Enjoy being a newbie

[Spaceman1000$]

The forum is mainly concerned about newbies, and a lot of beginners' questions has been tackled by intelligent and worthy top ranked members. As a newbie it feels good deep down our thoughts to craft a difficult looking thread to please the high ranked members. But, that doesn't make us newbies. Though, silly or repeated questions are not welcomed in the forum. Yet, they're some easy questions we would want to ask as newbies, but because it makes us sound as true novice, we'd want to bypass asking them. As we'd want to show the forum members, we're doing enough research and reading about bitcoin and the forum entirely. And, most times such threads, centering on teaching, may not help us as newbies because what we tend to teach we can't relate or follow up in the discussions.

Such things, has caused many newbies to fall for plagiarism and as well dumping their threads without participating in the discussions happening under the thread. Being a newbie in the forum is almost a one time experience for every member and we must behave as one. Feel free to ask those questions that sounds and looks too simple to you. That's mainly what other members would entertain and send us reasonable advises and responses to. Thereby, gradually helping your learning process in the forum, with lesser stress.

Coining out a thread on what we don't fully understand, just to stand out, and look like a very intelligent newbie may not help our growth in the forum. Because this section is mostly visited by every member to entertain and answer questions from newbies. And because most basic bitcoin knowledge may have skipped our minds we tend to refresh our memories here, by providing those answers to simple questions. Hence, I'd encourage newbies to always come up with those questions, which they think is too basic or simple and need not to be asked. Feel like a newbie as it's a one time experience here, you'd learn faster when you admit and accept being a newbie.

I've seen newbies creating long copy and paste threads, which ends up not being attended to because of the plagiarism and the volume of the thread, and as well the OP not following up with what they've said to back up the knowledge shared. And when after investing hours creating those threads, the applauds they expected doesn't appear, they'll feel not being good enough. Enjoy the process.  

That is why I always encourage newbies to ask questions whenever they are lost, at first some comments may try to admonish you or try to talk down on your post but at the end you will see the answer you need concerning the question you asked. Nobody is above learning, the good thing about the forum is that, you will see senior members coming to answer questions that has been asked, and they will give appropriate explanation for the knowledge you're seeking for with explicit detailing.

[Nechiequ]

Why are people even trying to grow their accounts, when they can focus on growing their knowledge instead? I know signature campaigns are nice, but there's MUCH more money to be made if you actually know this industry inside and out.

Sorry sir, I'm a beginner here, what I want to ask is why beginners don't seem to be able to express their opinions, by creating new topics?
What is meant by discussion forum here?

[lovesmayfamilis]

Ask the first question: where do newbies decide that new topics need to be created? From the very beginning, you can guess that not all people who claim to be new to the forum are real newbies. But yes, someone comes on the advice of friends with stories about how rank is important on the forum in order to earn some money. How do newbies learn about merit? Again, these people do not come for knowledge.

But we are sincerely happy for those people who want to learn about Bitcoin, who do not create thousands of topics from the first days, posing as gurus. And speaking of the joy of newbies—those who discover knowledge about Bitcoin day after day—these are real people with genuine interest who can enjoy (as the OP put it) the fact that they found such a forum.
I would like very mercantile people to understand that knowledge is sometimes worth more than temporary earnings.

[Majestic-milf]

I see it less necessary to create topic thread as a lower rank member, my thoughts should still be based on reading and trying to gain much knowledge.
I won't call it lack of self confidence but I think at this my level of ranking am not even at a very good position to create threads and start teaching because I see very well experienced members which am not yet qualified to teach them because I still have a lot to learn from them. So I do more good than harm of reading, answering and asking questions that Is of utmost interest

You are right about this because it is assumed that as a newbie, you basically know nothing about how things operate and that's the reason you registered. And even if you knew a thing or two about crytocurrencies and the Blockchain, I feel it won't hurt anyone if you kept your head down and learnt more, thereby adding more knowledge to your store but these days what we see on the forum are newbies who feel they know it all to even give tutorials!
 Everything has a process and time so instead of these noobs to focus on making their first post after registering, the best thing to do is to acclimate with where you are, take time to study the rules and regulations governing the place so you don't get caught on the wrong side of the law.

[jeha2015]

Why are people even trying to grow their accounts, when they can focus on growing their knowledge instead? I know signature campaigns are nice, but there's MUCH more money to be made if you actually know this industry inside and out.

Sorry sir, I'm a beginner here, what I want to ask is why beginners don't seem to be able to express their opinions, by creating new topics?
What is meant by discussion forum here?

You may have misunderstood, there is no prohibition here for beginners to create questions on new topics, it's just a shame that many beginners create the same topics that have already been asked by other beginners, thus making these questions over and over again.

And many beginners try to create a topic in the end they make it as good as possible in the end the topic is from copy paste. It would be wise as a beginner before creating a new topic to first check whether the topic they want to ask about already exists or not. And actually making this topic is not very important for beginners because there are so many topics about beginners that have been discussed here, beginners, don't be lazy about reading and searching using the search button that has been provided.

[Nechiequ]

Why are people even trying to grow their accounts, when they can focus on growing their knowledge instead? I know signature campaigns are nice, but there's MUCH more money to be made if you actually know this industry inside and out.

Sorry sir, I'm a beginner here, what I want to ask is why beginners don't seem to be able to express their opinions, by creating new topics?
What is meant by discussion forum here?

You may have misunderstood, there is no prohibition here for beginners to create questions on new topics, it's just a shame that many beginners create the same topics that have already been asked by other beginners, thus making these questions over and over again.

And many beginners try to create a topic in the end they make it as good as possible in the end the topic is from copy paste. It would be wise as a beginner before creating a new topic to first check whether the topic they want to ask about already exists or not. And actually making this topic is not very important for beginners because there are so many topics about beginners that have been discussed here, beginners, don't be lazy about reading and searching using the search button that has been provided.

What do you think about my topic?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5473520.msg63130976#msg63130976
Where is my mistake?
Please correct.

[Sexylizzy2813]

Honestly being a newbie isn't fun at all , is like you have this pressure on you to get things right, when you start typing is like you're writing a very strong test, too much tension (so I felt at some point). When you do something in the Forum and you feel you have done something big and expect a recommendation on what you've done, the next thing is like you don't exist, all your efforts would be ignored like you're a ghost.
I think newbies have it hard on the Forum more than any other ranked members, they need to put 99.9% of their time to get a better post that would attract attention, get other members get involved in their post, to also impress high ranked members too.
Some of these "newbies" are not really newbies, they just have the name (newbie) there to cover up and they create a thread that they know have been created and act like they don't know, with those kind of threads showing up every here and there it makes it difficult to even show concern on how to lead the real newbies.
When a newbie create a topic on any board they feel that's just the end, after creating a post they let it be without contributing to their thread, they feel thats how it works (creating a top and let others talk on it). To me, some of those members are the really people to address as newbies of this Forum. And is not only newbies that create topics and run away from it, we have high ranked members doing it, sometimes some forget they created a topic.

[robelneo]

I've seen newbies creating long copy and paste threads, which ends up not being attended to because of the plagiarism and the volume of the thread, and as well the OP not following up with what they've said to back up the knowledge shared. And when after investing hours creating those threads, the applauds they expected doesn't appear, they'll feel not being good enough. Enjoy the process.  

They lack awareness of the forum rules because they just visited the discussion and thought that they could do better than this post so they copypaste topics coming from outside this forum and think that they will do great and they cannot keep up with the flow of the conversation because they do not have knowledge on things that they posted because it comes from copy-pasting.

This is the fate of newbies who are not aware of the rules and what they should avoid and so many newbies fall into this, these are two kinds of newbies here, the other one is they only care about bounty they disregard that this platform is a discussion forum of everything related to Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency.

[348Judah]

Newbie is not a rank one should stay in for long time, it's the shortest duration of rank on the forum if the newbie is active and knows what he's doing, we were all once a newbie and started like one sometime ago, such had been a ladder for us to where we are now, it may never had been easy in the past but when we give it every necessary efforts demanded, it will be our own pride later to have overcome the challenges of being a newbie.

[TakeItEasy]

Newbie is not a rank one should stay in for long time, it's the shortest duration of rank on the forum if the newbie is active and knows what he's doing, we were all once a newbie and started like one sometime ago, such had been a ladder for us to where we are now, it may never had been easy in the past but when we give it every necessary efforts demanded, it will be our own pride later to have overcome the challenges of being a newbie.

I think even in the forum of BitcoinTalk, a person is here he will definitely learn something even if he is not doing anything but just saw other people talking and their posts and their problem's answers etc. He is getting the right knowledge. Even we have seen just like other platforms or apps like twitter and Facebook, users are using it for a long time and they didn't do anything but just they only see other people posts and tweets etc. through which they are getting information. So, we are also getting information through the BitcoinTalk and sometimes it is very useful even.

Even if a person has low rank like newbie he still can take benefit from BitcoinTalk.

[JMBitcointernational]

One thing that is certain is that the process will become easy with time if the determination is there. As a newbie, there is no point rushing the process or struggling to impress people... just be yourself, ask question and commit some time to reading because that is the way to grow here.

You are very right because most times I feel like creating a post but I will be scared and reluctant because I am an infant I the forum so I rather prefer to read intelligent post from high ranked members and hoping to grow like them soon.

Just like you said that there is no need rushing the process , when I joined the forum , I did not even know where to start , I was committed to reading posts and the styles of writing here , At a point I was discouraged and I even feel like leaving the forum but I realised that patience and perseverance are core factors that can pave a way to success. Currently I love the forum because any day I go through a post I learn a lot about bitcoin and cryptocurrency because the discussion here is  educating .

Initially I have no knowledge about bitcoin and and cryptocurrency but since I join the forum I started getting  ideas and good knowledge about bitcoin and that has actually made me to read constantly on every post that i come across on the forum .

[Suzume]

For the beginning of Bitcoin forum journey as a new way is not that easy. Don't know what is crypto don't know how to do good quality post don't know how to impress people and don't know how to give a good quality reply post. At the beginning we have to learn a lot do many type of thesis about crypto. Read articles watch post. After that we gain some experience and starting post that is that much not good quality just average. I am a newbie and I don't do good quality post. I face a lot of problem for doing post mainly the grammatical problem I am student of class 11 I do work here beside my study. And I try to improve a lot hopefully soon I will be a good quality poster.

[Sexylizzy2813]

Newbie is not a rank one should stay in for long time, it's the shortest duration of rank on the forum if the newbie is active and knows what he's doing, we were all once a newbie and started like one sometime ago, such had been a ladder for us to where we are now, it may never had been easy in the past but when we give it every necessary efforts demanded, it will be our own pride later to have overcome the challenges of being a newbie.

Some never had the chance of experiencing what it takes to be a newbie, talking about those ones who buy account, they don't like stress and they feeling getting to the top doesn't need hard work. Newbie is the easiest rank to move out from like you said but being active is another thing to consider, some members find it hard to stay online to leave that rank. Seriously there's nothing to enjoy being a newbie.

[Alpha Marine]

I see it less necessary to create topic thread as a lower rank member, my thoughts should still be based on reading and trying to gain much knowledge.
I won't call it lack of self confidence but I think at this my level of ranking am not even at a very good position to create threads and start teaching because I see very well experienced members which am not yet qualified to teach them because I still have a lot to learn from them. So I do more good than harm of reading, answering and asking questions that Is of utmost interest

This is your opinion and I respect it, but it's only accurate to an extent. The fact that a person is a newbie on this forum doesn't mean he's a newbie in Bitcoin. There are people who are very good traders and have a lot of knowledge about Bitcoin who are not on the forum. So if we limit the sharing of knowledge through topics to only old members on the forum, I feel like we will be missing out on what that fellow has to offer.

We're all here to learn and what's the point of we can't learn from people with lower ranks than us? A thing I've always liked about this forum is the fact that it has a ranking system but that doesn't affect the flow of knowledge.
It only becomes a problem when a newbie is teaching or trying to educate others on stuff about the forum, like how to use the forum.

[Die_empty]

I've seen newbies creating long copy and paste threads, which ends up not being attended to because of the plagiarism and the volume of the thread, and as well the OP not following up with what they've said to back up the knowledge shared. And when after investing hours creating those threads, the applauds they expected doesn't appear, they'll feel not being good enough. Enjoy the process.  

On some occasions, newbies in the forum might have sound knowledge about Bitcoin from personal studies or other forums. But apart from this situation, newbies are meant to behave like children in the forum. They should be free to ask questions, make mistakes and enjoy their childhood. It will be strange to see my children act like adults that is why most newbies are suspected not to be newcomers. If my child starts behaving like an adult, I will be concerned that something is wrong somewhere. My advice to newbies is that they should focus on learning and not try to impress anybody. They need time to understand the forum so that they will know how to present posts. Just like children, they should enjoy this stage because their mistakes and ignorance can be tolerated.

What do you think about my topic?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5473520.msg63130976#msg63130976
Where is my mistake?
Please correct.

You don't need any further corrections because you can find them in the thread. If you carefully go through the contributions of members in that thread and apply them, your post quality will increase.     

[phonakAG]

Unfortunately, this forum is not "newbie-friendly".

I am very sorry to say that, but High ranked members usually mock or disrespect if a newbie raises an opinion.
This way new members get discouraged to participate, and of course this means that knowledge sharing might be less as well...

[AakZaki]

Unfortunately, this forum is not "newbie-friendly".

I am very sorry to say that, but High ranked members usually mock or disrespect if a newbie raises an opinion.
This way new members get discouraged to participate, and of course this means that knowledge sharing might be less as well...

Being discouraged and not being respected will of course have a reason for this treatment. But it won't be done completely without reason because you are just a beginner. there are many beginners who also get full appreciation from high ranking members for their good knowledge and not being too hypocritical. Saying this forum is not beginner friendly means you still don't have enough metal to face what's even worse, this is only the beginning friends, you still have a long way to go, because if you take it for granted you give up, that's wrong.

[itorai]

I get it, diving into a forum like Bitcointalk for the first time can feel kinda overwhelming.  When you are just starting out, its all new territory.  But I agree, you gotta embrace the newbie status! Its no shame in asking the basic questions, we have all been there at some point.  Forget tryin' to sound smart by copying long posts - keep it real and ask what you really wanna know and  the learning journey goes smoother when you speak your mind.  We have all been at the start before so there is no judgment here.  Just open yourself up to learning and enjoy the ride. 

Heres to all you newbies out there - You got this!

How do you become a beginner here properly and correctly?
I'm still messing around with the rules of this forum, and how can I make it better?

[348Judah]

Unfortunately, this forum is not "newbie-friendly".

I am very sorry to say that, but High ranked members usually mock or disrespect if a newbie raises an opinion.
This way new members get discouraged to participate, and of course this means that knowledge sharing might be less as well...

This is not true, don't make it feels like that when it is not, old members get frowned at newbies stupidity and not the newbies, themselves, if you know what you're doing, you will always have better edge from here henceforth and no one will harrass you for doing the right thing or saying it, but it stinks when you discover that some are taking their personal way of life into this forum and such may not be accepted as long as they are not in line with the forum standard.

[DaNNy001]

Newbie is not a rank one should stay in for long time, it's the shortest duration of rank on the forum if the newbie is active and knows what he's doing, we were all once a newbie and started like one sometime ago, such had been a ladder for us to where we are now, it may never had been easy in the past but when we give it every necessary efforts demanded, it will be our own pride later to have overcome the challenges of being a newbie.

I don't think there is any time duration to this rank, because some people that stumble on this forum from the onset really get confused on what to do. So it now depends how are want to learn here and even be part of the discussion to share your insight and thats what most people fail to learn on time as most people just get the impression that the more you create thread the more you are chanced to grow which to some extent is false.