A first step by step helping guide for all new members signing up on the HIVE Blockchain via Ecency:
- Signup Process
- Changing Password / Saving Keys
- FAQ - IP Quality Low
1- Signup Process
To sign up to ecency, please go to:
https://ecency.com/signup?referral=ecency
Choose a username and enter your permanent email address.
If someone referred you, you can also enter your friend's username in the "Reffered User" field, than click "Continue"
You will receive an email from Ecency with a link to confirm your new account:
After you click on "Click here to confirm" in this email, a new browser window will open and you will receive a second email from Ecency!
Here you will find your username and your first password.
Before you continue, it is highly recommended to save this password secure, because it is very important. Once it gets lost, your account and your choosen username cannot be recovered.
Now you can go back to www.ecency.com and log in with your new username and the password you received.
Welcome to Ecency! Your registration was successful :-)
The first step now should be to change your password and save your keys:
2 - Changing Password / Saving Keys
Going with the mouse to your avatar picture, you will find the menue to step into your profile:
In the "Settings" section you can change your description and profile pictures, but here you also find your keys!
Please go in "Settings" in your profile and there (bottom left) to "Permissions":
It is highly recommend to change the Master Password, you got from the email!
You have to enter your old password, click to "generate new password", then a new password will be displayed.
Now you have to copy this password and paste it into the line below.
Save this new password immediately in a safe place before you continue!
After you have checked "I have securely saved my new password" you can click on "update" and the new password will be active.
The next important step, also in Settings / Permissions is to securely store your keys.
What exactly the keys are and what you need them for is explained in another chapter. Important for now is that there are 4 keys (owner, active, posting, memo) and additionally no. 5, the master password.
All 5 should be kept safe and printed out!
Insert your password to the "Manage keys" setion and "click to view keys"
Now you get all 4 keys displayed, with the small blue copy icon you can copy them one by one and save them carefully with their name (owner, active, posting, memo).
Ecency runs on the HIVE Blockchain, where all data is stored decentralized. If for some reason you lose your keys, no one can help you to recover them.
Therefore, take good care of them and do not give them to third parties.
3 FAQ - IP Quality Low
"IP quality score is low" is one of the most common error messages and problems on Ecency during the signup process.
The reason for this error message is that for the first signup step the IP quality is carefully checked to avoid abuse by spam of the signup function.
To solve this problem, if it occurs, there are several ways that will work depending on the type of your Internet connection, please try:
- Restart your Internet connection
- Avoid public WiFi, VPN and proxy connections that usually has lower IP quality score.
- Use the mobile internet of your phone
- Ask a friend to enter the first step of the signup for you by choosing your username and email address, you will then receive the registration email to your email address and can proceed without your friend knowing your keys.
If the signup still doesnt work, please join us at ecency discord. That would be better! For sure somebody is there to help you. Ecency will soon add an option to purchase accounts and then there won’t be any limitations or checks.
Here you will find Ecency on discord: https://discord.gg/U3xRpjs3
I wrote this text for supporting new Ecency users and hope it will be helpful for them while making first steps in our HIVE world.
wow, this is really a great post thanks a lot for sharing, I really love the way how you present it.
I hope the new user will find this post
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Thank you @bhattg The tought behind is that when we see somebody new who has problems we now have something we can link them to.
Haha I was here for ONE month til I found out "ups there are keys to save" 😎
You are welcome. that is really a thing that you have done really appreciate your work.
yes, the keys should be saved safely. you can make a printout safe them in your locker 😅
keys are the key to success 👍
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Excellent information! I promoted this on Ecency.
Thank you for taking the time to put this all together in one place!
I'm glad you like my post and hope it will help many newbies ☺ thank you for promoting @melinda010100
I like that it is posted in the Discord channel #ecencyhelp-for-beginners to make it easy to find!
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Cool... I share it also ☺👌👌👌🥃
thank you :-) and remember the post, when you find a newbie who needs help :-)
Thanx ;) ... I hope we find them lot more soon :)
Nowadays Ecency is my favorite Hive app. I started using it years ago, when it was eSteem on the Steem blockchain, and it was also my favorite Steem app. I registered on the Steem blockchain on 2017.05.17 by registrating on Steemit. It was easy, and user-friendly.
At least this is how I see it.
I have not had any problems during the registration process, and my Steem account became approved very quickly. I heard from various people that the Steem registration process is/was difficult, complicated, and not user-friendly.
I was probably lucky/fortunate that it was easy for me. I hope that it is also easy for the new users nowadays.
Hi :-) I signed up in August this year and me too had no problems with the signup process. But meanwhile saw many people who are struggeling and that's why I wanted to help write ecency help textes :-)
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This is helpful for new users. Do not worry. I do not downvote without reason. Actually nowadays I do not downvote anything. I downvoted a few spam comments in the past, but nowadays I do not see spam. People are writing normal comments. If they write comments at all. I gave you my 100% upvote (currently worth $0.075 USD) to encourage and to support you, but the pending payout on your comment is still $0 because of the downvote bot.
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Oh so your vote was in vain, i'm sorry that's why I mentioned do not :-)
Finaly it seems he has stopped. Downvoting me because I said something im discord and than with a bot who follows everything I write was a crazy experience. But it was not that big amount and anyway it doesnt matter.
I myself never gave a downvote by now.
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Superb and as a pink community helper you do great work. I will add it to the welcome part of Hhym and hope many will follow the steps you made very clear here. Ofcourse you got my vote
thank you @brittandjosie glad if you can use the text to help people :-)
Very neatly done and helpful writeup! @beeber
Thank you @ninahaskin glad you like it :-) It was so much fun writing something while knowing this would help many people
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I have heard that several people are getting the IP error you described, so it is great that you explained it. I think for some people, it is unfortunate that there is no good workaround other than getting someone to help them since they may simply not have great internet. I wonder if having a bad IP puts their keys at risk even after they are signed up and posting -- if they are posting from a low quality ip, they might be more prone to being hacked. If so, that is something we should probably be mentioning also?
oh I'm not sure about this @harlowjourney, because the chain is save, hm, to be honest I dont know, is something to ask in ececny issues discord.
The main reason to mention IP Quality here was, that I think, new members who dont know Hive world by now, simply can turn around and never come back when their first step isnt successfull, dont you think?
Thanks!
youre welcome :-)
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Hmm? :-) If you need any help while starting here at Hive oder ecency @featherstonian please ask or join our discord channel for help. There will be soon some more postings from ecency about helping topics for newbies. best regards :-) B.
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This is really teaching especially in the place of safeguarding our keys. Thank you very much for this education.
Helpful information. Thank you
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Thank you so much!
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Can you also tell me why this problem occurs?
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hi @notannov you mean problem with boosting? Every post you submit will be looked at by ecency's curation teem and they choose what to boost. There are so many who want to boost, you know?
if you still have questions, please join at ecency discord channel :-)
Yes. This is exactly the problem I am talking about. It is important for me to understand the reason why the post cannot be selected. Thanks for the reply)
Most likely, the reason is that you are on the spaminator's blacklist. Most curators ignore posts with downvotes.
Hi that's different every curator makes his own decision about content. Do you wanna join us in discord ecency to clear the question?
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I'm also signed by a crazy bot, but a different one) Also for some unknown reason.