Wow, thank you so much @indigoocean for putting in the work and sharing your insights! Much appreciated!
I've just posted my 2nd article, including a rather long introduceyourself post and I am putting in a lot of mental energy and time.
It's encouraging to find such good tips early on!
One thing I don't understand quite yet, though, is "bandwidth" - what exactly is meant with that in the Steemit context and why is it a problem for newbies?
Again, thank you!
I only very recently came to understand bandwidth too, and ran out of it for the first time this morning. It seems that how much you can post on the platform is a factor of how much SP you have. So when you start with the delegated SP for newbies, it isn't enough to do much at this time of day. (Another component is how busy the platform is at the time.) So you have to either buy more STEEM and power up to SP, earn more over time, or just not try to comment or post much during busy hours. This morning for the first time I found my bandwidth at zero and couldn't reply to a comment. Ten minutes later is was at 20% and I could start using Steemit again.
Ah, now this makes sense. Thank you!
Good. Btw, my article after this one goes into more of the getting started basics, including a thorough treatments of SP vs VP.