It is a fact that Most Newbies now join Bitcointalk just to make money and this is not the main aim of this forum but thankfully you can't really earn without contributing or by breaking the rules and regulations because there are still True members watching this Forum
So my advice for we Newbies is start thinking of a way of improving this forum first before earning.
It is interesting that newbie accounts are writing topics about how other newbies are only here for the money and they are here for knowledge because they genuinely want to learn. Its cheap merit fishing and we have seen this over time. Supposed newbies giving advice to other newbies how to use the forum, in my experience these users are later exposed to be alt accounts.