How to Make a Quality Posts in the Forum

[OcTradism]

Welcome message tells you how.

Write less, short, insightful, informative and on topic posts. If someone already answered the question, don't repeat it because in that context, your answer will become useless.

If you make ten thousand posts in a week, your activity will be capped and you will still be a Newbie. If you make ten thousand useless posts over any period of time, you will gain zero merit and you will still be a Newbie. You can rank up only by making good posts consistently. It's quality over quantity.

When trying to write quality posts, a lot of people act as though they're writing a book report for school: putting facts that we already know into their own words. Nobody wants to read that, and you will not get merit for it. Moreover, the length of your post and the quality of your English are only minor factors. In trying to write a quality post worthy of merit, you should offer new ideas, personal experiences, or perspectives that other forum users will actually find new and interesting.

[libert19]

I comment when I have something to say. I think it's enough.

I was long Reddit user, people don't care what you write there and you'd often see one word responses and no one would bother. If you were to write same one word responses here, they are sure to be deleted.

[Die_empty]

All what I am saying is that just specialize in the area you know that you are good and base (stay) on that board. Then when you mastered the board then you can raise your head to other boards. If you know the local board is good for you at the initial time then base (stay) there to improve yourself. Many people are making low quality posts because they want to rank up at all means when they have not even understand how the forum work and finally got ban. For those who has local board, stay on your local boards to learn more then sometimes you can come out to Beginners & Help to ask questions or post. Quality Post is guaranteed if you post in the area you are good in real life.

To me, a quality post is a writing that is relevant to the community. it could be a few lines that answer questions or contribute positively to a discussion. It could be a discovery or an advancement of an old idea. You don't also need to be a master in English grammar to be a quality poster just ensure that your post conveys the right information simply and understandably.

You don't write posts because you want to rank up. You start a topic because you have something relevant to discuss. It is better to respond to threads than to start some threads that will contribute nothing to the forum

@OP please which board can I use chemistry knowledge on this forum  

In the teaching and learning process anything or field of knowledge can be used for explanation. Chemistry might not relate to any board but we can use chemical processes or components for illustrations.

[LogitechMouse]

Re: How to Make a Quality Posts in the Forum

Base on my experience, these are the things that helped me ranked up, and make what I think are quality posts.
Just be you, research things, and don't post on threads that you, yourself don't have any single knowledge of it.

Researching things will help you make better post because if you know what you will say to that thread, it will translate to a better post, or a quality post they should say. I guess me just being me while posting also helped in making some quality posts. I don't consider my posts that good since I'm not that good on the technical aspect of things, but somehow I got ranked up from a Full Member a few days before the merit system has implemented to now a Legendary. It took me a long time though, but it's all worth it.

Making quality posts aren't that hard TBH. It's just that, we need to know something about the thread in order for us to say many things about it. At the end of the day, spending a little time of your day researching, and watching educational videos will help you in the long run.

[Lida93]

I comment when I have something to say. I think it's enough.

I was long Reddit user, people don't care what you write there and you'd often see one word responses and no one would bother. If you were to write same one word responses here, they are sure to be deleted.

Reddit don't give a strict fuck about spamming, shit posts and plagiarism checker unlike what we have here in the bitcointalk community where all of those are taking into serious consideration which makes the difference between there and here obvious. The maturity here is something that speaks volume for itself.

Mistakes some people make in the forum is thinking that they must drop a comment in every thread they come across even when they lack ideas to contribute. The forum don't expect you to be everywhere, just stay your lane where you are good at sharing useful knowledge and informations.

[Mpamaegbu]

So what you have to do is to look for the particular board your subject terms or course terms are frequently in used and make comments there always, and when you have topics to create based on the discussion you involved in then you can do that to see you strength.

That's why I advise anyone new here who's without the basic knowledge of Bitcoin to start with the Off-Topic and Politics sections. At least, there must be something that will get their attention there. That was where I started too until I was able to step over them to venture into the mainstream Bitcoin related discussions.

As for making quality posts, I think that's relative. It's relative in the sense that what makes for quality posts to Mr A may not be so to Mr B. However, I dare say that no one can give what they don't have. People write the way they know best. The person whose posts you think are not constructive may have written their best, which may seem not to be best enough. That's life.

[Queentoshi]

Quality Post is guaranteed if you post in the area you are good in real life.

What if the area that someone is good with is not discussed in the forum? there are many topics giving tips on how to make quality post, and there will continue to be this kind of topics with everyone having their own style. It will be good to focus on making sure that you learn and then have enough knowledge to be able to help another forum member with the knowledge of what you have learnt. Learning is both on the forum and outside the forum.

[Mate2237]

I comment when I have something to say. I think it's enough.

I was long Reddit user, people don't care what you write there and you'd often see one word responses and no one would bother. If you were to write same one word responses here, they are sure to be deleted.

Reddit don't give a strict fuck about spamming, shit posts and plagiarism checker unlike what we have here in the bitcointalk community where all of those are taking into serious consideration which makes the difference between there and here obvious. The maturity here is something that speaks volume for itself.

Mistakes some people make in the forum is thinking that they must drop a comment in every thread they come across even when they lack ideas to contribute. The forum don't expect you to be everywhere, just stay your lane where you are good at sharing useful knowledge and informations.

I wanted to quote a lot of comments but when I see your post worthy to the topic. 99% of the comments here are out of point, I don't know if they understand the topic. From the various comments I have seen here , the topic really serve his purpose because these are some of the reasons this thread was created and I am seeing that even established legendary members do not understand it. It is only few legendary members that understand the thread and for the full members, their comments are very far from the thread. I don't know if they really understand the thread. What you said is exactly what I mean. I also like what he said 👇

Re: How to Make a Quality Posts in the Forum

Base on my experience, these are the things that helped me ranked up, and make what I think are quality posts.
Just be you, research things, and don't post on threads that you, yourself don't have any single knowledge of it.

Researching things will help you make better post because if you know what you will say to that thread, it will translate to a better post, or a quality post they should say. I guess me just being me while posting also helped in making some quality posts. I don't consider my posts that good since I'm not that good on the technical aspect of things, but somehow I got ranked up from a Full Member a few days before the merit system has implemented to now a Legendary. It took me a long time though, but it's all worth it.

Making quality posts aren't that hard TBH. It's just that, we need to know something about the thread in order for us to say many things about it. At the end of the day, spending a little time of your day researching, and watching educational videos will help you in the long run.

. Yes, I agree with what you said but the newbies who doesn't know where to start and how to start are the one these thread is mainly meant for. And those members and full members that made comments here not alt accounts for higher users because the way they sounded did not look like their profiles. If a real newbies make comments on my threads I will know.

I wanted to quote many comments but I just decided to quote both of you because seen that you understand the thread more than others. And from what they have said, the purpose of the post is accomplishing.

[BitDane]

As far as I know a quality post refers to a post that give substantial information about the topic.  The post should be relevant to the topic being discussed and does not derail the discussion by citing a non-topic related stuff.  It does not necessarily needs to be a long novel, (other adds more unnecessary words to make their post looks longer) and it would be great if it is direct, short, and can be clearly understood by readers.

@OP it is really indeed a need for knowledge to be able to interact to the thread wisely.  And slimming its research for knowledge down to a single board can really help the member to easily gather information, discuss relative information and post quality reply and topic because his knowledge is centered on that board.  It makes learning  and mastering of knowledge faster unlike having all board in mind at once.  Worse a confusion may occur like when one is trying to learn Bitcoin and altcoins and participating both on Bitcoin board and altcoin board, if not careful, the knowledge acquired might get mixed up resulting to crappy and possible spam answers because of the mixed up understanding of the subject involved.

[Pi-network314159]

I must really confess as a newbie it's hard to spot the difference between low quality post and high quality post. I know what you are driving at, but you didn't put it in the manner that people will understand. In a public forum like this it's hard for someone to say something everybody will like. Sometimes it might be that you are saying the right thing but didn't arange it in appropriate manner. I am new here but judging from the post I have been reading in different places I discover that creating of quality post is not by rank. What you said concerning chemistry, biology or physics does not inply that the are hear but it's just an example of areas of concentrations like politics, business, gambling or religion. If you check out in this forum not everyone is good at gambling and gambling now becomes the major focus here in signature campegn.

Just like me am not good at discring how clubs started and their success so far. But I can play gambling with betting app by checking prediction online. But if you ask me more than that it's a problem except I will start to study about it. If you don't know much about a particular thing don't too much comment on it to avoid being focused because you might be going contrary or out of point. For example this kind situation was discussed before.link==>

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5115291.msg63012311#msg63012311

[Bitcoin_people]

It is up to a forum member to change the quality of their post. If a user has good knowledge then he can easily create quality posts and get qualified. And if that user doesn't have minimum knowledge then he will never be able to post well and he will not be qualified that's why it depends on his personal knowledge. When one wants to improve his post quality he must have a good understanding of the forum and cryptocurrency only then it is possible to create quality posts. And Bitcoin Forum has many guidelines to standardize the quality of posts that should be read, only then it is possible to create good posts.

[Z390]

The topic is about how to make quality posts and you are saying something different, a round of applause for you mate, but honestly speaking you shouldn't take this very serious, some comments just deserves a good reply and that's all, if someone found your reply good enough they will send merit to you, lets not get this complicated.

As for newbies they have no clue about what they should say or do, I have introduced the forum to few people and they open a profile to just read but engaging in discussion isn't even their thing, and as this forum is already full of good information so I am not surprised that they don't engage in any discussion.

It could be tough as a newbie on here, I was not this good with discussion before when I joined the forum and few people have corrected me few times before, I just decide to blend along and be a better poster and so far I believe that I am fitting in, your replies is all that matters, do not try to copy someone else, be yourself and that's what will set you apart from other members of the forum.

[Die_empty]

I must really confess as a newbie it's hard to spot the difference between low quality post and high quality post. I know what you are driving at, but you didn't put it in the manner that people will understand. In a public forum like this it's hard for someone to say something everybody will like.

Liking of posts is indeed subjective based on how helpful or meaningful the post is to each member. A quality post might not be liked by everyone but the majority of members will like it. A quality post is not hidden because it has the substance of answering questions, teaching something new, or improving on an idea.

Sometimes it might be that you are saying the right thing but didn't arange it in appropriate manner. I am new here but judging from the post I have been reading in different places I discover that creating of quality post is not by rank .

Grammatical errors and the inability to arrange our ideas and thoughts sequentially and understandably are also a problem. This is the case of some non-English speaking countries in the forum. Learning basic English, using writing software, and keeping discussions short might be helpful.

. If you check out in this forum not everyone is good at gambling and gambling now becomes the major focus here in signature campegn.

Just like me am not good at discring how clubs started and their success so far. But I can play gambling with betting app by checking prediction online. But if you ask me more than that it's a problem except I will start to study about it. If you don't know much about a particular thing don't too much comment on it to avoid being focused because you might be going contrary or out of point. For example this kind of situation was discussed before.link==>

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5115291.msg63012311#msg63012311

It is not all campaigns that you are mandated to post in the gambling section. However, the gambling board is not just for sports. There are also various threads on bets and it will interest you as a gambler.  A counselor or addiction therapist will find the board helpful. Some discussions teach how to be a responsible gambler and how to be free from addiction. Issues like how gambling relates to the family, workplace, and society are discussed intensively. You don't need to comment on all the threads you come across. If you don't know what to say, just read and learn. Visiting the forum just for reading is not a waste of time.

[SamReomo]

I believe a quality post is a post that can be helpful for others to learn something from your knowledge. Each person has varying level of knowledge can share their knowledge and opinions in the form of a post which can be helpful for other members.

Look a good post must have accurate information related to a topic and it must be constructive. A constructive posts is a post that could easily convey your knowledge and I believe a quality constructive posts should always be free from grammatical errors.

A few grammatical errors can be ignored but if there are many grammatical errors then it will be difficult for other members to grasp the true knowledge in that post. I believe learning about anything is possible these days as information is available to everyone if they can do some research by reading some articles related to the topic and see what others say about it.

We learn the skill to create good posts and that skill requires sometime and effort and I believe anyone who is eager to learn about Bitcoin can start learning about it from this forum and then he/she may extend his/her knowledge by reading some good books and video courses.

Once that person learns about Bitcoin then he/she will be able to contribute information related to it easily and that person can post in many board which only take Bitcoin as topic. I believe it's mostly about knowledge and experience if someone is knowledgeable about an altcoin then that person can make good quality posts in altcoin boards.

[Broadanbig]

You have spoken well. To be frank all you have said is what newbies need to look into and work towards it. Of as a newbie you are finding it difficult to flow here then you are not really looking towards your direction and field of speciality ie specialisation. That is why newbies are advised to take out time to go through the boards to see where they can easily be of good importance and relevance by making contributions in their own specialty. This would help them go along way in building themselves here and I think as well it will make them grow their capacity in development as the case maybe. Although this process is not just a day stuff but with time, newbies would get used to the platform if they show seriousness and commitment in developmental strides as they sojourn here.

[Frankolala]

Take your time to read and learn more on your own and from the forum articles so that you will be able to give good points when you are contributing on a topic. As long as your post is giving valid information and facts on that discussion, it is quality.

Don't comment on what you don't have idea on and read more and post less when you don't know what to say. It is not compulsory that you should make a comment on every discussion on various boards because you want to rank up or complete your signature campaign weekly quarter. Create out time to read and time when to post.

[TakeItEasy]

All what I am saying is that just specialize in the area you know that you are good and base (stay) on that board. Then when you mastered the board then you can raise your head to other boards. If you know the local board is good for you at the initial time then base (stay) there to improve yourself. Many people are making low quality posts because they want to rank up at all means when they have not even understand how the forum work and finally got ban. For those who has local board, stay on your local boards to learn more then sometimes you can come out to Beginners & Help to ask questions or post. Quality Post is guaranteed if you post in the area you are good in real life.

Although that is a good point, a newbie should first follow their own country's local board where he could learn something about how to post and on what areas and which posts he has to do. All these things he will learn from his country's fellow members and he will also get some knowledge about the area of Bitcointalk he likes to post, the thread he will get knowledge about it. As I can say the newbie most probably has some knowledge about the posts if he redirects to the rules of the Bitcointalk.

And also he has to learn how quality posts are made by seeing other users and the users who post good quality posts have to see posts on their profiles and learn from it.

[Spaceman1000$]

This came to my mind and I was pondering on the topic in and I outline some of the things that should be done to do or to make or create a quality post or comment and I came to the conclusion that it is easy for someone to make a quality post and comment if only the following steps are followed by the low quality posters.

Your subject area or field of study: in real life you must be good in a particular subject, such as English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Government, Political science, Computer and other Skills which you good with. So as you came to the forum at first your  brain is blank and you don't even know where to start from and this make many to back off. While some post out of point threads and comments. Now if you Carefully look at the forum all the subjects  or the courses I mentioned above, their terms are used frequently in the forum from one board to another. So what you have to do is to look for the particular board your subject terms or course terms are frequently in used and make comments there always, and when you have topics to create based on the discussion you involved in then you can do that to see you strength.

Then when you have mastered that board, you can come out to other boards to make comments but on the topics which you can make comments and not any topic you see. And also in gambling board which is also a general board in the forum. In that board, there are different topics to discuss. Football, casinos and other sports activities which you can discuss freely with issue but this particular gambling which I think would have been an easy place for people to make comments is the most difficult board for people to participate. I also discovered that most of the newbies are banned from that board. If Chelsea and Arsenal playing a game and you are a fan, all what you need to do is to support your team and predict that they will win or they will loss and there is no need to go and copy article from somewhere and paste it.

All what I am saying is that just specialize in the area you know that you are good and base (stay) on that board. Then when you mastered the board then you can raise your head to other boards. If you know the local board is good for you at the initial time then base (stay) there to improve yourself. Many people are making low quality posts because they want to rank up at all means when they have not even understand how the forum work and finally got ban. For those who has local board, stay on your local boards to learn more then sometimes you can come out to Beginners & Help to ask questions or post. Quality Post is guaranteed if you post in the area you are good in real life.

First as a newbie that is in the forum, you have to look at areas you can easily talk about and make contributory ideas that people can see your thread and engage in it meaningfully, then overtime you can begin to widen your scope to broaden your horizon about the activities of the forum and about Bitcoin, and also about other things of interest within the forum,
also ask relevant information about things you don't know, this will guide you to grow easily as a newbie and will give you a sense of information when creating a quality post.

[Hewlet]

The quality of your post first lies in its ability to pass relevant information to the forum members and the rest is a bit of effort to ensure that your reader gulps the information in a readable and easy-to-assimilate manner.

I guess if you know how to post correctly, how to quote in context, and general quoting, and how to use the various commands like the bold, italicize, stroke etc it will be a good start. Also working on the right and suitable topic that will draw attention of readers won't be a bad idea.

You just have to put in the right effort to ensure you have a good reputation that when someone looks at the your name for example (hewlet) they will expect a positive comment or contribution from your writeup.

[BitDane]

I must really confess as a newbie it's hard to spot the difference between low quality post and high quality post.

It is quite easy to detect low quality post from high quality posts.  It was already stated by theymos in this thread.

Requoting it again and highlighting the important part:

When trying to write quality posts, a lot of people act as though they're writing a book report for school: putting facts that we already know into their own words. Nobody wants to read that, and you will not get merit for it. Moreover, the length of your post and the quality of your English are only minor factors. In trying to write a quality post worthy of merit, you should offer new ideas, personal experiences, or perspectives that other forum users will actually find new and interesting.

Post that repeats what other had already stated on the earlier replies can be considered as spam and low quality since it does not bring any new ideas but just repeating what other had stated.  In addition to the bolded part, post must be relevant to the topic of the thread.