To be honest we are all getting benefits from this forum. It could be money, knowledge or experience. But what we are contribute for forum? What is our role to improve forum? Did you think ? You shouldn't help to improve and build a decent forum? I think there is so many option to help and build a decent forum that we could keep our roles.
This post especially dedicated for newbieI don't know if there is others similar post but everyone have different opinion. So I will describe my own opinion how can we help and build a decent forum;
Introduce new people's:Somehow this forum introduced to us by others. May be our friends, family or other social media. This forum created by
satoshi to
introduced and expands knowledge about Bitcoin. So we can help this forum by introducing new people's in order to build a strong community of Bitcoin. Although currently many alt coin board is here to discuses about others cryptocurrency. So by inviting new members you can spread the word about cryptocurrency on the world and build a strong community.
Follow rules & Explain rules;First we have to follow
forum rules for build a decent forum. Once you invite or introduce someone you should explain him/her about forum rules. Don't just invite for earn money, they should meet the rules of this forum. This is the most important thing for this forum. A newbie should know about rules, spam, merit system, trust system and others. It can't possible to make a decent forum without following rules. This is your responsibility to explain all the thing once you invite someone's. You can read all important post
[GUIDES] on Bitcointalk. Index thread, so it will be more easy to explain others.
Avoid spam:We should avoid spam ourselves, before posting any board we must read pin post. Spamming is the main problem now in this forum. People's just replying unnecessary for signature or for increase activity. Our reply should constructive according to original post. We should avoid relying or posting those think already discussed on this forum. In case if you made a post that are discussed already before and someone mention you, you should locked or delete the topic in order to avoid further spam. If you have any question search before you make post and you should lock thread after got answers. So other people's will not able to spam on your thread. Don't reply if you don't have proper knowledge according to main thread.
Report spam:You can see there is option report to moderator on right bottom of every post. Use it once you found spam post. If you find any post that are against of forum rules then help forum by reporting moderator. Once you report a post moderators will handle it. Lot of important discussion lose for spamming. You can report easily from patrol, especially newbie spammers. You can follow this post how to report and when you should report.
[Guide] Reporting effectivelyReport corruption: Lot of corruption occurring on forum, you can identify them and post on
Reputation to take appropriate action by moderators and default trusted(DT) member's. Like bounty cheater, merit abuser, scammer and others which is against of forum rules. Since there are many scam ICO on this forum, you can report it on
Scam Accusation board. So people's can save their money from scammers. You can read this thread
how to identify scam ICO.
Share your knowledge and Help others:You can help people's by sharing your knowledge and experience. It's not important a person should have knowledge on every subject but which subject you know best just share it with community. May be someone will learn from you. But it should be crypto related knowledge. Off topic are not much important and you should avoid it. If you want discuss off topic there is a board for
off-topic. If if you have best idea to improve this forum you can suggest to
meta. But it should be helpful for forum.
Hand over your smerit:Whoever are making quality or useful topic they are receiving merit from others and obviously they deserve it. So if you one of them(received merits) then please don't hold your smerit, just handover to others by send merit on quality post. If you not found quality post then at least spend your smerit on good post. Holding your smerit is not any benefit for you. So please try to help others especially to low rank.
Default Tust (DT) member selection: *New*
Forum give us opportunities to choose DT member ourselves. As well as you know DT members help keep forum safe and clean, especially from scammers. You can keep your role on selection of DT members if you already earned more then 10 merits. You can vote a person for selection of DT if you earned 10 merit. So if you earned 50 merit you can vote 5 people's. For more details you can read
DefaultTrust changes. How can you vote ? It's very simple, just go to your
Trust Settings, add the name on empty box taht you like to vote and click "Update". So help forum by selecting DT members whoever deserve according to your opinions.
However, never mind if you are not agree with me. I just share my own opinion.