Random tips for beginners/newbies.

[worle1bm]

I doubt !If any newbies here would read your thread and react.

Almost every new user who registes here is to make money using crypto. Just go and look the Bounty sections. There you will find a lot of newbies or multiple accounts holder posting.

You are right, when I came to this forum I was busy with Bounty work. Then one day I started checking other boards and I was amazed that Bitcoin Talk is a paradise of crypto-related information. Then in the meantime, I found my country page and learned a lot more from there.

There is lot to learn on the forum if we are willing to do it and can check the different boards to look forward for useful threads created by senior or knowledgeable forum members.The bounty work may pay you small amount but didn't have impact on your growth and learning skills but forum discussions on big level do help us a lot so good you realised it.

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[Laurendaldin]

It's kind of weird to get so attached to the forum to post every day, but I see the point. Small steps, you know

[Cryptomultiplier]

Baby steps or small steps in maintaining your composure here are important. It is the only way one can learn and improve in both content creation and word composition...what I simply mean is, that if one carefully and patiently sticks around an idea (Bitcoin forum idea), in time, tacit knowledge of the technicalities involved will reveal itself. Own your freedom to post, follow up on comments or stay online. It is slow and steady that wins the race. Just know what you want.

[KingsDen]

The forum is broad and there are many users therein. In order  to enjoy your stay in this forum and enjoy it, try to find a way to make the forum benefit from you. You should be willing at all times to give your best to the forum. Being a newbie doesn't mean you have nothing to offer the forum. You would be surprised you have something to offer more than some established members here. What you really need to do is to try and know your strengths and weaknesses. Ride on your strengths to succeed and learn on your weaknesses to improve. If you don't discover how to help the forum, you could wander for years here without having something to show for it. You may wonder how you could help the forum;
1. You can help the forum by avoiding spam.
2. By reporting spam.
3. By teaching newbies about Bitcoin
4. By not cheating the forum.
5. Not plagiarising
6. Reporting plagerists
7. Not involving in scam activities.
8. Exposing scammers
9. Fairly distributing the merits
10. Not being a troll, etc
Though you need to be somewhat an established member to do some of the above. Above all, learn about Bitcoin and teach bitcoin to your friends and relatives.

[BITCOIN4X]

If only the forum had to expel me when I was inactive because my rank de-rank up from Jr Member to Newbie (0 merit) then I really never made it to Legendary this time. But I'm grateful the forum never had a rule like this.

This forum is free for anyone without many expected limitations. Beginners will learn, ask questions, discuss something or maybe share their experiences outside of their forum here with many people. It doesn't matter to me because they are free to say whatever they want as long as it's constructive and doesn't break the rules. Beginner's prison will no longer be implemented in the forum, this is really not good.

Some of my tips are:

• Consistent with the main goal.
• Learn anything that interests you
• Discuss anything confusing with the community.
• Try to have a contribution to the forum.
• Don't break the rules.
• Avoid arguing about something unimportant.

[Agbe]

As it was said that not all newbies are newbies, some newbies account are own legendary members, and that means the newbies have gotten knowledge about bitcoin in the forum or outside the forum so at that stage the newbies can not be stick to only
visiting and responding. Since he or she has Known, they can create a thread that can benefit users in the forum. Then for the active and inactive or irregular users. What made them not regular is another thing  to be consider. Probably the person is sick or his physical work is occupying his time from the Forum. And also as a newbie, he or she can visit the site has the person wishes because it is a personal interest. He or she can decide to login regularly or irregular, all depends on them. 

[Die_empty]

Learning and discussing bitcoin is the cardinal goal of this forum. But I have learnt some other informal virtues that have positively contributed to my behavior. This forum have taught me the following;

- Patience: You must be patient enough to study other members' view points before giving your own contribution. Before I was not a very patient ready, but now I have inculcated that priceless virtue from the forum.

- Handle criticism: Before I use to be a very poor handler of opposition. I feel bad when I am criticized. But you would learn in forum how to manage your critics and use their opinions to grow better and stronger.

- Law abiding: I grew up in an environment where people disobey the laws without remorse or fear of punishment. But this forum is so organized that members don't have any option but to be a law abiding.     

[chotu1]

- What is the point of having ranks in a forum, which is supposed to discuss all things bitcoin?

- What is the point of making a few chosen ones as merit source?

[Shamm]

- What is the point of having ranks in a forum, which is supposed to discuss all things bitcoin?

Having forum ranking here in our community is a big help to everyone,. because through rankings we can say or determine that user has done many good things and hard work by making quality and helpful threads. that's the reason why they are in the top or in higher ranks.

- What is the point of making a few chosen ones as merit source?

From the word merit source, these are the users given a task by the admin to gave merits to those quality poster.  And also to maintain the circulation of merits here in forum.

[Alisha-k]

I think the whole idea of this forum is to enlighten users about Bitcoin first and then other crypto currency. The ranking was developed to maintain consistency and orderliness. Every other reward that comes from participating in the forum activity is just a way to encourage everyone and also make the crypto currency been discussed circulated amongst the community. Bitcoin talk is just a community engagement platform and as such its not mandatory to be consistent. I believe if there is a reason to always visit a platform such user will be consistent

[decodx]

- What is the point of having ranks in a forum, which is supposed to discuss all things bitcoin?

The use of forum ranks in online communication goes back to the origins of forums themselves. The forum ranking system for bitcointalk community allows us to determine a user's activity and how helpful he has been so far. Whenever a user makes helpful post, guides or tutorials for the community he gets merit points and, over time, his forum rank is raised. The higher the rank of a certain user, the more experienced he is in bitcointalk community. The ranks go hand in hand with members journey on the site; as their rank increases, so too does their credibility and worth.

- What is the point of making a few chosen ones as merit source?

It is a way to distribute new merits in the system. Admin has hand-picked a number of high-ranking members who are in charge of distributing new merits to other members, who then distribute them to other members, and so on.

[DdmrDdmr]

- What is the point of having ranks in a forum, which is supposed to discuss all things bitcoin?

In fact, discussion is open to anyone, regardless of their forum rank. You could technically be a Newbie and discuss all you like (except on a few delimited subboards). Ranks do have their perks, and some of those perks come in handy at times.

What is the point of making a few chosen ones as merit source?

What one really awards a post are sMerits, which are created by the system when your Merit counter increases (for every 2 additional Merits you earn, you get 1 additional sMerit to send to others).

Now since sMerits are essentially a result of halving the Merits you earn, that means that, in the big picture, sMerits generation tends to cero.

i.e. If I’ve got 4 sMerits, and Merit a given post with them all:
-   I will have 0 sMerits left
-   The receiver will have 4 more Merits (non sendable), and 2 additional sMerits to send.

If the above receiver reiterates the process sending his 2 sMerits to another post, the subsequent receiver will obtain 1 sMerit to send, and if he in turn sends it to yet another post, the ulterior receiver will gain a (virtual) ½ sMerit to send (which is non-sendable  nor viewable in the balance– fractions aren’t).

Since overall sMerits will decrease upon meriting posts, the Merit System needs a mechanism to counter that effect, thus the existence of (s)Merit Sources, who receive sMerits periodically (with different allowances per Merit Source per running 30 days) "out of the blue", without needing to receive Merits to generate these sMerits. This mechanism currently allows for a max. potential of up to  33.989 sMerit to be added to the overall system per 30 days.

Since sending sMerits bears a certain responsibility, and they have some operational value, the current 110 sMerit sources are delimited and hand-picked or chosen by @theymos based on forum needs and existing postulants as per the designated procedure.

[Munir575]

Newbies should know more about bitcoin, it may not be beyond having bitcoin and having experience of how bitcoin is working just in term of transaction.

Newbies that want to ranking more should focus on the posts of members that have ranked up already.

-Develop consistency; as a new forum member it is expected that you post regularly say even one post a day and slowly build up the number from there. Posting occasionally like this week and then nobody sees you for like 2 weeks and then you come back in 3 weeks time doesn't speak well of you.

A newbie may create an account to ask a question. A newbie or anyone, even a well ranked and known member can decide not to be active again on this forum. We have seen some ranked members that left this forum which could be because of a reason, newbies can do that too at anytime too.

What I am saying is that newbies also do not have to post regularly, newbies may be here to gain knowledge and not want to participate in a signature campaign.

Yeah not everyone who is here wants to contribute in the forum or join campaigns to make money. A lot of people are here to just gain knowledge about their interest particularly and maybe that's why they they are not frequent in the forum.

[Eridan_world]

I doubt !If any newbies here would read your thread and react.

Almost every new user who registes here is to make money using crypto. Just go and look the Bounty sections. There you will find a lot of newbies or multiple accounts holder posting.

There are a few who are here in the forum and on this board to learn or understand Bitcoin. Those who are actively creating topics on this board are here to just get merits and get an opportunity to be a part of a signature campaign on gambling. As signature campaign provide a long term recurring money in the form of Bitcoin.

None of the newbies care what you say with this post. Still it is a good topic created by you and I think you need to focus somewhere else to make a mark on this forum.

I disagree. I'm a beginner, but I'm interested in such tips.
Not everyone comes here for profit. Maybe not everyone, but someone needs simple knowledge.

[Cryptomultiplier]

Some of my tips are;
-Adopt the habit of revisiting a topic that you started for the purpose of wanting to get knowledge. Say for instance you ask a question make sure to come back and drop a response whether you are satisfied with the answers you have gotten or you are not.

Thanks, OP for these tips. However, I find myself lacking in the aspect of revisiting a topic once started. I never quite thought it is necessary. I know better now. If I may indulge your candid opinions, could more light be shed on this as regards navigation and how to keep track of posts started, also how many responses would be okay? Furthermore, one question I have always wanted to ask is this, the discussion concerning a post stays how long before it disappears?

[Z-tight]

Thanks, OP for these tips. However, I find myself lacking in the aspect of revisiting a topic once started. I never quite thought it is necessary.

Uh...bruh how do you do that, starting a post means you want to read what members have to say or think about what you have brought up in your topic, so you have to go back to it to read it and interact when necessary, even if you don't write again in the topic, but once you start a topic, you have to go back to check and read the discussion, only spammers disappear after creating a topic.

If I may indulge your candid opinions, could more light be shed on this as regards navigation and how to keep track of posts started, also how many responses would be okay?

Hard to understand what you mean, posts started by you? You just go back to your topic, you know the section you posted it, or you go to "last topics started by you" to keep track of it, there is nothing more to do, if you are satisfied with the responses you can go on to lock. Only you can know what you want from a post when you make one, once you get that, you either lock or just forget about it because other members may still be interested in the conversation and you will not want to spoil it for them by locking it.

Furthermore, one question I have always wanted to ask is this, the discussion concerning a post stays how long before it disappears?

It goes without saying that there is no general answer to that, it is only based on how the discussion progresses and how long a discussion lasts varies from post to post.

[Bhig Daddy]

As a newbie you just have to spend plenty of time on this forum even if you not commenting but you should read to increase your knowledge on cryptocurrency, and I wouldn't lie of you are willing to learn this forum will provide you with alot of knowledge and answers to questions you know nothing about.

[Memorabilia]

If you are new, please learn about the market first. I made the mistake of directly following the herd, which didn’t work out very well. Hence, if you are serious about making profits, understand the intricacies of the market and practise as much as you can.

[loveselenagomez]

I am in this forum since 2014 (my previous forum id lost with gmail disable)so i can give some tips for newbies.
"never fall  for free crypto in telegram email & twitter,there is no such thing in the world free Crypto"

[Sanitough]

Newbies should know more about bitcoin, it may not be beyond having bitcoin and having experience of how bitcoin is working just in term of transaction.

Newbies that want to ranking more should focus on the posts of members that have ranked up already.

-Develop consistency; as a new forum member it is expected that you post regularly say even one post a day and slowly build up the number from there. Posting occasionally like this week and then nobody sees you for like 2 weeks and then you come back in 3 weeks time doesn't speak well of you.

A newbie may create an account to ask a question. A newbie or anyone, even a well ranked and known member can decide not to be active again on this forum. We have seen some ranked members that left this forum which could be because of a reason, newbies can do that too at anytime too.

What I am saying is that newbies also do not have to post regularly, newbies may be here to gain knowledge and not want to participate in a signature campaign.

Newbies should be gaining insights and knowledge at first so they will be able to create quality posts because that will determine if they can be a good and reliable poster in the end. However, being an active in the forum and post at least once or twice a day can hone their skills in posting, it happened to me so most likely it’s also possible for most newbies too.