Literately my raw notes learning to SteemIt!
My personal impressions and learning curve. No, nobody asked to see my notes. The idea just popped into my head to post them. I imagine they are 100% on-topic here on SteemIt. Mostly I wonder how much "good stuff" have I missed entirely? What should I know by now? Did I miss the obvious completely? Quite possible, I can be olivious at times.
I'll tag this with "funny" too, because to some, I'll bet my notes are hilarious :)
You'll find much in my notes that is incorrect! But hopefully thats where the fun and possible insight lies
ok, in no particular order, here they are...
My initial notes on steemit:
see acct. status here: https://steemd.com/@sass
You get "steem power" each day based on your level. You can up vote someone but it costs you power. By UPVOTING that content you effectively join a lottery. IF that content becomes popular in the future you (the voter) get paid more, more the earlier you "esteem" it. If the content goes nowhere you get nothing. The higher your level the more "money" is added to the content when you upvote it. Each time someone upvotes content they are INVESTING in the future popularity of this content. You only get so much steam power per day so most use it wisely.
best if not thought of as a "money" game at all.
DO NOT beg for money. People on Steemit don't like it. You will get a bad rep
Editing your content
Since your data is saved on the blockchain, it's permanent. In fact, every single mutation is permanent. If you edit your content, all previous changes remain in the database forever. Once published, the information can never be removed. SteemIt is completely uncensored!
Posts live and get $ up /down for 7 days, after that nothing and no edits
tag properly not abuse, first tag is permanent
use introducemyself tag once on first post +pic face w/ note
dont expect help, dont ask, slow and easy
difference on Steemit is this cannot be hidden. All the transactions are transparent on a blockchain. A "resteem" is getting someone else to post a link to one of your pages
SteemIt Etiquette Guide Revision 2.0
In a vote hits a post with 15 min the author gets all. after 15 mins curators get some (votes 1-5) and if first vote happens after 30 mins I think they get half.
Its hard for curators because posters can vote on their own stuff. I think people bitched when that was changed.
actually you can go into the negatives, -11, -12... There is no limit to how high or how low you can go
The buying of bot services seems to be an accepted part of the economy. details sketchy.
the lower your voting power the less "weight" that vote has! 100% power vote hits twice as hard a a 50% vote. power regen 20% per day
blockchain and cryptocurrency TED
supposedly take "tag abuse" seriously
Your vote on SteemIt is a sort of investment. You get a set amount of vote power per day. The ENTIRE platform only gets a set amount of voting power per day. People will vote for content they feel should be more popular than it is. In voting up this content they are invested in its future (7 days) If they "curated" the content properly (not going into that here) they will get a share of the final amount that contents earns... Curators percentage. If the content goes nowhere, they get nothing.
commenting cost nothing. Unlike votes.
If you like making comments on subjects you like then that will work fine.
If you like making blog posts then do that.
upvote your own or not? probably no
bots, worth it or not
accept all steem power as your reward for that post, no steem dollars. When you make your post you decide (drop down box) if you want 50/50 payout (default) or ALL steem power.
You can also "curate" but I notice you have to have a lot of SP to make that work
You gain 20% power per day. If you're under 50% might want to give it a rest, bring it up. 70%+
When the SP is on the left thats power you OWN! When its on the right thats power that someone has "delegated" to you
Every post on steemit is another chance for someone to flag or reward the owner of that acct.
dont be a taker, engage with other people. try being vulnerable, who knows what will happen?
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Thats it. The rest I trusted to memory I suppose. But there you have my notes from my 30 day self-introduction to SteemIt. I didn't want to attempt to write a "guide" or talk about what I learned or know. That seemed slightly arrogant for me personally. So instead I just posted my notes and hope to get some insight and a positive response back
Sass