What's happening guys Ashish here and now in blog video I'm gonna be doing things a little bit different in the past I've talked about things you should do on steemit. how to gain your following how to decide what you know you want to post about on your steem channel. today's blog gonna be a little different be talking about the top 10 things you should not be doing here on steam it. so I'm probably gonna zoom through these points or else I'll be here all day talking about this and that could go on and on about it but the number. one thing that we have an issue with here on Steem and I think we can all agree on this is plagiarism. this comes in the form of just stealing people's content posting it on to your steam it channel and taking credit for it you know some people do this probably not maliciously. they some people actually probably don't think it's a big issue now steem is a decentralized platform meaning there is no main governing body that governs us all so technically. there are no rules but what I want to tell you guys is just because there's no rules on Steem. it doesn't mean there aren't repercussions so if you're out there doing something maliciously or not and you do something wrong. the statement community will come flag your content they will down vote your posts your post could go hidden you could lose all your reputation so you need to be accountable for what you're doing here on the platform. so again no rules to your own steam it technically but there are repercussions for your actions so you need to be knowledgeable about some things you shouldn't do here on the statement platform and that's why I'm going over this today in today's blog.
1. COPY & PASTE
We have a problem with is plagiarism now there's a big project. that is helping out the steemit community making it a better place keeping it plagiarism free or at least trying to and that would be steam cleaners. if you guys are not familiar with steam cleaners you can go to steam cleaners or can check them out they are actually. the owner of the cheeta bot well which goes out and checks for duplicate content. so if you're posting something on your steam it channel that you've also posted maybe on your your blog out there on the web it made leave a comment on your post and what it'll do is it'll actually upvote your post.
Then it'll comment on your post letting you know that hey we found similar content out on the web and basically what that does is it allows your followers to kind of be aware of that and let your followers determine. whether that really is plagiarism or not it may be that it's your channel and maybe that it's your website out there. so your followers will probably know that I mean they could tell that if you know you posted your YouTube channel and then you brought it over to steam it well even if Cheeta comes by in upload supposed to in comments on it saying. hey we found similar content out there if your followers can tell the you know they'll be able to go to your YouTube channel and see that it's the same channel name it's it's you so it's fine so it's basically to bring awareness to similar content out on the web now you can get on you can get blacklisted with cheetah which means they're gonna flag all your content and they could start actually flagging down voting your content and if that happens there's way to get off of it and it's listed right here on steam cleaners cheetah how to appeal so you'll just need to go there and prove that it is your content that you're posting on steam it and they will get you off that blacklist so I'm just want you guys to be aware of this.
2. DONT BEG FOR UPVOTES
Do not beg for for people to come to your content and upvoted. you are not beg for people to receive your articles chances are people aren't gonna do it you know. it's just tacky that you're asking for it so you know position yourself in what I like to tell people is position yourself as a content creator. position yourself as a leader in the in the niche area that you're talking about and you will never ever ever have to beg for an upvote or a follow or reefs team or anything like that.
3. SPAMMING PEOPLE
Do not spam people now spam comes in a lot of different forms in ways if you're going to people's blog posts just to say and there's actually BOTS out there. I'm sure of it that just say great video, great post on every single people's post. if you google spam you really want a definition of it. it's irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients or send the same message indiscriminately to large numbers of recipients on the internet. so it's mostly unwanted messages right and so we get this a lot here on steemit and again some of it is BOTS sending out you know great video great post whatever there's also a form of wallet spam. I guess I'll call it and that's where people go and they actually send you over like 0.001 steam just so they can send you a message. so like here's a good example right here from sky dragon just let me know about their new up voting bot service you know I'm not upset with this but it is kind of annoying that people can just go in here and send you a message in your wallet by sending you point 0.001 SBD but this does happen and I don't know there's any way to really combat this. I guess at the end of the day at least they're sending you a little bit of money so you'll read their messages but anyway this is also a form of spam and there's many forms of spam here on steemit. so if it doesn't feel right guys I guess that's that's a really good way to go about is if if it doesn't feel right what you're doing then it's probably not right. so don't do it so if you're just spamming people's articles saying hey check out my blog post or whatever that's spam don't do it.
4. MISUSE OF TAGS
We see this a lot here on Steemit so if you go over here to the tag categories let's just click on new and go - I don't know introduce yourself it's one of the worst used. I'm sorry the works worst misuse tag out there and this tag right here introduce yourself I even I posted the post about I think was a week or so ago and I had somebody say Ashish you should be putting this in the introduce yourself tag. it'll get more attention well it wasn't about whatever the post was I can't read what it was it wasn't me introducing myself. so it doesn't belong in the introduce yourself category now I've noticed recently that a lot of people are starting to use this correctly. check this out a lot of steemit I let me to introduce myself like to introduce myself and introduced myself the steemit, hello steam so I'm actually pleased to see that this is actually getting a lot better.
I'm not sure what exactly has happened there maybe it's just we've got a ton of people joining the steamer right now. but I'm glad to see that this is actually becoming more well used but if you go to some other categories like photography like any of these top categories. these are the most ones because they are the top categories what people do is they go down here to view all tags. I don't know if you guys know this but if you go to view all tags you can see which tags are getting the most money the most payouts. so what unfortunately what people are doing is saying hey I can just post you know my post into one of these tags one of these categories because you get to choose five for every post and I'll just choose five of the top ones and I'll get more eyeballs on my article. what's gonna happen guys is that people will see that you're posting inappropriate content in the wrong tag or the wrong category and they might flag your content or you know at best they they don't even read your stuff because it doesn't make any sense it's not in the right place so be careful not to do that that is a kind of a form of abuse here on the steemit platform.
5. POST TOO OFTEN
Now this can be debated depending on what kind of content. you're putting out if you're talking about like crypto news for example like one of the channels how follows CRYPTOVERSE and I think posted on one second I think they posted
five times in the last 24 hours but they can get away with that because they're in a snitch area or niche that has news that comes out every single hour like the news cycle is ridiculous with crypto in the speed at which the market moves is ridiculous. so they can come out with relevant content literally every hour if they wanted to and luckily you know they don't do that we could consume that much information probably but they do post about every 5-6 hour or something like that. it's actually good I actually like to keep up with the crypto markets and what's going on in the news and the foot out there or the FOMO that's going on out. there in that crypto space so it's actually they can get away with it I think that's good now if you're just posting stuff just to post it and kind of game. the system and get up boats and follows and all that stuff you're just putting on a bunch of crap post. then that is not good right so you only put out enough content that your your readers can consume and that they're actually still enjoying and uploading and stuff like that you know statement you really want to be careful with that if you're doing it on YouTube. here on steam it people only have so much of those they can give per day right so it may not even be in your best interest to post that often. so just you know use your discretion and be careful with that all right.
6. FLAGGING
I want to talk about is misusing your flagging privilege. we're privileged to be able to flag content we think is inappropriate or shouldn't be on Steemit let me go to the etiquette guide real quick and let's look at the proper way to use the flagging system. actually in the steem cleaners or website where I was reading this earlier download abuse so fair downvotes our curator disagrees with the content of a post or comments so if you disagree with a post. then you can download it the curator funds the content of a post contains abuse such as plagiarism by all means flag it down vote it get that crap of a statement right now unfair down votes. where the curator wishes to harm a steemit user by downloading contributors posts curator wishes to harm an individual or specific group of users by downloading contributors and/or supporters posts. the gray area here is retaliation retaliation down bets where if you just don't like somebody and you're just flagging constantly just flagging their content and stuff. that's a form of abuse where they're saying it's actually a kind of a gray area just be mindful.
7. FOLLOW ME BACK
I've seen big on other social platforms like Instagram and Twitter don't follow expecting a reciprocating follow don't expect. you know people to follow you just because you follow them and that's kind of a gaming system I saw happening on Twitter where people just go out follow massive amounts of accounts in hopes that these accounts are just gonna follow them back. then what they do is like once a week they'll unfollow everybody. that didn't follow them or they just didn't follow everybody. so it ends up looking like they have this old population oh because they got all these followers at the end of the day. guys it doesn't really matter how many followers you have on the Steem and if they're not really interested in your content. so it's better to organically get your following so that way they're actually uploading your stuff. they actually like your stuff they might receive your post do it naturally don't go out and follow a bunch of people just expecting them to follow you back.
8. SPELLING MISTAKE
Posting without editing your content so before I post my content you know I go through it three four five times. I also edit my videos and watch them over and go through it twice and make sure that everything is perfect. I also do that with the the text that I put it in my articles. I go through it more than once make sure that you're editing proofreading all of your content that you're putting out. because you know if you're if you start misspelling a lot of stuff and people can tell you're just rushing content out then they may think you're just putting a bunch of junk out just to get upvotes. so take your time put your best I like to put my best into everything. that I do anyway so make sure you're doing that here on Steemit.
9. UPVOTE YOURSELF
Do not up vote your own comments okay I see a lot of people doing this and it's just a way of stealing rewards from the reward pool. let other people about your comments okay we're lucky enough that we get to upload our own post right now there are some exceptions to this. if you're trying to if you like really need to get somebody's attention on their post and I've seen that people do this on many post. so they'll leave a comment on my post trying to get my attention and then they'll upload it by 50 percent or whatever just so it goes to the top of the comments and that way I they can get my attention - or if they feel like they need to get the attention of other people. that might be one exception for doing that but typically you don't really need to about your own comments it's just a way of gaming the system and again we're lucky enough. we get to open our own post and nobody cares about that so yeah just be mindful of that not to vote your own stuff. just to push it up to the top so people see you unless you have a really good reason for that comment being seen.
10. DONT TAKE PERSONALLY
Don't take criticism too personally okay if somebody has taken the time to give you constructive comments. I don't mean like they're just posting a bunch of crap about you and your post. but if they're giving you constructive criticism take it to heart but don't take it personally and don't let it keep you from enjoying your time here on steemit. so take criticism you know take it to heart but don't take it personally you don't let it ruin your experience here on Steem and if somebody's taking the time to give you constructive criticism that's a good thing that means you've got a healthy following. that you know like and trust you and they're willing to dish out that the honesty and critique your your video for you so that's actually a good thing and take negative and positive feedback the same way.
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