<3<3<3 Welcome to Steemit! <3<3<3 [A simple guide to get you started on Steem(it)]
"So You're new here? Or maybe you aren't new, but can use a handy guide to give new steemians?"
Often, I find myself greeting new users to the Steemiverse. This involves a bit of chat, looking at some posts they wrote, give some advice, and offer some of the helpful links that I've collected over my time here.
This means I'm searching through my feed, and my bookmarks, so they can have the best information available. To save myself some time, and make their experience a bit smoother, I decided to put the links here. Ideally, this will make everyone's experience simpler and offer the most effective help that I can.
Maybe you aren't even new here, but you don't have all of the information you need to do what you are trying to accomplish here. this isn't a highly technical document, like some of the others. For our purposes, I will share the information available to me for you to get going, and started with your blog.
OK! :) Here we go!
Chat
To maximize your experience here, you'll want to use one of our popular chat programs.
Steemit.Chat
Steemit.Chat is the original chat program for Steemians. Most of the people who have been here a long time use it. Personally, it is not my preference. However, there are many people who only use steemit.chat. So, it's important to know about.
Discord Chat
Discord is a versatile and robust chat program, which allows people to create "servers" where groups of people can get together and chat in multiple channels for each server.
The Most Popular of these is PAL\MSP.
This is the home of the Minnow Support Project. This has to be most active chat server in the Steemiverse. The idea of Minnow Support\PalNet is to provide a place for new users and the rest of us minnows to make friends and learn how to navigate this strange new world.
@minnowsupport is also the home of MSPWaves a 24\7\365 Steemit Radio Station!
- @juliakponsford - Minnow Support Membership Tutorial
- Minnow Support Project. Community Standards
- @clayboyn -Minnow Support Project. How To Gain A Following.
Chat Etiquette
It is important to understand, that you should not go to these places asking people to look at your posts, or asking for follows. This is not a good way to make friends. It's OK to ask a friend to review your post, but you have to make the friend, first. If they think you are in chat just to beg, and not make friends, you will not get far.
You can find in @Torico's guide, many places to chat, this way you will find a community where you feel comfortable. Many have very specific purposes, and depending upon your interests, you may want to try a few of them.
Comments
The first thing you should do, besides finding a place to chat with other steemians, is to go browse steemit. See what this community has to offer. What are people already writing about? Who is writing about things that are interesting to you?
While doing this, you can leave nice comments on people's posts. Not "Follow For Follow", this is not a good look. Better to comment about what you liked in the post. This will gain you followers, and friends.
For a more complete guide on how to write a good comment, please check this article I wrote:
Creating Blog Posts
I wrote a popular and epic guide for Success as a Steemit Blogger. I'll invite you to read it, and learn many of the things that have helped me to get more upvotes, comments, and follows.
Markdown Editors
It is a good idea to write your post not in the steemit editor, but on your computer, or using an online editor such as:
- hackmd.io - Realtime collaborative markdown editor
- Saves text as you write it.
- Allows multiple people to easily edit a document at the same time.
- MarkdownPad - My favorite editor for windows
- Haroopad - My favorite editor for linux, but also available for Mac, and Windows.
All 3 of these editors offer support for multiple coding languages, as well as, side-by-side viewing and editing, so you can see how it looks as you work.
Be careful to make sure everything looks right in steemit when you copy it into this editor, because each editor renders the code a little different.
Verification Post
Being that this is a semi-anonymous group, and there is money involved, there are many people who come thinking they can scam this community. Because of this, we may be mistrusting when you post images that claim to be You. If you don't post any images of yourself, and don't claim to be anyone famous, then no need to bother about verification photo.
However, posts with this verification image in one of the introduction categories such as #introducemyself, or #introduceyourself, tend to be the highest paid introductory posts. There are many people who are just looking for these verification posts so they can give your blog a nice upvote knowing you are a real person.
Ok, so I will explain now what a verification photo is. A nicely handmade sign that says "hello steemit" with your username and the date, with you holding the sign. It's nice to take a few, so we can see that it's real by how the paper moves, unlike the photoshop versions.
If you make a post like this, you are likely to get a warmer welcome. However, this is not necessary. If you don't want to share your image, that is ok too.
Helpful Links
Here I will list, by category resources which I have found helpful in my time here on steemit.
Keeping your content free and Legal
- fairuse.stanford.edu - Copyright and Fair Use
- educationworld.com - Fair use for Educational Works
- steemit.com @mindover - 13 free and legal ways to find High Quality Images for your Blog
- indiemade.com -How to Credit you Blog Images and Why you should Do It
- @inquiringtimes - Creative Commons Licenses (better than copyright)
Formatting and Syntax Guides to make your Beautiful Blog Posts
- steemit.com @mono - Steemit Markdown Cheat Sheet
- steemit.com @shieha - How to Wrap Text around Images
- @holoz0r - How to use div tags in Steemit Post Layouts - Pull Right and Left
- @xeldal - How to Liven up your Steem Posts with Markdown
- @drakos - Quick Tips: Referencing of images in your Blog
- @shello - STYLING GUIDE to Finding, Using, and Creating with Text and Images
- @knowledges - An Epic Guide to Markdown and Html
Front Ends
These can all be helpful if steemit isn't working.
Resources
- Steemian.Info by @drakos (concise information resource about the Steem blockchain)
- @reggaemuffin - Complete Guide To What is Steem(it)
- @timcliff - Minnow Voting, it is still OK to vote 40 times a day
- asksteem.com
- Steem Upvote Bot Tracker
- Join The Minnows Accelerator Project Community [Win Delegated SP]
I hope many people find this helpful, feel free to share this with your friends and other new steemians, as a simple guide of welcome, with many useful resources.
Also, if you have some amazing guide or resource which I have left out, please let me know right here in the comments section!!!
Thank You!
Have Fun, and Steem On!
Am only a few days old here on steemit and @bashadow recommended this page for me. he has been really helpful . Thanks @inquiringtimes for this post. it is a very informative article, one that i have book marked and will read again. Am new to steemit and need to look towards mentors to get it right, this was very handy and will be referred to time and time again.
Welcome! I'm glad you find it helpful! Here is one I wrote a little more recently that you might also find helpful.
https://steemit.com/blog/@inquiringtimes/how-to-find-sucess-as-a-steemit-blogger
Am only a few days old here on steemit and @bashadow recommended this page for me. he has been really helpful . Thanks @inquiringtimes for this post. @inquiringtimes
majority of us who are new on steemit don't know that it takes proper orientation to steem it. And that's what you just did @inquiringtimes.
I really appreciate you for that🙌🙌🙌
Hiii, I'm new here. Trying my best here.
Looking for helps everywhere.
I'm a mum who types by an available hand only. Because Im having a newborn who needs to be bfeed most of the time.
@pizzapai
Have fun going through the information in this blog. Please do sign up for discord as recommend in the guide,there is community and help there :)
Thank you! @inquiringtimes
This is an old post of mine about how to make money right away when you get here as a new minnow. Getting some money flowing makes the place more encouraging.
Make Money Blogging on Steemit Top Tips and Checklist for Better Results!!
Ladies and Gentlemen i want to tell you @fitinfun is my Steemit teacher i have learned alot from her posts. These guidelines which she mentioned in her post, after using these guide line my steemit earnings has been increased.
Now guidelines of @inquiringtimes are very informative. we can learned from these cool stuff.
Thanks for mentioning your mentor in Steemit. I will definitely attract attention of others people and learn the tips. @irfanullah @fitinfun
Just do a little bit each day, and you will succeed. Good luck!
Aw! That's so nice of you! I'm so excited to hear my strategies are helping you! I know we can succeed here if others have, but it's not easy. We minnows need to stick together :)
It would be nice to chat. :)
I saw your message, but I can't click into it for some reason. I'm not using discord. I'm glad to talk in comments here but if you want to email me, feel free - [email protected] :)
Welcome to steemit!
I know that steemit may seem very overwhelming to you right now but don't worry. There's a learning curve to everything so just be patient and you'll be churning out posts and becoming a part of something great in no time!
Also if there are any questions that you may have, you can reach me at http://steemit.chat . My username is the same over there, i.e., arthestically
Also do give this article a read as it has guides on how to get you started: https://steemit.com/welcome/@inquiringtimes/333-welcome-to-steemit-333
Have fun and I wish you LOADS of success on here! <3
@originalworks
Regards
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Thanks for this excellent post, with so many links to so many posts / sites that can provide further information and assistance.
I must commend you for the clear presentation also. There's nothing too fancy to distract the reader, just effectively formatted text, using appropriate headings, bullets, lists, clearly identifiable links, and so on.
This will be bookmarked and resteemed. And hopefully seen by many more minnows soon and in the future.
Full Steem Ahead.
Well, I'm not new here but this chocked full of useful tips and tidbits! Thanks so much for takin' the time to put it together. I've saved it for quick references later in my steem journey. Enjoyed!
Really nice advice. I am new here and I have little time to write good post. But there is option to get some reward from your quality comment which should be relevant to the post. You will see that someone has upvoted your comment, meaning you are earning for your comments!! How amazing!
Nice refresher course! Many of the links will probably prove handy, so I'm bookmarking!
thank you, friend.
This is sort of a bare bones template for me to build upon, as I get more resources, and better organized for welcoming new users to steemit.