Topic: Newbies Learn From Your Senior Colleagues. (Read 807 times)

One thing I have learnt from the wise men is to always learn the good side from people around us and leave the bad aspect.
Everyone has good side and bad side, so because the person is a high member profile does nit mean that we have to copy and learn everything about how the person behave and do things. It is important for us to always learn from a reputable profile do that we can follow that pattern and improve in it. There are some profiles that have green trusts, we need to go through the trust and read from there so that we can understand a bit about the forum and how things works.

At some point we once were newbies ourselves (on the forum) and we grew to where we're today because we put into the work and efforts as we wanted to improve ourselves. While doing so we learnt from those ahead of us and our mates that were doing better in regards to getting merited more frequently for their contributions to the forum. You can't grow if you don't learn, you might have knowledge outside the forum and be an expert in whenever field you're working or even be a cryptocurency expert but to succeed here you have to loyal yourself and learn from others. Spend some time reading the forum and you'll understand how here works.

The learning can be done in various ways which might be looking at how other high quality users write and respond to thread and try doing the same until it becomes you way of writing. You can also learn by constantly reading the replies of those you consider to be writing excellently. I remember doing the same when I was a newbie myself, I spent more time reading than actual writing. Newbies of today need to do the same, you learn more when you're reading instead of writing what you have no knowledge about which might just end up making you look like a spammers. Newbies need to learn to create less topics and engage more in discussion on the forum.

The presence of a legendary account does not guarantee that its owner understands trading. The main job of such old men is to fulfill the norm for the number of posts in order to receive a reward in the signature company. And it will be very bad for your wallet if you follow the advice of such a "trader".

Not every newbie are novice in cryptocurrency, majority of newbie have already know what's bitcoin and its adoption before been admitted to forum while some of the newbie don't really have pre knowledge or basic knowledge of bitcoin before registering or knowing the platform, so therefore I will tell you that bitcoin is something you can know through Internet, but in the aspect of forum procedures been avoiding of plagiarism and Paraphrasing and research or making a good content that should be what newbie who knows about bitcoin should learn from senior colleagues.

Visiting Meta section and also Beginners&Help is really important for every new member, in my opinion. Because someone, who just registered on the forum can be really experienced and knowledgeable in crypto and can make good informative contribution to the discussion, but he cannot know the required rules which are represented here on bitcointalk. Thus his posts can be missed in discussions or even deleted by moderators because he can unknowingly violate the rules of the forum, as he is unfamiliar with them.

Some of the members ranks up in that time there's no merit requirements and another thing not higher ranks always gives a good quality of post and not all newbies are just new to the crypto itself, those knowledgeable newbies can easily rank up because of their contributions, but for those totally newbies ideal to better follow prominent members, you can see those base on the number of merits they have. I recommend to the newbies to check the meta or Bpip.org most merited and trusted member so they can get an idea what is the ideal teacher to them.

I will also add one to the OP list. Which is, listeners are good speakers which produce good write ups and good presentations. But let me say, there is different between reading and understanding. Someone can read but did not understand what is reading for and that is waste reading. Understand is needed in the process of reading. Yes learning from the experience ones are much more better and self struggling to learn. According to a saying, where the elderly  people see the younger ones can't see there even they use stool or go close to the place. And what does that mean, the elderly give vital information.

OP you're well on track with this admonition post of yours. Wherever we find ourselves our development is tied to how much of a knowledge we have acquired and this knowledge can only be acquired by persistent learning and practice. As newbies in the forum we either learn from the past and future posts of senior members of the forum or from our own questions we throw into the forum, and that's why it good and necessary to follow up  our posts we have created carefully going through some of the interesting comments that could be helpful to our growth and knowledge about certain issues.

One mistake that's not only common to newbies alone but with some senior members too is the abandoning of post after posting it. Never coming back to engage in some comments that might need response from you the OP, in that way learning becomes simpler and faster.

Success may be hard especially for a beginner to rely on himself. He should seek for reputable mentors or  seniors in the forum that can guide him and even teach him how to grow in the forum and be a reputable member as well that other members will also acknowledge its post. It’s accepting the fact actually that we learn to grow and develop our full potentials once we have some reliable people around that can aid us in achieving our goals.

The good thing about the forum is despite of its members differences in mindset and perspective, everyone tries to contribute based on how they comprehend about the topic or thread. So if you are an open minded member, you will actually gain new insights from them most especially from seniors who have more experiences and exposure than newbies. This forum is designed to create an interactive discussion and everyone is expected to learn and gain new sets of information or new insights to rely.

Those with more knowledge at the novice rank will continue to stand out and prove themselves worthy of respect. There are several members who are still active and rank up easily because of their contributions to the forum. It didn't take long to get merit in appreciation of good comments and feedback.
Those who deserve it will not drown in this forum, they will continue to exist and become active members. For new users who just came in and then disappeared, he wasn't serious about developing himself.

I agree that it is positive for newbies to follow the path of other senior members who have been posting here for several years (or even a decade). This way it is very difficult to fail when others succeeded. But one should never put aside the critical thinking either: there are different types of senior colleagues, and while some of them can be great mentors for sure, there are others that it is better not to learn from them just because they got a high rank for whatever reasons.

A profile with a newbie rank on the forum may not necessarily be a newbie to bitcoin and the crypto community. But it’s a good thing some newbies who are really knowledgeable about stuff and knows their onions are distinguished and would easily stand out from the whole lot of newbie profiles on here.
 
Also, I agree with your point on some legendary members being worse off than lower ranking members. Asides all that, I think we could all learn new tits bits of information even from the lowest ranking member who most people would assume are actually newbies and not knowledgeable about certain things.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. The forum has users with initial ranks who write very good posts and contribute. And their efforts are evaluated by quite a large number of merits. Sometimes they do not even have enough activity to move to the next level, however the number of merits already allows it. While we can also see Hero or Legendary rank users who not only have not had a single merit in 120 days, more to say they have very few "earned" merits over the entire existence of the merit system, there are only those which have been given by default for their rank at that time. And thus, these heroes and legendaries have such a rank only because they have gained activity for themselves before the implementation of merits. And their usefulness for the forum and the quality of the posts remain a big question.

Being a newbie does not justify your abilities and capabilities. Especially when you have related experiences from your endeavors before. However, it’s best to still adhere and trust seniors that they will be significant in your growth and development in the crypto market. Know that they have been here at first so they know already how to deal with the market more than you know it for yourself.

Online forum dynamics frequently challenge established hierarchies and assumptions. While appreciation for higher ranking users may come naturally it is crucial to acknowledge and value the achievements of lower ranking accounts as well. A lower ranked member is not always in a worse situation than their higher ranked counterpart. In fact newbies who arrive with prior knowledge can advance quickly and succeed in the forum in a stunning way. It is interesting to see how many new accounts have grown above their original position to become legendary while other seasoned participants continue to hold the Senior rank. Given that all low ranked accounts are on an equal basis this global measure eludes us. People who learn about forums from friends could get inspired by financial goals. Some people may decide to leave the forum or stay safely within the novice rank participating only in social media campaigns when moving up to the next rank becomes difficult owing to a lack of available merit. On the other hand newcomers who join the forum with prior bitcoin expertise have different goal. Their main objective is to improve their knowledge about Bitcoin. They get new perspectives while also taking advantage of the forum financial potential.

It is true what you have said. I would say roughly over 70% of newbies who sign up on this forum are actually newbies to
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency while the remaining 30% already have some sort of knowledge about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. If you doubt that, you check the development and technical board. However, to be a good poster it is paramount that every user must study the post patterns of senior members to get an idea of what is accepted posting pattern and what is not after reading the rules and guidelines.

Many new members have good potential compared to members with higher ranks. We are here talking about knowledge not about how high their rank is. there are many legendary accounts but only a few have good potential and can truly be role models. New members can even have a mindset that can build this forum, can interact in all ways and even contribute well. Members like that deserve to be appreciated.

When you look only at the rank of a user on a forum when learning something, you risk making a lot of mistakes. The topic of bitcoin is so multifaceted that experts on a variety of issues gather here. Someone may have a high rank, and be a good specialist in their field, but they may also answer incorrectly on another question. It's important to try to figure it out for yourself. And sometimes it may turn out that one of the forum newcomers will be an expert in some issue. Not having a high rank on a forum is not the same as not knowing anything. Therefore, it is important, having received advice on the forum, anyway, then independently figure out what was discussed.


When you learn only from other people's words and experience, you can misunderstand everything. And it's good when they can point out a mistake to you. So, having expressed one opinion on the forum, and having received several answers that my opinion is erroneous, I was able to reconsider my view on that issue. If I had only read, I would still be mistaken. It is important not only to study something that others have done, but also to do it yourself, and learn from your mistakes too.

Even though i agree with the OP, I would also add that it is worth learning not only from senior members, but also from the highly merited members. These could be lower rank users, but they show a lot of potential and could be more contributive, than some of the heroes or legendaries, because their contribution is more appreciated by the community and they get merit faster and more frequently. I often look for the most merited members and also for the most merited recent posts and I can find a lot of interesting and useful for myself from this search.