I'm happy to see I haven't really broken the unspoken rules of etiquette in my short time here. I wish I'd been on the site before the massive influx of spam hit. But I also wish I'd gotten on earlier for other reasons too.

Thanks for sharing this and hopefully it'll get noticed by the people who really need to see it. I didn't really know what I was doing my first few days here and my first couple of posts were very short as I didn't realize that writing longer posts is actually generally appreciated here as long as the content is meaningful / interesting / useful or whatever you want to call it.

I haven't really checked out minnowsupport but maybe that should go on my to do list for steemit. I guess I haven't felt the need as people have been very generous to me and my payouts so far have been more than I could have reasonably hoped for. Even on days when I make a dollar or two that's just free money to me and I think in the distant future those of us who are new here at this point will be handsomely rewarded for our efforts and for holding onto the currency as opposed to just cashing it out and spending it. That's what I plan on doing with my earnings (hold it).

I also feel very lucky that I haven't seen a single purely negative comment on any of my posts yet. It's very refreshing to find a social media site where people are, for the most part, respectful and if they don't like what you have to say they generally just move on.