As a newbie I have a million questions regarding Steemit, the biggest one right now being...
- How do I get Steem Dollars? Only through upvoting? Can I deposit into SD? I so, how, as I can not find any way to do that. I can only promote my content with SD, but I can only get SD with upvoting content that get exposure? That can't be right.
But nowhere can I find a steemit forum, not on reddit, not at http://www.steemitforum.com/ (down), not here, not on https://steem.slack.com/ (deleted)... Surely there must be a steemit help forum somewhere, no?
Where do people go to get answers, especially newbies, like me, who are trying to get their head around the steemit community? I mean, I do not even know what a "whale" is and why/how they want/can do the good/offensive things I read about here. What actually defines a whale? SD? SP? Girth?
Some of my many other questions are .... (ast asking for answers here, just expressing a a newbie's perspective)
- How has no one created a subreddit yet?
- How many users does Steemit actually have and what can one see its growth stats?
- What does the 50/50 power up mean, as opposed to the 100%? Are there pros/cons of using one or the other?
- Is SD the only way I can promote my post ?
- What is a 'witness", what do they do? why are they important? why should I be one? It sounds very 'religious" :/
- The docs say that rep is -10 to 10, but they is clearly out of date as my rep it 54. So what is the new scale of rep, and how is that exactly determined?
https://www.steemithelp.net/
Great! This looks like a very useful site. Thanks.
Sadly, there is no forum on it, and I still can not see how to actually get SD other then via curation :/
You have to buy bitcoin then Steem then SD
https://www.steemithelp.net/#/buying-and-selling-steem-with-blocktrades/
I got all that... 564 STEEM, 350 STEEM POWER... but I can not see how to convert either of those to SD. Am I missing something obvious?
Choose market
Indeed that worked :) Thanks
Yes, you go in your wallet and you click on your steem dollar number and then choose transfer or buy or exchange
Is seems the transfer is only for transferring SBDs to other users. My only other options are :
Choose market
And another question... How can this post possibly get 9 votes (yet only 2 views) in less than one minute? Are these bot votes? or people who sit at their terminal all day just waiting for me to say something just to upvote me without even reading what was posted?
I'm pretty new to this aswell, but from what I've seen so far, I think it's possible to trade Steem for Steem Dollars, same way you would trade other crypto currencies.
I'm not completely sure though, so I hope someone more knowlegeable will give you a good answer!
I thought that might be the case as well, but when I click on my options for STEEM I get the following
None of which seem to go to SD :(
It seems @chrisaiki is already helping you further along!
Quite so! And I am very grateful to him for taking the time :)