Asking Questions And Avoiding Penalties- Tips For New Members

[Apocollapse]

@Stable090- I didn’t pay, I created another one with the help of  VPN

That means you're evading ban, I hope the moderator will ban this one account.

congratulations for having the courage to open another account and that actually shows that you want to learn.

To learn, you don't have to create an account because you can read every users' posts if you're just a guest. This forum also not the only forum to learn about Bitcoin, there are many forums e.g. r/Bitcoin, Bitcoin stack exchange etc.

[Spaceman1000$]

Firstly, I’ve created an account before and was restricted from making posts without knowing what the offence was. At same time, was asked to pay for something i literally know nothing about .

I just created this new account and finally I can make posts, but in regards to this there are certain things I still don’t understand and would likely need direction and answers to questions.

One of the questions is concerning copying and pasting from a browser, new sites, social media or any source. Though, I’ve read through the rules and seen that copy paste isn’t allowed, the question now is what if one is to read through the information provided by any of the above mentioned  and in such formulate your wordings, will there still be need to reference the link from which the information was gotten?

As a newbie I would also like to know if asking questions back to back based on the fact that I haven’t known all yet, wouldn’t cause a penalty of restriction from the forum or a closed account entirely .

A lot of members have given you suggestions and what to do about some questions you've asked, I would like to point out some things to you in a bid to also help you here in the forum. Always ask questions for things you don't have answers, take your time and study the rules and also observe the post pattern of forum members. From your user name, I can see that you're a Nigerian, you can as well visit the Nigerian local board to ask some things and also familiarize yourself with people from Nigeria.

[Stable090]

@Stable090- I didn’t pay, I created another one with the help of  VPN

That means you're evading ban, I hope the moderator will ban this one account.

I don’t really know if it’s a ban evasion or n or, I didn’t see it in the forum rules that using VPN is against the forum rules, and I haven’t even seen any thread that’s against using VPN. I think maybe when you write a post and you plagiarize, or you did something wrong and your account got banned, if you create another account, then that’s ban evasion, and if the account is reported, it’s going to be banned also. But this case is a different one, I don’t know if the OP evaded a ban. Seriously,  I will really like someone to explain this better to me.

[Zanab247]

I guess you didn't follow the due process when creating the account because if you fail to do the requirement needed to create Bitcointalk.org account as a newbie, your account will be showing not enable to post in any forum but the moment you follow the due process to register your account, you will begin to have access to post or reply to any body in the forum.

You can visit your local board to join other newbies to understand some rules you need to know before coming to other section discuss but if you are not comfortable with your local board you can learn the rules in this beginners and help discussion because if you disobey any rules in this forum, you will face the penalty but if you want to grow faster to start developing good post in any section discussion, try to study all those links people have sent to this trend and you will find important things that will change you positively in the forum.

[Princess Leah]

Firstly, I’ve created an account before and was restricted from making posts without knowing what the offence was. At same time, was asked to pay for something i literally know nothing about .

I just created this new account and finally I can make posts, but in regards to this there are certain things I still don’t understand and would likely need direction and answers to questions.

One of the questions is concerning copying and pasting from a browser, new sites, social media or any source. Though, I’ve read through the rules and seen that copy paste isn’t allowed, the question now is what if one is to read through the information provided by any of the above mentioned  and in such formulate your wordings, will there still be need to reference the link from which the information was gotten?

As a newbie I would also like to know if asking questions back to back based on the fact that I haven’t known all yet, wouldn’t cause a penalty of restriction from the forum or a closed account entirely .

 Hello, I'm new here as well and i came across same issues, i think what you meant is a proxyban fee for an IP adress with evil.Also, when i read through upon account opening, i noticed the proxyban fee is for new invites from certain locations and automatically detected by this forum, but luckily for me i got whitelisted so i was able to get past the ban.

 Well i was adviced to follow the rules and regulations of the forum and avoided some necessary things like spamming and plagiarism that could get me banned from this forum.Therefore I'll advice you to do same as well and take serious note about that, anyways goodluck to us as we journey through the forum.

 Also, I'm taking my time to go through the replies in this post cause it would be nice to learn from senior member that's had experience before us.

[Cricktor]

I don’t really know if it’s a ban evasion or n or, I didn’t see it in the forum rules that using VPN is against the forum rules, and I haven’t even seen any thread that’s against using VPN. I think maybe when you write a post and you plagiarize, or you did something wrong and your account got banned, if you create another account, then that’s ban evasion, and if the account is reported, it’s going to be banned also. But this case is a different one, I don’t know if the OP evaded a ban. Seriously,  I will really like someone to explain this better to me.

I followed the thread briefly. To me it looks that the OP had an issue with proxy ban. A proxy ban could be entirely not a user's fault and may flag an IP range as evil because other users behaved nastly (e.g. if you use Tor and the Tor exit node had other evil users). OP didn't want to pay for other IP address range users' evilness, that's totally understandable. This all assuming, OP tells the truth and doesn't hide something he did in the forum in the past which got him banned (which he obviously wouldn't disclose with his alt account).

To my knowledge there are no forum rules against VPN use, so why do you bring it up? Additionally, what makes you postulate or phantasize OP got banned for some ban-worthy nefarious actions with his other account?

I guess you didn't follow the due process when creating the account because if you fail to do the requirement needed to create Bitcointalk.org account as a newbie, your account will be showing not enable to post in any forum but the moment you follow the due process to register your account, you will begin to have access to post or reply to any body in the forum.

I'm curious what this due process is? The forum poses minimal requirements for an an account registration: an unique username, a valid email address, a visual verification captcha and passing the additional Recaptcha (JavaScript required). (I verified via a Tor browser and initiated a registration process, but didn't finish it 'cause I don't need an alt account.)

I'm asking because I've no idea what due process there could be. If the forum's proxy flags your IP range as evil then you have few options to proceed: pay the evil IP fee (why would "innocent" users do that?), get whitelisted for free and convince e.g. LoyceV to unban you from proxy ban, use other Tor exit nodes or another VPN IP location which is not proxy banned.

[Uhwuchukwu53]

Firstly, I’ve created an account before and was restricted from making posts without knowing what the offence was. At same time, was asked to pay for something i literally know nothing about .

I just created this new account and finally I can make posts, but in regards to this there are certain things I still don’t understand and would likely need direction and answers to questions.

One of the questions is concerning copying and pasting from a browser, new sites, social media or any source. Though, I’ve read through the rules and seen that copy paste isn’t allowed, the question now is what if one is to read through the information provided by any of the above mentioned  and in such formulate your wordings, will there still be need to reference the link from which the information was gotten?

As a newbie I would also like to know if asking questions back to back based on the fact that I haven’t known all yet, wouldn’t cause a penalty of restriction from the forum or a closed account entirely .

What your saying about coping is not bad in as much the information is genuine but where the problem coming is when you failed to quote the Link, that is totally plagiarism which is purnishable. You can see information in any place in as much is not you that wrote it at first, the author or Link must be provided, indicating your sighting existing work not adopting it as your work. If I may advice properly and this will help you to generate your own topic or reply properly just take your time to study pin post allot is already in the board, when you know much about the forum and Bitcoin itself you can do better than coping.

[Forever101]

Congratulations on your account. I have a point to make, asking questions is not bad but I will advice you learn to use the search bar to find answers to questions because most of the question you love to ask has been asked few years ago or recently. 

If you use the search bar and find related question but not to your taste, you can go ahead and ask your question from that post as a reply. That will make the old post to pop up on the list with "new " in front of the post indicating a new reply has been posted and you see people responding to you.

Also, take note of giving credit to the source of your information, this is internet age, your information or post can be checked with plagiarism test which will indicate the first place that post existed , hence you will tagged to have violate the rules by stealing others content.

[Stable090]

To my knowledge there are no forum rules against VPN use

Thanks for the explanation. I was also curious when I saw a member post that the Op evaded a ban. I haven’t seen any rules that’s against using VPN before. Maybe what the poster means is that, as long as the Op has once created a account and the account got banned, the Op should have just paid the amount that he was asked to pay and not created a new account.

so why do you bring it up?

If you can check the thread well, you will see that someone came and was accusing the Op of ban evasion, and I never started it. Since I don’t really know much about it, I decided to ask. I will be quoting the poster that started it below.

That means you're evading ban, I hope the moderator will ban this one account.

[Nangiconference]

I had a similar experience and I have learnt from my mistake so the best thing to do is after reading through the content, you should make a conclusion or contribution, comment and then paste the link. Nevertheless, you should not post off topic and then you should know the board where your post belong. You can not be talking about  gaming and you post it in BEGINNERS AND HELP or be talking about bitcoin investment and then you are posting it in politics and society.
Thats my view and I stand to be corrected if I am wrong.

[Cricktor]

If you can check the thread well, you will see that someone came and was accusing the Op of ban evasion, and I never started it. Since I don’t really know much about it, I decided to ask. I will be quoting the poster that started it below.

That means you're evading ban, I hope the moderator will ban this one account.

Well, in the context of a proxy ban such an accusation is in my opinion rather nonsense, because Apocollapse likely speaks of bans against individual persons like those who get banned due to plaguerism. A proxy ban usually can't pinpoint an individual, flags a range of IP addresses as evil assuming an evil entity has control over some range of IP addresses. It's not uncommon that this results in collateral damage to non-evil users who just happen to share that IP range with the evil entity.

If there's a rule against "evading" proxy bans, I'd really like to see it. Sure, if you're evil and play nasty, you fully deserve a proxy ban. To my knowledge it shouldn't be too hard to bypass it.

[doomloop]

One of the questions is concerning copying and pasting from a browser, new sites, social media or any source. Though, I’ve read through the rules and seen that copy paste isn’t allowed, the question now is what if one is to read through the information provided by any of the above mentioned  and in such formulate your wordings, will there still be need to reference the link from which the information was gotten?

The easiest way to avoid plagiarism is to learn what you are reading and then convey it in your own words. You are not considered a copy-paster if you are providing information that you have got from somewhere as long as it's in your wording and you are not writing it in the same manner you read it. This is what I do to avoid plagiarism and to be able to populate your posts with essential information, news, and any other thing that might have some weight.

If you think you can't do that or you don't want to do that, then as suggested by others, you will need to give a reference to the source from where you have copied the information, and if you don't do that and someone catches you, you risk getting your account ban or at least get a negative trust rating.

[Nwada001]

@Stable090- I didn’t pay, I created another one with the help of  VPN

That means you're evading ban, I hope the moderator will ban this one account.

A proxy ban is not the same as being banned from the forum; this user has not been here before and has not had any account that violated any of the forum rules.

As such, they have not been banned before for any form of misconduct, so why should the moderator ban this user? Only those who have had an account before and were banned from the forum if they create and use another account, which is what I see they consider ban invading.
 

Well, you've obviously registered this account, so you know how to get around it, don't you? Not all VPNs are banned, only those that have a history of previous abuse. Any free ones have a high chance of being banned.

Even with the use of VPN, you can still create an account and get a proxy ban. Not all VPNs are free from the proxy ban; it's not an evil the user committed afterwords; it's just unfortunate that certain people find themselves in the wrong location where the IP has been blacklisted for evil before.

[SatoPrincess]

The easiest way to avoid plagiarism is to learn what you are reading and then convey it in your own words. You are not considered a copy-paster if you are providing information that you have got from somewhere as long as it's in your wording and you are not writing it in the same manner you read it. This is what I do to avoid plagiarism and to be able to populate your posts with essential information, news, and any other thing that might have some weight.

If you think you can't do that or you don't want to do that, then as suggested by others, you will need to give a reference to the source from where you have copied the information, and if you don't do that and someone catches you, you risk getting your account ban or at least get a negative trust rating.

This is good advice but I’m afraid some newbies may read your comment and misinterpret it to mean that paraphrasing is allowed. I think it’s better for newbies to simply add the link to the source and do that in a way that it is visible and obvious that they are not trying to pass it off as their own words.

[Cityhunter34]

Firstly, I’ve created an account before and was restricted from making posts without knowing what the offence was. At same time, was asked to pay for something i literally know nothing about .

I just created this new account and finally I can make posts, but in regards to this there are certain things I still don’t understand and would likely need direction and answers to questions.

One of the questions is concerning copying and pasting from a browser, new sites, social media or any source. Though, I’ve read through the rules and seen that copy paste isn’t allowed, the question now is what if one is to read through the information provided by any of the above mentioned  and in such formulate your wordings, will there still be need to reference the link from which the information was gotten?

As a newbie I would also like to know if asking questions back to back based on the fact that I haven’t known all yet, wouldn’t cause a penalty of restriction from the forum or a closed account entirely .

Forum members have said it all and I just want to say that it's up to you to make use of the replies provided for you, for you to ask questions about copy and paste from other site to the forum shows that you have really gone through the rules and that's a good one, you are one step ahead as reading is one of the most important thing to do here, asking questions is important too and there's no penalty for it. The search bar is available for you to do your research about anything concerning the forum, you can then proceed to ask your questions if you don't find what you are looking for in the search bar.

[348Judah]

I guess you didn't follow the due process when creating the account because if you fail to do the requirement needed to create Bitcointalk.org account as a newbie, your account will be showing not enable to post in any forum but the moment you follow the due process to register your account, you will begin to have access to post or reply to any body in the forum.

If he should have such encounter, then he doesn't not have to see it as a barrier when he can simply afford to pay the little amount of money for the evil fee if he does not mind, and he could be as well lucky when the ip address he's using has no evil record.

You can visit your local board to join other newbies to understand some rules you need to know before coming to other section discuss but if you are not comfortable with your local board you can learn the rules in this beginners and help discussion because if you disobey any rules in this forum, you will face the penalty but if you want to grow faster to start developing good post in any section discussion, try to study all those links people have sent to this trend and you will find important things that will change you positively in the forum.

This forum has made it easy on everyone by not enforcing anything on anyone, even the evil fee can be avoided by seeking for whitelisting through application, as a member, you're free to choose where to post, either to identify with the local board or not, as long as all you're doing are in line with the forum rules and regulations, you have your freedom to enjoy your stay here with varieties of boards and discussions.