Excellent article, @ebitularmbert! You have given not only a great summary of some key points, but your additional advice and perspective on what your internal thoughts are as you come across these offending practices is a great addition to the narrative.
So many Newbie mistakes are made because of a lack of understanding of the platform, and how the many different aspects function. The more educational articles that can be written on these topics, the better. I know I made plenty of these same mistakes in my first month or so on Steemit.
One thing that you didn't mention was that there is a legitimate reason for upvoting your own comment immediately after posting: that would be to push it closer to the top of the comments. This can be a good idea if it is a truly valuable comment, and especially if there are many comments ahead of you. That being said, a Newbie is not going to have enough voting weight to make their comment rise very far, so for a Newbie your advice stands as given.
Thanks for posting this in the #resources channel of the @mitneb Curation Trail Project Discord Server. It is going to be a great resource for all of our members.
I have upvoted and resteemed this post as my daily post promotion for people whom I have previously curated.
Cheers!
Thanks for your compliments @mitneb. I am glad you find the article useful .
Its my sincere hope newbies, and others, more than read, but act in accordance.
Thanks for the observation about the legitimacy of upvoting one's own comment. You rationalize it all too well.
I am honored, as always by your ideas, curation, retseem..everything.