This came to my mind and I was pondering on the topic in and I outline some of the things that should be done to do or to make or create a quality post or comment and I came to the conclusion that it is easy for someone to make a quality post and comment if only the following steps are followed by the low quality posters.
Your subject area or field of study: in real life you must be good in a particular subject, such as English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Government, Political science, Computer and other Skills which you good with. So as you came to the forum at first your brain is blank and you don't even know where to start from and this make many to back off. While some post out of point threads and comments. Now if you Carefully look at the forum all the subjects or the courses I mentioned above, their terms are used frequently in the forum from one board to another. So what you have to do is to look for the particular board your subject terms or course terms are frequently in used and make comments there always, and when you have topics to create based on the discussion you involved in then you can do that to see you strength.
Then when you have mastered that board, you can come out to other boards to make comments but on the topics which you can make comments and not any topic you see. And also in gambling board which is also a general board in the forum. In that board, there are different topics to discuss. Football, casinos and other sports activities which you can discuss freely with issue but this particular gambling which I think would have been an easy place for people to make comments is the most difficult board for people to participate. I also discovered that most of the newbies are banned from that board. If Chelsea and Arsenal playing a game and you are a fan, all what you need to do is to support your team and predict that they will win or they will loss and there is no need to go and copy article from somewhere and paste it.
All what I am saying is that just specialize in the area you know that you are good and base (stay) on that board. Then when you mastered the board then you can raise your head to other boards. If you know the local board is good for you at the initial time then base (stay) there to improve yourself. Many people are making low quality posts because they want to rank up at all means when they have not even understand how the forum work and finally got ban. For those who has local board, stay on your local boards to learn more then sometimes you can come out to Beginners & Help to ask questions or post. Quality Post is guaranteed if you post in the area you are good in real life.
OP I won't disagree totally disagree with you on this, but first of all this forum is a social community and I don't think there is any real pattern to making a quality post, everyone here has different opinions and views on different matters and would also react likewise, even the merit system is designed to function that way too, anyone that is pleased with the post you made would merit you and there is no logic to it, just that many newbies abuse the power of freedom to make topics that's makes no sence.
IMO to make a quality post all you need to do is have some experience or knowledge in that area, so far on my little time on this forum my most merit came from sharing my experiences and beign of help to others and if anything should have followed is constructing you idea properly to be understood by the reader, although I've done research about bitcoin from time to time, there was even a time I made a topic on the entire history of bitcoin and guess what no single merit on that topic, not because it was a shit post but because it was all research and no experience.
I think 70% of people on this forum knows where and how to do research and get even the latest update and if that was the logic to making a quality post
(and in this case I am grading quality post by merit) then everyone would be an expert at doing so, cause its not that hard to make a long note about all you've read but it's hard to share real experience if you don't have it.
Making quality post is all about your level of experience and knowledge in that area and how helpful it was to the reader, stop giving logic to thigns on this forum, the only logic here are the forum rules which is a must to obey, the rest are just pattern which can change and its a social community, everyone would have a different view on what a quality post should be.
Thanks man, helped a lot.
Now this is an example of a shit post to me, it has no feelings attached to it, at least you should have told us how it was helpful to you and shared your own opinion in that area if you had any.
I think I'm right when I say quality post is as a result of experience and not research, cause you can know a lot and have nothing to say but you can have little experience and have a lot to teach out of that experience.
Only reply to posts you have knowledge about. It is not a must that you join every conversation.
It's as simple as that, nothing more attached than this, being clear and easy to understand, maybe if most of the members often times go through some of the pinned threads and posting etiquettes, they will always have it in mind on the required ways and standard to use in making a post, the forum does not only encourage for making a post for any sake, but a quality one, our posts must always be inline with what is being discussed and if we had no idea about it, then we should find another discussion we could give our best contributions.
I agreed with you mate, it's should be all about sharing your experience and making helpful contributions than just trying to fit in where you have no knowledge except in a case where you want to ask questions which I've done a lot myself.
I enjoy posting in the economy speculations board cause that is where I am mostly interested in bitcoin and was my major concern beign on this forum to learn to invest and I've gotten most of merits from that board, and I think it's because I've happened to grow and understand a lot practically, and if many newbies embrace this pattern of learning then they would make a lot of progress in this forum than to be flying around without having a niche to call their own.