What matters most - Payout or Content?

Hello everyone

According to the steemit user @penguinpablo, an average 4,000+ new users are joining this platform. Last day, the count was 20,000+. This says that steemit is growing at the fastest pace ever. I welcome every new user and hope so that they will get success on this platform, but as a good wisher, I would like to add few things and tips that can be really helpful to newbies. The biggest question that I am going to address in this post is very important as this decides that whether you are taking steemit as a social media or as a JOB based site. Steemit pays everyone and that's what makes it different from other existing social media sites.

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Wrong things that Newbies are doing...

Rush

First thing that every new user must do is to read the guideline of steemit, reading guideline will give you the proper idea of WHAT THE HELL STEEMIT IS?
Rule 1 - Never ever do rush! Rushing on this platform will derail you from this. Instead of rushing, you must have a look on high reputed users and learn the way to do things right.
If you rushed and made some wrong post that may be marked as plagiarism or NSFW post, then you will end up getting your post flagged.

Attention Seeker

There are various way of grabbing the readers attention. You can write the good and detailed post that is full of information and experiences.
Never write something that hurts anyone sentiments. You may get attention but you will end up losing reputation level.
Never spam the comment section of any one's post instead, give valuable feedback or ask the questions.

Payouts

Money is the hardest thing that you can ignore in this world. When you are starting with this platform, do not think for Money or payouts for at least 2-3 months.
Instead of focusing on payouts, Focus on your level of interaction with this platform.
Focus on your content and make regular changes to grab more audience.
Never stick to a single topic! Writing about same things that already exist on this platform reduces your chances of grabbing attention.

Plagiarism

Copying content from the internet and posting it os steemit is not at all a good practice.
Always give credits to the Original Authors.
Express yourself instead of copying, who knows that your words can spin a magic around steemit and get you good audience.

Things that Newbies can do right now...

Follow-Follow-Follow

Find the peoples who share the same interest as you do.
Follow them and initiate a conversation them. If necessary you can collaborate with them on your steemit journey.
Introduce your ideas to new peoples so that they can know more about you.

Resteem and Upvote

Resteeming is a good method. By resteeming, you are getting in interaction with them. It is like you are getting agree with their views.
Upvoting good content will eventually give you the good reputation and earn you curation rewards too.

Explore

Explore! the key factor of all this. Steemit is large and it will take years to find a corner. So explore!
Exploring will increase your ideas and will give you more opportunities to think and write.
Exploring your interest in steemit will boost your basic knowledge too.

Stay away from Cheetah

Cheetah is a bot which checks for basic level plagiarism if you are upvoted by @cheetah than it is a sign that you are been trapped in plagiarism activities.
@spamminator,@patrice, and @grumpycat are the renowned steemit users who always look for bad plagiarism activities and clear them out.
For good practice stay away from such consequences.