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Tips / Reminders for New Steemians!

@jamerussell@jamerussell (63)2677d

There are a couple of very important recommendations when you are first on here as a "newbie" Steemian;

so, the first order of business on the Steem blockchain is to never lose your passwords. Three are very important, the fourth is not in much use right now. Try to run these off of a printer making a hard copy, and put them in a safe place.

  1. Use the posting key for posting only;

  2. Use the active key for wallet transactions only;

  3. Never use the master key, it's main use is to change the other passwords if your account is compromised;

  4. Please don't learn this the hard way...

  5. So, next when when making a post, if you are using photos or quotes that are not yours, be sure to list the source of where they came from, to give the owner or creator credit for their work. No one wants someone else to take their work and post it as their own. That is called plagiarizing, and Steemians take a very dim view of it and it can have an extremely negative impact on your career here on steem.

  6. Even when the photos are from you, it is always safest to proclaim that in your post; you can say it on every photo, or make a blanket statement such as "all photos in this post were taken by me" at the end, as long as it is said.

  7. Please don't learn this the hard way...

  8. Next is when making up a post if posting a single photo, try to add writing to it to give some description of the photo, such as what it is, where it was taken, maybe a paragraph with some details, otherwise it may be termed as a "shitpost" if you are doing this consistently, you ultimately want quality posts.

  9. Please don't learn this the hard way...

It's hard enough when you first get here and seems like it's way overwhelming, but in reality, when you get a couple of basic rules or recommendations down, it's not so bad; there is a lot to learn, but these are the most important.

Be advised it's always much better to get involved with some Discord servers, and the best one that I can think of is the Steem Terminal in the Discord server run by @xcountytravelers in here and featured by @heyhaveyamet in here. It is an excellent place to start, and to get your bearings as you move along here with getting questions and concerns answered.

Also, for more help: after logging into steemit, in the upper right corner of the steemit website are three bars. If you click on that then you will see "welcome"; click on that and you will have all kinds of useful information to read.

Single painting is my own painting on a stencil made by graphic artist @magiccleatus, gracious creator and host of the #zencolouringcontest.

That is all for now! Steem onward and upward!!!

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Thanks to whoever made this originally and smoothed out by @magiccleatus

Thanks for the awesome Welcome Wagon artwork @liberty-minded

Thanks for the beautiful HHYM and ST artwork @medro-martin

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Thanks to @magiccleatus of #zencolouringcontest for his graphic artwork

Thanks to @jimramones for this Spunkee Monkee graphic logo

Comments · 16

  • @marblely(69)· 2673d

    This is really informative @jamerussell. It was pretty daunting when I first started here and with so much information everywhere, it got confusing too. I was afraid to post even 😅. To have clearly written tips like yours would have helped a lot.

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  • @swedishdragon(69)· 2674d

    Awsome reminer espeasully here as we are dealing with money... i get flabbergasted every time i read that someone lost their PW😫😣😣😣😣🙄🙄🙄

  • @lildebbiecakes(59)· 2676d

    Hi @jamesrussell, what a wonderful post! Finally easy to follow wonderful instructions, and advice for Steemit newbies, fantastic! This would have been a perfect post for me to have read as a newcomer to Steemit. My husband taught me what I know now, but when I first came on board I new absolutely nothing about any of this, never even ran a computer before, I just jumped into it for fun. If I read instructions that are to wordy or lengthy, I get confused, your instructions are short and very clear, brilliant! Thank you so much for caring and helping others my friend, god bless you in all you do❣️

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  • @shadeserver(45)· 2677d


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  • @artemisnorth(62)· 2677d

    This is clear and very easy for a newbie to understand! Thank you... it's so important to guard your keys.

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  • @shadeserver(45)· 2677d

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  • @zaidaguevarae(47)· 2677d

    Thanks for the tips. I have little time in Steemit and every day I am learning something new.

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  • @seadbeady(66)· 2677d

    Already learned a lot of those things in the wagon wheel training - but always good to be reminded of things like this :)

  • @qwerrie(78)· 2677d

    let me be critical, but constructive (thats a trained editor's way: when everything is ok, no need to shout out at all. you is urged to say something only when theres something missing, when theres smth critical)

    so..... maybe I'm not a newbie already, but I 'm finding this brief text not very useful. cause it brings on very very basic things, I'm already in the know, and lacks the things I dont know, which maybe seem obvious so they dont go to any starting-readme-first-pack

    • when you describe a '1-photo post', you say 'add something, more text'.... I understand what stands behind this. newbie may not. a good thing is: direct me (a new user) to the PAL post descripting 'a good and a poor' post.

    links, links, links. info about good (and easy... or at least not so hard) contests that will help to announce more loudly about yourself?

    recommendations for tags?

    some notice about the 'nuances' unnoticeable for the beginners. (personally, I was a bit shocked and frustrated to see my resource mana momentarily went down, after me editing out some typos in my post, 10 times in a row.... haha! that counts as 10 posts, not one. obvious, you say? no!)

    etc etc etc

    actually, I tried to google out 'a poor post description' (I remember I found one by PAL, somewhere... but could not find it once again). but instead got such articles as 'why I left steemit' (haha) https://prodabbler.com/why-i-switched-from-steemit-to-medium-62d625cc5ee1 https://medium.com/@heymattsokol/why-i-left-the-steem-blockchain-bb0214a451b8 reading these is quite a different story. sorry, I will cancel my further commenting on this. xD

  • @brittandjosie(76)· 2677d

    Great advice i love 4 , 7 and 9 the hard way is what we see in the #steemterminal everyday , so glad we are running this pount off advice and help people out. But ( there is always a but dear with me you know that by now ) we need to spread the word as much as possible, because its needed the steemisfere is complex ! Britt

  • @wesphilbin(68)· 2677d

    Only one comment!?

    Excellent tutorial post my friend, on the in's and out's...do's and dont's... really useful information!! I'm proud to be a part of the #steemterminal, and better yet, call you all friends!!

    Great job!!

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