Self-Auditing

Before I login and while I'm voting, I always keep a tab open for Steemd. It's a pretty nifty tool made by @roadscape. I can see everything going on in my account. Just go to this link making sure to replace @yourusername with yours. https://steemd.com/@yourusername

Here's mine at this time showing SP, voting power, bandwith, rep and any votes, comments, replies and posts.

After a few votes, I refresh this page and stay above 75 to 80% so I can vote tomorrow. If you vote yourself too low, your vote is worth less and you can't vote tomorrow.

You can also look at the bottom of the first page and see older pages

If you click on the last number, it will take you to the first page of data for that Steemit account. If you scroll to the bottom, you can see who created that account and how it was created.

The "free" account will usually say steem creating an account for you with delegation. There will be accounts created from anon.steem, blocktrades, private user etc

Here's showing my first page of data at the bottom. 36 pages is not that many. Many accounts have hundreds and thousands.

I don't know about you, but the first sensible thing to do for me was to follow @ned

This is also my way of looking up an account's first post which is usually their introduceyourself.

Now this part is showing that my account is #647,629, my account name and if I'm using a proxy for my witness vote.

The next items show the date when the owner key was last updated. I update my owner key every time I use my active key in a place I'm not sure about.

The last account update is talking about when you have updated your steemit settings.

The next line tells you the year, month, day, hour, minute and seconds your account was created.

The rest of the information in this part is regarding the amount of steem, sbd. vests powerdowns and rewards from where.

It lists your witness votes, last post comment and last root post.

Finally towards the end, the bandwidth levels.

This is especially useful when you are still starting out since you will eventually encounter bandwidth issues until your SP is higher.

_{This post is really getting long. I thought I was going to cover SteemOcean too but you'll have to wait on my next post for that.}

The JSON metadata is the data used by Steemit for your profile page.

The owner key history is clickable and shows if the account has been recovered from hacking. If you haven't had to recover your account, it will show "no history".

The Authorities are when you use your Steemit keys (active, owner, posting, memo) for apps using Steem blockchain. They usually call these dApps for decentralized apps.

Witness Votes

Lastly, it shows who you're voting for in your 30-witness slots. I haven't filled mine because it's difficult to know who a good witness is. I try to choose witnesses that are active in supporting the community as well as not just interested in how much Steem they can take from everyone else.