Topic: Buy the DIP, and HODL! - page 35. (Read 104690 times)

Trump in his speech will promise in the political campaign if he wins the United States will become the center of the bitcoin capital then it is clear that the adoption will be greater some large institutions will support it, the price can continue to strengthen and we can see how bitcoin is growing rapidly.

Just do the accumulation, if more bitcoins are owned then one day we can go to America for a vacation  :Djust by bringing bitcoins without fiat if it is true that there will be more adoption in the country, not only that goal by having a lot of bitcoins it can be your future to be a better life from bad finances, so keep accumulating.

You didn't put the dollar sign/symbol dude, remember is very necessary to put the sign/symbol because not everyone will understand what you are talking about especially those who are new here anyway It's a good thing that Bitcoin is about to break $70k again and it's going to be a sad news for those who were waiting for Bitcoin to dip before they invest and a good news to those who took advantage of it, I wish people will learn... You said you will continue DCAing untill you reach your goal right, so if I may ask will you stop if you have reached your goal because you sound like someone who is going to stop after you reached your goal. One thing I won't stop doing is accumulating and holding even if I have several investment outside crypto that is doing well I won't stop unless there's a negative vibe/ negative information about Bitcoin which there can never be...for now. If I ever have a target then it should be to keep accumulating and holding for as long as possible.

Inasmuch as I believe that we are still early in Bitcoin with respect to where it will be in the future, we have to appreciate the fact that we have come a long way that is filled with so much learning and growing. Bitcoin is getting close 15 yeas in existence and have come to be as a power technology in the world of finance and a wonderful opportunity for investment.
It is in the appreciation of where we are coming from and where we have reach that those who are opportune to invest in Bitcoin or learn about it can make better investment decision such as holding against all odds knowing that irrespective of what happens, bitcoin will always come out stronger and better.

Anyone who have this understanding will never have the mindset that the price of Bitcoin is too high because that is the mindset of people who want to make too much profit overnight which is why many tend to look for alternatives to bitcoin and end up being screwed.

That's this spirit mate compare to what's ahead in be bitcoin we are still at the early stage to keep accumulating. And keep the fire burning because bitcoin it's gaining more adoption each day . This bull run will be one of the best , and from day one it has been doing well, Bitcoin has been in bullish since last year and they are more ahead.

So we just got to keep accumulating as much as we can so that we won't miss out in this wonderful opportunity in investing in bitcoin, bitcoin has literally change alot of folks lives , those that Started holding bitcoin since 10 years till now can literally testify.

I knew this was going to happen someday, some people are receiving a lot of merit from this thread which is probably due to the quality of post they make here, the forum can be related to our real life activities where everyone have their own personal interests of things they engage in, so it is in the forum here. This is a forum where everyone can discuss and share ideas and if some ideas are not worthy enough it doesn’t mean they are invalid, a lot of people are learning every day from this thread and going through this thread you will notice only post JJG finds worthy enough receives merit regardless of their rank and it shouldn’t be mistaken for merit farming.

JJG’s consistent effort of sending merit to quality posts have helped to keep this thread active and alive and have encouraged quite a lot of members to improve their post quality. Investment is a continuous process as long as bitcoin is in existence and every day people will keep asking questions and new developments can also be made in which 20 quality posts will not be enough to clarify.

Taking profits is really a personal decision, you said there is no perfect time to take profits i don’t intend to argue it but profit can not be taken when the market is down or unstable, when there is a downward trend i don’t think an investor can think of taking profit.
Maximizing your bitcoin will equally maximize your returns when everything goes well but for those who are not so  concerned about their profits they are also more likely to suffer more loss when an unexpected downturn occurs so in as much as accumulation is important taking profits is also important as well to give purpose to your investment.

At the moment Bitcoin is worth $69,931.59, we are about to break 70K again. I'm very bullish on Bitcoin right now, I tried holding as much as I could when it was under 60K. I tried to grow my investment portfolio with my maximum. Anyway now that I have a decent portfolio, and I'm continuing my investment in DCA, And i will continue until I reach my goal. anyway I think Bitcoin will cross 70K in some time. And I reckon we'll see a bull very soon.

I think this is where we are before shifting from the point. There is no perfect time to take profits from your Bitcoin investment I think it's a personal decision but an investor holding for 8 years can take his investment as long the purpose is to do something useful with the process. What I have kept in mind is that there are people who invest to maximize profits while some invest to maximize the volume of Bitcoin they have. People who maximize profits when they reach a target are more propelled to sell than investors who want to see their Bitcoin holdings grow more and more.

The safer way is that if an investor has less Bitcoin in his portfolio, he/she should probably hold. Selling quickly should be the last thing that cross his mind, while an investor who owns more Bitcoin at least more than 1 BTC, he can choose to sell little based on the situation or the reason for taking profits. However, it all falls down to your investment goals as the genuine reason for taking profit.

Of course, no one expects our ideas to be carried out by other people in the investments they make. But as one goal we continue to provide narratives that are constructive and beneficial for long-term investment. Even though some of the delivery was a bit difficult to understand because it was hampered by bad language, it wasn't a big problem because everyone knew that we were just buying and hold on to long-term investment planning.

Everything is just for your own success in the future, people will be happy to see us building from zero bitcoin and now having bitcoin in our portfolio. If we want to change our fate then we have to focus on whatever we do.

Bitcoin is always a trending topic as thousands of companies have bought bitcoin and thousands of new people continue to join bitcoin. Bitcoin is a very valuable asset that we must have and if we waste the opportunity while we know about Bitcoin then that is a stupid mistake we are making.

Don't be too uncomfortable, don't give up quickly because of what people say because we invest with our own money and we bear everything, both risk and profit. Out there, on social media, we also have to be active in looking for information to increase our knowledge about bitcoin.

You know someone who does not see you as good enough will never be impressed or see anything good in whatever you are doing in life. Sometimes people might have good intentions or a genuine reason for doing whatever they want to do, but for the fact that they see you as someone who is never good will influence the manner at which they address you. Efforts are continually being made in this thread on daily basis to see that people derives value here and visitors who visits this thread are not disappointed. But it was heart broken to see someone just talked down and rubbish those efforts on a thread that's been running for years now. It wasn't nice. That was why people reacted and it made us deviate from the original discussion here temporarily. But it was really important that the issue was addressed so it won't linger for long.

absolutely because a few comments in here on this thread have deviated alot from the original content of the topic which was about bitcoin and how to buy the dip and holdle for a turn over before selling the high as an investment strategy, but lately many members have chosen to rather deviate alot from that subject into something more personal and out of bitcoin related, so for as much as that we have to get back to the original discussion, I don't know the reason why some have diverted the discussions into something else, when bitcoin speculations and analysis is an unending path, may be is because they have run out of idea or something of that nature and. The keep the discussions going they decided to add up some unnecessary content to make the write up large making seems to contain some vital information about bitcoin and it market speculations, but if you read those comments you will discover that alot have been written that is unrelated to the topic of discussion and that is so Said to know.
Between we have to bring back the original discussion, and try as much as possible to ignore any comments that doesn't follow the thread objectively, I also have read some few comments where members have called this thread as spam fist ground and merit fishing grounds, I don't want to comments on that, but rather engage is some discussion on this thread that will bring back the original content to f this thread, buying the dip is something that we have to keep up with because bitcoin constantly give us the chance and opportunities to do that, so regardless of how many pages this thread have gone, we can deny it importance.

We should do so. Discussions about Bitcoin seem to dominate and there may be various recommendations on how to grow your holdings as well as take care of them. Negotiating aggressive buy levels from own cash in downtrends which is very important in investing can also be recommended to refrain from cashing out own stacks during bull runs. For a Bitcoin investor holding on to a bullish trend can expect higher returns compared to making temporary gains by withdrawing their holdings.

For new investors and especially those who want to start their investment in Bitcoin, it can be even more important to have a sustainable plan of action. I think new investors can start their investment or deposit in Bitcoin expecting high profit but more important for them is how to continue depositing for long term. A decision should be made to complete a cycle of at least 4 years so that an investor can 2x or 3x his capital as well as profit. And if the number of these cycles can be increased like two or three or more as desired. And floating cash is crucial to running the cycles.

Yep.. Hopefully we can get back to talking about mostly bitcoin-related matters, rather than seemingly meta-related matters in this here thread.

What brought me here in the first place is I was doing a review of all the posters that had been identified as using AI text generators to write their posts for them. About a hundred of them have posted in this thread, frequently quoting each others' posts. I don't hate JJG, I don't hate anyone, I just think that ball washing is a less-than-honorable approach to obtaining merits. If the only reason you joined this forum is to get merits and rank up for a sig campaign then you should do the rest of us a favor and leave.


After the Wall Observer thread, my next-most merited thread was my own "merit scholarship" thread, where I gave away 627 merits to those trying to rank up who also showed potential for original thought. In all, I've merited 1630 accounts, placing me #17 among those with the largest merit circles, and in the top 20% of all merit sources. I'm also the 26th most generous merit sender overall.

I try my hardest not to give merits to merit seekers but rather to those who demonstrate original thought. Sometimes there's some overlap, and that's fine. Sometimes I get tricked by alt-accounting fuckwits and I don't like that. So yeah, I can be a bit stingy with my merits sometimes. That's because there's nothing worse than seeing a Hero or Legendary account that does nothing but spew garbage for the sake of meeting their campaign quota.

OK I've said all I need to say, I'll let y'all get back to doing... whatever it is you're doing here.

As a merit source you have the right to chose the standards of how you merit members of the forum. Most of the merit source i know so well have various methods of giving out merit and certain criteria they see as a standard. Fillipone and Hugeblack gives merit by applications and rules were given, anyone defaulting the rules does not meet the standard. The Chemyst have his own method by review, and to mention a few. JJG has set a standard to merit post in thread that such quality of conversation is going and that's a standard to him. A merit source cannot impose a standard to another merit source. Theymos new that JJG is qualified to be a merit source and as well he knows the standard of giving out merit, if you dont have an idea he wont have given you a merit source in the first place.

I did not think there are any standard that was listed by Theymos in the forum or perhaps it was done personally to the individual merit source which i do not know. If ther is nutildah should point us to the thread. Last time i checked @Dmdrdmdr explained what qualify a post to be merited  here What is merit and what is it for?

It is more easier for him/her to point people out who are cheating in the forum to the meta board, but when it comes to pointing out threads or member that is what meriting to this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5093271.0][self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source. you wont find nutildah anywhere doing that. I believe what is worth doing is worth doing well (tell that to nutildah).

I took the time to go through the comments and your response here. I doubt that this could be an issue after now that things are well explained properly to @nutildah. I think if nutildah believes that with a few sentences and writing, he could summarize DCA and Buy the Dip and Hodl then he should do it for us. We would love to know his comprehensive summary of the topic that everyone would believe without having any argument. It is not possible that a topic like this will be in the thread and there seems to be no argument, opinions, questions, criticism, and personal theories won't be shared. As far i know, DCA is a continuous process and sometimes there are factors that come in line to affect our DCA and he is the right place to discuss about it. I can remember when the fees were very high and lot of people that DCA were finding it hard to DCA because they did not have to pay the high fees every week there were solutions that were given here that helped everyone that was DCAing including me. The benefits may not be seen to nutildah but I believe there are lot of persons who are benefiting in this thread. The merit is a token for the good response here. If its not worth meriting JJG wont merit it.


There was a lot we were discussing before the interruption came in, found it difficult to get into the conversation because it seemed a lot of people were more concerned about the argument here. Where were we again ?

This thread has been active right from it creation, the purpose of it is to help investors (new and old) on how to enhance their investment, not just that alone but many discussions has been done which has impacted positive thoughts into many users. What may have been the reason why this thread is called upon as negative impact to the forum, spam? merit haunt? or exactly what? All these are also felt on different boards and sections in the forum not just this thread, meanwhile a lot of informations shared here are informative to most of us that is why the thread is having much engagements.

Every users are entitled to their smerits and should be distributed according to posts they know is quality enough and it is a singular decision, @Jayjuangee distributes his smerits to those who he deems fit and it shouldn't be a problem to whosoever.

It's a pity to anyone who would want the thread locked because more users to come are definitely going to find benefits gathering information from these thread while discussions on the thread is happening not while it is locked.

Are you referring to losing o_e_l_e_o or someone else?  I have not heard any updates about o_e_l_e_o, and my last knowledge was that several months ago (in January) he stopped participating/posting in the forum (based on his own illness and expectation of his own death coming soon - which is difficult for many members to hear about that.  Has there been some more recent update?  


It seems to me that over the years, a lot of what we have ended up emphasizing in this thread relates to knowledge and opinions being much stronger, better informed and even intellectually challenging when they have some experiential basis - which also seems to be part of the reason why so many of us in this thread talk about getting started investing in bitcoin as soon as possible so that we will be able to learn better by going through more of an interactive rather than theoretical learning process, which is also one of the great things about the forum, because sometimes some of the participants in this thread come out with some of their earliest of posts that are really dumb and even lacking in experience, but many times we can witness their posts becoming better composed and even more helpful to other members because not only are they reading some of the ideas of other members in this thread, but they are putting some of the bitcoin-related theories into practice by getting the fuck started and starting to buy bitcoin, even if they might ONLY be able to start out with buying relatively small amounts (such as $10 per week), but maybe after several months of practicing, managing their budget (expenses and income) they start to learn that they are able to ongoingly and continually increase the weekly amounts that they are investing into bitcoin without preoccupying themselves with bitcoin's seemingly inevitable volatility and price fluctuations and also without becoming overly concerned about their own abilities to hold onto their BTC or to continue to invest into BTC because ultimately they had ended up following some suggestions of this thread by buttressing various aspects of their cash reserves, even if sometimes it might take them a bit of time to figure out what to call the various categories of cash reserves that they have whether it is emergency funds, reserves and/or float, but many times, many of the the more active of the thread participants have ended up revealing and talking about various ways that they learned that having some cash on hand can end up making their bitcoin investment way more powerful, cause them to be way less sensitive to seemingly inevitable BTC price fluctuations, and to give them various levels of confidence in regards to that they are doing the right thing by having some allocation into bitcoin, even when many of us realize that bitcoin is a good asymmetric upside bet, but even if it is amongst the best, if not the best investment available, investing into bitcoin is still NOT guaranteed to being better than not investing into it...

and there are no guaranteed investments, so each of us has to figure out our own level of allocation into bitcoin without devolving into gambling.. either from overinvesting or underinvesting, so in the end each of us needs to figure out our own balancing of the 9 individualized investment factors in terms of how they specifically apply to our own situations rather than how some other member in this thread might end up applying those same categories of 9 factors which likely is different based on each of us having different circumstances that might sometimes overlap, yet we cannot really know the circumstances of other forum members (or thread participants) as well as we can attempt to be successful in knowing our own 9 individual factors.


Yes.. you are just the smartest guy that I ever did witness in my life, whether here on the forum or in meat space.

Of course, you are implying that Justbillywitt does not have a reasonable ability to post objectively and/or without bias based on his having had received a large quantity of his merits (potentially approaching half-ish) from this here cat... and that likely could be a criticism of the whole forum's merit system rather than of any merit sharing (or whatever?) relationship that you suggest exists between Justbillywitt and me.  I am not going to go back and compare the nature of my interactions with Justbillywitt or any other forum member because I hardly give any shits, but hey, if you (nutildah, the smarter than everyone merit Czar wannabe), you can go back and attempt to make some kind of supposedly "informed" analysis of what you consider to be going on with some of the supposed brown-noser supposed "merit beggars" or whatever might be your lame-ass theory regarding what's "really going on here."  hahahahaha.,. it is so dumb to even ponder over your supposed potentially valid good intentions regarding the forum's merit system.
 

I hope that you reported me, so that some thing can be done about this smarter than everyone else retroactive analyzed self-defined and imagined "problem."  


In theory, it sounds like you might have a valid point here, since there are likely a decent number of forum members who fail/refuse to engage in critical thinking, and surely some forum members are not even real people, so yeah, there can be some problems in trying to screen out of some of those members might be contributing to the denigration of forum content worse than when  you were pumping your supposed art, or was it shitcoins that you were pumping?

So yeah, sometimes there could be some better balancing of how some disingenuine or non-human forum members are detected and considering various ways how the current merit system might end up playing into that .. and if there might need to be some changes in the merit source members or the merit system or even the oversight of it, and surely these kinds of balances are likely considered by theymos from time to time in terms of the extent to which some changes might need to be made and/or whether the amount of work involved in making the changes might contribute to improvements to the forum or perhaps speculation about whether some of the potential changes (if they were to be implemented) might contribute towards some potential greater problems rather than the problems that currently exist.. and at the same time, I doubt that he would consider appointing someone like you as a merit Czar who has sufficiently and/or adequately considered these kinds of various balances (and the dynamic and ever changing tradeoffs for various policy trade offs or attempts to cause merit sending to be more objectively valid, which surely does not seem to be one of theymos's goals in regards to attempting to achieve "the free-est levels of speech" that might be achievable within the bounds of various trade-offs that are ongoingly considered.).


The only one with an inflated ego here seems to be uie pooie.

Yes.. we all have egos, but still your theory is not very logical and it is not even supported by the facts, if you were actually ready, willing and/or able to attempt to objectively review the contents of this thread.. but instead, you want to spin what is going on, so that even if there were semblance of possible truth to the claims that you are making, your claims are still largely exaggerated.

By the way, I should mention that about two hours ago, from the time of this post, I edited my earlier responsive posts in order to make it a bit better in terms of attempts to criticize and respond to your intermedellous (made up word related to intermeddling) sticking your nose into your seemingly shit-stirring objectives in this thread.

And by the way, if you actually were to read some representative matters in this thread, we are not just talking about DCA, even though surely a lot of superficial readings might summarize the thread in those kinds of way, and surely I have no desires to even summarize the various contents of this thread or the extent to which it deviates from the topic from time to time, since the whole thread speaks for itself in terms of the level of the quality (or lack of quality) of the various posts that have been placed here in the last 5-ish years... oh yeah, and another claim that even I made is that it seems that the post quantity had gone up exponetially in this thread in the past couple of years, and surely our smarter than everyone else savior, nutildah, likely has a theory in regards to that phenomena, too.  He knows a lot, our now newly present and influential shit-stirring "lil buddy" nutzilia.


You might need to flesh this theory out a wee bit moar better, yet I doubt this thread is the place for you to be fucking around with largely irrelevant topics.. and you fucking don't even seem to know shit about this thread or have any actual substantive contributions to make here, except to divert us from talking about bitcoin and bitcoin related matters.  Perhaps create another whining thread in meta, so that we don't report you for trolling this thread and leading us too much off the topic of this thread... We are here to talk about bitcoin rather than your likely nonsense theories that most likely belong in meta or some meta-related thread..


Yeah.. I am not sure what kind of requirement there might be to figure out the genuineness of newbie accounts (including yours), yet even your post highlights that nutildah's pursuit of this matter in this here thread, even if it were potentially valid is not even appropriate for this thread, so even though you added some nice color to point out some possible other ways to go about these kinds of concerns about the sending of smerits, which the contents of your actually one-liner and 2.5 sentences likely does not even deserve any merits, yet at the same time you may well have had identified a way to put together a post that might well ended up in the receipt of a merit or more, just for some other members to show nutildah that the sending of smerits does not necessarily fall into any "nutildah defined" standard in which forum members have to suss out some kind of objective standards in regards to our figuring out the deservingness (or not) of the recipient member (even if they are a brand new member who might be a copy of another member who is an alt or something like that, if that might be the possible rational for members to figure out that they should not send smerits to newbie members)..

So yeah, it is quite likely that you do not deserve any merits at all, yet you did end making some valid points that ended up contributing to the discussion in a arguably meaningful way that I believe supports some aspects of my point that nutildah should take this matter to some other thread (probably in meta) so that thread participants can get back on topic, since many of us likely realize the importance of staying focused on bitcoin and bitcoin accumulation during these kinds of urgent times. .in which the sooner the better seems to be the case that forum members and even normies around the world get the fuck started in their bitcoin accumulation journey rather than allowing that little twat (aka nutildah) to distract us from what many of us (if not an overwhelming majority) would prefer to talk about in this here thread.


You are absolutely correct.  

Even though in my last couple of responsive posts, I have repeatedly referred to nutildah in various forms of dweeb, nutildah is no dummy (not a complete dummy), and he is fairly well respected in parts of the forum because he tends to write fairly persuasively, and through the years, he has identified various scammers (even though he himself has gotten into some trouble for his own pumping of bullshit and arrogance in regards to forum rules that for some time, he did not feel that he needed to follow (like as if he was exempted from following some basic forum rules))..and yeah, I am not sure about the extent to which nutildah might have grown out of his own arrogance that he might not even be able to control very well without some kind of a bat slappening.. hahahahaha.  

So, yeah, I think that part of your point ginsan is really valid in the sense that some of the more senior forum members, including nutildah, has the potential to really provide some valuable insight to some of the newer bitcoin investors that are getting involved in a thread like this one, yet instead of actually contributing to the topic, nutildah seems to be unable to actually recognize and appreciate a lot f the value that has come to bitcoiners (and budding bitcoiners) through the kinds of discussions that we are having in a thread like this, even though surely some of the participants might not be deserving of merits and they end up receiving them... yet likely the benefits of the discussions within the thread likely outweigh several of the disadvantages in which nutildah is proclaiming that this thread is lacking in quality in accordance with his own dumbass, biased and ill-informed interpretation regarding what he wishes to see is going on here rather than what really objectively is going on in this particular thread.

Maybe also it could be possible that nutildah doesn't hardly know shit about the various nuances of bitcoin accumulation and the abilities to attempt to relate to the so many varieties of newbies that come into bitcoin from a variety of perspectives, including potentially starting out their bitcoin journey from a shitcoiner and/or a gambling perspective, which they may well end up getting sorted out by reading and/or participating in a thread like this one.


You bring up a somewhat interesting point, Lida93 - since that nutildah seems to have had distracting us into believing that potentially there might be some kind of an objective standard that exists in which the smerit sending judgement of someone like me should be judged, and surely that is not the case, even though nutildah seems to want to plant that kind of a seed in the heads of forum members.

I suppose that one of the official remedies would be for nutildah to report me to admins, and we might not know if he had done so, and perhaps even he realizes that he is attempting to describe smerit sending standards that don't even exist beyond the space between his ears, so then his alternative approach seems to be to attempt to get forum members worked up into believing that "injustices are taking place" in the forum through some of the source merit forum members including that yours truly is amongst the greatest of culprits who flippantly ignores and flaunts common sense standards.. blah blah blah.. which is what nutildah wishes would be common sense because it is nutildah's own standard that he would like to impose on everyone (that little fuck-twat control freak.. hahahahaha).. so, yeah part of the journey is accomplished when he gets other forum members to believe that there is some kind of a standard that is being violated or that there should be such a standard, even though forum administrators are likely not even close to taking his side on the matter, so instead he wants to rile the troops, and surely the forum philosophy tends to error on the side of allowing members to post whatever they like, so nutildah can get away with spreading such shit-stirring and distracting exaggerations, even though he may well end up getting his lil-selfie into trouble by trolling this thread with his various lacking in substance meta accusations.


That is true.  We get both new and older forum members coming around to better knowledge of bitcoin investment strategies and practices through our various posting and interactions in this thread.


Well yeah, there are dynamics in both the changes to bitcoin, yet there are also dynamics in the entering of newbie bitcoiners who are not too likely to read more than 500 thread pages, and so for sure topics are repeated, and sometimes even some of us might change our perspectives on some of the topics or enter in some challenges in regards to how some of our ideas about bitcoin accumulation strategies might change based on some new developments in the space or the ways that some of the topics are discussed, since sometimes we are also arguing about semantics, too.. which our ways of talking about some of these bitcoin accumulation topics or the various related topics can change from time to time, too.


That is a good point.

What is it that nutildah expects us to do?

he is just distracting us from the actual topic, so probably what he should do is post his bullshit concerns in another thread (or topic) in order that many of us can attempt to get back to the main topics of this thread, that nutildah does not even seem to understand or come close to appreciating the level of helpful information that has been batted around in this thread, and perhaps even better information coming out in this thread in the last couple of years (right before the 2021 price run and even throughout the 2022 correction) and the various newbies that came to the forum during that 2021 and 2022 timeframe and even more recent entrants who seem to be coming to participate in this thread and even several newbies figuring out ways to tailorize some kind of a decently sound approach to giving some priority to bitcoin accumulation..


....and figuring out ways to attempt to engage in such BTC accumulation somewhat aggressively within their own circumstances in which they have to practice in order to learn about their own cashflow and psychological management attributes..so that they may well end up figuring out that they need to approach bitcoin more as an investment rather than a trade or a way to gamble.. which it can take a while to figure out how to balance those kinds of threshold considerations that might end up screwing up normies who do not practice the identification of thresholds regularly, which personally I think comes a lot more from practice rather than from talking about it, even though surely sometimes going over those kinds of discussion points in a thread like this will also help some of the newbies to figure out how to attempt to balance out their own situations... and yeah, we end up repeating topics over and over and over, so sometimes the clear articulation of points that respond to another member, even if repeated, will end up being deserving of an smerit, even though surely some regular members in this thread might not have a lot of smerits that they are able to send to potentially deserving members in this thread.

There're  502 pages already on this thread with 20 max post each which  means we have a total page of 502 x 20 =>10,040... which means if JJG had given 2,269 post a single merit each(which can't be totally accurate as some comes with 2 sometimes ) then we have a total of 7,700+ unmerited post which is way above  average.
Depending on how you see posts, if a post is worth meriting  then it worth it .
I learned alot already which makes me contribute here most times,before this thread I don't really know what's DCA and neither do I know what's buying of Dips,when I joined this thread I got corrected alot most especially by JJG which made me understood  better... besides the thread was here before I joined .
Thus, day by day people like me, traders ,newbies....keep joining the thread willing to know more, they fvck it up just like me at first  because they know little or nothing about it but we keep correcting them NMW and this brings up new discussions everytime .

I bet you probably don't consider that this has helped improve the general knowledge of participant in this thread regarding Bitcoin investments and has shaped thier knowledge on things to be put into consideration while planning an investment of there choice. From personal observation, no shit poster has ever survived on this thread for a long time because they easily feel attacked by others that have learnt the basics on Bitcoin investments and are always ready to correct those that might have come in with a derailed thought process. If participant on this thread don't have an holding, it's deficult for an average person that hasn't known about the key things we've talked about on this thread to do so. Apart from what participant will get to learn about best investment strategy through this thread, in years to come, this will most likely be a good resource that any intending Bitcoin investor would want to lay hold on to get legit information that will guide him/ her in making a good investment decision.

but you understand that Almost everyday, people continue to join the forum and information like what's obtainable on this thread is something they will want to get. Wouldn't it be better that by participating in this discussion, they get to learn from this thread instead of asking multiple questions around or assuming they already know what to do while they make the wrong investment option?

As far as I know, everyone on this forum has some freedom. Your choice and mine can never be the same. It is JJG's personal choice where to give merit or where to post. It's pointless to argue about it. What you came here for is unknown to all but you. But I don't think the discussion in this thread is worthless at all, and there's no reason to think so. Because, the problem of 5 years ago and the current problem are not the same, the solution of 5 years ago and the current solution are not the same. Newbies have new questions, the answers to those questions will not be the same as they were 5 years ago. Everything changes with time. So, 20 good quality posts on page 1 may be enough to learn about DCA methodology, but not enough to answer topical questions.