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

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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.

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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.

Baby steps or small steps in maintaining your composure here are important. It is the only way one can learn and improve in both content creation and word composition...what I simply mean is, that if one carefully and patiently sticks around an idea (Bitcoin forum idea), in time, tacit knowledge of the technicalities involved will reveal itself. Own your freedom to post, follow up on comments or stay online. It is slow and steady that wins the race. Just know what you want.

It's kind of weird to get so attached to the forum to post every day, but I see the point. Small steps, you know

There is lot to learn on the forum if we are willing to do it and can check the different boards to look forward for useful threads created by senior or knowledgeable forum members.The bounty work may pay you small amount but didn't have impact on your growth and learning skills but forum discussions on big level do help us a lot so good you realised it.

Every useful information or contribution given by a member of this forum in a particular thread irrespective of the rank of the person or the number of persons that have contributed to the thread should not be considered pointless because the person may have different information about the thread or he or she wasn't aware that such thread has been in existence before the time it was located. PS I may not be active for days to make my contribution but that doesn't imply that am not a good forum member or as a beginner am not serious about learning new things here. Weather mega thread or not it is expected that everyone should make useful contributions as it may guide and help both the old and new members here.

That is true in your opinion, Need the main focus to be the solving problems, learning rules and topics, your advice and information is very helpful for all member, I totally agree with you that every member should spend some time here regularly to have a clear understanding of bitcoin and the forum.

A very good thread with some useful tips for newbies already.
I have a small tip to add to that which everyone else have said
To every newbie out there, do not see or have the mindset that this forum is a place to earn money, that is a very wrong mindset, few days back, I encountered a post of a newbie who signed up on this forum majorly because a friend of hers introduced the forum to her as a place where she can earn money from, she made a post asking how to start earning money from the forum.
I referred to this user as a "she" based on her username which suggests she's a she.
The post can be found here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.60640128
Having this kind a mindset will only lead to frustrations and loss of interest of on the forum in the long run.
The forum is a place to learn, and also to teach what you know about bitcoin and cryptocurrency, and every other topic that been discussed in which ever board you find yourself.

Well my few tips for Beginners and new guys aren’t random (personally feel no tip is random) because it must have been said sometime before now and would still be said in the future.
#Newbies take it calm and easy (don’t rush into pressure to hit the treasure land your imagination has thought you exist here)
# Don’t hate on criticism (it’s going to be part of your building block)
#Knowledge reigns supreme (strive for knowledge)
#magnet to the rules (self explanatory)

Of course the forum is open/free to everyone, except users that have been banned, the forum doesn't censor anybody or prevent users from registering here, though sometimes you have to pay an evil IP fee. Users should just do things at their own pace, no need to rush, nor is there a need for a special skill, just follow the rules that are here. There isn't necessarily any particular skill that is prerequisite to joining Bitcointalk; i know most of us either loved Bitcoin before joining, or it turned out we began to love the network after joining, but even if you hate Bitcoin, the forum would not censor your posts, we have had trolls here and still do.

Having said that, a user just has to try as much as possible to be constructive when making a post (that is the most important skill imo), and try to learn in areas that they are lacking, you do not necessarily have to follow "senior members", the search button is there for you to look for what you need, search, read and learn, if you do that, you would not have to ask too many questions or even need any guidance from senior members. For example, most times new members get here and start asking what is merit, activity, ranks and the rest, that thread could only have been avoided if they had used the search button to find their answers.

In spite of all the guides and tutorials, some members still make the same mistakes when it comes to quoting. So, my tip for newbies: Learn how to quote properly!

You can quote someone's post or part of someone's post by clicking the "Quote" button. But your job does not end there. You need to edit your quotes so that the conversation is clean, without unnecessary parts, but still relevant and meaningful. It is also advisable to remove large images, so that your posts do not contain unnecessary big quotes. Sometimes it is good to separate the quotes into several parts and answer each part individually. Also, in replying to the last comment in a topic, you can use "^" instead of a full quotation.

It is hard because of many reasons.

It is difficult to post and contribute to discussion when issue in OP is still not solved. In most topics, question and issue in OP would be solved after very first posts, and after 2 pages (40 posts), most of them are solved.

It is difficult to post in topics that already last more than 50 or 100 posts, because you have to read OP and many posts to get its discussion flow and make sure you won't repeat what other posters wrote. Shitposters will go to the last page and write answer even their answers are not helpful.

If I didn't say anything wrong, you seem to imply that forums are open but now it takes more time to acquire skills which is why many people don't get success from forums. find important to follow the posts of senior members on forums and build communication skills from them. New members misunderstand many things and I think if the seniors here help the juniors then the new members can get success a bit faster.

You are right, when I came to this forum I was busy with Bounty work. Then one day I started checking other boards and I was amazed that Bitcoin Talk is a paradise of crypto-related information. Then in the meantime, I found my country page and learned a lot more from there.

I am sorry to say, but you presented that being active on forum is some sort of job which is a wrong attitude. I know that many people see this forum only as a way to earn some money and do look at it like a job but it is way more than that and if newbies come to this forum feeling obliged to post every day whether they feel like it or not, it will have counter effect that may drove them away, or even worse like getting banned due plagiarism as they are in rush to farm merit so they can start making money via signature campaigns ASAP.

I just do not like it when other users ,especially the users that have "higher forum rank", are making it like obligatory that one should be focusing on being famous or ranking up in this forum upon signing up. One could probably just be in here to ask questions and learn on their own spare time after their 9-5. Like "dude chill, I am just here to read and have conversation with other users".  
It kind of creates that elitism though I would not bother discussing that further.
I kind of have related experience with yours but mine was from Reddit and GBATemp. A lot of things had changed after I did not logged in from those sites. Good times good times.

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My reply is not directed towards to the OP by the way.

I doubt !If any newbies here would read your thread and react.

Almost every new user who registes here is to make money using crypto. Just go and look the Bounty sections. There you will find a lot of newbies or multiple accounts holder posting.

There are a few who are here in the forum and on this board to learn or understand Bitcoin. Those who are actively creating topics on this board are here to just get merits and get an opportunity to be a part of a signature campaign on gambling. As signature campaign provide a long term recurring money in the form of Bitcoin.

None of the newbies care what you say with this post. Still it is a good topic created by you and I think you need to focus somewhere else to make a mark on this forum.

As Newbies, I think, we are here mostly to learn lessons from experienced members. To succeed as forum members ourselves, we surely need to put things we learn
on the platform into activity.

And this, we can do by constant participation. Yes,
I have come to see that Bitcoiners are as free as air when it comes to speaking of their minds. This is the beauty of the forum. I like posting and reading member's posts. I think, iam being felt for who iam this way. I need ranks and merits too. Who doesn't? Like gifts of nature, I think, it would come when it wouid. And this is my advice for fellow Newbies like me.

I find this disclaimer kind of ironic and adding the red color tag just makes it out to look like a warning.
If you want to create local rules, you ideally should make the thread self moderated.

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I agree a lot with your first tip about users (newbie through to legendary) revisiting threads they created to read up newer discussions and maybe lock up the thread once you've gotten your answer or the topic has been exhaustively discussed.

About the posting tips, new members should be on no pressure to reply to topics or create threads. There are tons of previous threads to research on, especially if they are new to cryptocurrencies. They should dive into those to learn more.
Knowledge is acquired when we read, more than when we write.

I will post a link to my topic where I listed several examples of what I personally consider a bit irritating and inappropriate in using the forum, in addition to the fact that "posting multiple posts in a row" is something that is against the rules of the forum. In that topic, you can find a lot of useful observations that will help every beginner to better fit into the forum and start in the right direction from the beginning.

Some annoying things that beginners do (but also some old members)

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We already had a discussion on that topic, and I personally thought that it would be good if anyone who asked for help with something came back with feedback - although then a new aspect appeared in such situations where the OP would appear and write "Thank you" or "Solved" which someone would report as spam and such a post is deleted. For beginners and everyone else, it's something they need to take a little more into account with their answers.


Some users can't be active every day even if they want to, whether it's because they have very bad internet that's not available to them every day, or they're forced to work from morning to night and have little free time on the weekend. Time is something that we cannot therefore measure equally for everyone.


There are rare topics that even after 50 posts still make sense for posting, because it's hard for someone to write something new after 50 members have left their opinion - unless they are all shitposters who haven't actually written anything worthwhile. Beginners should read more, and only then try to participate constructively in the discussion.

Good thing there is no rule on eithet be active or get kick out.


I agreed with lovesmayfamilis, we should be not require to post like everyday if we feel not too. I believe forum is made to be decentralized but not limited to some rules to make it clean but having it like that would put us into pressure of posting and exhibit spam. We can post only if we have something to detail or discuss. Unless you are into signature campaign which posting is required per week or depends.

Don't jump into creating a thread telling users to visit a website to buy something from you. Even if the website is legit, you will be tagged a scammer. One of the best ways to know about bitcoin is to spend more time on the forum. Don't be all about getting merit. Merit is the price of knowledge. As fillippone rightly put, try to think about merits as a knowledge exchange.

I disagree. The Forum is not a school where students must attend every day. This is a free forum, and one should not be in a hurry to become famous. Your advice to the OP may be taken by some to mean that the more often you catch the eye, the better. But this is not at all necessary.

The study and love for bitcoin come gradually. It is possible to accidentally register on the forum, forget about it, and return after a while. I don't see anything strange. Interests are different.

I'm talking about my own experience. Once I registered on a forum (not on this one), saved my login and password in Roboform, and three years later, I returned to that forum again. Registration became paid, but I was an old member.

Therefore, you should not limit people's freedom.

Newbies should know more about bitcoin, it may not be beyond having bitcoin and having experience of how bitcoin is working just in term of transaction.

Newbies that want to ranking more should focus on the posts of members that have ranked up already.

A newbie may create an account to ask a question. A newbie or anyone, even a well ranked and known member can decide not to be active again on this forum. We have seen some ranked members that left this forum which could be because of a reason, newbies can do that too at anytime too.

What I am saying is that newbies also do not have to post regularly, newbies may be here to gain knowledge and not want to participate in a signature campaign.

The intention of this discussion is to put together random tips from qualified users (Full Members - Legendary) tips that were useful to them in their growth, and can be beneficial to newbies here, to facilitate their growth and to help guide them in establishing themselves as useful and important members of this forum.

PS- Newbies and members are not expected to share any tip but can only make comments and ask questions for clarity.


Some of my tips are;
-Adopt the habit of revisiting a topic that you started for the purpose of wanting to get knowledge. Say for instance you ask a question make sure to come back and drop a response whether you are satisfied with the answers you have gotten or you are not.

-Develop consistency; as a new forum member it is expected that you post regularly say even one post a day and slowly build up the number from there. Posting occasionally like this week and then nobody sees you for like 2 weeks and then you come back in 3 weeks time doesn't speak well of you.

-As a newbie you should a more for visibility so going to post in threads with over Eight pages of response already is pointless (with the exception of some mega threads), A new forum member should ensure that he is always among the first say 50 users here to share opinions on topics constructively.

It goes on but I will love to give the more experienced users here the opportunity to air their opinions and share their tips, Please add your contribution as a guide to new members