Welcome Newbies and Not-So-Newbies - Hints and Tips
...To make your Steemit experience more enjoyable and less stressful - for ALL
You arrive here on Steemit.com and it's a BIG scary word to start with but you've been on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram and you know how it all works, how hard can it be? You'll be a millionaire in less than a week.
WOAH! Back the truck up!
Who says this is exactly like all those other social media sites?
Do not listen to them, this is NOT like any other site you've ever been on.
The 'follow for follow' method like on Twitter does not apply here. If you add everyone that adds you, your feed will be swamped.
Add people who write what you like to read.
Add one or two at a time and see how your feed looks.
To get to your personal feed, click the green 'steemit' logo at the top left of the screen
If you like something you've read, comment AND upvote. It doesn't matter if you're a newbie, you only give $0.01 Steem with each vote. The amount is not the point here, the fact that you liked the writing, the work that went into a post and you appreciate the time and effort is the point.
If you really like a post, say so. Say exactly what you did like - and if you're polite and respectful and can give constructive criticism in a NICE way, do that too. I for one, will appreciate that and thank you for it.
Making an upvote has more than one advantage - No, really, it does!
When you vote on something, you say, 'Thanks for the work, thanks for entertaining me.'
THEN something wonderful happens.
The post gains attention. The more people that vote on a post means more people will see it - snowball effect.
ALSO after 7 days, when that post pays out, YOU also get a share of the reward pay-out.
YES! Really-really!
That's the beauty of Steemit.com - you give the love and receive the love - BUT in order to get any of that 'CURATION', you have to UPVOTE posts.
To see this, go to your Wallet (Click the three lines at the top right side of the page and select wallet). Then go to the thick black line across the middle of the page and from the choices of Blog Comments Replies Rewards, click Rewards
There you will see a dropdown box with Curation Rewards and Author Rewards
That tells you exactly what you've received and which posts you received the rewards from.
You can do that on absolutely every account on Steemit.com. Have fun with it, be nosey!
One other thing...
If you get called out on not upvoting, please dn't think you can get away with 'My voting power is low' because there are a few sites where you can actually SEE what your voting power is and you'll be caught out in a lie.
This is a great site:
https://www.steemnow.com/@yournamehere
Also, cite your sources.
Pictures from Google - Free to use search
Have fun! Be nice! Don't lie!
I have learnt a lot from reading your literary and general information blogs. I must acknowledge that you are really a mentor and guide for many newbies, including myself for sure. Your blog is rich of most necessary knowledge to begin on Steemit; much different from other social media platforms.
However, I politely disagree with you on saying, 'thank you...' on the every comment we make to the content of authors we like. It is because, if we say 'thank you... thanks...etc' on more than 10 comments a day, its a spam and we are labelled as spammers.
In my best of opinion, one has to comment initially at least more than 10 posts/blogs in order to get noticed. It's very difficult to get an upvote at the beginning, though there are exceptions but not everyone here is intellectual and effective comment writer.
Thank you for writing this informative blog.
I agree. A comment of 'Thank you' is not the way, but I did say:
And this:
The upvote is for saying 'Thank you' - the comment is to say a little something more... like you just did :)
I am grateful for your kind advice and support. Thank you for encouraging me and everyone else following you:)
I'm not exactly a newbie, I've been here for about seven months now, but these tips are evergreen and everyone regardless of their amount of time here should pay heed to them. The biggest mistake people make here is acting selfishly, like as if they are the ONLY person here who wants to earn. Truth is that everyone is here for that, and that won't happen if each person is focused on their own aims. This platform works on everyone helping each other. Making connections with other like-minded people is very important. This is where upvoting and commenting is equally important. And this excludes spam comments like "please upvote me".
You're exactly right!
Where I go to look and see if the commenter has replied AND upvoted, I noticed something...
I got a reward for upvoting your comment. It was a small reward, but a reward, nonetheless.
This is what people don't seem to realise.
You give and you receive.
It really is that simple.
Hi there. These tips are really good. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome :)
And be yourself. No one likes a phoney.
Oooh yeah... that!
Great advice @michelle.gent, and I hope that it is taken on board.
I wrote a post a long while ago also making similar points and I must admit that I had to smile when after the initial "thank you sir for your good advice" the very next post got a comment of "nice"... 😂 and no upvote.
Thank you! You're one of the commenters that I don't have to go looking to see if you've upvoted or not :)
Thanks for saving me that trouble ;)
Finally getting back to steemit and just wanted to say good morning!!!!
Hey! Welcome back! I wondered where you'd gone.
Hey lady!!!! I'm commenting all over so I apologize if you can't find my comments hehehe it took me forever to find THIS comment to reply to you!!! (I'm on my phone) but I'm planning on camping out for a while now that my health is back in check (me hopes!!!) Lololol. I'm trying to catch back up on reading but I think I'm not gonna do a very good job of that and just have to start fresh with all my favorites and their new stuff :) I tried to jump in on yours in the middle with the bouncer. Think I can go forward or should I back track? Hehehehe
Sad to see that some steemians have dropped off (like I did) because I so enjoyed their work!!! I'm gonna have to haunt them until they return for my reading pleasure hehehehe
Thanks for the information.
I am grateful for this because i am a newbie
So kind of you.
You're welcome :)
Wow.
Thank you so much @michelle.gent for this piece.
Honestly, being a newbie so confusing. It's great to know you thought to reach out and educate us.
You're most welcome. Thank you :)
resteemit and upvote done
Thank you, it's all appreciated.
There’s a good point here about making an upvote even when you don’t think it has an monetary value. When I first got here- I felt like it was pointless for me to upvote posts that were making hundreds of dollars because in the grand scheme of things- my vote didn’t matter. Well, it does show support and shows that you were willing to give what you had to offer.
Hopefully people will learn a thing or two from this post - unfortunately I find that a nice chuck of people read these kind of posts a million times and don’t learn a thing...that’s why we see those pathetic spam comments. Anyways much love
That's it exactly!