What's up with ranking

[XEN_Protocol]

Hello 👋  

I can see that some people have a high rank and some are lower, is it advisable to take advice from high rank members more serious than jr member and full members?

[Zaguru12]

Interms of knowledge, there is no distinction on who to take advices from. There some newbies that actually have more technical, economical or other knowledge than some higher ranking members. Mind you the forum warns on depending on the information gotten from this forum, you need to do more research by yourself.
But when it's a matter of business I think you need to do that with members that have reputation in the forum. The easiest way to check that is to see there trust information and how they have handled such businesses in the past

[Daniel91]

Hello 👋  

I can see that some people have a high rank and some are lower, is it advisable to take advice from high rank members more serious than jr member and full members?

The fact that someone has a higher rank on this forum usually just means the fact that that user registered before other members on this forum and that's all.
For advice, you should ask those members who have a certain reputation and knowledge on this forum, and that really does not depend on the forum rank.
A good indicator of which members have a good reputation within the forum community is the number of merits a particular member has received.
In fact, I have even met certain newbie members who are not very active on this forum but come from the crypto industry and have a lot of knowledge and experience in the field 

[Darker45]

Which advice? If it's about Bitcoin, nope, ranks don't necessarily signify knowledge or even experience in the field. If it's about the forum, probably yes. Those who have been here for a long time are probably more familiar with the rules and how things generally work here.

If you hang out here, explore, and read discussions often, you will eventually know who are the users that are apparently more knowledgeable than the rest. You will certainly give more weight to their advice.

[examplens]

Hello 👋  

I can see that some people have a high rank and some are lower, is it advisable to take advice from high rank members more serious than jr member and full members?

You did not say which type of advice you thinking but you mixed up two things here, forum rank with knowledge.
forum rank is gained by time and participation spent on the forum. many members reached a high rank (before the introduction of metrics) by spamming. if you need advice from someone who knows a certain subject well, forum rank has nothing to do with it.

there is also a certain number of old-new users. Members with a high rank who have achieved a negative reputation, start from scratch, and present themselves as newbies but already have experience with the functioning of the forum.

[Crypt0Gore]

High rank members are early to register on this forum, no more no less, you can still get a bad advice from high rank members so it's better to do your own research, there are high rank members up to legendary that have red trust for some reason, my advice is no matter who is sharing an advice with you always do your own research.

[hosseinimr93]

High rank members are early to register on this forum, no more no less

This isn't true. It's not necessarily that the earlier you have registered, the higher your rank.

This user has registered in 2011 and is still a newbie.
This user has registered in 2017 and is still a newbie.

fillippone has registered in 2018 and is now a legendary member.
Ratimov has registered in 2019 and is now a legendary member.
BlackHatCoiner has registered in 2020 and is now a legendary member.
n0nce has registered in 2021 and is now a Sr. Member

[nc50lc]

A good indicator of which members have a good reputation within the forum community is the number of merits a particular member has received.

Better yet, use the number of merit received by the particular reply as the indicator of a good advice.

Because the merit displayed below the username can be misleading to newbies,
it'll need a bit of research to see if most of it are "airdropped" or "earned" merit.

[tranthidung]

I can see that some people have a high rank and some are lower, is it advisable to take advice from high rank members more serious than jr member and full members?

You should never auto trust advice from anyone.

If you auto trust or have higher trust on someone, some members just because they wear a nice suit, they are higher-ranked members on the forum, you will be scammed more easily.

Don't trust, verify their advice by searching and checking what they recommend is good or bad, right or wrong. About member ranks, higher-ranked members are either very knowledgeable and high quality posters or simply spammers and shit posters.

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[m2017]

Hello 👋  

I can see that some people have a high rank and some are lower, is it advisable to take advice from high rank members more serious than jr member and full members?

Ranks are not an indication that advice from a high rank will be better than from a low rank. Ranks are a measure of time spent on the forum. The longer a user is active on bitcointalk, the higher their rank (this was before the new merit era). But now about the nuances. Now, to increase the rank, you need merits, which are usually (not in all cases) awarded for useful posts. So it turns out that high ranks are given to people who have useful information and knowledge, sharing which they received these ranks. Again, this is not true in all cases. I would recommend paying attention to the amount of merits of users (especially those who have a lot of merits) and this can be assessed as a kind of filter to determine the real level of possession of useful knowledge that allows you to give really useful advice, in contrast to the formal rank. For me personally, a certain indicator of the usefulness of posts is the presence of merits that other users have marked this post with. Most often in them I find something new and useful for myself in terms of information.

[Taskford]

Hello 👋  

I can see that some people have a high rank and some are lower, is it advisable to take advice from high rank members more serious than jr member and full members?

Nope, rank doesn't mean anything because not everyone are active on this forum. There are low ranking members which is more knowledgeable than them so maybe try to focus on what content of the people and you can easily find out if they are really good and not. Anyways maybe catch multiple information and don't focus on single advices since its more helpful if you have many basis towards what actions you want to do on your cryptocurrency hunting career.

[DdmrDdmr]

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It’s probably best to try to get an idea through contrast of multiple comments from different accounts. I was going to add regardless of the rank, which in a sense is true, but it can also be false in certain instances.

After a while on the forum, you’d probably shift from thinking that the higher the rank the better the council, to a criteria more nominal account related (i.e. paying more attention to some specific profiles over others), whilst still contrasting the information.

[Little Mouse]

Rank shouldn't be a matter while browsing, or using a forum for discussion. I have been using this forum for more than 4 years now and I'm a legendary member now, that doesn't mean I'm better knowledgeable about bitcoin's technical aspects than nullius. If we think in that way, every Legendary member here should be a pro bitcoiner while I know very few of them are pro bitcoiner. There is a lot of forum member who barely post here while they are pro too. You yourself must check and evaluate what advice you think is good. Don't trust someone blindly.

[GonnaGrinditout]

Hello 👋  

I can see that some people have a high rank and some are lower, is it advisable to take advice from high rank members more serious than jr member and full members?

I would advise to check the trust score rather than the high rank.

[BlackHatCoiner]

Depends on the advice. Is it technically related? Then take advise from someone who's reputable and is used to discuss in the Dev & Tech board. Is it speculation related? Take it from someone who's reputable and is used to discuss in the Speculation board. Is it about buying and selling stuff? Same for Marketplace.

Ranking doesn't tell much, because merits are often airdropped in old accounts. Sometimes earned merits don't tell much either.

[EarnOnVictor]

Just view this in the sense of human beings, an older person might be wiser and more knowledgeable than a younger person, and vice versa. The ranking here is to show how old and active you are on the forum, yet the quality of your posts matters too, but not necessarily mean that the higher ranks are better than the lower ranks. Personally, I have seen many lower ranks writing better than many higher ranks, it is mostly about the time you opened your BTT account and the measure of the merits and activities that you gathered over time as per the rule of the forum.

Therefore, it is left to you to decipher a sensible post from anyone whether from the lowest or highest ranks.

[Pandu Geddon]

on forums probably the first thing you see is the rankings. but for me, it doesn't mean that those with high ranks will have more knowledge.
I'm not talking about all cases. because in getting a high ranking, there are some cases. those who came to the forum longer, even before the merit system existed. many also have reached the rank of Hero and Legendary. but of them, some do not get any Merit. they are only here for the campaign.
other cases, those who get high-ranking accounts by buying them. it's like high rank but beginner knowledge.

OP, I suggest you read more threads that you like. For example: if you are interested in mining, you can go to the mining board. there you will see experienced members who can help you. In certain discussions sometimes those who rank high are also happy to learn from those who are still beginners.

[aysg76]

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Exactly there are many such instances where users who have registered early say before merit system implementation have limited themselves to some bounty hunting programme and have hundred of pages of bounty submission only and could not rank up because lack of merits.

There are still some high rank members who have zero merit and could not reach that rank if the merit system was implemented before 2018 so this example justify the condition for it.

As you have said about @fillippone and others like @n0nce who registered as newbie with zero merit today are in top merit holders on forum with their contributions only and sharing their knowledge with others on forum so early members have nothing to do with high rank solely.

[Accardo]

OP don't take advice from anybody except yourself, the only thing available here is a guide to what you want it's left for you to advice yourself on what to do, so that you won't have to blame any forum member for losing funds. Go through all the threads in the forum that looks like an advice most of them carry under it and quote “not a financial advice" do your own research.

[isaac_clarke22]

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You're going to be surprised how many people have way more knowledge in Bitcoin than some members here and they have not even registered to this forum just yet.

Don't let the forum ranking make you think that you can't make decision based on the advice given by the full members. You should still research the advices given to you and make the decisions there. Back when the ranking system was activity-based, it was all too easy for some users to rank-up, but now it might not be that easy for them.

OP don't take advice from anybody except yourself,.....

This is quite a bad advice. It makes the user close-minded from any other new knowledge. It would be best to at least take consideration of advices then make decisions after you had made a couple of research from whatever was advised to you.