Please Help, Am Running low on ideas.

[Cryptomultiplier]

Creating a topic is not as easy as it looks. Am running low on ideas; with this one having to literally source for contents no one would have seen or given a second thought to. With having to ensure I also avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism or spam.

These days, with so many topics and discussions held here, I wonder what topic it is, that I would create that hasn't been created already or the kind of discussion that wouldn't head in same direction with answers of old.

Where can I get good quality materials and topic sources from?
How do I tailor a discussion to get the right answers?

[Charles-Tim]

Where can I get good quality materials and topic sources from?

This is just a forum, if nothing comes your mind, you can just continue to learn from other discussions and see what others are posting and you too can contribute. Topic should not be an issue, you do not necessarily have to create a topic, let it happen naturally if need be to create one.

[jackg]

Experience? I have too many questions still and forget to post a lot of them (particularly economic speculation of businesses in crypto and nft gaming).

A lot of people take news sites, twitter or YouTube and write posts about them here (just try to make sure the sources are legit enough and the information is fairly accurate if you're not starting up a discussion topic).

[tranthidung]

Creating a topic is not as easy as it looks.

Topics serve for many purposes

• Ask for help. If you have trouble and can not find answers from available topics, you can create your topic to ask
• Share knowledge to help others. Doing this if there is no available topics in the past and if you can create your topics more collective and informative, more educational than previous topics.

I am sure, it is not easy but you don't have to boost yourself to create topics.

Am running low on ideas

Don't have ideas, don't create your topics. It is not difficult.

with this one having to literally source for contents no one would have seen or given a second thought to. With having to ensure I also avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism or spam.

With source links, you won't plagiarize anything but don't create topics by copying and pasting.

Where can I get good quality materials and topic sources from?

Forum is one of best sources to get high quality materials, information and discussions.

[Lucius]

Please Help, Am Running low on ideas

   
This is one of the more bizarre ideas I've read - because you actually want someone to advise you on what topics you should write about? Do you have any special requirements in your signature campaign or do you think that for some reason you need to open new topics in order to be a good member of the forum?

Use the forum search and to begin with, don't open topics that have already been discussed countless times.

[mk4]

Why are you even forcing yourself to create topics to the point that you're actually asking for help lol? If you don't have much to contribute through creating a thread, then simply don't. At least until you think of something actually worth discussing.

[Razmirraz]

When you say you've run out of ideas, you just found a new idea. This topic is your new idea which leads to a question and answer discussion, from your question above, other users are very enthusiastic about giving your views with different answers with the same goal.
The idea of creating a quality topic don't have to contain material from a specific source, personal experience or the experience of your closest friends can be implemented into a topic that can lead to interesting discussions.

[Pandu Geddon]

You don't need to force yourself to create a new topic when you run out of ideas. why not join the discussion that makes you interested? it will grow your idea.

people on forums will never understand what you want. is that a tutorial, or a trading analysis? or maybe new knowledge related to Bitcoin?
the forum is too broad to describe your focus. So, maybe you can find your happiness in more detail in the forum. and you can share what you know.

[salad daging]

Asking for help keep running out of ideas to create a thread? Then how did you make a thread in today's gambling section was that your idea too?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5436613.msg61647778#msg61647778

Don't be too forced with this, the internet is wide about the ideas you are looking for you can look for legitimate sources to discuss but not keep making continuous threads, I see you also often create new threads isn't that a good idea in your mind ?

Even in discussions, it's good if we give good arguments.

[KiaKia]

No one is forcing you to make posts, I see you are wearing a signature code and the required number of posts per week is not that much, if you don't have anything to talk about just engage in different discussions, you can also call it a quit just for a day, tomorrow is another day. You don't have to create new topics if you have too less to discuss about the topic, I see some people creating topics and never go back to discuss about other people's opinion.

[hilariousandco]

Good lord. If you don't have anything constructive to make a thread about then don't go forcing yourself to find something. Just shitpost in one of the other gazillion threads.

[NeuroticFish]

Where can I get good quality materials and topic sources from?

You are missing the point. I have only 85 topics started and I'm here since 2014. If one doesn't have new/important/very explanatory things to say, maybe he has to focus on something else.
Maybe you should not be so keen to create topics. Read, learn, answer questions, give advises. Be careful to not repeat what others said, where possible.
And some day you will know what to write for new topics when it's the case. Why rush it?

Oh, creating new topics make it easier for your campaign's quota? That's a more unpleasant story. If you don't know what to write, you better don't write, else you'll end up - sooner or later - spamming. And I think that it's better if you leave a campaign for not meeting a quota now, as Full Member, then learn more and someday start joining campaigns again, maybe even as a higher ranks, but surely with more experience and more information to tell/share. How about this?

[aysg76]

I last created thread long time back and keeps on contributing through having discussion in threads or topics I like but this is something really absurd that why you wanted to just create the threads? This is open discussion forum where you can share your knowledge and learn from others and there is no such rule on forum which says ask others new topics when you run out of ideas so keep it simple if you can.

[DaNNy001]

Where can I get good quality materials and topic sources from?

This is just a forum, if nothing comes your mind, you can just continue to learn from other discussions and see what others are posting and you too can contribute. Topic should not be an issue, you do not necessarily have to create a topic, let it happen naturally if need be to create one.

Yeah man, i feel thats the best way to go about your topic creation problem. @op, the forum is not a competition ground for the most topic created, you are not competing with anyone and i feel the reasons for you not knowing what to post is because you have not read enough. Try doing more reading and maybe contributing in other people's thread and just join in the conversation and before you know it you have learnt alot more than trying to crack your brains into creating topics that would draw attentions. I personally believe that you cant offer what you don't know so i will advise you to just keep reading and the knowledge of writing will come naturally.

[Findingnemo]

Creating a topic is not as easy as it looks. Am running low on ideas; with this one having to literally source for contents no one would have seen or given a second thought to. With having to ensure I also avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism or spam.

These days, with so many topics and discussions held here, I wonder what topic it is, that I would create that hasn't been created already or the kind of discussion that wouldn't head in same direction with answers of old.

Where can I get good quality materials and topic sources from?
How do I tailor a discussion to get the right answers?

You are not really supposed to create a thread when you actually don't have a point, either you can stick with the discussions.

Do you think creating topics will get you merits?

It may work for a while but not forever so stop forcing yourself to pretend someone when you aren't actually.

[BenCodie]

Why are you even forcing yourself to create topics to the point that you're actually asking for help lol? If you don't have much to contribute through creating a thread, then simply don't. At least until you think of something actually worth discussing.

That's exactly right. To add to this, life has taught me that when you try really hard to do something that is not natural, it becomes harder and quickly impossible. The reason is simply that you are going against nature. Sure this may not apply correctly to everything but it does apply to most things and it definitely applies here. The answer to your problem? Stop trying to go do something that is against nature. Like everyone else have said, don't force yourself to try and create topics, instead participate in meaningful discussion. Naturally you will learn more and eventually you will have questions or discussions that you naturally would like to discuss with the forum.

[Maus0728]

If you don't have something interesting to say, do not contribute -- that's how simple bitcointalk or any other forum is.

And if you are having a hard time to contribute something, try focusing on 1 or 2 specific areas in bitcoin which  you are truly interested about. Deep dive, learn the ins and out. Afterwards, try using the "notify" button for a particular board you are interested in, so when someone created a topic that you truly know, you'll be notified immediately giving you a chance to reply to a thread with 0 to few replies.

I have the same problem and fortunately, that solution works!

[isaac_clarke22]

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You're not obliged to make a topic, OP. In fact you might even spend years/decades just reading around here and/or replying to some threads rather than being able to create topics. Last topic I created was like 3 years ago about the incident in my account and that was it.

I do not have that much time to maintain and keep up with the discussion/s so I just refuse to create one and that's totally fine. Similar to my experience in Reddit where I almost never create topic, just reading around subs.

[BenCodie]

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You're not obliged to make a topic, OP. In fact you might even spend years/decades just reading around here and/or replying to some threads rather than being able to create topics. Last topic I created was like 3 years ago about the incident in my account and that was it.

I do not have that much time to maintain and keep up with the discussion/s so I just refuse to create one and that's totally fine. Similar to my experience in Reddit where I almost never create topic, just reading around subs.

Lets not beat around the bush. He is not obliged to create topics, though this topic says that he certainly feels obliged. This might be because of his signature campaign, desire to rank up his merit, or gain account activity. If these were not his missions, he would not feel obliged! Unless he really does just desperately wants to contribute to the forum out of his good heart and passion for supporting bitcoin or the bitcointalk forum, but you tell me how likely that is that against the former 

[Smartvirus]

Am running low on ideas; with this one having to literally source for contents no one would have seen or given a second thought to. With having to ensure I also avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism or spam.

Where can I get good quality materials and topic sources from?
How do I tailor a discussion to get the right answers?

One advice I would have for you is that you visit this thread by the global moderator and pay particular attention to this portion;

Don't force yourself to make posts and if you see someone making poor posts either report them to the moderators or give them a friendly PM warning

Signature Campaign Guidelines (read this before starting or joining a campaign)

Now, the advice applies mainly to address the issue of making posts to reach signature quarters which in turns results in spam and I think that pretty much can apply here.
The idea is, there is a force. The driving force for which the above post was made to address was signature motivated but in this case, we've got merits, rank, impression and a later times, signature to contend with.

In essence what am saying is; If you don't already have it in you or feel a concern about a subject or information that needs to be put out, there isn't a need to force a post on yourself. When it eventually comes, the content becomes a distinguishing factor of what might have been posted before or not.