We are in a very advanced generation. We have moved ahead of Facebook generation. We are in the BlockChain generation. Steemit is a great example.
What is Steemit?
Quite simply, steemit is a blockchain based blogging platform which rewards you for what you do. Means you can post what you want, comment and Upvote (Like) the post and get paid. Sounds fascinating right. The platform completed one year recently. And there was a lot of hard work put in by the devs.
It is like all the other social media websites, but the only difference is that this platform pays you for your work.
Posting
You are free to post anything you wish, and anytime you want. There's no word limit. You can write about your favourite thing, or run a contest on the platform. Your post should not be explicit content.
Curating and upvoting
Curating here refers to users who help the post gain visibility or get it interactive. A curator is one who upvotes or comments on your post. There are certain curators whose upvote can earn you more and also gain your post visibility.
The Curators get 25% of the total rewards generated from the post. (But this is subjected to the time of curating.)
The curation reward works as following.
- Upvoting the post within 10 mins gives 100% of the curation reward to the author.
- Upvoting after 10 mins and within 15 mins gives you 10% of the rewards generated and 90% to the author.
- Upvoting after 15 mins and before 20 mins gives you 50% of the reward and 50% to the author.
- Upvoting after 20 mins and within 30 mins gives you 90% of the rewards and 10% to the author.
- Upvoting after 30 mins gives you 100% of the curation rewards.
Note: These figures are subjected to 25% of the curation rewards broken down to the time value.
They are also affected by the value of Steem Power, will be explained later. (If a whale was to upvote, he'd get the maximum reward.)
Currencies within Steemit:
There are 2 types of currencies used in Steemit. One is the Steem and other is the Steem Backed Dollars. They can be bought in exchanges like Bittrex etc. Or they can be claimed from your rewards. You receive 50% of steem backed dollars and 50% steem power which is set by default. The SBD can be exchanged internally in steemit market for Steem. The Steem can further be used for Steem Power. They all can be accessed in your wallet.
Wallet
Internal Market
Steem Power:
Steem power is the total number of steem locked up as power. This gives you an upper head in the community. The more the steem power you hold, the higher the value of you upvote and the higher curation rewards you'll receive. The steem power can be bought using steem. The withdrawal of steem power takes 13 weeks, that is about 3 months. This is done to stop excess supply at the time and bring about stability in the steem prices.
You can also get yourself some steem power delegated by your friend or anyone who wishes to delegate you a certain amount of Steem power. The delegation does not make you the owner of the power but it's like a loan given to you.
The Do's
- Post great contents and if possible, post them daily.
- Comment on peoples posts to gain more visibility
- Make friends as they will help you in the later stage.
- Prefer to get more steem power as it is beneficial on a long run
- Join contest and get some rewards
- Join helpful communities
- Be helpful the community.
Dont's
- Don't spam your comments
- Don't copy and post contents
- Don't post explicit contents that may harm a certain group of community.
- Don't swear in the community
Services in steemit to help you grow.
There are a lot of services in steemit to help you grow. These services include vote buying, leasing steem power and much more.
Buying upvotes.
You can buy upvotes using bots like randowhale, minnowbooster, booster, discordia and many other. You basically send a certain amount of sbd to them and you'll receive the upvote a bit higher than your bid.
Minnow support project:
For a new user, it is really valuable to join the 
Lease some steem power:
You can lease some steem power using 
To handle the abuses and Plagiarism
There are certain people who look after users who abuse the network by either plagiarising or abusing certain users. For plagiarism, there is a bot that is triggered if you copy pasted a post. Cheetah looks after that. Also, there are steemcleaners who come into action if there were repeated plagiarism and abuse in the community. Asa new general steemit user you are advised not to do any of those.
I confess, as I did that in my Initial days and was not aware of this. My apologies to the community.
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