Newbie Guide: Do's and Don'ts

Recent events highlighted the need for some explanation how things work on the blockchain. The user base is growing day by day and I think it's better to help the new ones start their journey and learn.

Today I'm going to try to explain a few things that I think can create confusion. If you can't find an answer to your question, please ask me in the comment. Also if you think here's something important to add to this guide, feel free to share it in the comment section. They say a community is as strong as the weakest link, so let's help newbies in learning the ropes.

Frontends & Communities

We have a few frontends anyone can use on the hive blockchain. Frontends, or interfaces if you like are not the same as communities.

I'm going to list a few frontends you can use when posting:

So what are these frontends and how can you use them? The last two on the list are for video uploads, the rest is for normal blogging and Leofinance is only for finance and crypto related content, so only use it if your content fits these guidelines.

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Communities, or tribes are groups based on different topics. If you're new and don't have your favorite communities yet, click the link, check out the communities and see which one fits your needs.

Some of the tribes have their own tokes and those that have some value on the internal market are the most abused.

How To Pick The Best Community For Your Post?

This is the most difficult part for many as I see, but also many users are just playing the newbie card hoping to get away with abuse.

The best way to decide what community or tribe to pick for your post is to look at what the majority of your post is about. Let me give you some examples I have seen lately.

There was a post a week ago, about a market. The user visited the market, took some photos and did a post, choosing # leofinance among other tags. I care about the community, so I left a link to the guidelines and asked them to use the tag and community only for finance related topics. I got a reply from another user, arguing that the topic has a lot to do with the community as it's about the biggest market in the country and markets have a lot to do with finance, that can be read between the lines.

Well, posting a few photos about a market and writing about your visit doesn't make it qualify if you don't write about finance. That can be fit for photography or travel or whatever you want. Reading between the lines is not good enough. You have to actually write about it and make sure the majority of your post fits the profile.

Showing a photo about a bunch of coins on the ground in your actifit report doesn't qualify either.

Let me give you another example. Taking a photo about yourself dressed up in football clothes doesn't make it qualify for sports. That is photography. Just as dressing up like Ronaldo doesn't make you the best football player in the world.

Try to think about the community instead of your earning goals. Our future as a community and the value of the blockchain/token depends on what we do here. Let spam and abuse take over and you see that reflected on the price of the token. Just go look at the other chain, forked out of hive or the previous that we forked out of last year. Do we want what is going on there? I don't!

Tag Abuse

Apart from using the wrong tag to milk the reward pool, there are also those who like to list 10 - 20 tags at the bottom of their post body. This is frowned upon, it is considered tag abuse and have consequences.

The most common reaction when people are caught abusing tribe tags is to delete the tag. That helps for nothing as once the post is published, it will be visible in every community, tribe the tag was used for. The beauty of he blockchain is that you can't delete anything.

Don't Beg For Upvotes

Many users after being caught and in some cases blacklisted, go to Discord to beg for upvotes. That is the worst thing you can do! After being caught with your hand in the cookie jar, don't expect people to trust you. Trust has to be earned and after you disrespect those you have been supporting you by abusing he reward pool, you need to work hard to restore your reputation.

Keep in mind that no one owes you anything. We live in he era of entitlement, many think they deserve upvotes. Again, no one owes you anything and begging for attention makes it even worse.

Crossposting

This option is available on our blockchain o allow you share your posts in more than one community. There are no limit regulations set, but that doesn't mean you have to crosspost in every single community. So choose one community you want to share your post with, another for crossposting and that's it. Obviously this is my advice, not some rule set in stone.

Sourcing

Plagiarism is among the most common form of abuse. Copying text from the internet or translating from their native language to English and posting as theirs is happening on a daily bases. These users think they can't be caught and when they do, you see them on Discord saying it was a mistake. Let me not go into details but please note, no one believes these justifications.

Source everything that is not yours! Quotes must be sourced too by the way.

There are a couple of useful links here, please read what you can find here and learn before you get into trouble.

https://peakd.com/about/faq
https://leopedia.io/


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