Hive account@roleerob - so sorry for the delay, I didn't see this until now.

I WISH I could get e-mails when someone responds to my comments/posts.

I don't live on Steemit & I never get comments, so I don't check the reply area LOL

I only checked now b/c I got some replies, but they were further up on the page & yours were way down there.

If by community you mean on Discord, I've tried, but I haven't yet found servers where I feel 100% comfortable, as there's a lot of hate speech towards one race of people & I can not stomach that & all the praising of Hitler even if I am still open to studying the topic.

And I find it a pain that you can't search for servers by kws on Discord.

I asked over a year ago & you can't.

Unless you see an invite somewhere on someone's site, YT channel, FB page/group, etc., you can't get to it.

WOW, your post is VERY good.

I haven't ever seen such a detailed post for beginners.

How did you learn all of this in only one year since you only joined last year?

Unfortunately I'm very tried now, so my brain can't comprehend everything I'm reading, but I know I will have questions if you don't mind. :)

1 I was told a while ago that I should NO longer get SD, rather Steem b/c the bloody SD tanked.

Then someone else told me a month ago that's NOT true.

Who do I believe, & how & when do I know if I should get SD or Steem?

2 So I guess I'll never get that slider thingy b/c I'm not even CLOSE to 500 LOL

Is that how people determine how much they give with their upvote? Like 25% vs. 100%?

So I can't change mine?

3 Ok, I got caught up on the scam thread which exhausted me, so I'm off to try & sleep more.

How do you tell if the rep number you see is in fact real? Just by going to their profile?

That's a lot of work to do just to check, but I guess the link in the comment is what should give us pause so we then check?

Damm, I never checked you out before clicking on it LOL

Do they always put links in there?

The article says the link is also under the images, so that right there is an issue even if there is no link. People will end up clicking on the images to go check their profile.

And the Steemit profile never works a lot of the time.

How many times have I see no rep on my account, or no number where the posts are.

This happens a lot & I'm not even on here that much or looking at my profile stats that much.

4 A while ago someone told me the rep number doesn't matter, but you say it does.

Why would they say that?

I'll be back later even if it takes me a week or so.

Sorry I wasn't able to upvote you.

Thanks again
P.S. I can't even comment here b/c once AGAIN, I ran out of SP after ONLY 3-4 comments - sigh

P.P.S Day 3. We'll see if I can comment today - sigh