Topic: child board like this will help newbies so much. (Read 296 times)

Yes I concur to your saying I was a newbie growing gradually from this board there nothing lacking in the board called beginners and help that newbies can't get though I stand to be corrected, u think it's unwise to flood here with another thread or forum for newbies why the existing one is serving the same purpose, is like trying to even isolate the newbie from some senior men who may even guide them more, them operating here in beginners and help can make them grow faster as correction is likely to be given as mist if the experience people comes in often. For me I don't see need but just as others said if the admin deem it necessary such can be introduced.

Beginners & help is best suited for newbies and there is no need for creating another child board for them again and any question any newbie like to ask, they should ask in this board answers will flood the question. Though Op I will not debunk or rebuke your question and I believed it is just a suggestion to see the opinions of the forum users and I think nobody will agree with on such demand because the forum is well structured and designed. Everything is working perfectly.

And the only thing we need now is the number of merit sources. I know two had left the forum and they have not been replaced so we need more.

Beginners and help board definitely serves its purpose. If these newbies will consistently visit this board, I’m sure they will learn easily in the forum and will gain those crucial information in a short time that they need to know so they will never mess up in the forum. While those other boards are certainly useful than the other, but if you are still starting to explore in the forum, then focus more on this beginners section.

You're right knowing the rules and regulations of the forum is very important, this will enable us to navigate the forum even without anyone telling us about what to do in the initial time. However with the help of those rules and regulations you will get to find out the dos and don't of the forum, if you take your time to read the rules and regulations of the forum probably there are some certain things you can do without seeking for help from anyone that is why reading the rules and regulations is very necessary.

Well, that's right, as it will help them to know what they are doing and also to be careful in this forum, also to avoid mistakes that will make them lose their account or their efforts.

As it is said, knowing the rules and regulations of this forum as a beginner, helps them in many ways like being patient, and how to start up their account, knowing how to post to earn merits and so on and as you said, they can ask questions in anything they don't understand, if newbies as this ideas, they won't find it difficult or regret to join this forum.

Beginners and help board is very helpful for the newcomers joining the forum newly. and it is the best board for newcomer to start learning in the forum, as it will be very helpful for beginners and also find the forum easily and accessible. Furthermore, most of the forum rules and regulation are all in the beginners section of the forum. So you can see that starting in this board is very crucial for a newbie.

 And also any question of a newcomer as long as it is not a technical question it get discussed here. furthermore before a newbie proceed in the forum the rules and regulations is compulsory for them to know and it will be very easy for them to operate in the forum.

The impression you are giving does not comply with the intent of the post because
A look on the forum speaks louder for itself, how organized the forum is..

You made a point that except the Admin finds it necessary. You should know that the admin finding it necessary does not mean that the forum is not well planned as it is.

I think your feeling of trying to make a good impact to the forum is understandable as at a very beginning level one always things here are not proper that some things needs to be added however, as time goes on you will have to understand that the forum is already in a good shape as it is right now. I was once of this kind of opinion until I read further about the forum and I knew it was perfect already.

Now, to be more precised this forum has lasted for over a decade and about 4/5 years now which means almost everything here has been deliberated on over the years yet has not changed that means it's all correct. if the forum need such child board as you called it, in this 14 to 15 years this forum have existed it would have been changed but since it's not necessarily it has not been altered. So you should know that everything is fine with where they belong, so no need for additional board for now except the @Admin finds it necessary.

I think that this forum is very well planned and organized and any newbie that is serious to learn will not have any trouble doing so, we have sticky threads and if there's any areas of cryptocurrency that they don't understand, all they need to do is start a topic and ask questions. Newbies should not totally rely on this forum to learn about cryptocurrency, they should carry out research on different areas of crypto, then they can come here and either share their experience with experienced members for better clarity or ask questions on areas where they don't understand. I doubt that creating new child boards will help newbies better, we have enough materials and great minds to direct serious newbies.

I joined this forum without any crypto knowledge, i became active and learning from the discussions while also making research from what I've learned, if I don't understand anything, I simply start a thread and ask. A very big thanks to everyone on this forum, there is no hesitation to collectively finding solutions to questions raised.

A welcome message to newly registered accounts with basic information about the forum will be a welcome development as far as I'm concerned. I didn't know that something like it has been proposed in the past, hopefully it'll be implemented one day.

What is the need for a child board? Maybe you can broadly differentiate the different between beginners and help and a child board.
Children hasn't here and there would not be a something like that. We are talking about Bitcoin which we all know that Bitcoin investments is very risky which can not entails any child or teenagers to come in and start investing without know the risk that are attached to the market. This is purely based on investment and that should not console and form or teenager that might not understand what crypto investment is all about.

With a welcome message, the forum and the administration would do their part in pointing new users in the right direction by giving them some basic information about the forum. Some won't even read that, that's true, but there will be those who will. It's difficult to find a solution that gets rid of 100% of the ever-repeating newbie questions we get around here, but lowering it to 50% is a good result I think.

I see the OP’s advice in this way, metaphorically: my child now goes to the senior group of kindergarten, but as a baby, he went to a nursery, where children are put on the potty and their snot is wiped away. Does the OP mean that a group like this is needed on the forum? Should beginners be taught the alphabet? Are you serious? But what about doing something with your own hands and thinking with your head? Or is there an obligation here on the forum to teach everyone Bitcoin? No, no one owes anyone anything here.

Look at the number of people who achieve everything on their own, and if someone can’t, it means either he hasn’t grown up or he’s at another door.

It's simple.

There are dedicated topics to help beginners or newbies but I always believe that regardless of section or child board they can get the details and knowledge they wish to as there shouldn't be any stigma that they have to refer only a certain sections because knowledge is more important and the required factor here.

Beginners have something to offer? I don't think so because they're the same people that have been struggling with the market, some of them are busy scalping the market. Bitcoin have helped most of the top whales in the market, concord to this with every evidence pointed out. Newbies will ask questions in places where they found challenging and they will always put in the work for progress. Newbies are fresh investors in the space and having no complex knowledge regarding the current season available.

It is a really good idea but it would have only helped those newbies who are patient to read them because I still think that some newbies will still hit the skip button if any welcome message that is too long comes up.
 People skip long terms and conditions from companies before using their services most times, it is not because these terms and services are too long to read always, but can be traced to a general lack of reading culture.
To the OP, Newbies who want to learn will learn, while others who do not want to learn will never progress even if all the information is put right in front of them for them to read.

The forum is open for newbies to learn and the board that will give them more exposure to Bitcoin is BEGINNERS AND HELP,even if the forum creates a new board that will enlighten the newbies about Bitcoin and the forum it won't stop them from asking questions like I'm new here, What's a digital wallet, What's the best wallet to store your coin, that's a characteristic of a newbie they are always craving to know at all cost.So there's no essence creating a new board for newbies if you wanna learn as a you should read more on beginners and help and stop asking repeated questions that have been asked, instead they should make use of the search engine and learn more to clear their query.

I would say even if they do create a thread for a query there is no harm because that is the purpose of forum's existence but what's unacceptable is the same query has been asked already in the first page itself but they are too lazy to see that instead they create new one which kind of attitude shows that they are incompetent in reading so asking queries is not going to make any changes either unless they decided to change their attitude and start spending more time on reading instead of writing.

Perfectly said, as a newbie our main goal hear is to learn about Bitcoin and also to invest in Bitcoin, and as well to learn how to manage our asset, sometimes I used to wonder why some newbie will leave what is necessary for them and be doing another thing, as a newbie that's really wants to learn Is suppose to know that been active in this beginners and help is going to help them to understand some many things in the forum, because this beginners and help is a better place for newbie to learn.

Creating a child board is not the solution, because lack of boards, thread or information is not the problem. The problem is, that newbies are not ready to read. If a newbie really wants to learn on the forum he or she needs to read. Everything you need to get started on Bitcoin and Bitcoin forum is already here, so if you read and have questions you can ask, but most newbies want to teach instead of learning.

There are threads in this forum that educate about Bitcoin and the forum. Some newbies don't even read the pinned thread in the "beginner and help" board before they start posting.
Newbies should learn to read, especially the pinned threads on any board before they post.

They can search and find many helpful threads without opening their own threads to ask very basic questions.

They don't need to master how to search with forum tools or outsider search engines to find answers for basic questions but if they want to learn about Searching, they can take a look at

[Guide] Searching effectively

Actually as a beginner I think is advisable to start from beginners and help board, Moreover as a newbie I think that's the best place to start up with. However with the help of beginners and help board you will be thought about the steps to take when making any investment, and also the things you need to avoid as a newbie. However as a newbie there are so many things to learn from the beginners and help board that will guide you, so that should in case you  visit other board you won't find it difficult to make post.

Everyone cannot be the same, if you look well on the way and pattern of how the old members behave and reacts towards related issues like this, you will discover that once a newbie make a post and such had been discussed before, they will correct him to always make use of the forum search engine before making posts, also to do more of reading than postings as well as giving relevant links where such aspect had been discussed.


Nay, it doesn't consume a time to make use for the forum search engine or the google as the case may be, that is why you could discover the button for all these under the search menu, it was there for purpose like this. 

No matter what the forum does to create awareness on newbies to read primary knowledge of bitcoin, they will still keep on creating threads of saying '' I am new here and needs guide'' this is because they will not still read it and they also want to create an awareness that they have also created a topic. So what you said is not necessary because newbies will still act like newbies.

I am also shocked to see that when I clicked on the link you provided, I only saw his merits records on the thread with an empty information. I have always want to have that thread so I can always go through it.

Ratimov had a thread that cover everything about bitcoin and forum as Beginners & Help Encyclopedia, But he took down everything with him when he decided to leave the forum.

Here is the archive from Ninjastic https://ninjastic.space/post/58120908#post_point39 but it doesn't have everything which also I don't know why...

Maybe it is time to recreate such threads by someone else which may work as an ultimate guide for every basic query.

A new board for beginners isn't needed. This is the board they should visit. The problem is, many begin their stay here without reading any of the sticky threads and immediately start with questions. How do I buy bitcoin, what wallet should I use, which exchange do you recommend, etc. Regardless of how many new child boards the admins introduced, they would never be able to prevent that. What I would like to see, and what has been proposed in the past, is a welcome message with basic information about the forum that newbies would see after signing up. Sadly, it seems that idea was abandoned.   

“Beginners and help" two words different meaning. I consider this board as a place where all forum members visit to learn new ideas and information that both benefits newbies as well as old members. Browsing this forum, contents here don't only focus on learning bitcoin terms, it also teaches users about newly imposed ideas on bitcoin and how it'll help forum members. New fraudulent activities relating to bitcoin also get shared here to help save forum members from getting scammed.

A lot of informational help can be seen here. It validates your idea of old members coming to seek help in this same board. Besides, I think Op is asking for a childboard that focuses on newbies alone. Because some of the contents shared here are too vague for beginners to learn. The type of help you see old members seek here may not be easy for us beginners to comprehend the jargons and terms used in the thread. This shouldn't be a problem, beginners can scan through the pages for threads that solves their problem. But, Op only is bothered about the long pages one would go through before getting the right answer. I always get surprised how users easily share links to threads patterning to the question a user asks in the forum.

I understand what you are trying to say op, and it was ones a reality though not exactly the way you had said it(child board). There used to be a thread before now, which was called BITCOIN AND BITCOINTALK ENCYCLOPEDIA(cant really remember the title) created by one of our own. The thread at that time was actually a help as it comprised of all threads related to newbie question, primary knowledge thread and things they should know about Bitcoin and the forum. This thread was well organized and continuously updated with useful and important threads that was helpful to newbies. Some issues occurred with the op and he got angry then deleted it along side all this created posts on the forum.

Creating a child board inside the beginners and help board to me won't be useful as you can always ask your questions on the main board and there will always be some one to reply you. Though creating repeated threads are not adviced as you are supposed to use the search features provided at the top of the forum to find answers to any of your questions. That's because these questions might have been asked and answered already. But if you can't find answers to your questions then you can just create a new thread and ask you will get answers.

Op let me start by stating the fact that your idea is a little vague. Now we already have a beginner and help board and there should not be any child board. Infact if there were what would you name it? Help for newbies?  Never forget the fact that not only newbies need help as many a time I have come across high ranked members of the likes of Pmalek NotATether , BlackHatCoiner, Phillipma1957 and many more ask for some help with some Bitcoin technicality related problems they have a hard time solving.

What you should understand Op is the fact that repeated topics by newbies especially introduction by newbies won't be stopped any time soon it's infact normal already. The best that could happen is that moderators would simply nuke posts that have very low quality and are useless.

A newbie who really wants to learn on the forum will simply find his way to the forum search button.

Here is my look on how to help newbies faster and adequately.
It is obvious that some newbies might not have got any BTC insight, while few may be new to the forum but not new to BTC and crypto generally.

Not to forget and worthy of note, alot of headings has been published here to help newbies concerning this forum and BTC generally. But one thing that happens if you notice is repeated quest, the same or similar queries by beginners about the forum and  BTC at large and most times without adequate assistance or attention.

Making it choking and it also some how chokes to peruse all the thousands of posts made here to get knowledge of the basics of this forum and primary knowledge of btc, this perusal might not be adequate, might also consume unnecessary time.

It becomes pertinent to some how provide beginners with direct to the point of obvious or probably basic knowledge of BTC and the forum at large. So as to guide newbies of primary or child board to visit, as BEGINNERS BOARD becomes Secondary for newbie help, at least the sharing of what has been learned from the primary and other secondary and tertiary knowledge of the forum and BTC to aid newbies. Since the child board will be primary learning guides or courses about the forum and btc as a newbie.

This will to an extent remove repeated questions by newbies as this courses will be designed by experts to handle probable doubts or questions by newbies. Not necessarily moving topics but creating detailed content that aids newbies concerning probable or simple and general information about the forum and common BTC terms.

 To help beginners, most especially new to btc in the forum.
Things like BTC terms, merits and merits related, wallets and all the probable quest of newbies etc handled perspectively as queries relates to one another are well handled.
Newbies being directed to travel through this child board.