Topic: How to be useful to the forum ? - page 2. (Read 681 times)

Agree. Asking "good" questions that encourage people to think is helpful, not lazy questions when you can get the answer by using a search engine.

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Anyway, a forum is usually meant for discussion, not rank up or whatever, so use it mainly as a forum.

If the purpose of your ID is to rank up and do bounty or whatever, you can try reporting plagiarism, cheater, multi-account users, etc. It's easier than to study for months/years to get knowledge about blockchain.

First, if you want to become useful in the forum you must know many things, know the basics and share it with other members that needed it. Share your opinions, knowledge, and experience about the topic. Try to learn some new things about bitcoin every other day. Keep improving daily.

When you say that your progress slowed, by that you mean the amount of merit you earn has slowed down? If yes, then that's maybe your problem, that you are thinking about merit too much, and ways to earn them instead focusing on learning, and for that there is no better place than bitcointalk forum. So in order to be helpful to others, first you have to help yourself.

Just don't push it and merits will come, as i saw so many members ranking up and no reason for you not to rank up as well, given the time.

I think it's okay not to know everything about everything. After all this community is one place to learn about bitcoin and other related stuff so when you don't know something, learn what you can and ask questions if you want to clarify something or if you think it's necessary.

Just don't put too much pressure on yourself.

Take a look at this, OP. I'm not you but this being said by a senior forum member is enough to keep one going. He founds some of your posts decent enough. That means you also have good inputs about some topics in this forum.

Don't lose heart. You know what they say, "Progress, no matter how slow, is still progress."

Why not ask in the topic itself? You're likely to get a much better answer than Google and learn faster too. There'll probably be plenty of other people reading looking for some sort of explanation too but too shy to ask including senior members. There's plenty I don't know about.

A lot of recent members seem to have this thing about only feeling they can contribute when they've finally developed deep seated knowledge. If it was nothing but world authorities quacking at each other that would make for a massively boring forum.

This forum isn't some glowing palace on the horizon forever beyond one's reach. The point is to participate no matter what your level is.

One of the common reason why we cannot create useful content is because of being lack of knowledge, I know to myself that I am one of them because I am still a beginner of this crypto world and I find so hard to relate myself on some topics here, so one thing that I am doing whenever I don't know the topic is that I use the google search if there is a term that is new for me or I don't understand, it helps a lot, searching before commenting on a certain topic is not that hard and it won't consume so much of you time.

There are always answers to any problem, you just need to be hard work on finding it. We have the internet that can help us a lot, there are many information that we can learn from searching. If there's a will then there's a way, always keep it in our mind.

a) let that not discourage you, i mean, often similiar answer in reality expanding expected result from topic author, even few extra words can make difference of understanding the answer, so just try explain it again but with your own words
b) that is something you can work out. Focus on learning specific thing you can help others with or earn money. For example programming language that you enjoy the most
c) it all depends on your goals here, im here to learn, help and have fun from time to time, thats it, but i see many many people are here to earn money that way or another

This also a useful effort for this forum where you tried to know the way to be more useful in this forum. See protrader786 we have not the same knowledge, some are very intelligent, some are less. So it's normal that sometimes we can understand something/not able to reply. So don't think bad about this. My suggestion will be to focus on which you like most. And You have to learn some basic things about cryptocurrency. Also, you can focus on scam busting. Try to visit scam accusations and see how the scam busters are catching fake/scam projects every day. Hope you will learn something there too.

To make all things easier I will suggest you to visit this forum with a fresh mind. And give your full focus on this forum during sitting in front of the computer.

Achieve something as like what? Join a signature campaign? Earn 1000 merit and become Legendary? Become a well-recognized member of this forum?

Imo this is a wrong approach to using this forum. It's not a career, it's a place to discuss Bitcoin. Just do whatever you want to do, as long as it doesn't brake forum rules. Visit the boards that are interesting to you, read posts, reply to people. Start threads sometimes, if you want to share something interesting with other users. Ask questions, answer questions if you know the answer. But never feel that you have to prove something to someone.

Thanks for all the replies looks like I just got to move with the flow and do what I can do build up my knowledge so as to be more constructive and informative in order to contribute.

I think this forum has benefited or provided most of us here over the past years due to signature and bounty campaigns, that is why instead of making shit or spam post in this forum. We should be making a contribution or quality post because it could be the best replacement as thanks to this forum and other members here who help us from scam accusations and market predictions and analysis. I have also been a shitposter in this forum; that is why I have difficulty accepting every signature campaign. But because of some users here in this forum who have to reach high ranks from low ranks due to making useful contributions that makes me motivated also to make good quality posts.

It's hard to start or make a first move but the next steps to that is much easier once we started to share our insights and ideas. It's normal as newbies that we experience pressure and felt being left-out since we just started and trying to know more. What important is that you learn learn and somewhere along the way I'm sure you'll be able to discover something not yet discussed here on focus about. There are many crypto coins and websites popping every now and then, you might happened to discover them while browsing.
It will takes time and soon it will be easy to express your thoughts once your used in doing it.

I remember being a shitposter in this forum, even though I never thought of being "useful" in this forum. Just opened the forum to meet the standard of the posts for the signature bounty. And I did this for a long time. Isn't that sad?

Until finally I was tired and quit for a few months. Only sometimes open the bitcointalk.org to just see how this forum is or how the crypto world is developing.

I became interested again when I read the posts of members here who shared their experiences to contribute here and be able to rank up "from zero to hero". And initially, I was also encouraged by the presence of a campaign strategy that harms BTC. But at that time I was still confused about how.

So, for more than 2 months, I only focused on reading and studying in this forum. learned from how to contribute well. And finally, I started trying to post back on forums. Even with very modest knowledge. sometimes 1 post takes hours while digging up information to make a post in one thread. I got so much feedbacks, the members here really help me much. From here, many things can be obtained. It's not just about merit, but about how crypto is developing, this technology is about, and about this forum.

To be sure, this forum has provided a lot for me. That is why contributing as well as we can here is really important. And make ourselves to be useful here.

Simply put... Learn, then spread your knowledge to help others.

If you are good at investigating, you can search forum for multiaccounts. Take a look on Reputation section how things are done. All you have to do is to find two or more users using same social media acccount, address or send funds to each other and them send total amount to an exchange. The work is monotonous, but will help to clean forum from cheaters.

I feel the exact same way, it is difficult to analyze if I am improving or not. But despite that, I continue to trust myself and keep on moving forward because I know that there's a good outcome waiting for me. Personally, it is much better to move slowly than rush things without understanding anything. You can share your gained knowledge and impressions to our fellow members, you may think that it's a small act but it can sort out different views. It won't be easy to figure out that lack of something, so go ahead and dig into the information on the forum.

You were just like me OP, take a look and read of this one I made https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.55098212

See? I am not inclined to technology. I get confused all the time they are sharing posts with terminologies and the process how it is done. Even my language is somehow a barrier to attain understanding here in the forum. So, I check local boards for some information to learn. Still outside the local board has great stuff to learn in cryptocurrency. Yet, I learn somehow and continue exploring the forum by active participation in discussion. I sometimes getting corrected too but that is not a problem instead I should be happy getting corrected.

Just do not afraid to try but if not too sure on things or that confusing you, try to search for the thread related to your search or start a thread and ask your questions here directly. Ther are many users here willing to help you. Get back to me if I am wrong.

Sheesh. Sounds like a lot of pressure to be put under. If I'd been told that was what I had to be when I arrived I probably would've buggered off.

Do I regard myself as useful to the forum? Would it somehow be degraded when I finally have that aneurysm on the toilet and disappear? Um, not really.

Forget about it being some sort of civic duty or obligation. That'll make you a boring and irritating poster and I do see quite a few like that. You can feel their consciousness of it seeping through what they write and it's rather gross to witness.

If you don't know something then ask about it. That's just as constructive as answering something. I've learnt plenty when someone's question casts a new light on a subject that I hadn't considered, and it may well be something I didn't know myself but had never gotten around to asking.

What you have that no one else on this forum has to offer is yourself. Be true to that. Find out your area of interest and pursue it. If you try to be what you think others want you to be no one will be fulfilled. And if it's not fun or informative and feels like a total slog then sit back and think about why. It shouldn't be and you won't last if it is.

Trust me, we all have topics we don't have any idea what is being discussed about or what/how to answer. At that point, all you have to do is just keep on reading and researching the said subject if it interests you. For example, I cannot answer to like >85% of the technical stuff and almost anything related to mining. There's more stuff I can not answer to than just that, so we aren't much different. Some members have a very, very broad knowledge when it comes to mining. We all have different interests.

It'd be nice if you could find some way to offer something for BTC on here - the more people offering stuff we have, the more Bitcoin grows. But that is not a requirement. I have personally tried launching a little signature campaign management service, but I did not have much success. Try to find a niche that hasn't been discovered yet. You might do great.

What exactly is it? Try to find out. You're probably trying way too hard to post threads wherever possible to just get those merits. A lot of my merits came from posts I never thought would get rewarded. Take your time to look through threads and reply whenever you feel like you have a point to make. Otherwise, it gets exhausting and annoying to reply to stuff you aren't interested in.

My post count per day has drastically slowed down as well lately for many reasons - not having as much time as I had a few months ago is one of them. The thing is, it's much better to post once per day but have a higher-than-average quality than posting 5 more times and spamming everywhere.

So long story short, just reply to stuff you're interested in and try to prioritize quality over quantity (what an ironic statement coming from me, the probably longest and most boring reply writer around here). Things will get better in time.

There are a lot of things you can explore right here on our forum if you think you do not have any talent or skills that you can offer on our services you can try different things so you can make it. I'm one of the old members right here and it's too hard right now because I'm not currently active on creating some threads but still I'm doing my best too to earn merit as for now.

I feel you right now but still, look forward to getting more courage and help your self on making any improvement you are still you right here you can learn more and share more, good luck mate.