What's been your greatest challenge on BTT ?

[TelolettOm]

What has been your greatest challenge on Bitcointalk? And how did you go about it ?

When I becomes one of the people on the spammer lists in the past, I was aware that I was in that stage, only willing to make posts to fulfill the bounty requirements. At that time, I only thought about quantity but not quality.
A mistake can be a good teacher for me, this is one of the experiences. Although I am still at this stage right now, still trying to do my best although this may not be the best in the forum. But at least, we can try to decrease mistakes. I know that there are still many mistakes that I make, learning and learning again, from previous mistakes, from critics from other members here. the most important thing is that we should be open-minded when we get some critics, although at first, we may feel not good about that, but at least, we can think seriously after that and see our own mistakes again. for me, it is not easy to be in this forum, learning is a must, but many challenges are here. But we also know that there are many chances here to make ourselves better and better.

[qwertyup23]

The real purpose of backwards glancing eye is to educate yourself constantly - looking at the past helps to learn from those who came before you,since they are personal experience,this is the most vital school one can learn from.

Examining from the mistakes made in the past, the ones that have grievously held you back, share your experience,a newbie or anyone an analyze and extract a lesson.

What has been your greatest challenge on Bitcointalk? And how did you go about it ?

I think my greatest challenge that I experienced was to understand all the jargons and terms used.

When I entered this forum back in 2017, there were dozens of discussion about the nature and history of cryptocurrencies. Being a college student with no knowledge or anything whatsoever, it was a challenge to fully grasp the effect of cryptocurrencies and to understand its dynamics.

While the problem revolves around understanding cryptocurrencies, I think it does not necessarily associate with a problem directly involving BTT itself.

[Darker45]

As far as my personal experiences are concerned, the greatest challenge has always been to be relevant and to be of value. This is probably not a challenge to a lot of users. They have vast knowledge on anything Bitcoin-related and could easily contribute a good deal in discussions. I admire them a lot. Unfortunately, I'm not like them, that's why almost every time I make a post I have to verify it one way or another to make sure I'm not just blabbering nothing. But this has been a wonderful challenge. It enriches myself.

[libert19]

There is no challenge unless you yourself put one before you. When you remove the 'earn' part, this forum automatically becomes fun.

It becomes like Reddit, you like to engage in community you are in without any monetory reward.

[mk4]

Every second post on this board is in its core about farming merit and joining a sig campaign. It's being thinly veiled as "learning about Bitcoin", "being a good poster" etc., but the real motivation behind them is crystal clear.

It's just the reality of this forum that people join it for bounties and sig campaigns, because they have heard about their friends or someone on the Internet earning coins here. And the only way to change it is to ban paid campaigns, which theymos is not inclined to do for now.

And I'm definitely not against it. I mean, obviously even I myself am in a signature campaign. It's just that I don't think people should be focusing too much on Bitcointalk as a main source of income.

1. Platforms/projects can just stop advertising on Bitcointalk through campaigns.
2. Bear markets can wreck how much people are earning.
3. At some point people can lose interest on Bitcoin (and Bitcointalk).

tl;dr things can go wrong, and posting on Bitcointalk doesn't help you much experience-wise when talking about looking for a job; unless you end up becoming a great writer or something.

[cryptoaddictchie]

What has been your greatest challenge on Bitcointalk? And how did you go about it ?

For me the greatest challenge Ive encountered it about myself on what actions should I done and should do here. At first my goal was to earn from here as it is what Ive been introduced here but as time goes on i think, I am not on right path on bitcointalk forum. It should be as free as possible and enjoy the benefits of learning here. So instead focusing my time on earning from airdrops after that realization Ive focus on gaining knowledge, sharing it and just it. Repeat. The money part is really an extra benefit youll just lastly see.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

My greatest challenge was thinking i could do my crypto journey here on bitcointalk all alone, but i came to realize i was wrong, and we all new each other, and that's why the chatting feature was built for us to get in touch with each other and make new friends here, which will make our journey easier as we will get to learn from each other

[GiftedMAN]

As far as my personal experiences are concerned, the greatest challenge has always been to be relevant and to be of value. This is probably not a challenge to a lot of users. They have vast knowledge on anything Bitcoin-related and could easily contribute a good deal in discussions. I admire them a lot. Unfortunately, I'm not like them, that's why almost every time I make a post I have to verify it one way or another to make sure I'm not just blabbering nothing. But this has been a wonderful challenge. It enriches myself.

This is true, a lot of people are facing this kind of challenge because they started knowing things about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on bitcointalk forum here. You have to be relevant so that you will learn and grow in knowledge by reading what those that have gained more knowledge and experience will have to share or teach. It's a good thing to verify your post to make sure it's inline with your subject topic. Thanks for sharing.

[Rikafip]

While I love Bitcointalk and I enjoy conversing here, I think some people take it a bit too seriously as if Bitcointalk is some company and that they need to climb the corporate ladder on.

While this is more noticeable on bitcointalk due obvious reason (being able to make money) I noticed similar behavior in many other forums. After some time people start to substituting real life accomplishments with the virtual ones so bitcointalk is not an exception really.

It's just the reality of this forum that people join it for bounties and sig campaigns, because they have heard about their friends or someone on the Internet earning coins here. And the only way to change it is to ban paid campaigns, which theymos is not inclined to do for now.

Banning signature campaigns would basically mean end of this forum and theymos knows that so I don't expect it to change, no matter the negative aspects. It's just reality of this forum, whether we are like it or not. I mean, even with signature campaigns going on, number of posts (and quality new users) is consistently going down and now imagine what would happen if you remove that.

[mk4]

While this is more noticeable on bitcointalk due obvious reason (being able to make money) I noticed similar behavior in many other forums. After some time people start to substituting real life accomplishments with the virtual ones so bitcointalk is not an exception really.

Forums like what? I'm a heavy forum addict and the only other forum that I could think of that people take too seriously is probably BlackHatWorld (because posters promote their online service/business through signatures as well).

[Rikafip]

Forums like what? I'm a heavy forum addict and the only other forum that I could think of that people take too seriously is probably BlackHatWorld (because posters promote their online service/business through signatures as well).

For example, couple of Croatian forums (general type of forums). On one of them I am active for ~20 years and while you can't make any money via signature campaigns, people do care about their own status to a ridiculous degree. 11-12 years ago member of that forum organized the real life meeting in some club and it was hilarious to see how forum veterans were full of themselves, and even trying to pick some girls that way, thinking that they will be impressed how reputable they are on some forum lol. Situation is not as serious as here, but people generally tend to take things way too seriously if they spend a lot of time doing something, that's how it goes and I've been guilty of that in the past as well.

[GiftedMAN]

My challenge on this forum? nothing, there's no tough or uncommon rules that we really need to understand in depth. Plagiarism do make your account got banned, but when you're in school or university you're have been taught to not copy paste and that's must be in own mind to not do that in everywhere. If you're not a scammer or cheater, you're already good in this forum.

Good to hear this from you@Solosanz, I believe one could actually find this forum interesting and less challenging if one obey the rules which I agree with you is not new. Well I think people tend to plagiarize not because they aren't aware of the punishment but because they are greedy and lack good morals, my view though.

[GeorgeJohn]

Op i acknowledged you from your question. Because i believe that many of us faced challenges when registering to bitcointalk and others also experienced challenge during posting quoting of three or five person's composition in the name of responding to them one after the other. I notice that it's a challenge especially newbies encounter without someone direct them appropriately.

[GiftedMAN]

Op i acknowledged you from your question. Because i believe that many of us faced challenges when registering to bitcointalk and others also experienced challenge during posting quoting of three or five person's composition in the name of responding to them one after the other. I notice that it's a challenge especially newbies encounter without someone direct them appropriately.

Thanks for your opinion, it's really nice hearing this right now cause I have been wondering if am the only newbie who have encountered so many challenges during registration or posting here. Now that I have seen this I will keep learning to get better.

[Luzin]

Op i acknowledged you from your question. Because i believe that many of us faced challenges when registering to bitcointalk and others also experienced challenge during posting quoting of three or five person's composition in the name of responding to them one after the other. I notice that it's a challenge especially newbies encounter without someone direct them appropriately.

You're right, even I'm going to start where it's pretty hard. In fact I used to be afraid that every time I would reply to a quote or create a topic. But I think it's all just a matter of time. Everyone who is new will gain knowledge. Adapted to what he aims for when joining the forum. You will certainly see the quality of writing between bounty hunters and people who want to grow in the forum. So in the end it all depends on their willingness to adapt to adjust the rules that exist in this forum. Those who succeed will get better and survive and for those who fail they will come out soon.

[minime0105]

As far as my personal experiences are concerned, the greatest challenge has always been to be relevant and to be of value. This is probably not a challenge to a lot of users. They have vast knowledge on anything Bitcoin-related and could easily contribute a good deal in discussions. I admire them a lot. Unfortunately, I'm not like them, that's why almost every time I make a post I have to verify it one way or another to make sure I'm not just blabbering nothing. But this has been a wonderful challenge. It enriches myself.

This is really a big challenge that most people do not understand, especially those that have a little or no knowledge on Bitcoin, coming to a forum where you have different kinds of people with different kinds of knowledge and experience about Bitcoin the first thing you should consider before making numerous post should be this, how do I contribute to something am not aware of? The right answer is verifying to know if what you wanna post is related to what is discussed.

[Hispo]

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One of the challenges I have faced during my stage here has been to get used to use the forum commands as a whole. I mean, to insert pictures, to quote messages, handling and sharing information in a proper way.  I'd say this is because this would be the first forum I have seriously invested my time in even though I have seen other forums while I grew up as a kid.

It also took me some time to understand what thing of comments and content is the community interested in, so I could share news and other thing, specially on our local Spanish board to keep it active together with other Spanish speaker users.

In general I was very out of touch with forum etiquette when I joined.

[Maus0728]

If you aren't reading or watching a lot of crypto-related stuff, it would be very difficult to contribute something useful in most of the threads created here, because otherwise, you will end up spamming the heck out of the thread spreading false information, and repeated opinions. So far, I've had to verify technical information from various articles and bitcoin-related message boards in order to avoid providing inaccurate information just to meet my post requirements.

I know it must be second nature to constantly learn from a specific discipline in crypto, but it's too much for someone who works as a freelancer while attending university. That's why, as much as possible, I only respond to threads where I know I can make a positive contribution without being constrained. But hey! you are always a work in progress  .

[Mpamaegbu]

The earning part should only be an extra; and try your best to make your Bitcointalk earnings not your main income

Well, this may seem something not difficult to achieve for those who stay in countries with drastically reduced unemployment rate. I can tell you for free that there are those who are out of jobs and who make their daily bread from this forum. So to that, this forum is a major source of income and not a side hustle. Government plannings differ with countries. Some economies are well planned in such a way that human wants and needs aren't any issue any more. A friend once told me that there's no one in Germany who wanted (wants) to work who didn't (doesn't) have a job. This can't be said for Africa, a continent where unemployment rate grows daily like trees.

[minime0105]

The earning part should only be an extra; and try your best to make your Bitcointalk earnings not your main income

Well, this may seem something not difficult to achieve for those who stay in countries with drastically reduced unemployment rate. I can tell you for free that there are those who are out of jobs and who make their daily bread from this forum. So to that, this forum is a major source of income and not a side hustle. Government plannings differ with countries. Some economies are well planned in such a way that human wants and needs aren't any issue any more. A friend once told me that there's no one in Germany who wanted (wants) to work who didn't (doesn't) have a job. This can't be said for Africa, a continent where the unemployment rate grows daily like trees.

You're right and I tend to agree with this, I have heard about the rate of unemployment in some African countries and anyone who falls under that category will depend on the earnings here for survival with the hope of getting something better, my opinion though but am not encouraging anybody to focus on the earnings only, you wanna know more about bitcoin , you wanna learn about trading and investment this is the right place to do all that. You can make this forum your home and also get some earnings when you contribute positively here.