Advantages of Bitcointalk over social media

[shield132]

The advantages of Bitcointalk over social media are too many. First of all, everything is well-sorted here, we have different sections like Bitcoin Discussion, Technical Discussion, Economy, Trading Discussion, Project Development and many other sections, which make it easier for me to find the information that I want. On Facebook and Twitter, you are lost, there are a bunch of posts and tweets, but it's mostly for chit-chat and not for discussion. I like Reddit but still it's not as well-structured as Bitcointalk in terms of sorting and finding discussional threads.
Also, another big benefit that this forum has is that there are many old members who have been here almost since the day of Bitcoin's creation. Here we have default trust members who tag negatively those who try to scam. This forum is a better place in overall.

[Peanutswar]

This forum consists of different information related to crypto and of course the bitcoin itself, you can easily ask a question related to crypto and people answer with the prior facts and opinions we can discuss here with the information we've seen and share so we can identify which is the truth, these days tons of information we can search in the internet and its quite hassle to me personally which one is reliable so if there's other created a thread already its more easier to us to confirm the information if no one else created yet we are freely to create a new topic to discuss.

[lovesmayfamilis]

The advantages of Bitcointalk over social media are too many. First of all, everything is well-sorted here, we have different sections like Bitcoin Discussion, Technical Discussion, Economy, Trading Discussion, Project Development and many other sections, which make it easier for me to find the information that I want. On Facebook and Twitter, you are lost, there are a bunch of posts and tweets, but it's mostly for chit-chat and not for discussion. I like Reddit but still it's not as well-structured as Bitcointalk in terms of sorting and finding discussional threads.
Also, another big benefit that this forum has is that there are many old members who have been here almost since the day of Bitcoin's creation. Here we have default trust members who tag negatively those who try to scam. This forum is a better place in overall.

I visited several crypto pages on well-known social networks. There is a lot of confusion going on there. People who are far from understanding teach you what to do and how to do it, advise you to buy one coin without showing its advantages, and so on. Here, as you rightly noted, everything is orderly, and those who have been on the forum for a long time are, for the most part, already familiar with the nicknames of people whose advice and lessons you can listen to, which cannot be said about those networks where people write only for likes.

[cryptoaddictchie]

On Facebook and Twitter, you are lost, there are a bunch of posts and tweets, but it's mostly for chit-chat and not for discussion. I like Reddit but still it's not as well-structured as Bitcointalk in terms of sorting and finding discussional threads.

Its also based on algorithm you often used. If you visit some lousy tweet or view such low quality post from users you often have a low quality data feed on your feed unless you have a certain algo or topics frequently using. But yeah Id like more on forum since its organized. Social media sites are normally for image based showcase not for a good discussion hub.

[EarnOnVictor]

INTRODUCTION:
1. USERS REPUTATION:

2. ORIGINALITY OF RESOURCES:

3. CHECK AGAINST SPAM:

4. COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE:

5. EXCELLENT ARRANGEMENT:

6. ROBUST ARCHIVES:

Bitcointalk is a one-of-a-kind forum and I must say that I respect this forum so much, especially for its uniqueness. What you wrote above could be exaggerated though because they are not particularly without fault as you want it to be, nevertheless, Bitcointalk is the forum that is trying its best to outshine others.

One thing I love the most about this forum is that it is better democratised. I've never seen a forum with freehands like this to the point that the admin listens to the plight of people and makes changes based on that and also allows users to govern the forum. It is just the forum of users for the users and I don't think there is another forum that will allow users to have that kind of sense of belonging.

[YOSHIE]

Advantages of Bitcointalk over social media.

This forum has historical values ​​that you cannot find on social media. You have a series of problems and discussions that you can express here, You have unlimited freedom in this forum and there are many things you can summarize for yourself, especially about crypto, Bitcoin and so on, that's what's great about forums with social media that you know.

In my understanding, social media is only for entertainment for its users, the Bitcointalk forum is not like that, you are really educated and take your knowledge seriously, forums are not for rocking videos like social media, you are really like a student and lecturer here, your IQ is really drained here to produce good grades in all aspects, so it is very natural and reasonable that forums are superior to social media.

[Dzwaafu11]

What I like more about Bitcointalk is that it opens your knowledge and the way you will understand things. Before I joined this forum, I believe almost everything that I see online like social media, YouTube contents and Google searches, but when I joined and become a member on this forum, I saw a lot of mistakes online. If you make mistake on this forum, you will be corrected to edit the OP or your post which is better.

Apart from that, this forum is clearly different from other social media platforms. Many things take place here that are done in other places. The forum is a learning community, and every member here is here to learn, which is why it is different from other social media platforms.

However, when I also joined the forum, many things I supported about cryptocurrency outside the forum and before I joined the forum were different things here, because here you can ask for help and get it done without wasting your time, not like other social media platforms that are full of cruise; they take everything as a joke, but here in the forum there is no time for that. We are all busing learning new things every day, both crypto and other things.

[NurseHub]

One thing about forums is that they give you space to think and want to come up with something sensible and motivate you sometimes to do research on, like, some social platform.

In forums, there's no bullying, and on other social media, there'll be times you have to be very strong to post even your content because of the amount of bullying there. I love my privacy and believe the forum gives me the room to express myself without being bullied but corrected. 

[Russlenat]

The advantages of Bitcointalk over social media are too many. First of all, everything is well-sorted here, we have different sections like Bitcoin Discussion, Technical Discussion, Economy, Trading Discussion, Project Development and many other sections, which make it easier for me to find the information that I want. On Facebook and Twitter, you are lost, there are a bunch of posts and tweets, but it's mostly for chit-chat and not for discussion. I like Reddit but still it's not as well-structured as Bitcointalk in terms of sorting and finding discussional threads.
Also, another big benefit that this forum has is that there are many old members who have been here almost since the day of Bitcoin's creation. Here we have default trust members who tag negatively those who try to scam. This forum is a better place in overall.

Both are actually made for people to benefit and socialize, but somehow this social media is obviously well abused by its members, that some shit and unbearable posts are tolerated, one thing that this forum is very much different. If you are member with no discipline and cannot follow simple rules, then you don't belong in the forum, or even in the social media because you'll end influencing other people.

[Alone055]

In forums, there's no bullying, and on other social media, there'll be times you have to be very strong to post even your content because of the amount of bullying there. I love my privacy and believe the forum gives me the room to express myself without being bullied but corrected. 

I don't think bullying works in the realm of whether you are using a forum or a social media platform because you have all the rights and the power to remove anyone from your posts and publications if you don't want to see them around or want them to see your posts, etc.

On social media platforms, you can delete and hide comments, and block users so that they can't see you or participate in any of your next posts. If they create more accounts to repeat the same things only to tease you, you can keep blocking them and that's it. It isn't a lot of work.

On forums such as this one, it's even easier, all you need to do is either make your threads self-moderated so that you can remove posts and comments from trolls and bullies or ignore them so that they don't see your threads.

[NurseHub]

In forums, there's no bullying, and on other social media, there'll be times you have to be very strong to post even your content because of the amount of bullying there. I love my privacy and believe the forum gives me the room to express myself without being bullied but corrected. 

I don't think bullying works in the realm of whether you are using a forum or a social media platform because you have all the rights and the power to remove anyone from your posts and publications if you don't want to see them around or want them to see your posts, etc.

On social media platforms, you can delete and hide comments, and block users so that they can't see you or participate in any of your next posts. If they create more accounts to repeat the same things only to tease you, you can keep blocking them and that's it. It isn't a lot of work.

On forums such as this one, it's even easier, all you need to do is either make your threads self-moderated so that you can remove posts and comments from trolls and bullies or ignore them so that they don't see your threads.

Just as you have said, you either block or etc. the people bullying on social media.
Well,  in as much as you feel it's an issue, some people can't still take it.

Why do you think some people delete all their account details and run from the social platform for a while before they can come back if only you can?

The bullying on some social platforms is alarming. As a content creator, how many people are you going to block from your page? The next thing is dragging, and when you can't stand it, they will frustrate the good person in you. In forums, nobody knows you, so your neighbor can't create a new account just to use it to bully you. 

[uchegod-21]

One thing I love the most about this forum is that it is better democratised. I've never seen a forum with freehands like this to the point that the admin listens to the plight of people and makes changes based on that and also allows users to govern the forum. It is just the forum of users for the users and I don't think there is another forum that will allow users to have that kind of sense of belonging.

theymos is not a fast implementer of ideas in the forum. If not of recent times that he has begun to implement some suggestions. Before now, ideas appear as if no one reads them. I didn't know if he had the intention of rolling in the new software, which was why he was adamant to suggestions. Now that he has started implementing suggestions, let's assume there's no gonna be new forum software again.

The aspect I respect theymos the most is, creating a system that can go against him. Imagine being tagged by Vod and it's visible to everyone. Most admins wouldn't allow that.

[tread93]

INTRODUCTION:

I was introduced to this platform few weeks ago. The graphics of this place wasn't pleasant to me. I honestly was struggling to get acquainted to this place until I discovered how important (unique) bitcointalk is and the level of information it carries. One of the game changers for me was when I read a thread made by Satoshi himself in this forum, I knew I was at the right place. And again BlackHatCoiner dropped me my first merits (4), this actually did hit me differently, throughout that day, I was joyous.
I decided to make this article to outline ways in which bitcointalk is better than social media in sourcing for information about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Please I will need your feedback incase of any misinformation.

1. USERS REPUTATION:
In bitcointalk, users build reputation overtime where the most reputable users are those with years of experience who participate actively in the forum. These reputable users are most likely to give accurate information about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a whole.
WHILE;
 In social media, reputation is often determined by the numbers of subscriptions or likes, which can be misrepresented as these subscriptions and likes can be manipulated using bots.

2. ORIGINALITY OF RESOURCES:
In bitcointalk, you will read from the original resources and catch the fun in it, such as  I AM HODLING. Also read from the Ann threads of the projects themselves e.g Ethereum thread.
WHILE;
In social media, such originality is often not available.

3. CHECK AGAINST SPAM:
In bitcointalk, there are moderators who check for spam posts, such posts are often  deleted. This responsibility is not left for the moderators alone as other community members also show interest in reporting spam to the moderators.  This keeps the community clean and sane as much as possible.
WHILE;
In social media, spam is rampant because of less moderation and this posses difficulty in filtering posts by quality.

4. COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE:
In bitcointalk, even as a newbie, you will have the chances of getting help from even the most experienced users who could be developers or miners. You can continue to get this help if you remain active and you can even send a direct pm.
WHILE;
In social media, getting direct help for technical problems is always a problem and most times no one is willing to give a solution without requesting for some bucks.

5. EXCELLENT ARRANGEMENT:
In bitcointalk, topics are often arranged perfectly into dedicated boards, sub-boards and threads. Topics which are posted to inappropriate boards or threads are often moved to the appropriate board. This arrangement enhances research and focused reading/learning.
WHILE;
In most social media, there are no such arrangements as there are often general discussions with no dedicated thread for a particular topic.

6. ROBUST ARCHIVES:
This forum has a large data of past threads and posts which dates back to the early days of bitcoin. These archives could be referenced for research purposes.
WHILE;
This is not available in social media. Most social media even references the forum.

CONCLUSION:
This is a great forum for getting information about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. I am glad to have been introduced in this forum and I do wish that one day I can become established, knowledgeable and reputable here to contribute immensely here.
Thank you all for reading.


Congratulations to me! I'm now a junior member.

I love to see posts like this. Thanks for this break down I think its really nice to see folks who appreciate this forum, especially a newcomer like yourself. I gave you a few merits to help bump up your rank I hope that you continue to post and contribute to the forum in a positive way. As you grow and develop I hope that you always keep an open mind to new innovation and post about it! Good luck!

[Miles2006]

One thing about forums is that they give you space to think and want to come up with something sensible and motivate you sometimes to do research on, like, some social platform.

In forums, there's no bullying, and on other social media, there'll be times you have to be very strong to post even your content because of the amount of bullying there. I love my privacy and believe the forum gives me the room to express myself without being bullied but corrected. 

Privacy can be considered also, I believe social media is also a place you can find all types of content creating just for fun and abusive words as mentioned. It’s obvious people while away their time on social media but, I can’t say same when it comes to the forum, when it comes to forum discussion my first thought is learning, like what’s the center of discussion although anyone can easily differentiate between social media and forum discussions, the rules here also is more strict meanwhile on social media everyone is allowed to post freely with zero value. It’s left for you to understand what’s the difference between correction and bullying because personally I don’t think you’ll experience such fear here.

[ChiBitCTy]

Would love to get Theymos take on r/bitcoin vs the forum,7-8 years ago and as of these days. Feel like both have changed a lot.

The forum is far superior than any social media for learning and asking questions, not even close.

As for naughty words and bullies, not a ton here. We even once had a great philosopher, well known for their poetic bitcoin discourse. Shakespearean esk .:some would even say. Here’s a nicely gathered catalog of some of their best work  -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5138619.0 

[Zoomic]

INTRODUCTION:

I was introduced to this platform few weeks ago. The graphics of this place wasn't pleasant to me. I honestly was struggling to get acquainted to this place until I discovered how important (unique) bitcointalk is and the level of information it carries. One of the game changers for me was when I read a thread made by Satoshi himself in this forum, I knew I was at the right place. And again BlackHatCoiner dropped me my first merits (4), this actually did hit me differently, throughout that day, I was joyous.
I decided to make this article to outline ways in which bitcointalk is better than social media in sourcing for information about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Please I will need your feedback incase of any misinformation.

1. USERS REPUTATION:
In bitcointalk, users build reputation overtime where the most reputable users are those with years of experience who participate actively in the forum. These reputable users are most likely to give accurate information about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a whole.
WHILE;
 In social media, reputation is often determined by the numbers of subscriptions or likes, which can be misrepresented as these subscriptions and likes can be manipulated using bots.

2. ORIGINALITY OF RESOURCES:
In bitcointalk, you will read from the original resources and catch the fun in it, such as  I AM HODLING. Also read from the Ann threads of the projects themselves e.g Ethereum thread.
WHILE;
In social media, such originality is often not available.

3. CHECK AGAINST SPAM:
In bitcointalk, there are moderators who check for spam posts, such posts are often  deleted. This responsibility is not left for the moderators alone as other community members also show interest in reporting spam to the moderators.  This keeps the community clean and sane as much as possible.
WHILE;
In social media, spam is rampant because of less moderation and this posses difficulty in filtering posts by quality.

4. COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE:
In bitcointalk, even as a newbie, you will have the chances of getting help from even the most experienced users who could be developers or miners. You can continue to get this help if you remain active and you can even send a direct pm.
WHILE;
In social media, getting direct help for technical problems is always a problem and most times no one is willing to give a solution without requesting for some bucks.

5. EXCELLENT ARRANGEMENT:
In bitcointalk, topics are often arranged perfectly into dedicated boards, sub-boards and threads. Topics which are posted to inappropriate boards or threads are often moved to the appropriate board. This arrangement enhances research and focused reading/learning.
WHILE;
In most social media, there are no such arrangements as there are often general discussions with no dedicated thread for a particular topic.

6. ROBUST ARCHIVES:
This forum has a large data of past threads and posts which dates back to the early days of bitcoin. These archives could be referenced for research purposes.
WHILE;
This is not available in social media. Most social media even references the forum.

CONCLUSION:
This is a great forum for getting information about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. I am glad to have been introduced in this forum and I do wish that one day I can become established, knowledgeable and reputable here to contribute immensely here.
Thank you all for reading.


Congratulations to me! I'm now a junior member.

This information is very accurate. I remember when I used to be obsessed with social, laughing at every joke, watching every reels and wasting my time on social media while gaining very little or no new knowledge,  bitcointalk.org has greatly changed my perception about how I view social media. Bitcointalk.org is a forum of knowledge and anyone who is serious would not see the need for visiting  social media platforms except on business grounds.

Social media is flooded with all sort of people with majority of them engaging in spamming, plagiarism and posting of irrelevant contents. Most of these social media enthusiasts can not cope in bitcointalk.org due to strict rules and how organised the forum is as opposed to how social media functions. Thanks OP for breaking this down.

[Yucky]

The main difference I see while comparing this forum to regular social media platforms is that with this forum, you get information that's related to Bitcoin and other areas that touch on finance only, and because of how it's being regulated such that random posts don't just fly in and out, it's a better option to consider while sourcing for any information about the decentralized system.

In the same way, we have boards and sub-boards and even local boards on the forum, the regular social media also have groups and pages where crypto discussions also go on and if you're lucky enough to join the right group that's being controlled by the right admin, you might see something close to what we have here. The difference that's unique about Bitcointalk.com is that because it's the first and largest cryptocurrency ecosystem, it has built a reputation that's strong and has great admin that is up and doing in ensuring that the forum is as clean as possible and regardless of the new faces that keep joining the forum almost on a regular base, the forum remains the surest source of getting legitimate information about the general Bitcoin ecosystem.

[Floxynice]

INTRODUCTION:

I was introduced to this platform few weeks ago. The graphics of this place wasn't pleasant to me. I honestly was struggling to get acquainted to this place until I discovered how important (unique) bitcointalk is and the level of information it carries. One of the game changers for me was when I read a thread made by Satoshi himself in this forum, I knew I was at the right place. And again BlackHatCoiner dropped me my first merits (4), this actually did hit me differently, throughout that day, I was joyous.
I decided to make this article to outline ways in which bitcointalk is better than social media in sourcing for information about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Please I will need your feedback incase of any misinformation.

1. USERS REPUTATION:
In bitcointalk, users build reputation overtime where the most reputable users are those with years of experience who participate actively in the forum. These reputable users are most likely to give accurate information about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a whole.
WHILE;
 In social media, reputation is often determined by the numbers of subscriptions or likes, which can be misrepresented as these subscriptions and likes can be manipulated using bots.

2. ORIGINALITY OF RESOURCES:
In bitcointalk, you will read from the original resources and catch the fun in it, such as  I AM HODLING. Also read from the Ann threads of the projects themselves e.g Ethereum thread.
WHILE;
In social media, such originality is often not available.

3. CHECK AGAINST SPAM:
In bitcointalk, there are moderators who check for spam posts, such posts are often  deleted. This responsibility is not left for the moderators alone as other community members also show interest in reporting spam to the moderators.  This keeps the community clean and sane as much as possible.
WHILE;
In social media, spam is rampant because of less moderation and this posses difficulty in filtering posts by quality.

4. COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE:
In bitcointalk, even as a newbie, you will have the chances of getting help from even the most experienced users who could be developers or miners. You can continue to get this help if you remain active and you can even send a direct pm.
WHILE;
In social media, getting direct help for technical problems is always a problem and most times no one is willing to give a solution without requesting for some bucks.

5. EXCELLENT ARRANGEMENT:
In bitcointalk, topics are often arranged perfectly into dedicated boards, sub-boards and threads. Topics which are posted to inappropriate boards or threads are often moved to the appropriate board. This arrangement enhances research and focused reading/learning.
WHILE;
In most social media, there are no such arrangements as there are often general discussions with no dedicated thread for a particular topic.

6. ROBUST ARCHIVES:
This forum has a large data of past threads and posts which dates back to the early days of bitcoin. These archives could be referenced for research purposes.
WHILE;
This is not available in social media. Most social media even references the forum.

CONCLUSION:
This is a great forum for getting information about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. I am glad to have been introduced in this forum and I do wish that one day I can become established, knowledgeable and reputable here to contribute immensely here.
Thank you all for reading.


Congratulations to me! I'm now a junior member.

I love to see posts like this. Thanks for this break down I think its really nice to see folks who appreciate this forum, especially a newcomer like yourself. I gave you a few merits to help bump up your rank I hope that you continue to post and contribute to the forum in a positive way. As you grow and develop I hope that you always keep an open mind to new innovation and post about it! Good luck!

Thanks so much, I truly appreciate. This is coming when I least expected it, I am glad we have people like you here who encourage newcomers like us to put in our best. As long as I remain in this forum, learning and acquiring new knowledge, I will continue to post and contribute to the forum in a positive way.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

But come to think of it, is there any need for a comparison and how helpful is the post going to be to users that reads it. Anybody here already has a reason why they're here and just few minutes of participating in the forum either through reading or writing, you'll already know the forum is different from other social platforms out there. You shouldn't be comparing a forum to social media but a forum to a forum. The discussion here are more about educating and informing the audience but on social media you get more of entertaining discussion than educating. In fact if you don't share the educating messages in an entertaining manner you mightn't have any engagement. Social media is all about the clicks and engagement (as the saying goes, do anything for the engagement).

Bitcointalk is also a social media as a forum is a form of social media too that's why I said the comparison isn't making any sense to me. There's more value on Bitcointalk than on other social media or forum and all this is because of the thoughtful members here that put quality over any other things and new recruits are having to accept this belief or go elsewhere.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Social media is all about the clicks and engagement (as the saying goes, do anything for the engagement).

Definitely true. Social networks, I would add, also talk more about likes and subscribers. Many people know those joyful moments when the number of subscribers and likes on your channel increases. People simply go crazy to please their vanity. Being a celebrity with no restrictions on privacy and showing your life without curtains is a completely distant topic compared to this forum. Therefore, comparing this forum to any other social network is absolutely incomparable.