There are a couple of very important recommendations when you are first on here as a "newbie" Steemian;
so, the first order of business on the Steem blockchain is to never lose your passwords. Three are very important, the fourth is not in much use right now. Try to run these off of a printer making a hard copy, and put them in a safe place.
Use the posting key for posting only;
Use the active key for wallet transactions only;
Never use the master key, it's main use is to change the other passwords if your account is compromised;
Please don't learn this the hard way...
So, next when when making a post, if you are using photos or quotes that are not yours, be sure to list the source of where they came from, to give the owner or creator credit for their work. No one wants someone else to take their work and post it as their own. That is called plagiarizing, and Steemians take a very dim view of it and it can have an extremely negative impact on your career here on steem.
Even when the photos are from you, it is always safest to proclaim that in your post; you can say it on every photo, or make a blanket statement such as "all photos in this post were taken by me" at the end, as long as it is said.
Please don't learn this the hard way...
Next is when making up a post if posting a single photo, try to add writing to it to give some description of the photo, such as what it is, where it was taken, maybe a paragraph with some details, otherwise it may be termed as a "shitpost" if you are doing this consistently, you ultimately want quality posts.
Please don't learn this the hard way...
It's hard enough when you first get here and seems like it's way overwhelming, but in reality, when you get a couple of basic rules or recommendations down, it's not so bad; there is a lot to learn, but these are the most important.
Be advised it's always much better to get involved with some Discord servers, and the best one that I can think of is the Steem Terminal in the Discord server run by @xcountytravelers in here
and featured by @heyhaveyamet in here.
It is an excellent place to start, and to get your bearings as you move along here with getting questions and concerns answered.
Also, for more help: after logging into steemit, in the upper right corner of the steemit website are three bars. If you click on that then you will see "welcome"; click on that and you will have all kinds of useful information to read.
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Great advice i love 4 , 7 and 9 the hard way is what we see in the #steemterminal everyday , so glad we are running this pount off advice and help people out.
But ( there is always a but dear with me you know that by now ) we need to spread the word as much as possible, because its needed the steemisfere is complex !
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Absolutely! But like everything, it comes with a little bit of time!
This is clear and very easy for a newbie to understand! Thank you... it's so important to guard your keys.
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This is really informative @jamerussell. It was pretty daunting when I first started here and with so much information everywhere, it got confusing too. I was afraid to post even 😅. To have clearly written tips like yours would have helped a lot.
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Thank you @marblely for commenting!!!
That is the exact same way I felt when I got on here, and that is the reason that I wrote it up this way, just so it wasn't long or boring!!!
Hi @jamesrussell, what a wonderful post! Finally easy to follow wonderful instructions, and advice for Steemit newbies, fantastic! This would have been a perfect post for me to have read as a newcomer to Steemit. My husband taught me what I know now, but when I first came on board I new absolutely nothing about any of this, never even ran a computer before, I just jumped into it for fun. If I read instructions that are to wordy or lengthy, I get confused, your instructions are short and very clear, brilliant! Thank you so much for caring and helping others my friend, god bless you in all you do❣️
My best friend teases me about that same thing, and says because of my AADD I tend to lose focus if it is tedious or boring!
That would be a fun rendition of Adult Attention Deficit Disorder (NOT a medical diagnosis, hehehe; I think we both have it!!!
That and CRS and STML!!!
That is the exact reason for writing this post the way I did!
Thank you for your (as usual) awesome comments, and it's nice to see you as it's been a little while @lildebbiecakes!!! Bless You!
Ha Ha... I know I have AADD, and I definitely have had ADD all my life. I had a terrible and painful time in school listening to my teachers if they where talking about something I wasn’t interested in. I would drift off into my own little universe, not even meaning to do so, and that was a lot of the time. I’ve found talking to many other artists that they suffered in the same way. It’s really a miracle that I even graduated from High School, but I managed to barely squeak by❣️
Thanks for the tips. I have little time in Steemit and every day I am learning something new.
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That's fantastic @zaidaguevarae! There is a contest that @brittandjosie graciously sponsors called #learnandearn and you post a minimum of 5 things you learned this week with a maximum of 7 things, you might look into it for fun!
Thank you for your reply!
Already learned a lot of those things in the wagon wheel training - but always good to be reminded of things like this :)
Yes @seedbeady, I too learned a little in the Welcome Wagon that became extremely useful, but this was simply for the new Steemians, and also as a reminder for the older ones, as there are still (sadly) people who use their master password for everything. While it is not really a good idea, as the more you use something, the greater the chance for it to get compromised and if your master or your active keys get compromised, they can get everything in your wallet. And if you are an older user and they change the password, you've lost the entire account, with all posts and Steem that you had accumulated.
Thank you for your reply!
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Excellent tutorial post my friend, on the in's and out's...do's and dont's... really useful information!! I'm proud to be a part of the #steemterminal, and better yet, call you all friends!!
Great job!!
My sentiments exactly @wesphilbin!
Did I mention? Love that artwork!
Hahaha why, yes you did @wesphilbin!
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let me be critical, but constructive (thats a trained editor's way: when everything is ok, no need to shout out at all. you is urged to say something only when theres something missing, when theres smth critical)
so..... maybe I'm not a newbie already, but I 'm finding this brief text not very useful. cause it brings on very very basic things, I'm already in the know, and lacks the things I dont know, which maybe seem obvious so they dont go to any starting-readme-first-pack
I understand what stands behind this. newbie may not. a good thing is: direct me (a new user) to the PAL post descripting 'a good and a poor' post.
links, links, links.
info about good (and easy... or at least not so hard) contests that will help to announce more loudly about yourself?
recommendations for tags?
some notice about the 'nuances' unnoticeable for the beginners. (personally, I was a bit shocked and frustrated to see my resource mana momentarily went down, after me editing out some typos in my post, 10 times in a row.... haha! that counts as 10 posts, not one. obvious, you say? no!)
etc
etc
etc
actually, I tried to google out 'a poor post description' (I remember I found one by PAL, somewhere... but could not find it once again). but instead got such articles as 'why I left steemit' (haha)
https://prodabbler.com/why-i-switched-from-steemit-to-medium-62d625cc5ee1
https://medium.com/@heymattsokol/why-i-left-the-steem-blockchain-bb0214a451b8
reading these is quite a different story. sorry, I will cancel my further commenting on this. xD
Thank you for your feedback @qwerrie, but this post is deliberately meant to not be extensive, but if you read this carefully, what I am saying is these are the most important and critical things to know before moving on as there are plenty of articles out here for teaching more than these things, but when I was new, it got to be so overwhelming with really long boring posts, that I for the most part didn't understand and would quit reading after a few minutes.I have AADD (not medically) and have a short attention span for long replies! I will consider these things! Again, thanks for the critique!
what is AADD?? (i'm not a native speaker, hehe)
hope my critic was fruitful... at least a bit.
yes, people's ability to perceive/convert longreads into a knowledge, drops less and less and less each year...
mmm, maybe the goal of such a post (ideally...) is to create some marks, to indicate the further /needed/ directions for self-education.
instead of long hard reading = some 'visible marks', the text diluted with a primitive basic pictures, that will describe the stuff very funny and very accessibly, like to the children at primary?.. the stones and holes under the water, sort of...
my 5 cents. and thanks for your support!
i am still only an egg (a steem egg of the 46 level, hehe)
My best friend says that jokingly about me having adult attention deficit disorder, because he and I both get bored with long tedious jobs and lose focus.
Just for information, @qwerrie, I accomplished exactly what I wanted to do with this post.
Actually I remember your introduceyourself post a few days ago...aren't you in St. Petersburg?
Don't worry about being young on here, you will grow and learn in time.
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Awsome reminer espeasully here as we are dealing with money... i get flabbergasted every time i read that someone lost their PW😫😣😣😣😣🙄🙄🙄
Yes, we recently had someone who just accidentally overwrote their master with their posting key, fortunately he only had 5 posts, and only had the 15 steem delegated to him, so actually didn't lose much; a couple of posts and his username, because he cannot use that name again. So he had to make a brand new account; but it is a hassle.
Oook now that was a new way to handel importent info.. Im happy that wasent a valued act.. I dont know what i would do if i messed my pw up and lost my act... Now i got all spassy about it, crap bad convo this is ;) LOL
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