- Backup your password
Unlike centralized web services, the Steem Blockchain has no account password.
You are entirely responsible for keeping your password, and keeping it secure.
Save your master key and keep it somewhere safe.
It is strongly recommended that you store an offline copy of your password somewhere safe in case of a hard drive failure or other calamity. Consider digital offline storage, such as a flash drive or burned CD, as well as printed paper. Use a safe deposit box for best redundancy.
If your account is valuable, treat it like a valuable!
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- Review the Quick Start Guide
The Quick Start Guide section of this Welcome page contains basic information to help get you started.
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- Read the Helpful Posts from Steemit Users
The Helpful Posts from Steemit Users section of this Welcome page contains many well written articles from members of the community with tips on how to succeed.
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- Setup your Profile, Avatar, and Cover Image
Under your user settings, you can update your profile. This includes your display name, location, about info, and website.
To set your avatar image, type or paste a link to the URL where the image is located into the "Profile Picture URL" field.
To set your cover image, type or paste a link to the URL where the image is located into the "Cover Image URL" field.
Once you have made all your changes, click the "Update" button to save your profile.
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- Choose your "NSFW" (Not Safe for Work) Display Preference
By default, content that users have tagged as "NSFW" will be hidden, but a link will be shown to reveal the content.
You can update your display preference so that NSFW content is always shown by default, or is completely hidden with no option to reveal.
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- Sign Up for Steem Chat
A lot of users hang out and chat when they are not posting or browsing Steemit. It is a great place to meet people!
There is a link to sign up in the main menu in the upper right corner.
Your steem.chat account is a separate account from your Steem account.
Some channels allow you to share links, but others don't. For instance, general is for discussion without link promotion, while postpromotion is for promoting your Steemit posts.
Each channel will have its rules posted in the "Info" section.
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- Create your "introduceyourself" post
While not required, the tradition for new users is to create an "introduceyourself" post, to let the community know who you are.
You can see some examples of what other people have done here.
It is not required, but a lot of users will take a picture of themselves holding up a piece of paper that says "Steemit" with the current date, so we know you are a real person.
It is not required either, but if you have other social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) you can help the community verify that you are who you say you are, by sharing the link to your Steemit introduceyourself post with those accounts. If you are claiming to be someone famous, this is pretty much expected.
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- Learn more
The Other Resources section of this Welcome page contains additional resouces to learn more about the platform. The FAQ page contains answers to the most commonly asked questions, and the bluepaper explains how the platform works.