Welcome to Steemit!
This page is full of information to help you learn about the platform and become a successful Steemian. You can return to this page at any time by clicking on the "Welcome" link in the main menu. There is a table of contents below to help you navigate the page.
Included on the page is a "To Do List" with recommended steps to get started with your account, and a "Quick Start Guide" with information on how the platform works.
Below that is a section of "Helpful Posts from Steemit Users", which contains a collection of posts from users in the community that are helpful for new users getting started.
Below that is a list of recommended users to follow, a collection of other resources including the FAQ Page and Steem bluepaper, as well as information on where to find live help.
Table of Contents
To Do List
Backup your password
Review the Quick Start Guide
Read the Helpful Posts from Steemit Users
Setup your Profile, Avatar, and Cover Image
Choose your "NSFW" (Not Safe for Work) Display Preference
Sign Up for Steemit Chat
Create your "introduceyourself" post
Learn more
Quick Start Guide
No Cost to Participate
Upvotes
Comments
Creating Posts
Followers and Feeds
Resteem
Digital Currencies
Curation
Payments
Reputation
Cashing out or Spending SBD
Plagiarism
Password Security
Earning on Steemit
Helpful Posts from Steemit Users
Users to Follow
Other Resources
Live Help
Third Party References
To Do List
- Backup your password
Unlike centralized web services, the Steem Blockchain has no account password recovery.
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 Steemit 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 steemit.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.
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Quick Start Guide
No Cost to Participate
It is free to post, comment, or upvote all content on Steemit.com. You might even get paid for it!
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Upvotes
Upvotes are Steemit's way of saying you like someone's post or comment.
To upvote, click on the Upvote icon at the bottom of the comment/post.
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Comments
When you are first starting out, commenting on other people's posts can be a great way to get involved and connect with people!
To comment on a post, or reply to an existing comment, click on the "Reply" link at the bottom of the post/comment.
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Creating Posts
To create a post, click on the "Post" link in the upper right corner.
Posts have three main parts: Title, Content, Tags.
You will want to make your title attention grabbing, and relevant to your content. The first image that you use will be the thumbnail image.
Tags will help people find your posts. Each post can have up to five tags, separated by spaces. The tags should all be relevant to the content in the post. You can browse content by tags, as well as see a list of popular tags that other users have used in their posts here.
There are several guides for creating posts in the "Helpful Posts from Steemit Users" section below.
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Followers and Feeds
To follow an author, click on their username and click the "Follow" button.
Once you follow someone, all of their posts will show up in your "Feed" on the homepage when you login.
As other Steemians come across your posts and comments, you will start to gain followers.
You can see all of your followers and the people you are following in your profile page.
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Resteem
If you want to share someone else's post with all of your followers, click on the resteem icon.