Lol, key ingredient is really:
1: Be a Girl and show your package,
2: rape victim stories
3: travel pics
4: talk about how to make money on steemit like this post. (big one)
5: introduce yourself and hope your good looking enough if your a guy.
6: write erotica.
Really that seems to be it, everything else will get eaten. I would like it to be also a platform for discussion like reddit about politics and news but won't happen atm.
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