Tips / Reminders for New Steemians!

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There are a couple of very important recommendations when you are first on here as a "newbie" Steemian;

so, the first order of business on the Steem blockchain is to never lose your passwords. Three are very important, the fourth is not in much use right now. Try to run these off of a printer making a hard copy, and put them in a safe place.

Use the posting key for posting only;
Use the active key for wallet transactions only;
Never use the master key, it's main use is to change the other passwords if your account is compromised;
Please don't learn this the hard way...
So, next when when making a post, if you are using photos or quotes that are not yours, be sure to list the source of where they came from, to give the owner or creator credit for their work. No one wants someone else to take their work and post it as their own. That is called plagiarizing, and Steemians take a very dim view of it and it can have an extremely negative impact on your career here on steem.
Even when the photos are from you, it is always safest to proclaim that in your post; you can say it on every photo, or make a blanket statement such as "all photos in this post were taken by me" at the end, as long as it is said.
Please don't learn this the hard way...
Next is when making up a post if posting a single photo, try to add writing to it to give some description of the photo, such as what it is, where it was taken, maybe a paragraph with some details, otherwise it may be termed as a "shitpost" if you are doing this consistently, you ultimately want quality posts.
Please don't learn this the hard way...

It's hard enough when you first get here and seems like it's way overwhelming, but in reality, when you get a couple of basic rules or recommendations down, it's not so bad; there is a lot to learn, but these are the most important.

Be advised it's always much better to get involved with some Discord servers, and the best one that I can think of is the Steem Terminal in the Discord server run by @xcountytravelers in here
and featured by @heyhaveyamet in here.
It is an excellent place to start, and to get your bearings as you move along here with getting questions and concerns answered.

Also, for more help: after logging into steemit, in the upper right corner of the steemit website are three bars. If you click on that then you will see "welcome"; click on that and you will have all kinds of useful information to read.

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