A Steemit FAQ especially for NEWBIES - the most helpful pages - start here and get up to speed fast
Here's a FAQ page to help Steemit newbies get up to speed more quickly. Most of these pages are very helpful posts written by other Steemians.
1. User statistics. Just put in your @name (external sites using the blockchain):
- Steemdb (stats)
- Steemd (stats)
- Steemstats
- SteemDollar: your vote's worth - find out how much your vote is worth, based on steem power. H/t to @rymlen
- Steemnow
- Steemitboard - Shows your awards - by @steemitboard
2. Steemit tags and topics. The tags that are most popular/have some of the highest payouts.
3. Your wallet. Steem, Steem Dollars, and Steem Power (the first post/video are from months ago, so some of the information may have changed, but they are still a very helpful introduction):
- Steemit Vlog #4: Steemit 101 - Steem, Steem Dollars, and Steem Power - by @andrarchy.
- Steemit 101 - Steem, Steem Dollars, and Steem Power (YouTube) - by @andrarchy.
- Introduction to Steem Dollars (SBD) -by @dantheman.
Also:
- Understanding post payouts - a video explanation from papa-pepper - by @papa-pepper.
- ❓Answering Common Questions: How do I spend money from my Steemit wallet? by @sykochica
- Steem-price
4. Account Keys/Passwords and Security.
- A Quick Guide To How Keys and Passwords Work on Steem and Steemit - by @thecryptofiend
- A User's Guide to the Different Steem Keys or Passwords - by @pfunk.
- Everything you need to know about Steemit's Permission Keys - Explains why you should use your Posting or Active keys instead of your Owner key most of the time. By @steemitguide
And note a security flaw was recently found:
- We just hacked 11 accounts on Steemit! ~$21 749 in STEEM and SBD is under our control. But we are good guys So... - by @noisy
5. Gaining followers and getting started:
- The many ways to gain a following on Steemit. The good, the bad and the ugly. - by @scrooger.
- How To Gain STEEMIT Followers Fast || "Use This One Weird Trick!" :D - by @shayne.
- If you're new to steem or steemit and you aren't making HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS yet -- let me explain why... - by @intelliguy.
6. Voting Power:
7. Levels/Vests and Reputation:
- On Redfish, Minnows, Dolphins, Orcas and Whales - by @arcange
- Beware of the dead fish - keeping active on Steemit. "If you become inactive for more than 7 days, SteemitBoard will transform you immediately into the dead fish, regardless of your current level!...Fortunately, this condition is not irreversible, and SteemitBoard can bring you back to life instantly." - by @arcange
- Ultimate Guide for Minnows - what are VESTS? - by @bitgeek.
- What is Reputation and how does it work? - by @arcange
8. Witnesses:
9. For new users:
- Introducing @yourhelper - "@yourhelper will be sniffing around for top quality contents that are greatly undervalued."
- Your helper tag
- Calling all Red fish and Minnows, get your blog voted by Randowhale! - by @abh12345.
- List of all contests/Giveaways - Participate To Win Free Steem/SBD - by @jznsamuel.
- Fifty-word post contest for new users - Weekly. Contestants must be reputation 55 and below. By @literature-trail.
- Meme challenge contest tag.
- Whaleshares tag - Also has some contests.
- If you are new to steemit, join the Redfish Community - by @albertvhons.
- Newbies tag
- Randowhale tag
10. Brief Introductions to Steemit:
- Complete Guide To What is Steem(it) - by @reggaemuffin.
- What is Steemit? (for Reddit users) - by @alavan
- Steemit Explained - from tonyherman.com (a helpful page, but I don't know much about the whole site and the books it promotes so I'm not sure if I'd recommend any of them or not).
Miscellaneous:
Also:
- Steem.center - wiki for Steemit.
- Steemit Chat
- Chainbb.com - a new forum for Steemians.
- SteemDollar.com
- Steemithelp.net
Welcome to all newbies, and thank you for visiting this page. Please upvote, resteem, and follow me at @doule
Another one that I always use is steemdollars.com. It shows the exact worth of your vote in cents/dollars. It's nice because then you know when you will finally be able to reward your followers when they reply to you. To be able to give 1 cent you need roughly 200 Powered up steem I believe
I'm going to add that. Thank you!
!!! ATTENTION !!!consideration of tags required.
This post cannot be tagged as introduceyourself !!
Please leave this category and space free for new people posting their self-introduction!!
I will remove the RED FLAG as you cancel the the introduceyourself tag!!
I'm red flagging your post for being angry and accusatory in tone. The flag is supposed to be used for intentional misuse of tags, it says, which is obvious that I didn't do intentionally and that I've told you I didn't do so, so you are abusing the flag by assuming someone is intentionally misusing them.
Introduceyourself page is High traffic, your article have rewards that are obtained in because or introduceyourself visibility - a Red flag can be used for disagreement in rewards or miscategorization - in your case both conditions were met.
First, this is one of the four listed reasons for a flag: "Intentional miscategorized content or Spam." Mine was clearly not intentional, IF it was even miscategorized.
Second, this is a post that is very useful to newcomers, and many people have said that too. Steemit is a site in development, and there isn't much in the way of helping people find information quickly at first. I was confused by at all for the first couple of weeks too, and I see others asking the same questions about steem power and vests and so on. So this is a USEFUL post under the "introduceyourself" tag. It gives people a taste of the basics and actually assists new users.
Also, "introduceyourself" and "introducemyself" are opposite things. A new person posting an introduction is the perspective of "introducemyself." To say "introduce YOURSELF" is from the perspective of OTHER steemit users.
So this tag is for more than just people introducing themselves, but is actually from the perspective of people greeting new users. And one way to also help them besides just greeting them is to give them some real help from the start.
And, other people who haven't signed up can also see a helpful post like that and decide to maybe sign up because of it, because they get an idea about what the site is about and how it works.
This post is very USEFUL to people introducing themselves, to help people who have just signed up learn quickly and STAY (which many people aren't doing), and THAT'S why it makes complete sense for it to be posted where it was. This site is in development, it's new, and it needs people developing things like this, to improve it and make it easier for people to use. That's what I did, and so after considering this for a couple of days, I can't agree with your flag.
Lastly, I have to say again, I think you need to reconsider using that message you use to tell people you think they've used the wrong tag. You could actually be wrong, and it's a very angry sounding tag when people might just pick a wrong tag. That's not constructive. I would suggest talking to people first, or at least seeing if the account has a history of spamming before blasting people with such a message first. To me, that in itself is a form of trolling. It's discouraging, and can make people less willing to post.
Agreed on all your points; your welcoming post to this poster was so
I thought to myself "yesss... a simple guide for me as well... How do I save it for my own quick reference?"
Steemit being what it is, A Geek's Heaven ;-) still, it can be (it is in my opinion) overwhelming to many "average internet users" to even consider the thought that -* It is not that complicated* - for an average user to join in, let even, post...
There is so much geek talk about, so much to absorb, so much to be explained in "average user " language terms. Beta says it all, the geeks are at work, don't we love them ❤️ In the mean time the average users, are trying to merely understand and justify to themselves - the value of such a huge migration from the old social networks over to steemit.
PS: I am trying so hard to get all the artists I know to join, sharing steemit posts on FB for eg... Their reactions? None so far! It almost looks like my Steemit shares are only "visible" to the FB stemmit groups.
Agreed. And thank you! I'm where you are, too, with just knowing how to run my computer and a little bit more, like some html, and I can follow some simple tutorials for the average user. But that's all. And I found this all very confusing at first. It looked to me when I first saw steemit that it would be as simple as sign up, comment and post, and maybe get paid something. Little did I know. I was surprised the first couple of weeks at how much is involved here. But over the month since I signed up, I did come across some answers and wanted to share them with new people. It's somewhat discouraging to realize you don't understand the site AND you spend time, even hours, putting together articles that earn 1 cent, if that. I took about 2 week break. But now that I've started to learn about the place, I actually am starting to see more of its possibilities.
Did you mean Steemdollar.com?
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Thank you for this. I am a complete newbie here and still getting a feel for how to do anything besides submit a story and comment :)
Excellent resource!
Thank you!
hello nice to meet you and happy to be part of this community.
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Very helpful post. Thanks for it, I add it to bookmarks
And thank you.
"Bookmark" ??? Where? How? 😳
In my web browser :P
But eSteem on Android has bookmarks :P
Thank you for this post! Lots of very useful info! Upvoted, resteemed and followed!
Thank you very much!
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Thanks mate! :)
hello nice to meet you and happy to be part of this community.
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!!! ATTENTION !!! consideration of tags required.
This post cannot be tagged as introduceyourself
Please leave this category and space free for new people posting their self-introduction!!
I will remove the RED FLAG as you cancel the the introduceyourself tag
Well, I don't know. This tag seemed to be the place for this post, to bring it to the attention of people introducing themselves. I'll consider what you're saying further, though. I certainly didn't intend to spam, however, so I don't quite understand why your post takes such a tone.
what tone
The tone of your replies here to me is angry and accusatory, and I have to say, I believe they do more harm than good, unless someone is actually spamming and has ignored people telling them that they are.
I just spent quite a few hours of time working on this post, and was pleased to post it, and you come in with that post that shouts and accuses me of wrong-doing. That's not a way to treat people here and grow a site.
I really put this post in what I thought was the right place, and never for a second did I think I might possibly be spamming, and somewhat doubt that I am even now.
I have seen quite a bit of true spamming since I've been here on steemit, with posts being put in entirely unrelated categories, which is actually a problem all over the site. Tags pull up all sorts of posts that have nothing to do with the topic. Sometimes most of the posts under a tag have nothing to do with a topic, it seems.
Well, I'll think about this further, but after a few hours work, and being talked to that way when this is a post of relevance to people using the "introduceyourself" tag, I can't decide on anything right now.
@iulianbutanu @gmuxx - guys can you take a look to tag - and relative comments - this needs your attention. Thank you
thanks, this is some good information.
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