Topic: Advantages of engaging in quality contributions on the forum. (Read 1490 times)

My friend, life is a teacher; we learn new things almost every day based on what we see, hear, or read. The Bitcointalk forum is really of great help for a lot of people here, and I am not an exception; I have really gained some exceptional knowledge about Bitcoin technology, wallets, transactions, and more. I will just tell you to keep learning. There are a lot of educational boards here, ranging from politics, Bitcoin discussion, economics, service discussion, mining, Bitcoin wallet, etc., and if you are really dedicated to learning, there is a lot more you will learn here.

Let me say from my point of view concerning the benefits of engaging into quality contributions, at first how can you know a contributions that is quality to engage on, at first any quality thread will give a read a good insight and instinct when it come across of similar problems. Quality contributions give rise or opportunity to know what  is unknown to  you. So the advantages may come from different perspectives, so it might make a user to be known through its contributions, and make a use to expand it's ability concerning what the discussion is narrative is all about.

That is why everyone and users has to wear a thick skin when critical criticism comes, in my early stage I was a novice in the forum, I was corrected, criticized and there was a time I was even frustrated. But I didn't give up and persistent with my posts, and today I am doing well. One can learn a lot of things in the forum, and if only he or she is really ready to learn. I can't really believe that I am good in cryptocurrency in my locality today.Z390 what you have to do is, you have to read more than writing now, so that you will be doing well in the future in the forum though you are trying now. But all of us are still learning and there is no ending in learning.

My English has also improved since I became a member of this forum. I don't know how many times I have been corrected by people, and some don't bother to correct me, while others make fun of me, but I later learned that thanks to this forum. In order to promote to a higher rank, I need to engage in good conversations and drop meaningful comments that others can learn from.

Thank you for this bump, I never know this thread existed until you bumped it to the first page, this is a great tool for anyone looking to become a quality member of this forum I have always advise newer members on the importance of being a quality member.

I never knew how supportive this forum could be in helping exceptional user to rank up through their constant involvement in quality discussions.

I am a benefactor of the love and respect,  other forum members are quality contributors, I never expect to have a risen in rank so quickly but with the reward for being active and productive forum members supported me to attain such rank as quick as possible.

i must say in as much as there are far too many shit posters here as a result of language barriers. many people are mainly interested in what they can do to earn rewards here. apart form posting, many engaged in bounties without enough verification and understanding how everything works. just wondering how this platform will be if merits are been eliminated.

Being constantly and actively participating for the betterment of this forum could give us many benefits but I think there are two main advantages of engaging in quality contributions on this forum and that is:

1. It cultivates our sense of belonging
2. It gives us positive self esteem

in which both of them could help us develop our own personality. Imho.

There are 5 important points from the 7 points you mentioned above that I experienced so far. Among others are:
1. Increase your knowledge about cryptocurrency, discussing with those who have excessive skills related to cryptocurrency makes me even more interested in knowing something about it.
2. Increases your chances of getting merited, making constructive and useful writing will certainly open up opportunities to get merit by itself.
3. Increases your chances of knowing more about forum rules, contributing to the forum also made me more aware of the rules that have been ignored so far.
4. increases your English and writing skills, this is one of them that I developed. Writing at length often makes me repeat a few sentences and I dont think that is a good thing to keep.
5. Reduces your chances of getting banned due to spamming,this is what made me interested and started contributing to forums because reducing spam posts is a must for all forum members.

Addition from me:
1. Contributing to forums makes me closer to those who understand forums, forum rules, cryptocurrency, trading, and etc.

Hopefully I can continue to improve my quality here. I am interested in your thread.

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Edit: After obtaining permission from the OP, I have translated this thread into my local board. I think this thread provides benefits and motivation to other users, especially in my local thread to contribute to the forum. Thank you friend. Follow this link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5201310.new#new

I'm relate in developing our English and Sentence construction , this is not just for forum but also to improve ourselves and gain confidence, English being universal language will help us to interact to anyone anytime, I'm having difficulty too in constructing sentences but I'm trying since I don't usually talk or use English in my work. It's good that we are able to earn thru posting in English at the same time we were able to practice and develop our thinking and language.

This is my favorite advantage that I could experience as a quality content contributor. As someone who are into quality contributions in the forum, I am not only educating other people with content that I am sharing, in fact I am also able to gain knowledge about cryptocurrency but not limited to that topic, the forum is so wide that it has vast coverage of topic which is good cause the knowledge that I could gain and could share is also versatile, and with just that I could fill fulfillment especially if people keeps on qouting and giving positive feedbacks.

I would like to express my point for the people who are getting into a discussion,increase your reading skills don't just reply to the topic from reading the title or OP alone and when it means quality it doesn't have to be long and perfect,if you express it in simpler way which could be understand by anyone then it is also more a good contribution to the forum and also the discussion itself.

@Brainboss never got through this post, I would like to add my inputs for this topic

I have recently started contributing to the bitcoin network as well apart from contributing to the forum. Yes, we all are bitcoin users and atleast some of us should definitely contribute for the betterment of the network as well for a very popular information board like bitcointalk where many people from all over the world meet and discuss about bitcoin.

I hate people who are using both this forum and bitcoin just like a money making machine and we are also well aware they don't stay here for long. Considering my local community (local language bitcoin community) majority of them just hunt for $10-$20 of bitcoin and even reach the limits of scamming people for this negligible amount. They are far from getting educated of what a bitcoin/cryptocurrency actually is and use them only as a get-rich-quick scam scheme. These people are the ones which destroy the network and people with similar interest of get-rich-quick in our forum are the low level users who are bad for the forum functioning.

I do always like the Tech boards and participate in the same very often. @Brainboss As we have spoken in PM's already, I studied only a little of computer science in my university and was totally from a very different field. Though I was very much interested in programming, I became a self-made developer and got a job in the same field as well and till now helping people in Tech boards with the questions which I can answer with very meagre knowledge in the whole bitcoin technology.

Regarding the contribution to the bitcoin network,

• I have been recently appointed as a co-ordinator,reviewer and lead maintainer for a particular local language which bitcoin.org and Bitcoin Core would operate sooner this year or probably at the first quarter of next year. I took the initiatives and translating the whole website and have partially translated the core software which would probably go live by tomorrow with the 0.19.0 release.
• Also, I do test the core software at times and would retest the already prevailing issues and PRs.

Regarding the feedbacks, I never got involved in DT drama nor would never will get involved in the future.

P.S I believe the payment I receive from wearing my signature is not just for contributing to the betterment of this forum but also for contributing to the network on the whole.

There are definitely people who needs to see this right now, I see some posts and I wonder how some has survived this long in the forum considering the fact that they cannot even write good English (it's as if they used a translation tool) and in this day and age, there are still a lot of one line shit posters, anyways I can see the good work that's being done by admins in the forum when it comes to cleaning up the place, anyways I have been following your series about the ways to conduct ourselves in this forum and while I have not agreed with some points, I have found myself nodding while reading most of them. Kudos.

Not only by engaging yourself in quality post but try and curb the entire forums cos it do help in building your knowledge about crypto. Don't just focus on beginner's and help, bitcoin, and altcoin. Extend posting in other forums

That is indeed true. Reading first before making a response is a good way to have relevance. It's like listening attentively to a speaker before saying something so that the response is certainly on point.

This is what I also do here in the forum to make sure that I am giving responses with significance. As a bonus, no deleted posts and a good post history. In addition, when you read something carefully first, your train of thought flows smoothly which allows you to create and contribute a post worth reading here in the forum.

Before thinking of money, bounties, campaigns, especially shitshows they bring to the forum, they should read what I wrote here:
Since 2018, what did you contribute to prevent signature ads removed globally?
My journey is what OP mentioned. I joined good campaign, stays with it for months, and rank up. Campaign I joined managed by experienced manager, so I do have to make high quality posts to get eligible ones for payments.

Before they even think about of contributing quality posts in the forum or engaging to any of the members they should really to think about reading the posts contained in the thread first. That is how I get through the forum when I was a newbie as reading more and more have fast-tracked my knowledge here in the forum and in the crypto industry. It actually have helped me composed posts at ease because I already know what I will say or reply to a member.

74 merits needed, I hope you improve your grammar also so the reader can easily get your point. I hope you reach your goal, my friend, we should be aware that a quality post must be provided always. 

Goodluck!

Botcointalk has come to endings, because plagiabot kill them, and user report will help to destroy industry of botcointalk. Furthermore, shit announcement threads also reported too, that means there are less places of botcointalk to shows their talk without eyeballs of forum users and plagiabot.
OP, I thank you for your great guiding thread, that give me more positively feelings and more confidence if I maintain my constructive discussions and helpful talks, I will do reach Senior Member rank, that is my dream, for now.

Advantages are great both for yourself and for Bitcointalk forum,
as you will maybe help some newbie, or someone will help you and you will learn something new.
Your English language skills will improve for sure (if that is not your native language),
and again that will benefit both you and overall Botcointalk conversations.

Agree to your post.

As a contributor, by sharing your knowledge to the other people, you can easily adapt the other info from the other users. This is why it called forum, all of the users will benefit as long as you're an avid reader and poster of quality contents. In these actions, you can develop your own self and will also motivate other people to follow your path as a good poster.

Since 2018, I created a lot of informative topics in my local and because of that, I learned all of those by research. Now that I'm here, those people that were inspired by me are also creating quality topics now. 

Am new here and the first place I landed when I search for the forum for quality contributions and help for beginners, I have seen many of your topics targeted Newbies like us and those of us who have some basic knowledge about Bitcoin. Without sing praising, you and many others on thus forum have made an indelible mark on the world of cryptocurrency and most especially on this forum. Little did I know about this forum existence because I was just an investor outside this forum but was searching for a forum where I can get acquitted with the current trend of digital currency.
Here is a museum of knowledge base individuals on Bitcoin, am blessed to fond this place as my home and will engage forum members with quality contributions, in other for me to grow fast and vast in respect to this technology, although still looks like frictional story in my country.

I have something in mind that If I were to say about it is that I will consider it as one of the advantages of engaging in quality contributions. Having yourself all of the 7 advantages of engaging in quality contributions on the forum will increase your chance on earning more bitcoin. Which I think it's also what comes after advantage number 5. If you are always getting accepted in those campaings then your chance of earning bitcoins from the campaign will increase as mentioned.

Corrected. Advantage No1 speaks on knowledge while No6 speaks on forum rules. I also added yours as no7. You misunderstood jet cash's statement (he wasn't speaking directly about my post but the whole discussion on the forum in general) beside just one of the advantage is associated with signature and another with merit via my OP above. Thanks for you contribution.

Advantages number 1 and number 6 somehow overlap each other and like Jet Cash stated, your mentioned advantages are mostly merit and signature campaign focused. A clear advantage that I see from myself is that my English and writing skills improved a lot since I dedicated to constructive/ quality posts. English is not my first language. Before putting effort on constructiveness, I could produce 1, 2-line posts only. But my vocabulary range, grammar structures and writing style positively changed since then. Although I have to admit that my initial goal was to get merit and join quality campaign but improving my English is the thing that I'm most appreciated.

Everyone can contribute to the forum no matter how low in rank or how higher. Good contribution doesn't mean you have to be a pro here before you can attain it. Even the briefest of post but with vital inputs can pass for a quality contributions

Quality contribution brings knowledge to you. Few of the benefits of knowledge just cannot be measured exactly.

I will like to add a few like:
a)Your post are not getting deleted (as offtopic or low quality.)

^^ I guess few user in this forum are struggling with this problem.

b) Your knowledge protects you from getting scammed in crypto (both in forum and off forum.)

c.) It helps you in making good investment decisions.

What I usually do, I try to share whatever I learn from here or internet. It has one benefit, if there is any misunderstanding in my learning, community correct me.
Quality contribution is for self benefit totally with a little helpful for the community member.

This forum is all about seeking and sharing the knowledge regarding the crypto industry and hence I highly recommend everyone to invest their time before investing their money in order to learn more about the multiple aspects of it. The biggest advantage of engaging in quality contributions on this forum is exploring the vast space of crypto industry through multiple aspects as experienced members of this forum are always ready to help everyone without any hesitation.

Of all the advantages you have listed, I would note only a real expansion of consciousness and General level of education.Really cool to answer the question after examining and reading what is not quite understood.

I would relate well with the number one reason "improves your cryptocurrency knowledge" this is very true when you engage in quality contributions in the forum you always get quality answers and most of this answers can increase ones knowledge on cryptocurrency issues

I know that encouraging others to post on the forum is a good idea and a movement I can get behind. However a few points on your list I have something to pitch in with.



Contributing and participating in discussion will probably not have any more impact than just reading. Sure you might learn a few things if you come up with unique questions and problems however that is a rarity these days because most of things relating to Bitcoin has already been discussed unless you are going to get technical. Something which a newbie will probably not be able to do.



This is something that I partly agree with. Yes participating in discussions will actually make you start to get a name for yourself. Although that doesn't mean its necessarily going to be a good reputation if you're not presenting facts and spamming then you are doing the opposite. Posting for the sake of increasing reputation will not work as you need to think through your replies and actually bring something new to the discussion for this to increase your reputation. Lets also make it clear that reputation is different to trust here. You can have a reputation for being knowledgeable but may not be trustworthy.



I doubt that participating in quality discussions has any bearing on bans. If you are breaking the rules one way or another I doubt that your contributions to a discussion will be considered. What will be considered is your history on breaking rules and what rules you have broken. I don't think its a good idea to tell people that participating in quality discussion is going to make them immune or give them less of a chance of being banned. There's no favoritism here and a lot of quality members have been banned for double posting and other things.

They post without spending time to fully read what OPs discuss, and the flow of discussions before their post. So, most of time, their posts are off-context, or even off-topic. Off-context, because what they answer actually given by someone else in previous posts in the same topic; off-topic, because they don't read OPs, so they simply write down what they personally think of, their objective opinion, and most of time, their posts are off-topic.
Posters - Read before composing and publishing your posts

One of the easiest and most significant way to contribute to yourself and towards others is reading. I think most of the time, and people tend to skim through on what the post is or what it is all about. No matter the content or how long or how short the post is, basically understanding every word and knowing how the OP is stating it, that's better than just "replying" to the subject or something along those lines.

Engaging towards great posts like this could help more people be attracted to either create or discuss things that are already on the topic. It will only be considered low quality if it has just been repeated over and over again. Basically, the most significant advantage that you can have is increasing your knowledge, which was already highlighted.

Today, there is very low odds for shit posters to get acceptance for their applications in high-paying campaigns, that pay for their participants through BTC. The fact is over months, more than one year since January of 2018, when merit system born and actively effective works in the forum, we have seen hundreds of self-promoted users, from Member to even Legendary. Especially, some of them even started from zero (Newbies and zero merit), them moved up to Hero members. That's amazing fact. They have built a new generation of self-promoted users, that spread from low rank (Member) to high rank (Hero and Legendary), and that generation have been more competitive than the old ones include many shitposters.
There are even some guys are totall self-promoted users, like @iasenko, @Coolcryptovator, and more. They could not reach those ranks, if they did not dedicate their time to engage with forum contributions, within continuous months.

The #1 reason should be that you get to be a part of something awesome!

That's because those are the topic that dominant one of the most active board of the forum (meta). I intentionally didn't mention (increase your chances of getting merited) as the number one advantage of engaging in quality posting because it's not although that's one of the motivation for people engaging in such discussion.

I do not know why everyone tries to focus on Merits & signatures, one of the most important things I learned from this forum is to increase my culture in many things (there are many and many sections that you can visit.)
Before joining, I was not familiar with economic, price speculation, technical, not just crypto related topics but encryption, decentralization, money creation and other things that you might face in your life (Investment, trading, developing my English,...etc.)
Think about your goals There is a lot to learn.

Yes, and this is the unpleasant truth. Although you and few other member don't bother to earn by signature, but most of us doing that including me. To be honest, its seems earning become a part of forum. We can't deny it really. And obviously, posting, merit & earning attached each other.  For earning good you have to rank up & earn merit, for earning merit you have to make quality post. We can not even eliminate one of these.  All of these helping forum keep emphatic, we can't deny also that.

However, well wrote OP.

Hello, Mr. Facts,

Maybe, the fourth point is incorrect at somewhat extent. Risks of getting banned (temporary or permanent, whatsoever) is only be reduced if users spend more time to read all forum rules, and really understand them, and know appropriate contexts in which those rules will be applied.
If I was you, I would have written the fourth point as:
[4]: Increases your chances of knowing more about forum rules: When you engaging in good topics, and maintaining your dedication to help forum members, you will have higher chances to occasionally, or intentionally read posts or topics, in which forum rules mentioned and discussed sparsely. Knowing more about forum rules, then having more comprehensive understandings about rules, eventually help to reduce your risks of bans from rules violations.

There still seems to be a massive focus on merit and sig campaigns. Right now crypto is at a major stage in its life. It is moving from childhood into adolescence, and that represents some life changing opportunities for a few of us. I had hoped that we could have some discussions about this, so that we could help each other to take advantage of the astronomical growth that will happen to a few of the alts. Engaging in quality discussions about this will help all of us.

Yes, i agree with your five ideas the point is that science is very important before doing something, whether it's about cryptocurrency, forums and things else.

That is to say, everyone must have good knowledge of a post and do something in the forum and outside.
That most people, including us, fall into an error of something we say or do, is because we don't study science that explains crypto and forum rules from that before. Basically knowledge can be educated someone directed at things that are meaningful.
That science needs to know.


For the record is: that the place of learning, is not just a forum, because it will not be enough, however, in a large field that can accommodate many people, in learning cryptocurrency, forums, sources of achievement and so on.

Greetings everyone, what i'll be highlighting in this thread isn't new to users known for their quality contribution on the forum and it's a matter of common sense in general but as always all humans aren't the same so there'll always be a forum members that will benefit from any created posts on the forum irrespective of how dumb other may think that post is. Having said those above, I'll llike to go straight to the point of this thread. I'll be highlighting some advantages associated with quality contributions on the forum. You're welcome to either correct me or add more contribution.

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Below are the advantages;

[1]: Increases your knowledge on cryptocurrency: Engaging in quality contributions (posting) on the forum also increases your chances of educating yourself as unconsciously you begin to research more to improve the quality of your posts. When you see a discussion you have no idea about, a quality contributor immediately carryout some research so he/she gets an idea on what to say about the discussed topics which is also another way of learning. This also can be felt with matters relating to the forum. The moment you start engaging in those type of discussions, you immediately begin to get familiar with them. A typical example is engaging in trust related discussion, with this you will get to know the usefulness of custom trust list and  how the DT system works.
Bonus:
[2]: Increases your reputation on forum: Now when I say reputation here, I'm not taking about those trust feedbacks you can find on accounts but those unwritten feelings and respect you get from other members of the forum. A quality contributor irrespective of the board he/she makes must of his post gets the respect of the forum members in general and that can be felt when he tries applying for a position like merit source or starts a service thread on the forum.

[3]: Increases your chances of getting merited: How the merit system was designed to work is directly proportional to the level of your quality contribution to the forum is regards to postings. The better the quality of your post the more merits you'll recieve therefore a better way to increase your chances of recieving those merit is engaging in quality discussion on the forum. This is a popular known fact so I don't have to speak much about it.

[4]: Reduces your chances of getting banned due to spamming: Is no longer a news spamming is one of those habits the forum itself and her members frown at and it's also one of quick tickets to getting banned from participating on the forum. Engaging in quality posting definitely reflect on the way you handle your account as a quality poster will consciously obey all forum rules and regulations to avoid getting his/her account ban.

[5]: Improves your chances of getting accepted into quality campaigns. Well signatures are one of those discussion people have mix feelings about. Some are against while others are in support especially when it's done right. A quality poster has a better chance of getting accepted into a quality signature campaign that means if you have any desire to join those type of campaign to recieve this benefits, then you should start first by developing your account as a quality (on topic) poster. Which in return will give you the four advantages listed above and more advantage over your competitors in regards to applications to join campaign.

[6]: Increases your chances of knowing more about forum rules:
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[7] increases your English and writing skills:
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In the spirit of encouraging forum interaction, I limit my thread to just five advantage to leave room for more advantages to be added by forum member (that's if you can think of any) and hopefully this thread will serve as a reference to future forum users.

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