Topic: NEW PEOPLE JOINING INDIAN SUB: INTRO AND MERIT - page 3. (Read 1847 times)

Really? I am not aware of merit sources been awarded to our local baord.

I saw Heisenberg_Hunter applied to be a merit source but I thought he is awarding merits recently from personal sMerits.

Not a newbie, but still consider this as an intro about myself.

I clearly don't remember how I stumbled upon this forum. Most probably it would be a Google search. But back then I was focussed mainly on doing social media bounties which I later understood to be a mere waste of time to gain few useless tokens. Lately, I understood that I shouldn't be focussing on earning useless tokens rather than improving my understanding of cryptocurrencies in general. I do like the opportunity available in the forum for earning Bitcoin through signature bounties. Nowadays, browsing through the forum and reading stuff amongst my daily work schedule has become more of a habit. Happy to be part of the friendly community.

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There are 2 merit sources who are very much active in our local board. It's too bad that you still can't identify them.

It's good to see Indians are talking about merit and helping to others, but a year back there is no way to get merit and never seen such threads here. I left the forum long back and just started to see this lovely activity. I am hoping to reach member level soon by spending most time here.

^AFAIK,there is no official merit source who is active on India local board but we have few members who is hoarding lot of sMerits to spend,I guess which is enough for our community members by now but if more people comes we need merits sources who generates merits every month not from our personal earned merits.

Good to see you Rohan. checked both of your threads and you are offering a service that has a lot of competition. Yet, from what i have seen other managers do on forum, perseverance is the name of the game. Someone was asking for a free vouch on your whitepaper design page. Not sure why they think its free though.

That is awesome if you are taking trading seriously. The good thing is that it can be applied as a skill outside too. I have never gotten into the nitty-gritty of candles and what not but it is always good to have members like you who are trying to be productive here at the forum. Hope to see you around often.


Hello akram. We do have a few merit sources now waiting to give merit to newbies who would like to engage. Granted its not much, but it is non-zero for sure.

Indian board have very few active members compared to other local boards and we doesn't have a merit source yet and no moderator since Benson stepped down from moderating so the available members have to support each others and make this board more active and less spam.

It is really nice to see you guys supporting Indian members to rank up. I won't be posting this to gain any merits but I would like to share my experience about how I personally joined this forum. I was working as a freelancer first before I joined with bitcointalk. I am always eager to work for bitcoins/or any other coin and hence it drew me on this forum. I have tried to launch some services here but got none response yet which is because I lack with my portfolio I guess.
I'll work for some projects for free to add some projects in my portfolio and perhaps it will help me get few jobs here.

Seriously speaking, I had no intentions to join the signature campaigns to make a part-time income as I was not even aware about it before I could join this forum. (But, I have intentions to earn money by offering my services though )

This forum has taught me a lot of new things which includes trading. I am finding much interest in trading only because of the "trading discussion" section which helps me a lot in my analysis.

Most of the posts in dishwara's welcome topic is by scammers and newbies hunting for money, sharing off-topic posts with referral code spams, Thank You posts and something similar to that. Neither of these posts served the purpose of topic nor were helpful/informative. Well, newbies who are joining here should understand that a forum is different from a chat room. Perhaps forum users shouldn't post a single word like "Thank You", "Good Community", "Happy to part of this" but rather they should indulge in a discussion by sharing their thoughts.

Similar to bitcoin being advertised as a hyip scheme to our Indians, this forum was advertised and used as a earning ground for bounty shitposters to post their shit. Most of the Indian bounty hunters never really understand the meaning behind the creation of a discussion forum and a chatroom. This is the basis for themselves becoming a shitposter with very less knowledge gained from the forum and bitcoin as a whole.

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I like your idea of reconstructing the "Welcome to Indians" topic, but can you start a new topic and write a short, catchy and helpful intro (similar to the one you have mentioned above), redirect them to some of the helpful Beginner topics (like taxes topic by webtricks, Bitcoin Status in India topic by teosanru and bitcoin resources topic by myself) along with the Raffle/lottery stuffs and other interesting discussions in the global forum?

If you reconstruct the whole thread, by creating a new topic along with listing some useful beginners links most of us can report them constantly and get it pinned as we did the earlier topics.

See this :

I have updated the topic to give the new people joining Indian sub to introduce themselves and have a chance to gather around the fire and listen to some old men's tales related to Indian forum and bitcoin in general. This post is meant to bump this topic to relevance.
There is a pinned thread by dishwara but the people who came there did not find much response. So, I am proposing anyone new to introduce here so they can be seen and heard. Welcome again..

+1 merit for you just for being honest. I liked the way you confessed how the sole intention of yours (and most people who visit and join the forum) is to get involved in a signature campaign and how beautifully you dealt with your mentality, changed it and came out being a better person than before. Now I believe that Merit is good as it teaches users the cost of hard work and knowledge here and glad to see someone actually changed due to it.

Yeah I just ranked up! Back when I joined I was actually looking forward to ranking up and participating in signature campaigns here. Funny how that never worked out and then I was behind the merit gate. I remember legendster helping me a lot back then. Then there was that other guy that talked funny. Subal damudar, he's a long time member too but I never see him online..

Thanks for clarifying that I may also see 'shit' here which I never said in my words. If I see anything of my interest  including your Jio annual meet (I am a fan of Mukesh Ambani for what he has given you guys) or the blockchain summits in India, I go first and read more about it and if I see that there's no 'shit' posted and the words are properly set up by a user, I can merit those posts. If this sector would not be of any interest to me I'd never visit it. And don't mind, but you can't judge someone's reach just by where they live as we're all globally united so we all keep news about each other. I have friends in India who can make me understand better if I don't get whatever you are linking it to. And come on, you can't just copy and paste an article's word to word paragraph and post it here and expect us to merit it, it's someone else's work.

You can understand but it may looks shit for you or don't have any idea about we were talking even if you understand because it is in English.

For example people here discussing about jio annual meet and blockchain implementation but others may not know what it is about.

As I see, most of the posts here are in English instead of the local language so I can try to be helpful here if I find any post that qualifies and meets my merit standards.
Answer me this, if members from any country cannot differentiate and categorize between quality posts and bad posts, do they deserve to be merited? Those who don't have the knowledge of what are quality posts should not expect it from me at least.

People from other countires may not know what post to be considered as qualitative.SO definitely someone from India need to be here as merit source.

And also no mod here made this place drown under spams threads.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.49687220

This is my own thread where I await some good posts to merit them myself. I will say that merit sources like DarkStar_ are very much active in local boards and never hesitates to merit users if they have posted something that deserves one, so don't you think that they are not active. I went through this India local section and found that there are very less posts that seem to get merited as most of other posts are marketplace based, like trades and reputation threads.

I have talked with Benson outside of this forum a few years back and he was a really mature fellow and share the same mother tongue and then i saw him appearing in the media and after that i never had any conversation with him but i still did not like the way in which they carried their business by having one person have the entire private key to the funds, they could have made a multi signature wallet which is the best practice and he is well aware of the risks if you entrust everything in one person.

If there is a merit source here in this section we will see good posters and a moderator to take care of the reports is what we need to have a clean forum. The major reason majority are not visiting this section is because there is a lack of good topics here for discussion and if there is a combined effort with the help of admin we will have an active community here.

Congrats, you just ranked up. Looking forward to having you actively participate on the Indian board.

You can keep listing topics here that deserve to be merited but currently I don't find any much posts here worth meriting except few users trying to post off-topics here.

This was an excellent post posted by webtricks.

Welcome Sujoris. You have an old account but seems like you gave up on the forum for sometime. I can understand that this may have happened after the Merit thing happened.
Yet, It'd be great if you can be more active and just create content. Maybe something India-centric. The forum has a lot of potential and it is up to each one of us to make the best use of it. If for nothing else, then for interactions that can pave way for real engagements in the future.

Each person working in his capacity sincerely and trying yo be better is an asset to community and to the decentralized economy.