We sincerely hope you find everything you are looking for and have found a new home here.Welcome to the Hive community @wraith-27!
Seven suggestions to consider:
- Guard your passwords carefully, and only publish with the posting key,
- Use your active key only for wallet transactions, Keychain, Peaklock, and Hivesigner,
- The master password and the owner key are only used to reset compromised passwords,
- DO NOT lose your password or keys; copy and store offline,
- Do not publish other people's work, be it photos or written, without credit, and be sure to source all of your work, even if it is your own.
- An introduceyourself tag is used only once , and
- DO NOT OPEN any links in memos or comments that you do not know who they belong to. If it sounds too good to be true it probably is, so the old saying goes. There is nothing free here.
I found you because @brittandjosie and @jamerussell from @heyhaveyamet presented and promoted your publication to get more exposure and help you grow faster.
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Have fun and happy Hiving!
Jamerussell? I don't normally identify the author or the creator of a photograph or image I put in my articles inasmuch as I only use pictures and images that are free to use (e.g. Pixabay). I do so on other platforms, but not on Hive. Should I go back and do so with each and every picture and image I've places in my articles on Hive?
Since I recommend this to every Hivean here, I am not saying you have to source your images, I suggest it to eliminate any undue issues with anyone who goes after people who do not source. That is strictly up to you. I would sincerely recommend that you start sourcing those from this point forward though as it displays to the community that you have the sufficient permissions to use that photo, since your post is monetized.
Here is a post I made on it for simple sourcing:
https://peakd.com/theterminal/@jamerussell/easy-and-correct-minimal-sourcing
Jamerussell? Yeah, when I first signed up for the HubPages writing site, I didn't give such information about the free images and pictures I got from Pixabay. However, later on I did so after so many of my colleagues told me that it would look more professional. I guess I need to go back to my first article here on Hive and do the same. I would also be doing that on Steemit, because a multitude of my same articles also appear there. I didn't think that it was that big of a deal here on Hive previously, but it turns out that it is.
Anyhow, thank you the head-ups.
My suggestion to you stands, I would not worry so much about what you have done or not done in the past, but simply work on it now, but again, that is strictly up to your own discretion.
I will continue to suggest and teach others to source as yes, that was the other thing that was extremely beneficial, the more professional appearance of it as well.
I simply look at it like this, if I am an author or photographer and someone uses a quote or photo that I made, even though I have explicitly stated that no attribution is necessary, I am still happy when someone puts my name and work out there for more exposure. I explain that in that post I believe.
Perhaps just look at these and maybe see a lesson or two on here.@wraith-27, I apologize for allowing this outside conversation to occur on your introduceyourself post, I had no control over the other convo. Neither of these conversations should have taken place here.