RE: To my friends from TSU still searching for a new home: 10 things I like about Steemit and more
Welcome to Steemit. I was never on Tsu. I can help a bit on the payout method. Your actual payout for a post isn't locked in until the payout is made. So let's say the final post value is $160. Your author share is currently 75%. Curators split 25% ($40). You get $120. Half of that ($60) goes to your Steem Power which gives you voting power. You could "power down" your steem power but payout would be over 2 years. Now the other $60 you were paid would be paid out in Steem Dollars. If you want, you can transfer them to an exchange like Poloniex, convert the SBD to BTC there, and then move it to Coinbase or wherever you want e.g. Coinbase. Another important thing to note is that your steem dollars aren't currently worth $1 USD. The last price I saw was .82. There's a way to power up and move your steem dollars to steem power. I haven't done that. Hope this helps :)
Right there, that's the illustration that getting our money from Steemit is more complicated than it was on TSU, where we could just ask for a check when we had accumulated more than $100 in our accounts. I tried to keep my description very simple, without getting into the details. Your description of the payouts is a nice, clear addition. Thanks!
PS: I powered up the few Steem dollars I had last week. It takes a few days for it to go through, but it seemed like a simple process.
Yes, I found Steemit to be very confusing, but each day gets better :)
That's a good sign! : )
@haphazard-hstead it's not difficult here's a step by step tutorial with screenshot on that I followed the first time i had to - and it works . Just be careful and make sure your wallet has private keys. Good luck!
There a some things I haven't come to understand that I would still need help with. Do posts on steemit become like invisible on their own after like one or two days after they were posted? Or do they still get seen somewhere on a feed or somewhere. Posts don't seem to have any engagement like one or two days after they are uploaded. I am trying to establish if this is really true so as to know if to constantly, endlessly post. @haphazard-hstead mentioned that like 4 posts a day is what's recommended. If posts visibility does die after one or two days wont this mean constantly posting and certainly more than 4 posts a day? Too how about tagging people. Will it flag you if you tag people with say linking their posts? I mean like just tagging someone to announce or notify them that you have posted
Everything you post into Steemit, including comments, is stored. You can see the entire history of each person's blog posts by going to their page. And Steemit does a great job of getting a post to rank high in Googe Search, for posts that are about a specific topic. You don't want to make more than 4 posts a day. But you can comment all you want -- not a lot on one person's posts, but to connect with other people who have content you are interested in. There isn't a notification system, yet, in Steemit where they will know if you have mentioned them in a post. There is a link-bot that will notify you in a comment to your post, if someone has put a link to your post in one of their posts. So you can thank them! I don't see people tagging each other like they did on TSU. You can promote your posts in the Steemit chat platform (steemit.chat). Hope that helps. Here are some links:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@akareyon/a-realistic-integration-crash-course-for-social-network-migrants-to-steemit-com
https://steemit.com/steemit/@mikemacintire/your-steem-rewards-might-be-taxed-we-need-to-talk-about-the-huge-penalties-for-posting-more-than-4-times-in-24-hours
Ok I should check steemit.chat then. I tried steemit on slack but I think the link for that is broken
The Welcome group and the General group are great places to get questions answered. They have been very helpful for me.