign with Bitcoin payment aren't thought this forum is for money, but they're also care with forum and like to learn about Bitcoin, money is just a bonus for them.

The primary aim why we need to engage in bitcointalk forum is to learn and gained more knowledge about bitcoin, but only those who are paid with bitcoin can relate to this. Because if they can't be aware about bitcoin and the facts about it, they can't create good discussion on the given threads in the forum. Getting merits and having paid in bitcoin will definitely follow as a bonus. Otherwise, people come into the forum just to earn money and all they did is just spamming around without the intent of making the forum more relevant for others.

[lalabotax]

for now, I am not sure that most new members joining in this forum is to gain knowledge originally.
I am sure that most are interrsted in this forum because knowing from someone here that wr can make money from this forum. so, mostly, new members will focus in the results, moreover there are bounty hunters that are unstopable.
However, if there are sombody else that also interested in this forum because of the willingness to gain knowledge.
it is normal

[Baliee]

I first found out about the bitcointalk forum because I was browsing and finding out the history of bitcoin.

and the reason I joined the forum is because I want to participate in interacting with forum members while adding insight.

but of course for the future maybe I want to make money from this forum. although now I don't know much about it.

[pakhitheboss]

After 2017 there has been a huge influx of new users. A large portion of new users are bounty hunters and bots. There are a very few who are here to learn, discuss and share their knowledge. Lately bounty hunting is no longer as profitable as it was earlier those users who realize it become in active. These individuals go out and spread the negativity about crypto as they only joined this forum to make money. This is one of the biggest problem at the moment according to me.

[Daniel91]

Unfortunately, I have to agree with most that many newbie members join this forum because of the earning potential.
However, there are those who join this forum because they are interested in crypto in general and want to learn something or simply want to get to know the local crypto community.
Also, there are already experienced crypto members who have started some crypto projects or companies and want to present their crypto services and products to the local or global crypto community.
We can't influence others and the reasons why someone joins this forum, but we can do our best to keep this forum high quality and informative for others, new members, and to attract new and interesting crypto projects.
If we succeed, this forum will continue to grow and remain relevant, and continue to attract new members.

[KingsDen]

However, there are those who join this forum because they are interested in crypto in general and want to learn something or simply want to get to know the local crypto community.

These are majorly the people who joined the forum when it was created newly and these are majorly developers and researchers. These persons were so passionate about bitcoin and wanted to propagate it. After those early members who were here before the advent of signature campaign and bounty, vast majority of late adopter came for the financial gain. Though not all, because when you go to the technical side of the forum, you will discover that some people landed here because of some bitcoin unanswered questions. Then, those persons leave when they have solutions and will only return when another difficult problem arises.

In all there is a balance between the knowledge driven and financial driven users, and that is the beauty of the forum.

[Bhig Daddy]

Most people join this bitcointalk forun for just the money, there alot of Bounty hunter in this forum, most of them don't even set their foot in this beginners and help section because they don't really need to, and they end up having very little or NO knowledge about crypto currency.

[DVlog]

Most people join this bitcointalk forun for just the money, there alot of Bounty hunter in this forum, most of them don't even set their foot in this beginners and help section because they don't really need to, and they end up having very little or NO knowledge about crypto currency.

I do not think that is true. Earning money from the forum is a way how users can use it. But there are users who use this forum mostly for knowledge gathering. It's a great place to know about community feedback about any crypto project or service.

If you think most people came here for bounty then I want to remind you that most of the account that post only on the bounty section is Alt account. There could be around 500-600 real users who work on different bounty projects. This is my personal opinion, not exact data.

[libert19]

Even knowledge boils down to money.

[Mr outstanding]

Because Bitcointalk is legit. Since I started to learn from this site, I get some impact. It a nice site that all for now.

[Alisha-k]

Some more numbers of people join bitcointalk forum for one or two reasons, to gain knowledge or for both the money and the knowledge. The zeal to make money has made many to learn more about bitcoin even if their main motive of joining the bitcointalk forum is to just make money to earn a living. They need to go on research and learn more about bitcoin in order to make qualitative and informative post to gain more merit in order to rank up and get higher pay in signatures they’re participating it. In other words, the knowledge gain can be shared with new members who come to the forum to ask about a particular thing they’re not so sure of.
Either ways, the motive of joining the forum has made many to still achieve the primary aim of why the group is created. To learn about the basics of bitcoin and how the market works plus mining.

it is a site that pays you to gain knowledge, quite interesting right?? And the sweet thing about it is that there's no negotiation towards that, you learn and you're paid too, so it's up to us to make good use of the opportunity.

[Gosgosking]

Their is enough reasons to join bitcointalk.org. if it is about getting guild to help beginners in trading the forum is helpful. The forum is helpful for providing answers to questions concerning cryptocurrency related, the forum giving out the best value to e every member of the forum.  Their other good reasons why others join the forum.

[Foolhardy]

It’s a good way to build your network and share ideas and thoughts, listen to different perspectives and get a better understanding of how to start. It is also a good way to clear any doubts that may keep an individual from continuing their journey.

[aysg76]

In the good old days, i would have agreed 100%. Nowadays (well, the last several years), however, we do see an influx of so-called "bounty-hunters". People that spam twitter, facebook,... with promo for scam tokens just so the creator of said tokens gives them some of the total supply (if they're lucky).

Those people have 0 interest in participating and learning, they just need a space to spam their "bounty reports" so they can get 100 SHITTOKEN in the hope SHITTOKEN ever rises above 0.001 sat/SHITTOKEN.

If you open the patrol page, you can see for yourself that they represent a really big part of what is getting posted... Certainly more than 50% of all posts are made for the sole purpose of bounty hunting... On the other hand, it is very, very, rare to see a bounty hunter come over to the "good side". It is extremely rare that a bounty hunter ever participates in normal discussion, let alone learn something... It happens once in a blue moon, but those cases are really rare.

Exactly there is huge percentage of people who have the same perception of earning through bitcointalk without even knowing this was bitcoin and crypto oriented discussion forum created years back when was the golden period for it.There were so many threads in B&H section only few weeks back all seeking how to earn merits and money through the forum as they have been introduced it to that way.

Most of the bounty hunters joined with alt accounts to earn some shit tokens that are even not guaranteed will be able to sell them on exchange or not but only post on their social median accounts doing their promotion and hope for making more money but most turns out to be scam.So what's the fun of all this? The bounty reports are filled with hundreds of pages of application and submission so you see 6 out of 10 (rough example) join forum for Bounty campaigns.But they are not contributing to the forum in any manner and most of them limits their scope to that section only so not much of spam but there are some who will start writing up post without any relevant knowledge to rank up a little to join signature campaign of junior or full rank but fill that with spam posting.

We have seen some members who joined the forum with good motives of learning and contribution and the output is front of all they have grown up on the forum and I think that's the best way of growing.We have also joined signature campaign but are making some effective contributions also and taking it as discussion forum at priority basis.Learn and increase your knowledge and post only relevant things can help you to survive on the forum for long and your personal betterment.

[uchegod-21]

Base on vast majority, I agree with you on the aspect that most people are now joining the forum for the purpose of earnings, which is a kinda being contrary to the major reason why the forum was being created, but that doesn't take away the fact that there are a lot of people too who genuinely joined the forum for the purpose of getting more information and education about Bitcoin . If there is a way to clamp down on those spamming Bounties in order to sanitize the furum that would make perfect.

Well said, that there are people who genuinely join bitcointalk to get the knowledge of bitcoin and also there are some people who joined bitcointalk to make money.
But you didn't get a category of people who joined bitcointalk for passion and to teach people about bitcoin. This people are not wearing signature and they already know bitcoin, so we cannot say that they are learning. People like Franky1, DannyHamilton, Philipma1957, JayJuanGee etc. It's high time we began to appreciate these people.

You suggested of getting ride of bounty hunters? Why, is their existence threatening the peace of this forum? If they are harmless, let us accommodate everyone.

[lovesmayfamilis]

There is one good way to check the real interests of the people who join the forum. Cancel all subscription companies and bounty companies. How many people will stay on the forum? And how popular will it remain? But those people who joined the forum in the first years of its existence are the real bitcoiners. Their history and lessons should be valued and constantly studied. It is they who today create educational materials that must be read by beginners in order to correctly determine all the advantages of bitcoin.

[alik111]

Learning about Crypto should be the main reason to join Bitcointalk forum. Because if you have not much knowledge you can't make money from crypto. So every new users should forum on learning before earning.

[Ahli38]

Well, everyone has different reasons. ranging from those who like to discuss and broaden their knowledge, there are those who accidentally find this forum, and many more. but for all the reasons there is a commonality in the ultimate goal of making a profit. both in terms of money and insight. but this forum makes people more insightful. however, to get merit and rank up in this forum, you must have quality posts and quality posts require insight and skills and creativity so that people become competitive in the forum. so even though the main goal is money but in the process of getting it, people are more insightful because unconsciously everything becomes competitive. and it's fun for me personally.

[Bhig Daddy]

Yeah you are right, most people are in this forum just to make money of it, the number of Bounty hunters in this forum now is just unbelievable. Like most people even think that Bounty hunting is the primary objective of this forum, and those who don't think will actually need to rank up to gain more money in the signature campaign.