I am new to the platform. I have a few questions I was hoping some of you who are not so new could help me with.
Under my name there is a small number with a circle around it. What is that? When I first signed up the number was 25. I have made 3 posts and now the number is a 37.
One of my posts has 4 comments. I am unable to see the comments now. I was able to see them at first, and one of the comments was from some robot notifier something or other saying that my post is very similar to another post- it seemed to be accusing me of plagiarizing. There was some plagiarizing going on, but the other article had copied and pasted MY article from my website www.VicturusLibertas.com. I own that website and my husband and I are the writers of all articles on that site. I had put one of my articles on Steemit. I replied to the robot thingie saying that I am the owner of VL and the article is mine- I'm the original author, blah... blah... blah... and after that, I could no longer see the comments at the bottom of my post.
Could someone tell me the difference between a post and blog? I know that sounds stupid, but is one actually different from the other? Does one get more exposure? Easier to post to? Etc?
This also may sound stupid, but when I direct my followers on facebook and on my website to come here to follow me on Steemit, do I tell them my name is @vicuturuslibertas? Can they find me like that, or do I need a whole link?
Ugh! I guess that's all the stupid questions I want to plague you with for now, but I reserve the right to ask more stupid questions until I figure out what all this is about! :)
Thank you for your patience with me!