You wouldn't know Bitcointalk is big place until you become one of it member, bitcointalk is more than a place a place to ask questions and get fast reply, you wouldn't know the value until you become one of the user.
Becoming the forum member isn't enough, because many people joined the forum and become inactive, once you are not active in the forum, you wouldn't know how educative and important the forum is. Bitcointalk is like a school to me, because I learn new things everyday.
Most newbies nowadays are blindly focused too much on the earning aspect of this forum. I mean, there is nothing wrong with that mindset but if this seems to cloud their judgement to the point that they try too hard on ranking-up, thereby contributing to the overall spam on this forum, then it brings more harm than good.
Like what I always mentioned, just have fun in this forum. This is a learning platform designed in order to share and create your ideas with one another. Satoshi envisioned this forum as the gateway to an innovation that he left, hoping that people would soon utilize and discuss more improvements later on.
This forum is nothing but a blessing to everyone. Not only did this gave an opportunity to learn more about the technology behind cryptocurrencies but it also provided countless of doors that opened new beginnings to people.