You are the conductor of your own steemit train.

Recently, I have come across many posts from minnows trying to figure it all out. So try to think of steemit like this...
Your account is your train. If you are a good conductor then your train is going to go somewhere. If you are a bad conductor then you will not go far. What I mean by that is what every newbie post tells you...

Post quality content!

If you are feeding your train engine garbage, then your train is not going to get out of the station. If you copy and paste youtube videos...you didn't do anything. If you made your own video, then you did and that is quality content. If you like a steemians post, then resteem it! If you copy and paste it....You look like a thief. Understand?
Give credit on your images, videos, songs, or art that you did not do yourself.

Beware of Villains!

The more steemit grows, The more villains appear. Keep your password in multiple places and never give it to any random pop up window.

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I have seen multiple phishing scams happening and people are falling for it. Their account gets taken over to advertise the scam the next day. Be careful.
If you see any wrong doing on steemit my advice would be to visit the SteemCleaners.linkdrop channel

1. On the right hand side menu there is a pinned messages icon. Click that.
2. The top message is the reporting form. Fill that out.

This is one of the best ways to bring the attention of abuse to someone who can do something.

It takes Time

Be patient with your posts. Not every post is going to make money. However, if your followers know that you have something interesting to say in your posts..Then you will begin moving in the right direction. If your followers know that you just copy and paste from reddit, then you will lose your followers and any momentum. It is all about what you put into it. That is what makes Steemit great.
So for new people to steemit, I hope my analogy makes some sense to you.
Don't ask "Why am I not getting upvotes or comments!?"

^^^ I just explained it ^^^

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Gifs from giphy

As always....

Keep Being Cool Steemit