There is a popular saying that "when the purpose of a thing is not known, then abuse is inevitable". This statement is true even in this forum as understanding your purpose and motivation for join this forum will, to a great extent, determine your approach, commitment, contribution and how long you will stay here (a lot of people disappear after few weeks... I don't mean to scare you though
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Different people joined this forum for different reasons: some to learn about Bitcoin, some already know about Bitcoin but felt the need to join a community where Bitcoin is like a home( to see some of them, go to WO thread) and there are those who joined because they heard that people here make money... so their only motivation is to make money even very quickly. These are the people that spam, lie and do all manner of despicable things because they want to beat the natural process of learning and growing.
I want to announce to you that if you are only here because you want to make quick money, then you may mostly likely not make the money and here will be so boring to you because you will reveal that tendency and the OGs will notice you.
Some of the older people can share their experience as regards to how they started, maybe we all can learn somethings too.
You have started a good topic here, but to be honest, I don't think if anyone here is really going to admit that he is here to earn money, but when I came to know about the bounties section here. I really thought that I would make money here and I joined this forum. And after spending a lot of time in bounties I started to lose interest as most of the bounties don't pay you. Well, after that, I started to take part in the discussions and my interest started to come back. During the journey, I learned a lot of things about BTC, blockchain technology and what BTC actually provides us.
The experience was so nice that, now I think I don't want to leave this forum. Yeah here I admit it and I still don't think that if any other person would admit it. But your advice is good and if someone here is just after money then I think they would easily be noticed as to earn from signature they have to earn merits and all they try is to phish merits and that can be easily detected. And they (newbies) don't even have to take part in discussions because bounties don't need that, but once a person starts to take part in the discussion, then I doubt that if he will able to not to make a post after that. Because people here are so knowledgeable that, you want to learn more.
Point is, if one started to make post just because he think he have to earn money then their will be no fun and no learning too. Because, one will tend to make post abruptly so that, their post count would reach. But those who enjoy their staying here they are the ones who are still learning and earning (both). I hope newbies would get some idea after reading my reply. I shared my experience just to motivate newbies.