Weeks before i posted anything at all, i was on here looking looking through threads, looking at the topics that popped up time after time, looking and learning from the content, looking at the people who are posting the good stuff, looking to see if i could fit in and make a difference and/or help others!
As I told you before, you are a rare specimen, and we are glad you are here. The most important part of your text is what I put above, in my opinion. If the newcomers had this attitude towards the forum, this site would be totally different. This is just a matter of patience, though. To stay weeks learning how something works even before jumping into it requires intelligence, strategy, and patience, but it depends on why are you here. Most of the newcomers are in here just seeking to earn some cents. Even when I understand that for many of us need money, mostly if you live in the 3rd world, as me, I can't see how are they going to achieve that without getting implied on the community.
They conform themselves with some cents, while they could be making a name in here and, in the future, getting a real job, not precisely in the forum, but maybe even outside this site, a great job made my contacts done in here. For that, they will need activity, of course, but an intelligent one. That's why many new users are going to be forever Jr.Members, because they are not looking at the future, but trying to get anything on the present, no matter at what cost.
Reputation is all in here. If you build a good reputation through hard work, you will be considered as a kind of companion, your words will have value to others. On the contrary, if you spend most of your time trying to fulfill the required posting activity your bounty or signature requires with posts of the kind: "Thanks, sir", or, "bitcoin will rise again", or, "please give me merits, sir", you will achieve nothing and you never be a part of the forum.
If you use this posting activity required (in the case you are either on a bounty or a signature) to spend time in here, to learn and to post wisely, even if it takes you far more work, be sure you are putting the first stone towards a great house in the forum.
But, sadly, most of the people prefer to be lazy, to use Google Translator and to say anything stupid, even to copy-paste another user's threads to look intelligent.
Anyway, last week I just was saying on a Meta discussion that I believe there are still good newbies coming, we just need the patience to find them.
Thanks for the thread, OP, keep doing.