Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should

You can wear a pink speedo to the pool, but you shouldn't!

No we aren't talking about our swimwear today, but hopefully picturing a fat balding internet troll in a pink speedo is now burned into your brain. LMAO...sorry, but you can't help but picture that guy in his skimpy speedo can you?

Ok lets be serious now. Each day on steemit we make choices about what type of blogger we want to be. Some of those choices will attract followers and some of those choices will push followers away.

Filling your followers feed with to many resteems my get you unfollowed, posting to many times with low quality content...goodbye, comment spamming deserves a flag, and stealing content deserves having your account crushed into oblivion to take away your earnings.

Posting quality content that clearly took effort to create and you'll get votes, do it repeatedly and you'll gain followers. Resteem selective quality content then your followers will look at it, vote on it, and maybe even follow the person.

Those are just a couple examples so lets look at a random sampling of issues I ran into during the last 4 days...more on that in a minute. Here are some You Can, but You Shouldn't Items.

• YOU CAN TYPE IN ALL CAPS SHOOTING AT EVERYONE, BUT you shouldn't!
• You can vote at 2% when your total vote is only worth 8 cents, but you shouldn't!
• You can resteem 25 posts per day, but you shouldn't!
• You can tag spam the introduceyourself tag, cn tag, or other irrelevant tags, but you shouldn't!
• You can search google for photos and use them without caring about ownership or copyright laws, but you shouldn't!
• You can cut & paste steal other people's content and post it as your own, but you shouldn't!
• You can post comments that have nothing to do with a post hoping for an upvote or begging the author to follow you, but you shouldn't!
• You can blindly follow people just because they followed you, but you shouldn't!
• You can mass follow thousands of steemians hoping others will blindly follow back, but you shouldn't!
• u can write psots wihtout proofreading using punctuation or proper grammar but you shouldnt
• You can use your owner key for many things, but you absolutely shouldn't!
• You can follow links that take you away from steemit.com, but you shouldn't!
• You can invest your time creating 10 crap posts a day instead of 1 quality post because you think it will allow you to earn more, but you shouldn't and you won't!

Just Because You Can, Doesn't Mean You Should!

I can probably go on for a while here, but I shouldn't. You see each day @lynncoyle1, @energyaddict22, @wolfhart, and myself look at a ton of posts from newbies due to the Pay It Forward Curation Contest and we love seeing the raw talent that is coming into steemit...seriously a few are great! Then there are many that are good, but could be great. But I am seeing a lot of correctable issues that if someone was willing to accept some constructive criticism they could make a some massive leaps forward.

I have no patience for those who steal content. Those people just suck and deserve each and every flag they get.

As for the other things listed that you shouldn't do, just remember that Just because you Can it doesn't mean You Should!