Webpages
There are a ton of other webpages to help you with Steemit. Here are some of the best for beginners:
https://steemd.com/ (This site is used to keep track of your voting power and other stats. You do not want to run out of voting power, and you only get so much per day. I keep my voting power around 80% for example.)
https://steem.makerwannabe.com/ (This site will tell you who follows you, who unfollows you, and who mutes you. It is great for meeting new people too. I regularly check it to see who has followed me to see if I should follow them back.)
https://steemit.chat/ (This site is the official chat webpage for Steemit. There are Discord channels too, but I usually stick to the official site. Come in to network and meet new friends. You can directly message people there too, so it makes it easier to communicate with your closest friends.)
http://steemtools.com/ (This site is a comprehensive list of valuable tools.)
Bots
There are a lot of bots on Steemit. Some are useful and good, and others are not. If you see a cookie cutter reply, especially to your intro post, it is almost certainly a bot. Check the account's reputation. If it is low, I would recommend just ignoring them. Everything is public on Steemit, so you can go look at an account's comments and replies. Are they all the same? It's a bot.
Sourcing and Adding Photos
Adding photos to your account as a new Steemian may be confusing at first too. The easiest way it to click to "Submit a Story." Once in there, use the built in Steemit tool to upload an image from your computer. Below the posting window, you will see "Insert images by dragging & dropping, pasting from the clipboard, or by selecting them." Click on the blue text. Once the image is uploaded, you can copy and paste the link into your account settings.
Here's a link to a Google Document I made to help with the coding:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NlAoGnP8q7ZAxGsEnvza-qotUGkoaae4SwXdubAhi2g/edit?usp=sharing
Account Verification
Verifying your identity is very important because it will get you more support and people will trust you more. The best way to verify is to link back to your Steemit account by using another public social media account.
For example, I share my Steemit posts on my @finnianGC Twitter account. Another way would be to add your Steemit information to your Facebook account. Some people will even post a video of themselves writing out their account information since that cannot be Photoshopped.
The more famous a person is and the more valuable their content is, the more important it is that they verify.
Security
Do not use your owner key to log into Steemit.com to post. Use your private posting key instead. Keep your owner key offline as much as possible, and only use it when you must.
Per the advice given by Arcanage, you should only use your owner key to:
- Recover your account.
- Change the other keys.
- Give a present to your children a few minutes before dying.
There have been some scams in the past. If you click a link to a site that prompts you to log into it, be extra careful. Double and triple check the address to make sure it is really steemit.com. A recent scam was using "lsteemit" as the domain name, and people were entering their owner keys to log into it. That allowed the scammers to take those user's accounts, empty the money from them, and then ruin their reputation by using the newly hacked accounts to further the scam.
If you find or suspect a scam, please report it in the #steemitabuse channel on steemit.chat.
Don't Lose Your Content
Make sure you are copying and pasting your post content often as you write it, and put the data into another document to avoid losing it. I'll copy and paste my content into a Google document as just one example. Some people use Markup editors to do the same.
Definitely keep a backup copy right before you post it too, for some people have come back the next day to see half or the entire post missing even though the day before it displayed correctly. Make sure you copy and backup your long replies as well, for they can vanish immediately after clicking to post them.
Again, welcome! If you have any questions about getting started, look me up on the chat site or reply to this post.
Thanks finnian resteemed, talked about this on the live.
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Thank you! It was a great live chat, and I was glad to be there.
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@juniusmaltby I saw this today and thought of you and the messed up small transaction you had with Bittrex. They may be able to help you after all if you contact their support:
https://steemit.com/steem/@sevinwilson/a-careless-mistake-that-mistake-that-almost-cost-me-thousands-of-dollars-thanks-bittrex
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I have tried to find links with no success. The links I have found to "Steem support" have led me no where and I have never received a reply or assistance. I am at a loss of what to do.
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You sent something to Bittrex though if I remember correctly, and the memo was not right? Bittrex.com has their own support and a steemit account to facilitate the transfers. If they helped the guy above, they should help you too I'd hope.
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Kudos on writing this during a live stream! Well done!
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Thanks! This is a normal reply I post when going through "introduceyourself" posts looking for promising new accounts. :)
I'll read their post and add something personal to the top of my reply then give them this content to help them get started.
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I too look at the new intro posts to make new people feel welcome. as some of them have almost no responses at all. I try to make each welcome unique after reading theirs. I believe onboarding is important to help grow the platform.
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Agreed! It is also a great way to meet new people. I'm a PI too, so it is a bit like people watching. I love doing that! :) It really helps build your network as well as long as you are genuinely connecting to them.
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You are the man, @finnian! A great deed you've been doing and glad to see you posting again - I was refreshing your page for a few weeks, waiting!
Keep on STEEMin' onward & UPWARD, Brother!!
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Thank you! I'm still messing around with the next post. It is almost done but needs to be cleaned up a bit before sharing it. This quick post was not really planned, but I knew it would help the people in the live stream @juniusmaltby was doing earlier.
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Hey great stuff finnian! How are you brother? I hope you and yours are havin' a wonderful New Year so far! Me and mine wish you and yours all the best my friend! I learned a couple of things from this post and was reminded of others so I thank you! Enjoyed!
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Thanks! Things are good here. I'm in the middle of a long post but just haven't finished it yet. I still cannot get myself to get back to the child safety series. It is just too depressing. I'll get back to it eventually though. In the mean time, I keep going back to the warrior ethos topic. That's what the long post is about that I'm currently finishing up. It just needs a conclusion and will be up soon!
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Thanks. Was on the life vid of Junius. On YT I am goudhaantje. I post in #steemsilvergold. #gold and #silver.
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Followed! I've seen that great #steemsilvergold tag around and love it.
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Thank you for posting these helpful tips, I might need to refer back to these when I upload my first post later on today.
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You're very welcome! Let me know if you need any more help or run into any difficulties.
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Will do! Thank you.
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Great work @finnian! This has definitely helped a lot of new people out. I saw you commenting on a lot of introduction posts a while back. Are you still doing that?
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Thanks! I haven't done it for a while. A witness called my verification blurb above bullying, so I stopped looking through the new people's posts. It is also the same time I stopped posting all together on here.
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Very informative and nicely detailed. I appreciate your efforts and am glad to meet you. Thank you, I resteemed this article as it needs to be seen by as wide an audience as possible.
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Awesome! Thank you for the resteem and feedback. Let me know if you have any suggestions to improve the content too.
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Thank you I have bookmarked all of these pages. I'm on Twitter as well same handle. Have a great week!
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You're very welcome and thanks for commenting. I've followed you on both sites.
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I have only been on here 20 days, and been doing some posts about what I find useful and how to interact on here, this post showed me a few more things on top that I will have a look at, I resteemed also, top job, like your style.
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Excellent and thanks! Welcome!!
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Great info @finnian, thanks for posting! Resteemed.
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You're very welcome, friend! Thanks for the resteem too!!!
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@finnian friend I think it's great that you take out your time to give us this useful information, I follow you, I hope you can follow me to see my posts .. Greetings and success!
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Thank you!
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This is a good run-down of the basics, and good advice for newcomers. I would make one addition to your list of resources: SteemTools
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Thanks! I've never used that site. What makes you suggest it? Please let me know why a new user would benefit from it. I went there and was immediately overwhelmed with all the information presented.
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Steemtools is my go-to @finnian
You can select tools by purpose/function. It's pretty awesome because it has ALL the tools for the Steemit platform and blockchain there and you can find new tools that have just come out there as well. I have had the site stored as icon on my iPad for a while, like I said I use it as a hub to get to the tool I need. Too many to remember! Haha
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I've never used it. I don't want to overwhelm a new person either. Hmmm
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Very true. It can get overwhelming, fast. The list isn't getting any shorter either 😁
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I have updated the post, and the link has been added. Thanks guys!
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Please let me know any suggestions or corrections to the content above as well. I'd appreciate feedback to better help new Steemians.
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If you were part of @juniusmaltby live stream discussion and I'm not already following you, please post here to let me know. I'll gladly help you get started too. If I don't know the answer to your question, I'll get the answer from somewhere else.
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Hi finnian! Just joined the Steemit community and found your helpful list of links. Thanks! Upvoted!
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Welcome and I'm glad the content helped. :)
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