Bad advice can still be gotten from forum.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Just go to the branch "Scam Accusations" and see how many kinds of fraudulent schemes are regularly described and exposed there. And that is, fraud on the forum is not regulated, and in the same way, you can get bad advice, and whether you follow it or not depends entirely on the person receiving the advice. On the forum, as in offline life, you should rely only on yourself. No one will tell you about the button, by pressing which you will certainly become rich. Therefore, you need to take full responsibility for making decisions.

[cryptoaddictchie]

If you dont believe on someone advise and you think its not helpful or sort of out of topic, then just ignore it. Some people might have wrong undrrstanding of the topic due to different opinion being thrown above each comment post. But even its bad, I believe moderators arent gonna take it down since this is a forum and any idea are welcome as long as its not a spam or not against rules here.

[acroman08]

The forum is open to everyone, so anyone can find advice and comment on it. Those who moderate here are very active and experienced, taking down any irrelevant or bad advice they see. Meritorious posts here demonstrate acceptance of viewers, while bullies are not tolerated. While I am unaware of the age limit in the forum, I believe anyone over 18 years of age should be reasonable when it comes to following advice and recognizing good advice.

unless those bullies/trolls posts to threaten someone with harm or consistently break the forum rules, nothing will happen to them. they may be shunned or ignored by the forum members because of their bullying, but the admins and mods will allow them to stay and continue posting as long as they don't break any bannable rules.

[Hyphen(-)]

I haven't gotten any bad advice yet, but I think it is logical to still entertain the possibility that since the forum is a meeting place for people from different lifestyles to discuss, bad advice or problematic opinions can still be shared. It is important and advisable to also extra vet the information and advice you get on this forum before application.

The majority of those who respond to questions are people who have extensive knowledge of that subject. Consider Bitcoin Technical Discussion or Technical Support. Most of the posts in those sections have a limited number of replies because only people with extensive technical knowledge about Bitcoin respond to people's questions while also sharing their own knowledge about the technology behind Bitcoin.
I trust the forum's reputation, which led me to believe that any information obtained from this forum is firsthand information, because anyone who is replying to you is knowledgeable about what you have asked or can explain it further for you.

[Issa56]

The forum is a open platform, where everyone's opinion is been shared, my opinion might be completely wrong, so I believe you should always hear different people's opinion first before you make your decision, and if you are not satisfied with people's suggestion on the forum, you can still go out of the forum for more research. But I think if you create a thread on the forum, if you take your time to read everyone's opinion then you will be able to get your right answer, but make sure you don't listen to just one person's opinion because the person might be wrong, our perspective is always different, but if you hear from different people, then you will be know the right thing to do.

[Wiwo]

Just go to the branch "Scam Accusations" and see how many kinds of fraudulent schemes are regularly described and exposed there. And that is, fraud on the forum is not regulated, and in the same way, you can get bad advice, and whether you follow it or not depends entirely on the person receiving the advice. On the forum, as in offline life, you should rely only on yourself. No one will tell you about the button, by pressing which you will certainly become rich. Therefore, you need to take full responsibility for making decisions.

Exactly, since scams or any other thing is not regulated or moderated on this forum, members of the forum most especially newbies need to be careful and ready to do an extra search for every fact on their own before accepting anything that is passed on to you on this forum, that is why. I have always kept increasing the level of my reading in this forum since I need to read a lot of replies just to compare and verify any information that is passed in this forum. Your point is very important and that is why I made resounding support to what you said, Newbies should know that the bitcointalk forum does not regulate or moderate scams, but members here always try as much as possible to bursts any scam attempt some scams still may go unnoticed by members here.

[Shamm]

I haven't gotten any bad advice yet, but I think it is logical to still entertain the possibility that since the forum is a meeting place for people from different lifestyles to discuss, bad advice or problematic opinions can still be shared. It is important and advisable to also extra vet the information and advice you get on this forum before application.

To assist in your information or advice gathering process, whenever you start a topic of interest to you, or a topic is started that interests you, do well to follow through the topic by reading as much replies to it as you can, so you can compare people's opinions/advice for you. Where you say that a particularly opinion or advice is been given by many forum members in different ways, you can tell that that is a good advice. That is one method I use, which other methods can forum members use to determine the best opinion for a topic of concern?

Yes you are right that mate as this is an open forum everyone here has a freedom to speech then we must accept the fact that there's a bad and good advice  but as always remember that not all bad advice they said is a lateral bad thing that didn't help for us, and we must know that we are human and sometimes we misinterpret  the lesson that they gave to us. This forum is wonderful all you need to do is adjust and be positive always.

[Ndabagi01]

Yeah this is so true, one can still get bad advice from the forum. But with the look of things, how this forum works and people are always ready to chip in their understanding of a particular topic, it is rarely that you’ll be misled by any bad advice. Bad advise can only be gotten through personal messages here, if not so nobody here in the forum will allow you to be misled by an advice given on a particular topic.

[Eureka_07]

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Not just in forums, you can get it anywhere.
Regardless, you should not always believe quickly on advices people are giving you. Asses them. We should be aware of how to comprehend these tips. Also, do not depend on the "rank" of the user whom you got the advice as good and bad advices may come from low rank to high ranking users.

[mamesso]

We all have an inner drive to achieve something. You want to look more creative in the forum but your knowledge is very limited, this is where you need the role of other users with specific opinions or suggestions to realize your potential by assessing what you show so that your weaknesses can be improved.
I firmly believe, you always have clever tactics to stay positive in the face of criticism or constructive suggestions. Listening to criticism from other people can help you to make it easier to achieve your goals and that makes a lot of sense. You will be better equipped to achieve goals because criticism is one of the strongest influences on self-development, but you can only benefit from criticism that you are ready to hear.

[Marykeller]

This forum is structured in a way that only good advice coexists between us. Assuming a piece of bad advice is given, there will be members of the forum that will counter the bad advice, with good advice. For example, invest in Shiba and be a millionaire in a short time "bad advice". You won't be a millionaire if you invest in Shiba's ''good advice''. At the end of it, you will realize that the majority of the forum members will give the same good advice.

[_BlackStar]

Listening to criticism from other people can help you to make it easier to achieve your goals and that makes a lot of sense. You will be better equipped to achieve goals because criticism is one of the strongest influences on self-development, but you can only benefit from criticism that you are ready to hear.

Criticism and advice are two different things. Someone can criticize you without providing any useful value, but you can expect a lot of constructive sugest to be offered when someone gives you advice.

But regarding these two things, you will be great if you can choose and sort out what is right and what is wrong. Someone may hate and criticize you for the purpose of putting you down, but you won't feel insulted when someone gives you advice. It all depends on your mindset and how you understand the message being conveyed.

[lalabotax]

There is a very little chance that you will have a bad advice from this forum or misinformation from this forum. It can only happen when you open a thread, entertain a few reply and lock the thread. Otherwise, if wrong opinion or advice is given, there must be a other person who will correct it as the discussion proceeds.

Not sure about the chance of getting bad advice whether it is small or big, but surely there will be always an opportunity to get wrong or bad advice. There are thousands of people in this forum, they have varied goals and characteristics. With this diversity, no doubt that the chances are quite high. Moreover, there are certain people who we call scammers or armies of some new coins. These people sometimes lure people with the hope of huge profits from buying a new, unpopular coin. In reality, they only trap people to buy shitcoins that may end the people's loss of their money.

Sure, sometimes there are some members to warn people about the wrong advice. But not everyone is very careful and reads carefully all the replies on a thread.

[freedomgo]

One of the greatest asset that this forum has is it membership, the members of this forum are made of individuals with diverse knowledge and background of experiences that always proffer answer and make they own comments on threads as a contribution to the discussion with different views. But above that, the forum is developed in such a way that, giving false information that does not collaborate with the original topic of discussions are figure out as (off topics posts and there are deleted by the moderators). But aside from that, the best way to avoid misleading information is by reading more and comparing various ideas and suggestions before you arrive at a personal conclusion.
So best to do your own research!

Right mate. DYOR will always be an answer so that we will always come up with right decision because we know already the facts and right information in the crypto market. However, even if the negative posts in the forum have already been filtered and deleted, there are still newbies out there who took the wrong path and end up losing. For me, that’s not bad at all as they can always learn out from the mistakes they have done at first. At the end of the day, whatever the consequences we are dealing are just the results of our own actions.

[passwordnow]

Yeah this is so true, one can still get bad advice from the forum. But with the look of things, how this forum works and people are always ready to chip in their understanding of a particular topic, it is rarely that you’ll be misled by any bad advice. Bad advise can only be gotten through personal messages here, if not so nobody here in the forum will allow you to be misled by an advice given on a particular topic.

And when it's bad, you can have your own judgment if the advice given to you is that bad at all. We all have a way of determining if it's a good or bad one.

But most of the time, from too much good advice that will be given. Sometimes it's rare to see the bad ones or if there are really bad tips, they're from the people that are also starting to learn.

[Luzin]

But most of the time, from too much good advice that will be given. Sometimes it's rare to see the bad ones or if there are really bad tips, they're from the people that are also starting to learn.

It doesn't matter, because the decision make us. Because this is a forum, and every user has the right to make suggestions. Whether it is wrong or right it comes from the knowledge that writes. They can think it's best but not for us. We can only read and decide what we do next. But indeed for people who don't know it's detrimental to bad advice. Why people are always asked to be careful is the reason. Because I think everyone has a mind and every suggestion must be continued with consideration of the consequences.

[decodx]

The bitcointalk.org forum may not be perfect in every way, there are always trolls lurking, but it is an invaluable resource for anyone who is interested in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The forum is an excellent place to learn more about what it means to be a part of the crypto world, and there are many helpful users who are eager to answer any questions that you may have. It's a place where you can learn about new projects, read the opinions of others, and share your own thoughts on the future of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Yes, one can get bad advice from the forum, but usually the advice is bad because the person giving it doesn't understand what they are talking about, not because the forum itself is bad.

[GiftedMAN]

First off, the forum is made up of different individuals with different understandings and knowledge of bitcoin which I believe is the major reason why we are here. Coming to the forum I will not say that I have been advised wrongly because during my newbie days till this moment, every advise or information I receive has to be verified through personal research before it can be put into practice. In the forum, you get useful information, advice, and guidance on the basic things you need to do to be successful and also you also get information about scams and scammers and the ways you can identify and not be a victim of them but it is your choice to choose the right or wrong advice here.

[Piesel]

The social media space have been filled with many false information and manipulated news and article that is aimed at controlling the mindset and thinking faculty of the members of the public, but then again if we are serious to search out whatever information we need, we will do ourselves a great deal by doing so. And by that, we can easily discover the right news and information we are searching for.

So this forum is not an exception to other information-passing channels since bitcointalk is a decentralized platform that allows various opinions.be represented.

[Jawhead999]

So this forum is not an exception to other information-passing channels since bitcointalk is a decentralized platform that allows various opinions.be represented.

This forum isn't a decentralized platform since there's still an administrator who have full control over this forum, moderators that can delete your posts, ban your account and recover your account. If it's decentralized, anything that I previously mentioned must be gone similar like Bitcoin who doesn't have single person who can control it and if you send your coins to wrong address, your will lose your coins.

I think you should read this, it's similar like other sites who will take legal action if the cases is really important/big impact, it's not a joke.

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