The Ultimate Guide for Absolute Beginners (Part 3)

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Leveling Up!

In Steemit, the reputation score (REP), is a number in parentheses next to your username, a score regarding your overall influence level in the platform. This is essential you character level like in most game.

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You earn reputation points (RP) when other users upvotes your post and comments, while losses RP when your post/comments get flagged. Please be reminded that the RP of the voter is also important in this case, as a user with higher REP than you cast you an upvote will worth significantly more than lots of 25 REP users upvoting for you.

Everybody starts at 25 REP. The journey to 50 REP or so is relatively easy, one quality post a day for about one month or two will do much of the heavy lifting, pushing you toward 50 REP. Things become significantly slower after 50 REP. The highest REP in Steemitis is around 78 REP at the moment.

After a while of posting and commenting, you will earn some SBDs that is very useful to buy upvotes from a service provider(such as @smartsteem), or bid a vote from upvote bots.

Join a guild

Steemit is community driven platform that covers a large numbers of topic and users with the same interest form groups to support each other’s works. This is form of association, is very similar to Guild function in most game. There will be admin and mod within the guild to regulate the behavior of the member, and sometimes there is daily upvotes provided.

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These guilds have different admission requirements, some charge a one time fee upon enrollment, some charges monthly fees while the rest are free. Most if not all of them are very strict toward content control, so do check the guidelines beforehand. Also, strictly no plagiarising is allowed.

Minnow Support Project (Peace Abundant Liberty)

The best place for new user to hang around, learn and develop their Steem knowledge, tips & trick and many more.
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The Minnow Support Project is the largest off chain social network for the Steemit community. With over 3000 unique members, and 400 or more people normally in the PALnet Discord room, you're able to build a network who'll stay with you from minnowhood to whalehood.

Minnow Booster

Next stop, to the meet up place of users ranging from minnows to whales, buy and sell anything and everything you needed to move forward on Steemit platform.

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The @minnowbooster bot project is the "Swiss Army Knife" for minnows, which can do a multitude of things. Head to www.minnowbooster.net/ and take a look at the service provided, including upvote buy and selling, SP lease and many more.

theSteemEngine

Hope on The STEEM Engine, a train with artist, writer, creator, curator and many more toward a better Steemit eco system.
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If you're a content creator who would like to be involved in a community dedicated to engagement, we would love to have you! The STEEM Engine is looking for great new passengers to come aboard.

Qurator

Ever felt that your post is underrated, and you are confident enough that your post is in the “good quality” region? Fear not! Join Qurator. Enrollment fees applicable.

Qurator is a service that helps users who pour their blood, sweat and tears into content creation to get noticed and rewarded for their efforts.

Sandbox

You have great idea about something? You have some good initiatives? Now go approach @sndbox! Subscription fee applicable.
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Today marks the official launch of @sndbox (pronounced “sandbox”) - an incubator project dedicated towards bringing STEEM to the professional practice of creatives and entrepreneurs in New York City and beyond.

Utopian

Coder, bug chaser, video producer, graphic designer, writer and many more, as long as you are working with open source projects, do give the https://utopian.io/ a visit!
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Utopian was born to be Crowdfunding/Crowdsourcing platform for Open Source projects, where everyone, with no budget but a good project, could eventually share it with the Open Source community, get it done and access investments/donations to further improve it.