Hello and welcome! My mother obtained her PhD. She was dead when they awarded it. It means, as a joke of course, "Piled high and deep." What will your PhD be in? We need to specialize as humans to further our technology, but some people lose their minds in the process.
Webpages
There are a ton of other webpages to help you with Steemit. Here are some of the best for beginners:
https://steemd.com/ (This site is used to keep track of your voting power and other stats. You do not want to run out of voting power, and you only get so much per day. I keep my voting power around 80% for example.)
https://steem.makerwannabe.com/ (This site will tell you who follows you, who unfollows you, and who mutes you. It is great for meeting new people too. I regularly check it to see who has followed me to see if I should follow them back.)
https://steemit.chat/ (This site is the official chat webpage for Steemit. There are Discord channels too, but I usually stick to the official site. Come in to network and meet new friends. You can directly message people there too, so it makes it easier to communicate with your closest friends.)
Bots
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Sourcing and Adding Photos
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Here's a link to a Google Document I made to help with the coding:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NlAoGnP8q7ZAxGsEnvza-qotUGkoaae4SwXdubAhi2g/edit?usp=sharing
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Glitches
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Again, welcome! If you have any questions about getting started, look me up on the chat site or reply to this post.
Hey, thank you.
My PhD in broad terms is about EU politics and negotiations.
Thank you very much for the advice I will do back up and try to link with twitter. It looks like I need to still learn a lot about steemit but I will do so :) Thank you once again.
Excellent, thanks. There are a lot of complaints about how the EU is governed by unelected politicians. What's your opinion on that? Also, apparently the people in charge get paid very high salaries. I'd love to hear more about the situation from a person like you, who is studying the situation closely.
Ok, well you starting with hard topic, but from the other side I should expect questions from you, I guess you are rather non-statist and oppose an imposed forms of governance (if I am not wrong). Would you specify what do you mean by unelected? Is that mean that normal people like me can vote only on representatives to EP as the other on higher positions are chosen by the governments etc? And regarding the high salaries well, I do not think that majority goes there because of idealistic reasons - they rather go for power i.e. money and position. And to clarify I wouldn't say that I am very closely to it :-D It is not easy for me to conclude whether they should earn less, as you probably aware the good pay for politicians suppose to help them to not fall for the bribe - whether it works that is another question - also the higher position the bigger responsibility. Now there are also another questions whether all the positions are needed, what direction EU is taking, whether there is enough transparency etc. I will be honest it would be easier for me to answer your question if it would be more specified (assuming that I know the answer, because I may not). I am aware that some EU positions maybe set because of the connections (in fact already there were some great scandals with it) but from the other side it is worth it to ask how many people are truly interested in politics and would be voting for the EU. If you look at the voting statistics in Europe in the national elections the turnout isn't really high. So I doubt that if people would have to vote for any politician in the EU that they would get more engaged in it. I know that does not really answer your question but I cannot answer you simply - yes you right that horrible or no you wrong they have right to do so.