Topic: Random tips for beginners/newbies. (Read 489 times)

What really helped me in the forum is that I learn from people's comments, after creating a thread I always make sure I go through all the comments people make which I always learn from it and it always help me whenever am creating new topic or whenever am replying to a similar question, also I also learn to go through high rank members profile, I read most of the thread created by them and I read their comments which really helped me in the forum. I believe newbies should also do similar things like that it's really going to help them.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.60829880

Start reading those sticky rule in Meta Thread, if you have questions, Then ask.
Been Original
Take your time reading some of those older profile and staff's profile.
Bad in vocabularies and Writing structures ? Go check on The Pharmacist, Welsh and Jet Cash. ( There so many good with English, but this are my own opinion )
Avoiding Plagiarism.
Bitcoin is not rocket science, with passion and commitment and time then you'll be making good remarks and bringing quality discussions about Bitcoin.
Nothing comes easy but good contents will be well noticable you need not force it.

Cheers 🖤

While your advice is good and nice, don't you think it cut off the jurisdiction and purpose of this thread. This thread is saying about beginners and newbies in this forum and not on telegram and twitter.

In as much as your advice is true, some and many newbies will not understand until they are victims.  During the early stage of btc I heard that the site Freebitco and other bitcoin fucets sites were giving free coins. Maybe when one completes some tasks.

But for Op, any newbie in this forum ought to be here because of bitcoin, so they need to learn bitcoin first before any other thing.

Newbies should be gaining insights and knowledge at first so they will be able to create quality posts because that will determine if they can be a good and reliable poster in the end. However, being an active in the forum and post at least once or twice a day can hone their skills in posting, it happened to me so most likely it’s also possible for most newbies too.

I am in this forum since 2014 (my previous forum id lost with gmail disable)so i can give some tips for newbies.
"never fall  for free crypto in telegram email & twitter,there is no such thing in the world free Crypto"

If you are new, please learn about the market first. I made the mistake of directly following the herd, which didn’t work out very well. Hence, if you are serious about making profits, understand the intricacies of the market and practise as much as you can.

As a newbie you just have to spend plenty of time on this forum even if you not commenting but you should read to increase your knowledge on cryptocurrency, and I wouldn't lie of you are willing to learn this forum will provide you with alot of knowledge and answers to questions you know nothing about.

Uh...bruh how do you do that, starting a post means you want to read what members have to say or think about what you have brought up in your topic, so you have to go back to it to read it and interact when necessary, even if you don't write again in the topic, but once you start a topic, you have to go back to check and read the discussion, only spammers disappear after creating a topic.
Hard to understand what you mean, posts started by you? You just go back to your topic, you know the section you posted it, or you go to "last topics started by you" to keep track of it, there is nothing more to do, if you are satisfied with the responses you can go on to lock. Only you can know what you want from a post when you make one, once you get that, you either lock or just forget about it because other members may still be interested in the conversation and you will not want to spoil it for them by locking it.
It goes without saying that there is no general answer to that, it is only based on how the discussion progresses and how long a discussion lasts varies from post to post.

Thanks, OP for these tips. However, I find myself lacking in the aspect of revisiting a topic once started. I never quite thought it is necessary. I know better now. If I may indulge your candid opinions, could more light be shed on this as regards navigation and how to keep track of posts started, also how many responses would be okay? Furthermore, one question I have always wanted to ask is this, the discussion concerning a post stays how long before it disappears?

I disagree. I'm a beginner, but I'm interested in such tips.
Not everyone comes here for profit. Maybe not everyone, but someone needs simple knowledge.

Yeah not everyone who is here wants to contribute in the forum or join campaigns to make money. A lot of people are here to just gain knowledge about their interest particularly and maybe that's why they they are not frequent in the forum.

In fact, discussion is open to anyone, regardless of their forum rank. You could technically be a Newbie and discuss all you like (except on a few delimited subboards). Ranks do have their perks, and some of those perks come in handy at times.

What one really awards a post are sMerits, which are created by the system when your Merit counter increases (for every 2 additional Merits you earn, you get 1 additional sMerit to send to others).

Now since sMerits are essentially a result of halving the Merits you earn, that means that, in the big picture, sMerits generation tends to cero.

i.e. If I’ve got 4 sMerits, and Merit a given post with them all:
-   I will have 0 sMerits left
-   The receiver will have 4 more Merits (non sendable), and 2 additional sMerits to send.

If the above receiver reiterates the process sending his 2 sMerits to another post, the subsequent receiver will obtain 1 sMerit to send, and if he in turn sends it to yet another post, the ulterior receiver will gain a (virtual) ½ sMerit to send (which is non-sendable  nor viewable in the balance– fractions aren’t).

Since overall sMerits will decrease upon meriting posts, the Merit System needs a mechanism to counter that effect, thus the existence of (s)Merit Sources, who receive sMerits periodically (with different allowances per Merit Source per running 30 days) "out of the blue", without needing to receive Merits to generate these sMerits. This mechanism currently allows for a max. potential of up to  33.989 sMerit to be added to the overall system per 30 days.

Since sending sMerits bears a certain responsibility, and they have some operational value, the current 110 sMerit sources are delimited and hand-picked or chosen by @theymos based on forum needs and existing postulants as per the designated procedure.

The use of forum ranks in online communication goes back to the origins of forums themselves. The forum ranking system for bitcointalk community allows us to determine a user's activity and how helpful he has been so far. Whenever a user makes helpful post, guides or tutorials for the community he gets merit points and, over time, his forum rank is raised. The higher the rank of a certain user, the more experienced he is in bitcointalk community. The ranks go hand in hand with members journey on the site; as their rank increases, so too does their credibility and worth.


It is a way to distribute new merits in the system. Admin has hand-picked a number of high-ranking members who are in charge of distributing new merits to other members, who then distribute them to other members, and so on.

I think the whole idea of this forum is to enlighten users about Bitcoin first and then other crypto currency. The ranking was developed to maintain consistency and orderliness. Every other reward that comes from participating in the forum activity is just a way to encourage everyone and also make the crypto currency been discussed circulated amongst the community. Bitcoin talk is just a community engagement platform and as such its not mandatory to be consistent. I believe if there is a reason to always visit a platform such user will be consistent

Having forum ranking here in our community is a big help to everyone,. because through rankings we can say or determine that user has done many good things and hard work by making quality and helpful threads. that's the reason why they are in the top or in higher ranks.

From the word merit source, these are the users given a task by the admin to gave merits to those quality poster.  And also to maintain the circulation of merits here in forum.

- What is the point of having ranks in a forum, which is supposed to discuss all things bitcoin?

- What is the point of making a few chosen ones as merit source?

Learning and discussing bitcoin is the cardinal goal of this forum. But I have learnt some other informal virtues that have positively contributed to my behavior. This forum have taught me the following;

- Patience: You must be patient enough to study other members' view points before giving your own contribution. Before I was not a very patient ready, but now I have inculcated that priceless virtue from the forum.

- Handle criticism: Before I use to be a very poor handler of opposition. I feel bad when I am criticized. But you would learn in forum how to manage your critics and use their opinions to grow better and stronger.

- Law abiding: I grew up in an environment where people disobey the laws without remorse or fear of punishment. But this forum is so organized that members don't have any option but to be a law abiding.     

As it was said that not all newbies are newbies, some newbies account are own legendary members, and that means the newbies have gotten knowledge about bitcoin in the forum or outside the forum so at that stage the newbies can not be stick to only
visiting and responding. Since he or she has Known, they can create a thread that can benefit users in the forum. Then for the active and inactive or irregular users. What made them not regular is another thing  to be consider. Probably the person is sick or his physical work is occupying his time from the Forum. And also as a newbie, he or she can visit the site has the person wishes because it is a personal interest. He or she can decide to login regularly or irregular, all depends on them. 

If only the forum had to expel me when I was inactive because my rank de-rank up from Jr Member to Newbie (0 merit) then I really never made it to Legendary this time. But I'm grateful the forum never had a rule like this.

This forum is free for anyone without many expected limitations. Beginners will learn, ask questions, discuss something or maybe share their experiences outside of their forum here with many people. It doesn't matter to me because they are free to say whatever they want as long as it's constructive and doesn't break the rules. Beginner's prison will no longer be implemented in the forum, this is really not good.

Some of my tips are:

• Consistent with the main goal.
• Learn anything that interests you
• Discuss anything confusing with the community.
• Try to have a contribution to the forum.
• Don't break the rules.
• Avoid arguing about something unimportant.

The forum is broad and there are many users therein. In order  to enjoy your stay in this forum and enjoy it, try to find a way to make the forum benefit from you. You should be willing at all times to give your best to the forum. Being a newbie doesn't mean you have nothing to offer the forum. You would be surprised you have something to offer more than some established members here. What you really need to do is to try and know your strengths and weaknesses. Ride on your strengths to succeed and learn on your weaknesses to improve. If you don't discover how to help the forum, you could wander for years here without having something to show for it. You may wonder how you could help the forum;
1. You can help the forum by avoiding spam.
2. By reporting spam.
3. By teaching newbies about Bitcoin
4. By not cheating the forum.
5. Not plagiarising
6. Reporting plagerists
7. Not involving in scam activities.
8. Exposing scammers
9. Fairly distributing the merits
10. Not being a troll, etc
Though you need to be somewhat an established member to do some of the above. Above all, learn about Bitcoin and teach bitcoin to your friends and relatives.