Topic: Have you noticed many newbies/junior members opening threads lately? - page 3. (Read 651 times)

I see that a lot (beginners and jr create a new topic).

For me there are several possibilities to do and stated for it.
1.beginners or accounts that have been blocked and create new accounts, I see their posts already know the questions and answers perfectly and also from a few words or quotes.
2. Newbies who are completely new to Bitcointalk, they really want to know the true discussion about Bitcoin on Bitcointalk.

These two factors that come to my mind about this: (real newbie) and (fake/ex-starter).

I think you have the right impression, though I'd be curious to know for sure with statistics.  What I do know is that I've noticed the same thing--and it's most likely because if you have a 14-page thread, members are much less likely to actually read all the way through it (unless it's a very juicy drama thread of the type we'd get in Meta when Lauda and Vod were around).

And OP, no I haven't noticed noobs or Jr. Members starting up a lot of threads as of late, but I've got a lot of sections on ignore and thus could be missing them if that's the case.  But I do think new members think (rightly or wrongly) that if they create threads they're more likely to earn merits for doing so.  Sometimes they do, but older members--usually ones with sMerits to give out--tend to be very skeptical about threads like that, since so many Newbie/Jr. Members have created threads in Meta about topics like merits, trust, or whatever, and they usually come of as blatant merit-seeking posts.

It could be true, though.  But without some statistical analysis to back it up, then yeah, it is just an impression--but as I said, it's one I have as well.

Yep, I've noticed that as well and it drives me nuts.  Why start a thread if you don't want to actually have a discussion about something?  Whenever I've created threads, I don't think I've ever not posted in them again.  I think those members who do that are just trying their luck as far as getting merits for their post.
Edit:  Oh, and I also have noticed that those thread starters never hand out merits for members who post in their threads.

It's just your impression.

That is pretty obvious. Would you ever go in the 14th page of your google search? Same thing applies for merits in these pages.

That depends on the sub-forum. If they created a thread in Bitcoin Discussion, they may never reply again. If they have a query in the Dev & Tech sub-forum, they'll most likely reply.

It's harder in practice than in theory. Not to mention that there are many spam busters in this forum; that and the merit system discourages someone to get a lot of traffic by spamming.

Just an assumption but I guess we're gonna be heading again with the 2017 surge of newbie accounts being created and got lot more of traffic? If it's good or worthy enough to receive a merit then why not? I don't think there's an issue on it unless it's just spam or not appropriate on the board. This is far more the active forum for cryptocurrencies (I guess apart from reddit?) and it's not surprising newbies come and go and create new topics when they haven't an answer to this question.

What you said is true but certainly for temporary, in short period of time, a quality post in page x may get unnoticed (that would be altcoin discussion board for sure), however, after a few days, it’s possible that the post will be discovered by someone and get enough merit.
In case, they don’t receive enough merit, help them to get what they deserve- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/self-moderated-report-unmerited-good-posts-to-merit-source-5093271

Before they ask questions by opening a thread, they should take the time to use the search feature and see if their question might have already been asked.

The only thing I've noticed is that when "newbies/junior members" open a thread, in most cases the did not leave any post after they've opened it.

Often they ask different question or share their opinion. They get numerous answers or posts where people disagree with them. But they never post back. They dont post a single "Thank you" after they got posts with answer to their question or a step-by-step guide with solution to problem they had. Or for example they claim that "the earth is flat" and want to discuss that, but never respond on opposite facts other users present.

I cant explain why they behave like that. Sort of a posting to get more activity on account.

I have the impression that the same idea expressed in an OP or on page 1 or 2 of a thread is more likely to receive merit than if expressed in a comment on page 14. That's just my impression though. I don't know if some statistical savant like DdmrDdmr will have statistics on this.

And I didn't say it's wrong, by the way.

Most of them that I see seems to be asking questions, isn't that the right thing to do, to start a thread so you can get a variety of answers also, it's not like it's bad, the problem is that there are people out there that are posting thread about conspiracy theories.

Not true at all. If you are generating quality post, you will get merit. No matter it’s a reply or a thread itself. Without quality, no matter what you create, you are unlikely to get merit.
Regarding creating thread, I see no problem with that if the topic is something to discuss about, if the topic isn’t discussed hundreds of times. Then there's nothing wrong to create a thread.

I don't know if it's just my impression or what. And I don't know if it's just a coincidence. What is clear is that if you open threads (if they don't suck) it's easier to get merits. I don't know if they know it and that's why.