Topic: The things that improve a quality post (Read 292 times)

What @OP stated when perfected can get one an award in literature but we are here in the forum that allows informal discussion reason why many do not care much about spelling and grammar but the thought of the post related to the topic being discussed.


A single word can be a quality post as long as it answers the purpose of the thread.  It can even beat paragraphs of words where at the end, it does not answer or add up to the informative discussion of the thread.

But I believe there is no harm and considering the list of @OP when writing a reply, it also gives a good impression if someone meticulous in grammar and spelling is reading the thread.

You are partially right but as a newbie, I don't think you are suppose to be talking about these because it's too early for you, rather you are suppose to be going through topics, replies, quotes etc so that you learn more about this forum.
Moreover, your sentence are not well arranged, sorry if you see this as an attack. As a newbie, you are not suppose to be in a haste to earn merit but rather try to understand how this forum works.

What you said is all correct in theory. Actually this skill is easy to understand, and difficult to practice in theory. An effective way to hone this skill is to make lots of posts and always be active in discussions. The more hours you fly, then this skill will naturally form itself. Making posts is not only a matter of quality but also a way to liven up the discussion so that people who read can benefit from our posts.

Therefore we must continue to practice to develop skills in making posts. The better we can convey our thoughts and ideas to friends here, the more useful our contribution will be in this forum. Maybe this is also important for beginners, sometimes they are very excited to make quality posts but forget about the forum rules so they don't last long in this forum because they have violated forum rules such as plagiarism and spammers.

In addition, it is not all about what you have listed OP. There are some you are missing as a newbie and I am sure just as you made mention of research here, you did not do a thorough research before writing this. Sometimes it is not about you writing a post that can make a post quality good post. There  are some post or articles out there that are of good quality with educating content which is very rich and good in information and update and one would want bring them here. Newbies are fond of that,they copy and past them here without citing or referencing their source which leads them to being banned or flagged here. So you see now why it is good to reference some post one copied from anywhere or quote the real author of the post. A typical example is here  where a newbie used an AI to generate a post here thinking it would not be noticed but was unfortunate. This is the reason why newbies are advised to take out time to study and ask question where they find difficult to understand so that they do not make mistakes here. I think you too can do same.

For you to make a quality post you don't have to consider all those you outline and next time before you give out a guide make sure you have tested those guide yourself and have found them to be successful before you suggest others to use it. Don't take my words wrongly I mean well for you and I understand what you're trying to do but one sure way to make sure you're delivering quality when you post is to analyze your reply to see if they're on topic and making sense that others can learn from your post and add to their knowledge depending on what the topic of discussion is about. It could be Bitcoin, altcoins or other general discussion been discussed on the forum.

Quality is subjective so there's no guarantee that if you do this or that, that you'll make making sense to the user on the opposite side of the forum with smerits but provided you're not spamming or just writing some genetic thoughts then you're contributing to the quality of the forum in a good way. We don't have all native speeders of English on the forum so provided you can understand what the user is saying,  you can merits their contributions. You don't only have to judge quality based on their writing style or queens English. This isn't a lecture room, it's a forum we should be free to discuss like we're chatting with friends.

Sure. They need to understand that the software they use thinking that it will be the one to improve their post quality is not true; it only corrects the errors that have been made by them while writing the post. However, they still have quality posts even without using this software. What is required is that what you are writing should be meaningful. Grammer is not necessary to make a post quality. The fact that the software we are talking about can give them some grammar that even the poster cannot understand, but knowing that what you write should be educated and meaningful to other forum members is what makes a post quality, since nobody is above mistakes and not all of us here use English as our main language.


Many users that have contributed to this particular topic have not said this topic is pointless; it's obvious that the topic is meaningful, and it will help some users to know their weaknesses when trying to make some good contributions on the forum, whether creating a thread or replying to a post. However, this post is good in my opinion. The only thing I think the OP forgot to include on his list is punctuation, which is very important when writing a sentence like this.

what i really want us to understand in this tips is that, those things i outlined is what i known that will be the side effect of writing a quality post, so therefore what ever anyone is saying about my idea is an advice to me, but some persons will take it as a criticism but im not bothered of being criticized but i know that few of us know that what i pen down is true about writing a quality writing, talking my point out of forum discussion, its known that before you come up with some of the good writing skill or writing letter a company you most make sure that you outline all i have being mention before, so i have not see why people will condemn my work because they want to complete their weekly quota.     

OP i appreciate your efforts in writing these up but sometimes it's not all about the quantity of what we offer but the quality in them, what you're saying here to me is what can be summarized in one or two lines than the time and effort on wat already had been discussed by many members even in a more professional and presentable manner, though you're a newbie, this could actually be a learning ground for you to do more in other to see more, increase your learning scope, research and make findings on recent and informative news everyone could learn something new from.

Regardless of the user's rank, if the posts and topics they make meet the requirements of a quality, constructive and informative post, a user like this deserves to be called a quality user. Anyone still has time to become a quality poster, members who have just joined this forum need deep knowledge of how to make quality posts. Those who have joined for a long time but are still having difficulty ranking up, still have the opportunity to change old habits from spammers to quality posters.

The quality of users on the forum is not judged by account rank, not always Newbie (Spammer) and Legendary (Good Member) opinions. Apart from some of the motivations that you have described here, those who still find it difficult to improve the quality of their posts need to read some of the other motivations in this Thread Newbie's Guide to Getting Merit (Proven) to increase account rank.

Hi, so another grammar nazi on his job telling people on how to improve post's quality. I mean, it just makes the post more understandable. Doesn't improve quality at all.
Imagine you are just writing random words however the spellings, grammar and everything else you mentioned is correct. Does it qualify to be a quality post? I don't think so.

Quality post can be one with mistakes in spellings, but providing the required information to the users.

I think you took the research off context. In the cryptocurrency industry, when we say of research we have one major thing in mind. That is, making your personal opinion about a particular coin before investing in it. Just like the popular acronym - DYOR.
In the context you are discussing, it would have been better you used the word "learning". Newbies need to learn before they will be knowledgeable enough to compose high quality posts. Learning is not only for newbies, learning as a continuous process is for everyone.
It I out of the abundance you have that you give out. You cannot give what you do not possess, there is no magic about it.

Of all those listed I will favour "Research" as top and then closely followed by "Arrangements" and "Spelling". I'm easily captivated by page-turners, sentences well spiced. Nothing draws one's (I speak for myself here) attention better to a well written text than the flowery and well constructed structures embedded therein. However, despite how I love that to be; the article or posts made should be something constructive or well researched so that no one tries to spill a lie here. Nonetheless, I'm aware that there are posts which may not be that subtle but underneath them they've succinct messages and that could be because the posters aren't native speakers of English language. So, in all, I don't like criticizing people for not writing in seemingly good grammar especially when I see through their ingenuity. After all, English isn't the most spoken language in the world. Chinese is.

By the way, "Arrangements" should encompass Sentence and Spelling.

All these things you have outlined are actually helpful in creating quality content, but not always; some content will look very good and be interesting to read, but it has no good information or knowledge to share on the forum, and the information passed on in the content determines its quality.

On the research aspect, I am sure so many users try conducting some research before making posts here in the forum, but the problem is they are not sharing what they learned but they will end up posting the same content they read online here, which is why most newbies get banned due to plagiarism. Therefore, when doing research, make sure you have learned and understood all you are reading so that you will come up with something very special to the forum that will benefit others.


This is one of the things to be considered. I think a leader should lead by example. The OP is also expected to check his content properly before posting in order to avoid small mistakes and spelling errors, or use grammar checkers and other tools like Quilbot to check spelling errors before posting.

Thank you, OP for putting effort to come up with such a comprehensive lecture on post-writing. All your information are worth practicing in the quest to always write good posts. As much as I agree that your points are valid, they are not the most important ingredients of a quality post. The relevance of the message you are trying to convey is more important than an error free post. How helpful or important the information is to the community should be the main thrust of every post. An error free post that has no relevance is needless and won't attract the right comments.

I have seen posts that lack grammatical quality getting the right attention because of their uniqueness and importance. Newbies should focus on innovative, novel and creative post ideas and not over-researched areas. A quality post can simply be a referenced breaking news that relates to the crypto ecosystem.

OP, I'm not trying to troll you either; however, creating such topics, as I see it, should be done by those who can really set an example for everyone else.
But what I see now is an exchange of merit, maybe with your friends or something close. Two people rate your posts, and you don't hesitate to return the same to them. Is it enough to be an example or a teacher to those you supposedly want to help?
Learn a little thing; a theory is always simple, but practice shows otherwise.
I expect you, after some time in this thread, to strongly want to argue with me.
In addition to all that you have said, it is good manners when the topic author regularly reviews user responses, leads a discussion on the topic, and, if necessary, closes his topic on his own to avoid further spam.

In addition to correct punctuation, for the sake of completeness, proper citation should also be pointed out here. Unfortunately, one sees the following citation "errors" far too often here at Bitcointalk:

• Full quotes of a (longer) post although you only want to respond to a part of the post. You have already provided an ideal example of how to quote by simply taking out the part that was irrelevant to your answer.
• At least as bad I personally consider pyramid quotes, i.e. quotes of quotes of quotes of ... (I think it's clear what I'm getting at), e.g. something like this:
  
  These make it much more difficult to follow the discussion, especially if you want to contribute with other opinions afterwards.
  
  1miau has been fighting against pyramid quotes for a long time and points it out again and again in the German-speaking area of the forum. This has also worked very well there, you hardly see this kind of quoting anymore.
  

A quality post is supposed to provide an important knowledge or information to everybody that reads it. Even to people who know a lot already, it is supposed to remind them of something they know which is important and should not be forgotten.

Bad sentences or wrongly arranged sentences can distract a reader from the point of a topic, that is why good sentences are important to create enough engagement to a topic. A topic with good sentences will make better meaning and since people reading will be able to understand the writer better, they will also be able to make better contributions to the discussion.

The most important thing that improve a quality post is talk less do more, I don't see that in your account because when you're creating this kind particular pointless topic, you're talk more and do less as you keep more to talk than to learn.

There's no boundaries you must to have 677 TOEFL test to post in this forum instead you can post in your local board. You don't have to know everything, you don't have to become a teacher to teach someone etc.

Why the need to share this in a longer form where you only needs to things in order for a user here to make a quality post.
Well, this might be my own opinion, but for me, the only things that you need in order to make a quality posts are "Having an idea on the topic where you are posting with." and "Punctuations".

You said research which is the same as the first one that I said, and I agree with that, but with the other 4, well they kind of needed, but not necessary. I mean spelling can be easily corrected because if you spelled it wrong, it will show red zigzag lines below it. As for the 3, it isn't a necessary that you know it, as long as you know what you are saying towards a particular topic, I guess you can make a "quality" post from it.

As for punctuations, for me it's a big factor especially the comma because that punctuation can change the idea behind a sentence. There was a time where I really need to study about punctuations because there are times where I'm wrong with it especially when I'm posting here. There might be times that I'm still wrong, but I can say that I'm better now in terms of using it.

Overall, as long as you know what you are saying, you are knowledgeable with it, you have idea on what you're saying then I guess you can make a quality post off of it. Of course punctuations matters still.

I doubt you did a thorough observation before starting this topic because if you did, you would have found similar topics by new and old members. I see an emerging pattern here, newbies trying to be teachers to other newbies on how to improve post quality and earn merits. First, I want to clarify that what is considered a quality post is subjective and is not exactly defined. However, we all know what a useless or low value post is and should endeavor to avoid making one.