Topic: Wrong foot on bitcointalk (Read 522 times)

Yeah, that's it. Some of them probably remember the good old days and expect those days will return, you just have to stay patient and keep posting those social media links. If you live in a third-world country where an extra $10 a month makes a big difference to your economic status, you can understand why some people do it. Multiple accounts signed up in dozens of bounty campaigns. If 99% of them scam, there will always be that one that will pay those $5-10 and people are satisfied with it. Even if none of them pay, there is always next month and the one after that...

As to know that this forum is not all about earning money but also a way to gain knowledge and market discussions. It also teaches us to manage our emotions and decision making especially when we do trading.
It is a great approach in crypto not just to think about money but rather to enjoy ourselves learning some new things that haven't yet encountered. As we explore the forum, the more it excites us to stay and the more we gain knowledge that can be applied in our daily activities.

It is very interesting to hear that a person is starting to choose the right path to increase his knowledge. OP, you deserve support from a lot of people here once you realize that bitcointalk forum is not just about money, but you should get a lot of knowledge about it. For some reason disagree if you say that you have made a wrong move just because you joined the bounty but I do agree that it is a mistake if you never manage to gain any knowledge here just because you are 100% focused on money.

I agree that each of us should be good at appreciating time on bitcointalk forums to gain various knowledge. You've gotten a lot of advice in several other users' posts before me, so try to maximize your time studying it. I hope you are really sincere about it.

Well, In my opinion, the forum's weakness is that it attracts such users. But maybe it would be better to call it a "weak spot."
And, when it comes to learning a lesson, I've seen some accounts doing it since 2018 (maybe even earlier) so I'd say some don't learn even after the 1000th time. Although, I can imagine that the bounty "business" was much more lucrative back then, which may be why they do it now with dozens of their alt accounts. The law of large numbers, I guess.

I don't see it as a weakness of the forum, it's a weakness of the users doing that. Bitcointalk allows you to take part in any activities you want as long as they don't break any forum rules. If you want to read and learn about Bitcoin, you have many ways to do that. If you want to join bounty campaigns just because they promise they will pay bounty hunters $10 million worth of unlisted and non-existing bounty tokens based on a price the developers have set in their heads, but will never be achieved, you can do that too. If you didn't learn the lesson after the first time, maybe you will after the 2nd or 10th.   

+1!

This is definitely the main weakness of our Bitcointalk forum. It's great in an overall sense, I love the community. But yeah, it seems really bad when you see a whole bunch of newbies joining bounties. It seems like they are mainly driven by greed. With a short amount of time they do not even realize their mistake and wonder why the karma is so low in their transactions. It's really sad that people come to such an active community to do that. They think they will earn a lot of money. But that is not how bounty programs work at all nowadays. Right now it's basically worse than it has ever been, it's a total mess. Thanks for pointing that out.

Unfortunately, this is a very common happen where the first thing newbies come here is about joining bounties, which are sometimes worthless because they cannot choose the legit one. Moreover, right now, there are only a few bounties that really pay and legit. mostly they are shit projects without any value and cannot be listed in any exchanges, getting no rewards after working for months, and many others.

You are right, it is better to learn as much as possible at first here. So you can be more open minded and see every chance here to do what should do.

Your story reminds me of Bill Gate's wonder quote which says "If you're born poor it's not your fault, but if you die poor it's your fault". This means your first entry into the forum was misguided which is not your fault but if you continue on the path will be your fault.
In crypto, I want you to understand that the more you learn the more you earn.

The bitcointalk forum is here to offer you a lot of learning opportunities, you just have to explore the forum and eventually find some interesting and valuable topics that will make you more knowledgeable about bitcoin and the whole crypto market. If you are a bounty hunter, i believe you always learn on the topics you chose to discuss with but this isn't just about learning, it's all about sharing the valuable things you learned as they can help and encourage a lot of newbies out there.

Op, your story is the reality that happens to so many newbies.
I know of some established members of this forum who also made such mistakes. They spent upto 6 months in the forum, only knowing the bounty section.

This kind of testimonies or posts are the reasons I appreciate a post made by me => Some avoidable forum mistakes of Newbies . In the topic, I pointed out this point as a mistake.

Quite alright some get away to make it really good on bounty hunt but what we needed to consider is the rate at which it benefit people compared with the rate of how its been use to scam people which totally renders it an illegitimate hunt that resulted in chasing after air at the long run, one common thing these bounties promise is a reasonable return that could be tempting enough to giving a try, but we shouldn't forget that when its too real to be true then its as not been truth at all, we are not to be entice or freak by their promises which later resulted into waste of time and efforts.

Most times, we tend to mark bounty hunters down and you can't blame forum users who do that as, bounty hunters tends to be spammers and often end up promoting scam projects, filling the cryptospace with pump and dump coins!
But the truth in bounty hunting is that,you get to see that shady side of the forum and how crewl your treated to have adopted to bounty hunting. You are completely disregarded by other forum users wo focus more on contributing and even at that, there is often nothing to show by bounty hunters after a long bounty hunting days. You still get to end up with nothing!
Sorry you weren't properly oriented but it's also good you've found the nothingness in bounty hunting and is up for a change. Don't stray the part and engage more time in reading, ensuring that you follow up on the discussions before you contribute. Do the work!

The thing is we all joined the forum at different times and we all were introduced to it in many context as per our requirements and most of us were bounty hunters if speak for myself also in the past but with time everything changed depending on how you want to see it.You have realised your mistake early and want to move towards learning on the forum and it's best decision you have made.

This forum is like a big library where abundant knowledge resources are available but you just need to look for them rising from these bounty campaign on the forum which will help you gain nothing.See i am saying from personal experience as well as from members here that most of these bounty are scams or will pay you some tokens that will get dump as soon as they get listed because owners and whales have dumped them so you have worthless tokens on your address which will be dead in few time.So it's better to leave them.

You are on the best learning forum about bitcoin and crypto market as whole and can learn lot if you are dedicated about it as there are many newbies who had made it possible are now high rank members on the forum in short span of time guiding others here and IRL also.So best is Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas and his YouTube channel

From here you will have plenty of idea about bitcoin working technically and forum is always there at your help like these threads by @fillippone

So best wishes you and will see how you progress on the forum.

The fast you realise this fact that bounties are just waste of time it's better for you and me personally can't handle submitting tonnes of reports for my weekly work on social media which will at end have no value.The airdrops were at one point of having your personal information and using them on dark web giving away you some fake tokens which are listed at zero value.So we all have also tried to investigate it though participation but realised it's waste and shit work to do.So instead do some productive work enhancing your knowledge on the forum and taking part in knowledgeable discussion is lot better for personal growth.

There's no misstep from my point of view, you're just finding a valuable place to learn through a small hole that most people are still stuck in. Imagine if your friends didn't introduce this forum even though in a way that you think is wrong, maybe you will never be here.

And now it's time for you to repay your friend. I don't think there's anything wrong now that you turn around to show him that this forum is much broader than a place to collect less valuable "free money".

Bounty hunting is one aspect I won't advise any user to get involved except otherwise. Cause it's going to deprive you of so much other  benefits in the forum that 3x outweighs whatever you might seem to be getting as a bounty Hunter.

The knowlege acrued to the totality of the forum board's is one any meaningful investor in crypto wouldn't wanna miss.

Back then (2017), it might profitable but now, I tend to agree with you, that most of them are worthless, there are a lot of tasks that you need to comply with, and lucky if you get profited from them but usually, most of them are scam.  

I have the same thought with the OP before when I was a newbie and I can't blame him, because this was the way they introduced the forum to me, making a profit.  Fortunately, I have been awake to that wrong perception, forum is a great community where you'll have everything that you need about crypto, a community where you can ask and discuss different topics.

I see myself as this newbie when I was there before, I will never be surprised if soon OP will rank up and become Legendary.

This forum is an excellent resource for learning and gaining knowledge about Bitcoin and other matters. I'm glad you recognized how bounty was wasting your time in the forum; most of the campaigns are worthless, and they almost always end up as scam projects, so why waste our time on them?

Its not about you are in wrong foot but actually this is good step coming ahead because by introducing bounty campaign you learn a lot of things and if you are dedicated enough to stay and learn more things you will actually find more things here. There's actually new life but I call it moving on because you move in certain area to level up your skills so hopefully you learn something new which can help you earn as what you are trying to seek here.

Focus first on learnings because once you became more knowledgeable the earning phase follows to anyone who's eager to seek for more learnings about new things.

For most of us here, bitcointalk is important because the works of the bounty hunters are done in the forum, so whether we like it or not, we should be active in the forum. However, if you go deeply to what the forum is all about, its not only for bounty hunters. Its for all the newbies and not so newbies to keep gaining insights on the crypto market itself particularly with bitcoin, which is the target in the forum. If you want to improve your knowledge and skills related to cryptocurrency, bitcointalk could be the best answer to that. Not only for business promotions, bitcointalk is also the best outlet if you want to exchange ideas with some of the best posters and legends residing in the forum.

This right here is what I was hoping into the other use that posted about his intention here which was to primarily get money off the forum. Many newbies are introduced in the wrong way in this forum and that is quite saddening to be honest, but it is not too late to change someone's way anyway once they saw the big picture on what is the forum all about. This is a forum not an earning platform. I see this forum as like a subreddit for cryptos but with more active community and engagements if you're asking.

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I am still going to watch your posts, OP.  If I had seen an actual changes by couple of weeks or so, I'll award you a couple of merits exactly in this thread. I already bookmarked it just in case.