Topic: Note to newbies (Read 568 times)

There is certainly no informative forum with people and contents to better trash out the course and nature of Bitcoin, Altcoin, trading activities and detection of scam oriented platforms than the Bitcointalk forum.
Here, your not only thought the how and basics in the cryptoshpere by the ideas of an individual but you have a whole community eager to help you  clarify your doubts, points you towards the right projects and answer all your questions on cryptos.

I think you're right.
It's probably in some way logical and normal that at the very beginning here on the forum were mostly btc enthusiasts and that no one thought too much about making money.
BTC signature campaigns came later and as bitcoin grew so more and more people got involved.
As a result, this forum has become more popular and more and more members have joined from all over the world.
There is nothing wrong with that, of course, as long as it complies with the rules.
But lately there has been a lot of spam, plagiarism, accusations and other things on this forum and that is something that isn't acceptable.
We don't need such members and I sincerely hope that most new members will accept the rules of conduct and forum rules and be constructive members.

Even a blind man do ask questions, even if he ain't seeing where he is heading to, so probably asked for directions so it's a good advice to everyone who really want to gain big dont take empty promises as a guarantee of making it in life.

The goal of establishing this forum is to learn and provide the largest possible number of information and benefit, but first and foremost we need to read the rules and adhere to them well in addition to that we need to read all the posts and topics carefully before giving and presenting an opinion and evaluation of this participation and we must take care of the fraudsters as much We could have mentioned you are always there and waiting for any chance of theft and fraud

I presume you did not lock the thread yourself, but rather a Moderator or an Admin. It does seem a pretty early lock, so once again you’d have to query a Moderator or an Admin as to the reasons. If you did not lock the thread yourself, you cannot unlock it (you get a message that states "This was locked by an administrator. You cannot unlock it. "), but you can ask a Mod/Admin to reconsider.

The Moderatos for the Gambling board are Cyrus and hilariousandco. The Admin (besides Cyrus) is theymos. Scroll any of their profiles to the "Additional Information" section, under which you’ll find the "send this member a personal message" option. Use that to communicate with them.

Hi there, I have made a post the 6th of July regarding an issue with Luckyfish exploiting kids ,
and I found my post locked today.

Unfortunately I can't stay in this site much as I do not gamble and not really  into crypto,  I registered  purely to have infos and advice which I did not recieve as I was not actually aware so many people are ok with kids gambling.

However I would like to know why my post was locked as I did not have a chance to reply to kind people and wanted to say thanks to them.


Is there a way to unlock my post?
How can I contact the admin?
Apologies for all this questions but im out of my comfort zone here.

I agree with you with everything you say, and I see that the most important thing is to read the rules, understand them and adhere to them well, and we must stay away from all the people who make promises and offerings as these people are definitely fraudsters and their goal is to steal and fraud

Nah, it was not lost totally. What just happened is that the motivation of most members changed. New members keep coming here not because they wanted to become part of the community only but also to try their luck on campaigns. Nonetheless, I don't see anything wrong about sig campaigns. It doesn't deteriorate the forum IMO — the toxic members do.
The admins do not have the answer, everything depends on us. Whether there are campaigns/bounties or any kind of opportunity existing or not, the peace and orderliness of this forum depend on how we all behave. That's it .

Of course, the original purpose of this forum was not to make money, but to gather the bitcoin community, share information, learn etc.
However, somewhere along the way that original purpose of the forum was lost and now probably at least 90% of the posts on the forum are written to meet the conditions of the signature campaign 
The forum is therefore much more active of course but is it good in the long run?
I guess it's questions for admins.

It was true for some who were making dozens (maybe more) alt accounts to make money through sig campaigns. With such an approach, they could comfortably earn more than the average salary in their countries. And that, as it turned out, is one of the main problems on this forum.

The purpose of this forum is not about earning profit. Satoshi Nakamoto said it himself that this forum is for sharing and helping other crypto enthusiast about the problem they have experience. Therefore, bitcointalk forum is for discussions and not for earning as some.of the forum members think this is some sort of forum that let you earn income as main income which is not true.

I don’t think one necessarily has to exclude the other. It is very realistic that all new members (after spending some time on the forum) have the opportunity to earn something and at the same time educate themselves about crypto related things.


The biggest problem, as it seems to me, is that most 'new members' are not actually new members but dozens or hundreds of alt accounts of existing members trying to trick the system. Until there is a way to reliably detect alt accounts and limit the number of alt accounts per user, this forum will become increasingly congested with shit and spam posters.

I think it also comes down to the reason why a newbie comes here from the first place. To earn fast or to learn. Some just wanted to earn fast so they didn't really take time to read, they jump right away to anything they see about earning, and most of them if not all are just scams. They can't really separate scams from legit cause they ain't that knowledgeable in the first place. And I think we all can see if a newbie is here to gain merit from his first few posts.

If a newbie comes here to learn, we don't even need to tell them to read cause they will do it even without someone telling them to. They will be silently reading, cause that's the reason they are here, they will start to post as soon as they have something to contribute. And the best way to contribute here is to be knowledgeable.   

Newbies should learn that gaining knowledge must be the area of their interest because they will encounter people with bad intentions and their thorough understanding will help them to evade it. There's plenty of scams that sound extremely good to be true and eye-catching, so we have to be wary. As I see it, many of you get easily tricked on because you have not made a great effort on investigating before risking. It is strenuous to start as a newbie, but there's a way to help yourself to move forward.

The Bitcoin forum is much different from other forums on the Internet because it offers what others don't have - the possibility of earning money.
This makes it a real magnet for many people because who doesn’t want to make money online? 
I don’t think it’s just realistic to expect from most new members to read forum rules or older posts since they are not interested in it.
They are only interested in 1 thing here and that is the possibility of making money and that is a reality that will not change.
Of course, there are new members who are really interested in bitcoin or technology, but they are in the minority, I think.
I think that there is simply no help here and that we will have a lot more discussions like this.

I'd like to emphasize, the word continuous process, it is indeed a continuous  process even a high ranking members of this forum must continue to learn new things it is not only for newbies, I myself never think that I already knows everything or many things I still a lot of things to catch up because many things or new knowledge are coming in, the technology is still evolving.

The saddest thing is that topics like this have been created dozens of times. And everywhere the theme of reading forum rules for beginners is emphasized. But today's Newbie is either very lazy to learn and understand the rules, or for them to be on the forum is not important, they are in a hurry to make a profit. From here it turns out that they do not disdain plagiarism, begin to spread spam en masse.
Only a small fraction of Newbie comes here to study Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies.
It would be great if beginners read these tips.

There are a lot of fraud sites and beginners are the people most vulnerable to these sites because they have little experience so they must check any work before starting it and not believe any offers or big profits offered by these sites and we must always check the date of the site creation and proof of payment before starting work with it

On the start in this forum, I don't have enough knowledge and skills, all I just do is read a lot of stuff on this forum by the time goes by I don't want to become a reader only instead I want to share my knowledge too but still, it requires to have a lot of help came from other people to make a correction on my mistakes.
Still, with the help of the search engine and internet, it is easier to find the information so we can now prove the information which is becoming more helpful.

I would like to encourage make a lot of research, share your thoughts, give time and effort to learn. For now, some of the improvements I saw is most of the newbies today are making a constructive post and gained merit immediately.

Any positive message to newbies is ever very good in how you can to making community, which is represented in the forum rules, but mainly in common sense.

I do not consider myself an expert or a novice, I think I am in the "NN" (non-Newbies) and whenever I can I will consult the forum rules, it is something that should be done always, in fact there are several issues related to forum rules that are always changing.

Being informed is the key to success in this forum. So, reading the forum rules is part of that.

Just remember not all Newbie accounts are actual "newbies"    A lot of these people lurked around, but never actually registered to post something on the forum. They might have been into Bitcoin for years, but they have not heard about Bitcointalk.org or they used one of the other Crypto currency forums. 

Your advice is still good for the genuine newbies out there who signed up for the first time... but many of them will never even see your thread and some will see it, but greed will cloud their judgement and they will fall for these scams. 

I agree with you with everything you say that this forum is very cool and useful and we must read the rules of his posts and understand them carefully and at the same time that this forum is full of fraudsters so we must be careful and stay away from them as much as possible and we all were initially beginners but after a period of time we were able to We become professionals by following this forum

Yes, you are right.
This forum is really a place to learn, but they post unexpectedly to increase the activity without realizing that there is a way to income. Which is considered spamming. So I think you should read the rules of the forum and follow them carefully no matter what the purpose of the forum is.
Then one day it will be seen that the forum will be known as an honorable person.
Because everyone grows from small to big.

The main objective of beginners coming here for the first time is learning, many beginners are subjective to quick money schemes which is apparently a sick end of every rush. Successful newbies must be have a good relationship and be connected to members for greater future.

I agree this forum is a much better place to learn Newcomers are able to gain more knowledge especially with the help of senior members like you.The advice of the higher rank members of the forum is much more helpful in avoiding scams and solving various problems.

I Come to understand that the major key to success in the forum is to understand the contents of the post by reading the post with carefulness to enables the reader or respondents to capture the bone of contention of the topic.
With the details you grab you can construct a text.
Another thing that helps to prove is to follow the rules and regulations of the forum before contributions of any idea.

This is a good way to begin here. Once they are aware of the rules of this forum, they will be guided accordingly and will less likely encounter conflicts.

Well as the saying goes, "If it's too good to be true, it probably is." Don't be lured by "easy money". It's better to cherish the money you earned from your hard work for you'll value it dearly.

Yes, indeed. Great things start from small beginnings. So just be patient and be always eager to learn. That's the best thing you'll get here.

To all the newbies, enjoy your journey!

Your advice is very sound and it's not only for newbies here in this forum it's for everybody, but scammers are also good at creating scam projects here in this industry so many people have been victimized by these projects who looks legit but ended up scamming investors of their money and bounty hunters with their time and effort, we should all be aware and learned, whether newbies or high rank.

Sometimes I'm really fun of the facts that many newbies are lazy to read them. they only post a thread likely "Hi, I'm new here, please help me to know this forum".. And although they are led to the Beginners & Help, I don't think that they may read and search for basic information over there. Moreover, when after they made a post and left it without any replies again by them. So sad to know this fact, but this is such very common to find. 

this is exactly one of the reasons why many newbies are the legit target of scammers. Moreover when they at first post thread about "how to earn money here? How to be rich here, I heard from my friend that we can be rich quickly here?" 
Well, they may come to this forum to be rich soon. And then the scammers contact them to join their very super promising with very legit earning that make them rich overnight. but that is exactly a scam. this common to happen.

Actually, I don't blame the newbies. Some newbies are actually good, they follow the rules, willing to read and learn about the rules and regulation and all basic or important information in this forum. But, it is not all of the newbies can do this.

So, this is your choice as a newbie, to be smart newbie or a lazy newbie that comes here only to earn money quickly (but it is nothing to do)

The fact is, people try to come up with such threads in order to convey newbies and noobs what needs to be done and what doesn't, but newbies don't give a damn because of the false advertising being done by people bringing them here. False advertising like it's damn easy to make money on this forum by posting shit (which is why many newbies get nuked due to plagiarism or never get merits due to spam). There are stickies here with almost all the needed information for newbies to understand what are they supposed to do, but who gives a damn to read when they are here just for the sake of money?

You are very right, before newbies can make good posts on this forum, he has to know about the forum, checking past threads will help and also learning about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Newbies have to be submissive for corrections from stale members with excellent ranks, I have noticed many newbies, they did not want to admit and continuing making poor posts, these type of people will really find it so hard to rank up, he may not even earn a merit.

It is also good to work hard and to be patient, this are required on the forum, you have to learn and enjoy learning about bitcoin, if you are patient and hard work making quality posts, this forum will be easy for you.

Also, newbies should know this forum is not for making money, also not for making bitcoin, this forum is about learning and if you are serious and have learnt to an extent, you will make posts that people behind you will also learn from.

It is extremely important that you read the rules and understand them, do not directly indulge in bounties from the beginning as you will earn peanuts if you do not rise the rank.

The more you indulge the faster you will learn. Help others if you know the answer, ask questions if you want to know the answer.

You will going to succeed here in Bitcointalk because you have a good motivation and goal why you are here in Bitcointalk, so many newbies are joining just for the bounty and how they can make money on this forum, they have no real goal but only to promote bounty projects and some of them did not even do research on the project they are promoting.

Yes you are right, Reading through laid down rules and regulations is a criteria for Success in any community, bitcointalk forum is not exception.
Many who fall victim of scam are as a result of failure to evaluate and weigh the information about what they see before going into it. Scammers are spread around all aspect of life, many fake projects popping up by second. Waiting to prey on your funds if you are careless.

You are absolutely right, the forum teaches you, you just need to learn.
Bounties start and end, but the skills you have will never expire.
I think you should educate yourself on the local board, and then help others. This is what BitcoinTalk means.

Wrong prediction  

Good advice.
From my experience,  this forum is generally friendly place and if newbie ask some question,  many members will answer and try to help.
In this forum is already a lot useful info so I suggest all new members to take time and read.

Asking if they are not sure of what they will invest with is a must for the newbies. Sometimes they hesitate to ask questions if they don't know what they're entering, I don't know what particular reason stops them from doing so.

There's nothing wrong in asking if the investment is safe if they don't know the factors of what a scam investment looks like. Many newbies fall to this categories because they think that they're safe as if the investment they get in promises them returns and established with good rapport.

Well said, you know the purpose of this forum already, we are all here with the purpose of sharing information, gaining knowledge about cryptocurrency and blockchain that is why this forum has created, the earnings that we have here is only the bonus for us of the things we have done here. Always prioritize on how are you going to gain knowledge first before anything else.

Simple advise if you are a beginner and you are a beginner and you want to ask something, you should try to use a rhe search engine to avoid the same topic, it would help you to know if there is already an existing topic that is related of what you are thinking.

Knowledge is what we really need because it will help us a lot in the future and even now, if you are looking for some money then you should try some other online jobs, there are many online jobs right now because of this pandemic virus.

Welcome to the forum. Take your time to read and evaluate every possible detailed threads about rules and guidelines of the forum. Be wary of scams, don't go around following people promising to double your funds within the shortest period of time, it will likely turn scam at the long run.  Ask questions you are not very sure of.

The forum is to educate you and guide you, everyone was once a noob like yourself. Learning is a continuous process. Welcome once again.