The week one of the Newbies Initiative ended on a high note as all the enrolled students presented their goals on Hive and how do they plan on achieving their layed out goals. The study material presented by the experienced users came in very handy while making the previous task and this task as well so without further adieu I'll be answering the questions of Newbies Initiative Task 2.
How has been your experience with Hive since you joined?
Quite overwhelming if you ask me. To be honest I have a fair share of Blockchain Blogging in the past but boy Hive isn't just about blogging and photography or experiences of these sort. The first month on Hive has opened my eyes to an extent that I'm feeling if I slow down my pace even by a second, I'll be missing out on a lot of things in here. I had no idea about Layer 2 tokens before I joined Hive. I didn't have the faintest of ideas of so many frontends we could operate on Hive. Different websites associated with this Blockchain. So many different tokens. So many oppurtunities and so many things to learn.
When I joined Hive I had a clear roadmap of the things I wanted to do and the things I wanted to achieve in here. Needless to say, I think I am doing just fine till now. I wanted to create a network of people, enlight people through my words, experiences and my thoughts. Engage with people, learn from them and to teach them whatever I could. For that I explored multiple communities engaged with people in there and started to build a network. Nothing comes easy and it takes time to be at a respectable position, no matter where you go. It's the same on Hive, and I'm just going with the flow trying to add value as much as I can. Talking about communities, I regularly post in a lot of different communities such as Hive Learners, Pinmapple, Foodies Bee Hive etc and in these Communities I have started to know people who interact on my posts as well. In short, the blogging experience has been good so far and I'm still trying to get a hold on the tokens on the Hive Blockchain. The mentors have been very helpful to me throughout this journey.
Why is Plagiarism frowned upon on Hive?
Plagiarism is like a parasite. It destroys you from the inside by feeding on you. Plagiarism completely obliterates the Proof of Brain which requires you own thoughts and ideas presented to the world. Plagiarism is completely against that as it means to copy someone else's work and presenting it as your own.
There are a lot of forms of abuse when you're working on a professional platform such as copyright infringement, tag abuse, content farming but in my opinion plagirism is the worst of them all. Citing someone's work is different but copying all of someone's work and presenting it as your own is a downright shameful act.
The thing about plagiarists is that they think they'll never get caught. That's not the case. The world works on a perfect balance and if not immediately, the culprits are caught eventually. So yes, if you're indulged in plagiarism, know that you'll be caught someday. Desist!
Explain why the use of tags is very important on Hive.
Hashtags basically determine how far your post will reach and how many users you might get to interact on your posts, so you have to choose your tags wisely. Let me explain it to you in simple terms
You're posting something related to food. For example you're posting a cooking recipe. You made Chicken Biryani at your place and now you want to show the world how you made it, you can use the tag food in the first five tags.
Oh yes, one more important thing is to smartly use the tags. The first five tags on your post will have a wider reach and people searching for those tags could land on your post so be smart with your tags.
One more example of using tags efficiently is to use the tag based on communities as people usually tend to search them as well. For example, when I am posting in any traveling community I use the tag travel as well as the name of that community as well.
While you're at it, keep in mind that you should never abuse tags. What is tag abuse? It's when you spam unnecessary tags in order to attract more users on your post. This will not only get you ignored, it will affect your reputation as well.
List some general tags you know on Hive. Explain the difference between these tags.
*After using the specific tags related to the type of content you're posting, you can blend in some general tags as well which will help you in further engagement and will help you earn some tokens as well. I'm not familiar to a lot of general tags but the ones I am, I'll be stating them below:
| Tag | Use |
|---|---|
| #hive | one of the most used general tags, which is used by almost everyone in order to get more visibility on Hive platform. |
| #palnet | to get layer two tokens from pal-curator |
| #vyb | this general tag will help you get tokens from vyb-curator. |
| #pimp | pimp-curator upvotes you when you use this general tag. |
| #neoxian | helps you in earning neoxian token |
That was it from my side. I am thoroughly enjoying making these tasks for the Newbies Initiative Program as it is helping me in developing myself on this platform as well. In the end I'd like to thank 
Regards.
WHO IS HUZAIFANAVEED?
huzaifanaveed hails from Pakistan, who is an aspiring dentist, studying in one of the top notch universities of Pakistan, Jinnah Sindh Medical University.
he loves interacting with new people, making new friends and traveling the world, but most importantly he loves to make a change in this world through his actions and his words. He's an entrepreneur and a philanthropist who's been actively working with different Charitable Organizations in Pakistan.
His goal on Hive is similar, ie, to make a difference. He's here to mark his presence and he'll do it through his words. So lets be a part of his journey and show him support through comments, upvotes and reblogs.
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