Topic: Enjoy being a newbie - page 5. (Read 920 times)

Why are people even trying to grow their accounts, when they can focus on growing their knowledge instead? I know signature campaigns are nice, but there's MUCH more money to be made if you actually know this industry inside and out.

You are right mate, I know how many days, even got to a month that I kept watching and learning about the activities here before I was able to make threads and even reply topics here it really isn't easy at all as everything will look so scanty in the eyes like it feels like someone who is in another part of the world as it isn't what people outside this forum are thinking that you will be thinking, your approach and lifestyle begins to change as soon as one join this life changing forum.

Your discussion with people changes and tend to even interact more with people here than outside here. It's really a great experience and I'm glad I found this transforming forum and I would really want to thank the people that made this forum a reality and stood strong for many years now though I don't know all of you but as you'll can see your efforts are yielding fruits.

I see it less necessary to create topic thread as a lower rank member, my thoughts should still be based on reading and trying to gain much knowledge.
I won't call it lack of self confidence but I think at this my level of ranking am not even at a very good position to create threads and start teaching because I see very well experienced members which am not yet qualified to teach them because I still have a lot to learn from them. So I do more good than harm of reading, answering and asking questions that Is of utmost interest

No one is asking you to appear better than you are. On the contrary, it is easy to know if a person is participating for the sake of learning and for merit points. Focus on learning, learn daily for an hour (read books or watch YouTube videos), and I am certain that the knowledge that will be You have enough within a month to write high-quality posts without needing to plagiarize.

For a newbie I believe no question is a useless one it all depends on how you asked it, where (the board) and when (prior to the time asked has it been already addressed). These are a lot of factors that's bothering around newbies thread questions. I recall plenty times my threads were batched with different opinions that sucks all because it has been discussed many times why asking again, for the newbie it was just a honest question's waiting to get a an accommodating reply that should be welcoming but no... Old member have to show they are old members 
In the forum the newbie ignorance is what every member of the forum had passed through and we all understands the challenges that tag along that circle and one of those challenges is the fear of not making mistakes wanting to impress the older guys in the forum. What I think is no newbie should be scared of making mistakes for it's from them that we learn faster than when anyone drops a random reply in our thread.

If we must be honest with ourselves, it is not easy being a newbie in a forum like this. You will be overwhelmed by many things such as the rules of the forum and each board, how to post, quote, add image and many things. Even though there have been threads raised to address all these, searching for them and being able to understand what was written in those threads can be challenging especially for those who are not into coding. It is even worse for people who are new to Bitcoin and the blockchain technology.

One thing that is certain is that the process will become easy with time if the determination is there. As a newbie, there is no point rushing the process or struggling to impress people... just be yourself, ask question and commit some time to reading because that is the way to grow here.

The forum is mainly concerned about newbies, and a lot of beginners' questions has been tackled by intelligent and worthy top ranked members. As a newbie it feels good deep down our thoughts to craft a difficult looking thread to please the high ranked members. But, that doesn't make us newbies. Though, silly or repeated questions are not welcomed in the forum. Yet, they're some easy questions we would want to ask as newbies, but because it makes us sound as true novice, we'd want to bypass asking them. As we'd want to show the forum members, we're doing enough research and reading about bitcoin and the forum entirely. And, most times such threads, centering on teaching, may not help us as newbies because what we tend to teach we can't relate or follow up in the discussions.

Such things, has caused many newbies to fall for plagiarism and as well dumping their threads without participating in the discussions happening under the thread. Being a newbie in the forum is almost a one time experience for every member and we must behave as one. Feel free to ask those questions that sounds and looks too simple to you. That's mainly what other members would entertain and send us reasonable advises and responses to. Thereby, gradually helping your learning process in the forum, with lesser stress.

Coining out a thread on what we don't fully understand, just to stand out, and look like a very intelligent newbie may not help our growth in the forum. Because this section is mostly visited by every member to entertain and answer questions from newbies. And because most basic bitcoin knowledge may have skipped our minds we tend to refresh our memories here, by providing those answers to simple questions. Hence, I'd encourage newbies to always come up with those questions, which they think is too basic or simple and need not to be asked. Feel like a newbie as it's a one time experience here, you'd learn faster when you admit and accept being a newbie.

I've seen newbies creating long copy and paste threads, which ends up not being attended to because of the plagiarism and the volume of the thread, and as well the OP not following up with what they've said to back up the knowledge shared. And when after investing hours creating those threads, the applauds they expected doesn't appear, they'll feel not being good enough. Enjoy the process.