Please list your best tips/suggestions for new members in the comments below!
Guidelines:
- The tips should be targeted towards users who have recently joined the platform.
- You can post as many tips as you want, but I will pay a maximum of 3 STEEM per user.
- They should be relatively short (at most a paragraph).
- Links to awesome posts that would be good for new members to read are valid.
- If the same tip is posted twice (even with different wording), whoever posted it first will get credit.
- Spend time reading the tips that other users have posted and upvote the ones you like :)
- The bounty is open until the payout of this post closes.
- All payouts will be made within 24 hours of this post's closing.
I plan to use the content shared by users to create a new post with all the best tips. I will likely change the wording on some, but I will give credit to all the ideas.
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Good initiative @timcliff , upvoted!
This should be a post rather than a comment. Great information here. Thanks for commenting :).
oh wow!! I just noticed I was awarded some Steem for commenting? I had no idea LoL!! You have been all kinds of surprises!!! I have to point out that you have been extreeeemly helpful, kind and I appreciate it very much!!! As a new member, You are what I have envisioned this site to be all about! Thank you again Tim, you just rocked my world again :)
Thanks. It means a lot :)
Hello I am a newbie here, joined steemit for few days, heres are some tips that I found, hopefully you find them useful :)
Participation is important!
Besides upvoting posts and submitting posts, commenting is also very important! It should be noted that you should furnish valuable and related comments, instead of just leaving words like "follow, upvoted" things like this. Please respect every author here and support all those valuable sharing here, in order to build steemit together:)
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As a newbie myself the best tip I can give anyone is comment, comment, comment, and then comment some more (quality of course, not just Great post! Nice work!). I've met some amazing people just by adding my two cents to their post or sharing something related. It really is the best way I have found to be a part of this community, plus a good comment often leads people to your own work...not hinting at anything there ;) seriously.
I'd like to comment on that..................
I agree its nice to have a quality response versus a two or three word reply to something 'deep" i blogged
Good idea.
Very helpful for new members.
upvoted and followed you @timcliff
For new members:
Dear @olyhigh nice post really the most obvious one but probably also the greatest threat to newbies...! Thanks... cant be repeated enough!
When you are new...don't get excited or depressed because you are not seeing growth in your wallet...instead you just want to concentrate on upvotes and followers and you yourself want to follow and take knowledge from the ones that can tutor you right. Keep commenting on others post and make friends...learn the ins and outs of the system...patience will take you all the way to the target...and success is ahead...happy steeming.
Whatever spin anyone puts on it, we are all here with hopes for a future payoff.....follow me, Ill share honestly how much my time here pays off
Read comment below by @liliana.duarte
Read the Steemit whitepaper:
https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf
...and keep in mind some details are out of date, but it's an important read, especially if you are investing in the platform.
Do you think that they'll update it any time soon? It can be off-putting to read, especially if you don't know that it is out of date.
It's a bit of a mystery why it hasn't been updated. I guess everyone is too busy.
Most of the details are still valid, but the big ones for me are: coin inflation (now at 9.5% and falling) and staking period (13wks).
We might have a lot more investor interest if these details were updated and marketed.
If this qualified, please give steem to @olisan. Thank you!
https://steemit.com/funny/@olisan/little-advice-for-new-user
This.
Looking down upon my noob Steemit world from a bird's eye view...it would appear the most important thing to consider is what is good for Steemit. It's a self-fulfilling system in my eyes. You help the Steemit community; the Steemit community helps you!
Interaction seems to be key. Posting is great, but to get followers I feel commenting on others works is a better route; you can only post so much without diluting the quality of your reputation, whereas you can comment as much as you like, the more the better in fact.
And when commenting or posting, its all about ADDING VALUE! People appreciate when they put the time into a post, and then someone adds a new point of view or opinion, "enriching" the quality of the post, so-to-speak!
So happy to have found Steemit!..
There's a lot of good comments here and honestly I haven't read them all. I hope I don't overlap too much. Here's a few things I learned, participating for a few weeks.
I'm learning to go 100% power up when posting. Young steemers need to gather as much steem power as possible.
You can 'bribe' the system by purchasing steem power. It's always easier to make money if you spend money. Even in the crypto-currency world. I haven't done this yet, but I should. :-)
Finding a good content creator and following all of their followers (Any follower of yours, I'm willing to 'follow') is a great way to find like-minded steemers to connect with. Be diligent in replying to new and older posts on your feed and offer interesting or valuable or funny or even controversial replies. Strike up a conversation, people like to talk.
I learned that every upvote lowers your 'voting power'. I've been so generous and indiscriminate with my upvotes that they began loosing their effectiveness. I checked my 'voting power' and it was down to 25 percent (ouch). I cooled it with the upvoting and the next day it was up to 35 percent. I've heard it recommended to only vote about 20 times per day (might have to verify that one)
vote for @timcliff as a witness. Thank you for encouraging us little minnows and giving us an opportunity to share what we've learned so far.
Following, upvoting, resteeming, and voting. The works baby! @ironshield
This is great. I just joined today and I'm trying to learn as much as I can as quickly as I can before I start posting. This post and this reply specifically have made things clearer. Thank you very much.
Thank you! All great advice ;)
One extra tip - with the current price of SBD worth more than a dollar, if you do 50/50 payout, and then use the SBD from the payout to buy STEEM and power it up, you will get more SP than if you use the 100% payout option. It also helps to drive up the price of STEEM :)
Thanks, appreciate the addendum! Steem on! @ironshield
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Check out Minnow School for some tips on your mission statement- https://steemit.com/minnowschool/@aggroed/minnow-school-lesson-1-create-your-steemit-mission-statement-in-3-steps
Minnow 101- https://steemit.com/minnowsupportproject/@aggroed/minnow-support-project-minnow-101 for quick tips on commenting
How to be a rockstar author- https://steemit.com/blogging/@aggroed/tips-to-successful-steemit-posting-learning-from-kaylinart
Please explain Steemit like I'm 5 if you're completely new: https://steemit.com/steem/@aggroed/i-m-new-here-can-you-explain-steemit-to-me-like-i-m-5
Don't upvote too quickly or too often. Upvote no more than 25 times per day and upvote posts which are 20-35 minutes old for curation rewards. Also make sure that you are doing this with popular posts.
Having a catchy title is also great, but no click bait!
Leave thoughtful, sincere comments and you will be rewarded for it.
Gratitude is super important. When people are spending time to comment on one of your posts, respond to them. This will go a long way. Be grateful that they are spending their time on you.
Following accounts with tens of thousands of steem power is great to do. Their posts will appear on the home page and will generate far more revenue than those with low steem power. (overall)
Great tips, although at least until the next hardfork you can upvote up to 40 times per day without depleting your voting power at a faster rate than it recharges :)
I started off by upvoting every post I saw. haha
Currently I am unable to upvote it says I need to recharge.
I'm going to buy steem power this weekend so that will help!
How does voting power recharge? Is it just a time thing?
There is good info on this in the FAQ
https://steemit.com/faq.html
Thanks, I've read some of the stuff there, but haven't finished. Looks like I've still got plenty of Steem reading ahead of me.
Thanks for the info. <3
Great tips but why upvote posts 20-35 minutes old? I've heard that before but don't understand why that is relevant. Thanks.
The algorithms used make it so that if you upvote beyond 15 minutes you earn more money. Upvoting after 30 minutes is best. But you also want to upvote a popular post before its too popular. You want to get in early, just not within the first 15 minutes or you wont get much of a reward at all.
Crazy. So many tricks to figure out. Thanks for the help
Great idea Tim. Here are my tips for new members of the Steemit community:
1 - Steemit is not a “Get Rich” Scheme; it’s a “Earn Well with Experience” program
2 - Don’t come to Steemit chasing money; come for the relationships
3 - Come embrace the spirit of openness and uncensorship at Steemit
4 - Be a part of the most helpful and nicest community on the Internet
5 - Since a majority of Steemians live in the U.S. and Western Europe, avoid posting blogs too late after night (e.g. after 10 pm EST)
I actually wrote a blog post covering these tips and more a few days ago: https://steemit.com/steemit/@cerebralace/my-initial-impressions-of-steemit-after-1-week-of-steeming
Hmmm... Does anyone know if there's a project to study steem activity by timezone ?
combining most active hours with an editor app would allow to schedule your posts to times where your chosen demographic is most active.
I really got to take the time to learn blockchain development this summer...
That's a great idea. I travel all over the world and never really know where I am going to be next. But, with a scheduler and access to an app that shows timezone activity (with tag search?) would mean the ability to synchronize my posts with their preferred use time.
Same here @pbock. I'm actually in the process of teaching myself some blockchain development right now in order to do my own blockchain project.
An app to study Steemit activity by timezone would be a great idea! Great for scheduling your posts for a time when there is maximal activity in your time zone.
Have you checked out steemtools.com? It has a bunch of cool apps for doing different things in Steemit, including an app called Steemit Countdown, which allows you to monitor the elapsed time of posts!
Cool !
I imagine the "steemit activity by timezone, person or overall activity" project would be even more usefull to everyone as an API. imagine if they integrated that into things like steemstory to say when a user is on average the most active compared to the majority of the community, or into any of the posting tools with drafts to make scheduling a breeze with "options" for different time-zones that are automatically optimised for getting the biggest "eye-share" :)
That's sounds wickedly awesome! An API would certainly be the way to go and would be most convenient if we could embed this API into our story draft in order to determine whether or not this was a good time to hit POST ;) Great idea - we should totally send our thoughts to @furion and the development team!
Yeah. No idea how to go about contacting them, maybe Steemit.chat ?
Extra functionality could be studying the amount of upvotes by non-followers based on time posted (until at certain cut-off value, as above that it gets into Hot and Trending ?), as that should be a pretty good indicator of people seeing it when browsing "new" or another tag.
I'm itching to play around with the Steemit API now...
Same here @pbock - I also want to see if I can develop an application using the Steemit API especially after seeing all the awesome tools already available on SteemTools.com. See what you can come up with using the API and let me know!
So many great tips already been posted but one I haven't seen is a really big in for crypto noobs. Understand that your password is the Key to your account. There is no forgot my password link. Use a password manager. Copy it to text file and a save to a USB, print it out but don't lose it.
Great one!
Go meet people in Steemit.chat. It's a great place to connect with people, ask advice, get involved with the community. Just don't expect people to vote for you just because you threw down a link to your new post.
I've read so many of these Comments. I think the biggest one is NEVER GIVE UP although you may write a good post but you don't get noticed or the Whales won't vote for the little people. Stay focused, put blinders on, keep commenting with sincere comments. Resteeme good article and Pray for favor!
@timclift
Wow!! I just seen a notification in my wallet.😊I was so surprised. Thank you so much for the Steem Dollar. Much thanks!!! 🎈🎈🎉🎉@suziescorner
The best tip I can give: post at the time that you think the most people are online. Steem is big in the US, for example, so you don't want to be posting when it's 8 a.m. over there as people will be getting ready for work, not looking at steemit. The first half hour is crucial to how many people see and upvote your post. Therefore, post when it's 9 p.m. in the US, or 9 p.m. in China, to mention two.
A new user should:
Do not convert your SBD rewards to STEEM using the in wallet tool while the SBD price is greater than $1.05. Use the internal market to trade your SBD for Steem.
dammit , ive been doin wrong !
Me too! Now I know. This post is more helpful than I'd have imagined. Thanks!
Good one. I just figured that out myself. Just do not sell too. HODL
wow all of a sudden i see whales
on mass helping out minnows. I think it's to be reciprocated with thanks. I'm starting to think some whales got in a room together and colluded to do the opposite of what the 1% does in America, and that's actually thank the "lower" class participants. Perhaps I was wrong about people (under the right circumstances)
I'll carry on the torch once I'm there and I'm convinced i'll get there.
I like your tips than other!
Agree with all of these. Most importantly being #original as you can be. Nothing surpasses the annoyances of seeing the same topic, article, cryptocurrency, etc. being posted over and over. Especially when it's clearly been copy/pasted from someplace and/or someone else. Also, reorganizing / rewording an article doesn't count as 'new' ;-)
Fantastic article and idea @timcliff . I followed you and also caught one of your talks on #beyondbitcoin podcast/ #soundcloud talks. Keep up all the great work and continue spreading the word.
In order to keep track of your reputation you can use eSteem app which allows you to see down to the nearest 10th place.
Invest in as much Steem as you can and start posting :)
At the same time getting all your friends and family to join the Steemit Community!
Do not plagiarism or copy someone's work without editing, make sure you post link to the source
Post. Post good content. Reply to users that have a good post. Make sure you always attach a photo to your posts. Don't sell, always Power Up. Upvote STEEMIANS and tell them when you FOLLOW them and when you UPVOTE them so they know and will likely pay more attention to your own posts. Always upvote content you think is worth it. Ask for followers. Don't be afraid to show who you REALLY are here, as people will follow you if they feel a personal, honest connection. Debate when necessary but don't argue, you can lose credibility and followers as dast as you can fain them. And don't forget to post 🦅 🌎 ⚓️. Also, try to at least reply to post daily and spread the love. You are what you put out here on STEEMIT and my only regret is not posting more earlier and yet I already have a successful account in my opinion. When you post about what you are passionate about it will be much easier to post and reply. Go for it. The world is yours.
Post quality over quantity. Post quality content, on topics you know and enjoy and like minded followers will gravitate to you. Quality posts!
That's true. Your posts need to be contributary in some way or at least with that intent otherwise it comes across as too "facebook-y"
1- Do not lose your password.
2- Steem Read Q&A
3- Support the community
Even that I'm very n00b here I will say:
Being new im still learning myself, but I do know that content is King. If you post high quality useful content with quality pictures and/or video to accompany you will have many people following you. Original and Quality = followers
Don't just get attracted to the big priced posts (chances are you might get marginalized out of the payoff anyway with your low influence). Help fellow minnows climb up the success ladder by upvoting them too (if you agree with their content, of course)... they might just help you back as well!
Verify yourself with a picture and date, just write steem on a piece of paper and take a selfie. People like to know you are a human and not a bot.
STEEM and Enjoy
Post a photo with all posts
Some will act like they have all the answers. Find your own way, you'll be happier
Explore all aspects of the site. After being here a month, you'll still be learning.
Don't upvote automatically it is on a time scale and you get 100% share after 30 min. So, go to 30 minute old blog posts and try to find a gem that might go viral! You will make a lot more in the long run!
In order to be successful on Steemit you got to find your niche. You need to find the one category or way of posting that makes you stand out and gives you recognition.
Read the additional information I found : https://steemit.com/steemhelp/@happyme/addendum-to-what-most-tutorials-don-t-tell-you-about-steemit-com
As a newborn here :) Trying to find my baby legs.. I would suggest a glossary of steemit words used. I kept running across whales, minnows and other strange words that felt like trying to learn a foreign language :)
Today I found out that I am a baby tiny minnow fish swimming in a vast sea of whales and such :)
It's all so confusing .. but fun learning all about it.
Will be following to read the end result of your well awaited new members info!!!
Thanks for helping us youngins :)
For sure :)
Read the QUICK START GUIDE from the slide-out menu on the right side of the page (by clicking the 3 horizontal lines at the top right) then read my article https://steemit.com/steemhelp/@happyme/what-most-tutorials-don-t-tell-you-about-steemit-com
Totally agree on @papa-pepper having some.of the best resources for newbies, I learned so much from reading his posts!
I learned a lot from him
Introduce yourself
Respect yourself
Respect others
Be positive
Be Amazing!
Everyone is Amazing in their OWN way
<3
These resources helped me a lot when I joined:-
A great intro post by @thecryptofiend
What is Steem by @tuck-fheman
A complete guide by @reggaemuffin
A must read post on curation by @liberosist
Steemit FAQ
Steemit chat
Steemstats
Learn from Steemit Wiki, can also contribute and earn steem
Check out asksteemit.com, a search engine custom made for steemit
Try to post on only a few topics and don't clutter your brand by resteeming too many other authors unless it fits with your topic list.
Also use mute button for posters that annoy you
And finally for curation use steem.li find post with traction that are near the 30 minute mark. You don't get full curation rewards unless you wait till a post is 30minutes old. Steem li helps you find the best post to vote on.
Read the whitepaper and FAQ's.
Being a new user we want to make an attempt to make a powerful title for our post, than as we write our post we add photos as some get more attracted to the pictures than the notes. Content should be simple and clear to understand. There is much more to just posting. Over all you need a good reader to read your post and upvote it. A good content is never ignored.
Know your followers and unfollowers.
https://steem.makerwannabe.com/index.php?username=timcliff
Replace timcliff with your user name.
Awesome! I've been collecting all kinds of stats tools for steemit... Just added this to my arsenal. Thanks.
This is a very cool Steemit tool. Thx for sharing.