Topic: How much time you spend to read forum post ? - page 2. (Read 792 times)

These two points are important, in one side you have to read for your knowledge. And for the another side you have to make thread or even commenting to thread that was made by other people in order to still active in this forum. A comprehension for each people are different when he reads some information, he will have a different illustration with other people, so as when he makes a thread or commenting in the thread will give a new colour as his understanding.

I am not fan of reading but I do like watching pictures especially Memes in line with cryptocurrency. I often seen a lot of pictures and memes on telegram and most of it were really funny.

However some topics are worth it to read like users arguing each other. There are many of that here especially in meta section. The usual topic that is trending and so hit was all about the merit system and the DT trust users. Some DT usets giving negative trust that led to the conflict. LOL

I created this account for quite a long time but I only focus on it for a couple of weeks til now. I agree with OP that new members should spend more time reading forum post to get knowledge and I'm currently doing so. To some point, when knowledge is enough, one can create topic to share his opinion about a problem. I personally set a goal of 3 months. After 3 months from now, I'll start making posts to contribute to the forum.

Basically went someone makes it about Post/Thread i try to reading first, then if the thread/post was really interesting i will find some references to reply that. I will focus on reading went i want really learn about something, from google/youtube i will try to find a lot of information that's i want. by reading you will make more knowledge and will be wort in the future.

I do much more reading than posting, mainly in the hope of being enlightened. It doesn't happen as often as I want.

One of the most bizarre habits that's constantly replicated here is the painfully obvious sign that whoever is posting hasn't read the thread at all. You see people asking questions that have been answered one inch above them or clearly not taking the 1 second that's required to digest the headline.

I've no idea how such people get through life.

I spend less time surfing bitcointalk nowadays. Bear market may be the prime reason. But bitcointalk is really a quality forum where newbies can gather quality knowledge. I personally prefer reading something I don't know instead of just diving with a brand new topic. Bounties used be my one of favorites topic but now it altcoin and serious discussion is. When it comes to the signature, I hardly participate in such campaign but agree with your last point though.

Let's say every one shares the same opinion as you then the forum would have a drastic reduction in new post and an increase in reply to post which can cause huge reply pages to a particular post.
I think as some one else shares and contribute to the forum it's right that once in a while every member try to also be productive as well.
Making post sometimes can be tasking but if you have
*a good idea
*be precise and direct(quality and not quantity)
*orignal
*in an at least understandable English(or local board language as the case may be)

Let's try to give the forum as we take

Sometimes I shared post which I think can help the community, specially PSA's. My last post was about a Youtube advertising fake or a malware version of Electrum. But to my surprised, it was deleted .


Definitely. Everyone should really spend a lot of time here reading around the community because you can really learn a lot, specially those members who have so much experience technically and I admire those guys. Usually before I go comment on certain topic, I click "All" and read the previous post to learn more about the subject matter and just add a few of my own in the discussions.

I love reading different posts here especially about cuptocurrency . I am a newbie and needs to learn more from the experts in here. It so easy to learn in BTT threads because you could find almost all of the answers here.

I absolutely agree with you. People should focus on quality, not on quantity. By making one quality post you have higher chance to get Merit than by making 10 generic posts. But it's not all about merit. More posts means bigger payment from signature campaign/bounty. As long as we have signature campaigns on Bitcointalk, there will be lot of such kind of people who came here just for money, and they aren't interested in crypto and self-development at all.

Gathering knowledge is always a better idea than start posting early. Yeah obviously we are really blessed to have so many genious person on our community. If a newbie follow their creative threads and ideas then its probably going to help them to enrich their own knowledge vault.

I always prefer to develop myself by reading other posts from many sections of the bitcointalk. Honestly I believe that everyone should earn proper information and knowledge before posting something. As an example if you open a thread and readers don't feel it necessary or found nothing interesting then your thread got no value IMO. Its nothing but a waste of time.

Basically some users think that if they make so many post they will get merit. I am completely disagree with that because I think getting merit doesn't depend on making a big number of posts. Anyone will be happy to give you merits if you are able to make quality posts.   

Well, I like both things, but I prefer reading. Every day I spend 2-3 hours on Bitcointalk. Same like @Kakmakr I also trying to follow topics where I have posted recently. There are several reasons why I prefer reading instead of writing. I don't see any reasons to post if I don't have good knowledge about certain subject. There are so many members who have better knowledge about crypto in general than me and they can make more professional, informative answer to question. I'd rather just read their posts and trying to educate myself.
Another reason - Bitcointalk is very active forum and usually when I visit certain topic question to OP question was already answered, so I don't see any reasons to repeat what was already said.
Another thing - sometimes I'm having problems to express myself, and it's not about language skills. I'm not writer neither in English, neither in my first language and I'm not good at communication. Most of people can write same stuff in better style than I do.
And another aspect. For example it's interesting to read stuff in Meta or Reputation sections, but personally, I prefer to stay aside from all drama there.
On the other hand, posting is also very important for me. Damn it - I have made over 5100 on Bitcointalk in total! But I must admit that some of these posts probably can't be considered as quality posts, especially these which I made in my first years on Bitcointalk. Now I'm trying to focus on quality, but usually quality posts requires some time. And unfortunately I don't have enough time, so sometimes I can't reply in some topics just because I don't have enough time.
Well, it's long post, sorry if it was boring to read . But today I have some free time and this subject is interesting for me.

There are not many users have habits to do backwards reading like you, but it is good.
And, I agreed with you at this, as I raised same point above that:
Users have to read first, before they start writing.
No matter how they read, solely forwards reading, or combinations of forwards and backwards reading, they have to read first, before they can write.
There is no option for all, no exception.

If merit is somehow correlated to topic interest, there are a couple of ways to get a glimpse at the most merited threads and browse them based on the amount of merits the threads have received:

a)   Use @LoyceV’s thread to see the most merited topic: Most merited topics (SUM of OP + posts) (UPDATED!).

b)   Use the Merit Dashboard, by selecting the "Rankings" Tab. The Tab contains a table with the most merited threads ("Top Merited Thread Ranking"), whose names can be clicked to go to the thread itself. You can also filter the ranking by date range (to delimit the threads to awarded merits in a certain timeframe) or board (by using the subsection filter i.e. for a setting it to a Local board or Bitcoin Discussion).

I spend almost 3 hours a day just reading comments on people's posts and also new threads being created on this forum. I also have to go back to my previous posts to see if someone posted a reply or question on something that I posted, to give prompt reply to their question or comment.

Some people might think that this is a tedious task, but when you like what you doing, you never get frustrated with the task at hand. It also helps that you getting a small reward for your effort in the form of the signature campaign payments. 

In my opinion "reading" is the most important part of this forum and I just love to read. 

Both reading and writing are very important in the forum, one needs to write for others to have something to read and learn from, and the knowledge gained could be applied in some other form and presented as a post. They both function together, majority would say they prefer reading but I prefer actively contributing to the forum and being helpful to other where I can.

Yes, only when need some to find something and i can't find anywhere on net.
I like to read other posts and find usefull info, here on forum is a lot of info but i don't have time to read them all, in weekend always i read more.

I enjoy both making and reading posts on here. There's very few places elsewhere on the internet with more knowledge on Altcoin and Bitcoin mining than on this very forum, and though I do not post on the Bitcoin mining parts of this forum anymore, this forum helps keep me up-to-date with the most recent miners and other speculation related to mining. Crypto's always growing and expanding in new ways, and you're going to fall behind if you do not read. I find Reddit's better for other non-mining-related information most of the time.

Well, am in a bounty campaign and that requires me to reach a minimum requirement weekly, but I love reading knowledge shared by others and also following relevant arguments. I sometimes surpass the bounty requirements so I can say I also love sharing when necessary.

Well, that is a very organized statement.
Read first before writing, that is right. For me, it takes a few minutes to read in a single topic because there are some topics that already answered by the previous replies. It will cause redundant if you didn't read the previous reply.

I like to go there in meta, scam discussion, and reputation, watching and learning some dramas.
Reading news and updates will probably give you more knowledge to do the writing and posting.