Topic: Single best piece of advice for a beginner on Bitcoin Talk? - page 2. (Read 556 times)

This is great stuff so far!  Thanks everyone!  It sounds like so far the consensus is to just take your time and not jump into a post without knowing as much as possible about it ahead of time.  I can see how it would be easy to just dive in looking to build Merit and Activity and end up posting something that isn't up to snuff.  I look forward to seeing what other advice I can gather here!

You mentioned you have already read the rules multiple times, perhaps the single best advise I can share is to read and comprehend a post well before making a comment or before you reply to someone else's comment. That helps you to stay on topic.

Basing it from my experience at first you don't always try to fit in every topics you want to go to just so you can post what you think will be sensible, your eagerness to post is something that leads you to having your posts be deleted by them specially the ones in moderated topics. What you need to do is try to read and learn the topic first before even trying to compose what you will post in the thread, because in the long term everything will just come naturally when you have the grasp of the common knowledge with cryptocurrencies which a lot of us already have.

I’ts not rare to have a post or two deleted every now and then. I think I’ve has two of mine deleted this week, although they are likely not recently created ones. I received no related message, so it could be that a thread has been trashed in which I happened to have posted.

In the big picture, deleted posts are not much of a deal, and self-moderated threads should not be so either provided you stay on topic and write something decent (exceptions obviously exist, as self-moderated threads are under the subjective criteria of the OPs).

Your recent deleted posts according to the modlog are these:


The post content in the first case was:
It doesn’t seem to be very clear what you are stating, so perhaps a couple of minutes more on the post could have given it some depth.

The single piece of advice (not related to rules) would be, in general, to spend more time in each post in detriment of creating many posts. The more versed you are on the point you want to make, the better. By that I don’t mean that you should create a wall of text, but something substantial enough in terms of content.

Take this advice from someone like myself that started his journey on the forum without any technical knowledge on bitcoin or any other altcoin. First thing you have to do is understanding what is been discussed. If you want your contributions to be considered as quality ones you fisrt need to carryout research on any discussed topics you have no knowledge on and it isn't a must to contribute to that particular discussion at that point in time (leave if for those that already have an idea of what is been discussed) because possibilities are the same topic will repeat itself in the future and by then you must have gotten the required knowledge to contribute to the discussion in your very own understanding.

Let me point out an example, when I first came across the topic double spending and 51% attack I had no idea what they were all about so I research on them and became familiar with the terms & now I can explain it to a newbie in my own little understanding and he/she will get an idea of what I'm talking about. I did the same when ever I come across a new topic and in the future I was able to contribute to similar threads without linking a website or commiting plagiarism.

What I'm trying to say is always make sure you have an idea of what is been discussed if not your replies will be considered off topic and deleted. Also note, as you research on those discussed topic do that for self benefits of learning not to commit plagiarism.

But self moderated thread already contains the warning that OP of that thread can delete your replies.

Single piece of advice:

Read the rules (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/unofficial-list-of-official-bitcointalkorg-rules-guidelines-faq-703657) and pay attention to stickies.

There are manu things that you can learn here in the forum. But, I think that it is better also to stick on which part of the forum that could benefit you in the stay like if you are good in mining coins then mining section will be a better section for you.

You can have a bright future ahead OP especially if you are a good and quality poster. Just do not forget to visit the pinned threads like the official rules and regualtions for the forum. It is better not to violate any rules to.avoid getting ban in the future.

Great info! Thanks for the reply.  Now that I think back, I don't think my post was considered spam, I just brought up an altcoin that they weren't very fond of.  Spending some time on Steemit I have learned to stay away from spammy comments as much as possible.  Maybe I won't be so shy about self moderated posts in the future!

You don't necessarily need to stay away from self-moderated threads. It just means that the thread OP can delete your post if he/she finds it bad/useless, but it doesn't automatically mean that you can't have a good conversation in the thread. You really can't blame them honestly, as some just want the topic to actually be clean of spam and useless posts; which is perfectly understandable.

Greetings all, I have been hanging around this forum for a while now and trying to find a place where I can fit in among the different topics.  I am still learning the ropes both in terms of the forum and BTC in general.  I've had a couple of my posts deleted already (I am guessing because they didn't add anything).  I'd like to avoid looking like a schmuck in the future, so for people that have been around here awhile, what is the single best piece of advice that you have for a Bitcoin Talk beginner.  Preferably something that isn't covered in the Newbie pinned thread.  I have read through that at least three times now  

It only took me a day or two on here to learn that I need to stay away from Self Moderated threads.  Things like that would be really helpful. 

Thanks again,