My humble conclusions after two weeks of use Steem.

I like as all the newcomers have come to this site to earn. Seeing how some manage to earn a few thousand, I thought I too can do it. But not so simple as it seemed at first glance.

Upvote.

The first thing I started to upvote popular posts, thinking that once there's a lot of money, I get at least a little bit out of the total Fund. But as it turned out it was a waste of time. I got nothing, as the weight of my voice was very small, almost close to zero.

Council. If You have very low SP (SteemPower) you do not need to upvote anyone at all, except that is very interesting for You articles.

Writing articles.

As writer out of me bad, I started to search in Internet for something interesting and make copypaste to publish it here. But a great response in terms of earnings no avail. Except that made his first SD (SteemDollar) and SP. Then I started making posts that I found interesting pictures on the theme of nature and interesting places. Here I was able to earn a small reward.

Mining.

Also tried to cash in on the mining. I have a server and I ran the miner. Almost immediately disappointed that before the first mining block, you'll need to wait a long time. I went more than a day before the first mining block. A little surprised that after mining block, hps of miner have fallen to a low level. I started to read everything in blogs about mining to find the answer to this question. As it turned out, this is the standard behavior of the miner. Just need to wait for your turn. Foremost you can look at queue https://steemd.com/witnesses . Now the queue is 105 miners. The passage of a queue can take up to 4 hours and it is very important that at the time of delivery of the block to you the miner was launched and worked, otherwise there will be rewards.

Tips. You need to have 4GB or more of free RAM, otherwise mining can hang.

Here's something I did. Good luck to all in the earnings and writing interesting articles.