Hello everyone,
Just of recent I have some of my friends joining the hive blockchain and I thought it of wise to make a post that will serve as a guide for them to scale through as newbies as the journey through Hive. Hey guys 
Hive blockchain has been a blessing to many lives and I am a living witness to this testimony, the rate at which this ecosystem has been a blessing to many is so numerous, but yet still there are people who still find it difficult to excel in the platform. Well I won’t blame a great number of them because most of them don’t really know how the platform works. They should have been educated and enlighten about #Hive before onboarding them. But since they have already been a part of the system they just have to learn from others and ask questions where they don’t understand.
Some many of us would have been like them if we didn’t have people who were ready to teach and guided us through and we ourselves were open to learning, because some people fail here because they were not open to learn new things, they find it bulky and difficult so they quitted. But in life we learn every day and with an open mind that’s the only way we grow.
One of the basic rule of hive blochcahin is no plagiarism, irrespective of the community to you decide to belong this rule is applied there. As a newbie this should always be at the back of your mind to always create original content and also make used of original photos. In the case where you are not making used of your original photos or you are quoting someone’s work you must give proper reference to the suite you copied the work from and the process of doing that is called sourcing meaning you have given credit to the original owner of the work or else you will be consider as a thief who is in to milk the system.
As a newbie even those who are been in the system for long the first thing that will enhance your seed and growth is quality engagement. NOTE not just one line of comment or emoji but something meaning that will interaction with other people. This means you have to read other peoples write up and under before you can make comment. So many times I have sat under my mentor he will always tell me that the best way to gain visibility is to be actively engaging the platform, he has told me his story how he has been able to make it to the top and it’s all point at engagement and consistency. People will only get to know you when you become active and have been giving them your support then they will want to support you back, you can’t just come to hive and expect people who have been here to search for you and give you their support no way, you have to gain that visibility by building the relationship and you can only do that by making comment on their post, voting and reblogging their post no matter how small you voting value maybe that’s your own way of supporting them. There are so many people who get support daily because of the engagement. If you want to gain support you must engage.
Tags in hive is just a short form of the word hashtags. The tags you use is depended on the kind of post your making and the community you are posting to, as a newbie I will advise you read about any community you are posting to and also look at the tags other people are using. The benefit of using the right tags is so numerous that no one would like to miss out. Using the right tags gives your post the maximum visibility to curators and other member to curate. And also you stand the chance to earn some of the second layer tokens for free when you make use of the right tags. For example if you use the tag #inleo you will earn some leo tokens for free, using #neoxian as tag gives you some neoxag toke for free, the same goes for #cent, #proofofbrain, #alive, #wiavio etc.
As a newbie you may be running out of content, don’t worry there are communities in hive that is design to help newbies grow and one of such is the Hive Learners Community you can subscribe to this community and start learning and also get rewarded as a learner. A part from this community there are quit a number of communities in hive that runs contest to help their member some are daily, weekly and while some are monthly they includes; #Hiveghana, #Hivenaija, #Theinkwell, #emotions&feelings, #marketfriday, #ecency, etc.
Finally as a newbie good and quality content gives you good edge to grow in hive, curators mostly give support to good and quality content creators this includes the quality of your photos too. Whatever you are writing about quality is expected.
Here are the few things I think can make one grow here as a newbie although the are many but this will go a long a way to help.
