This is excellent, I joined Steemit in Aug. This post would have saved me some time.
Thank you
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much informative for me.......thanks @michelle.gent

First off, thank you, being a newbie, I find it a very useful post. 

However, I admit to being confused and I suspect I have not understood something you said. You say we should upvote often, as it costs us nothing, and yet, you also say, if I may quote:
>The amount you receive depends on how much you have in your Steemit Wallet. The more you have, the more you give when you vote and therefore, the more you get back when the post is paid-out at the end of seven days.

"<strong>...the more you give when you vote</strong>"? I have also seen a post where it is explained that as a newbie, if I upvote more than 10 times a day, my drip-drip replenishment cannot catch up and my balance will go down.

Is he right?

I do want to mention that I appreciate that many here want to make money because they need it. So do I, but I quickly realised that at my age it is not a goal I should set for myself. My main concern is that I have been writing for nearly 18 years and though I did, for a short time, have a site where I could publish and had a number of readers, I never was rewarded with comments or (as I asked) critiques, so I stopped posting there.

I also enjoy floating around, often using the name in an interesting or nice comment to open their page and read a post or two. If I chose wisely, then I want to encourage them (especially newbies like me) so I upvote - which explains my first question, as I cannot help if my money runs out.

I look forward to your comment.

thanks for the info , i am new to steemit

Some very good trips, this is a quite tricky platform to get to grips with.

Great advice from someone who has worked hard to get where she is. Thank you for sharing. I believe attitude is also important. I have seen many who are complaining that they are not making the mega bucks that they had wanted. They want immediate results. That's why we have the problem coming along now with bots and spammers. I joined steemit so I could have a platform to share my work with others and share ideas with like minded people. I appreciate honest feed back and I try to give the best responses for replies. If I make a liitle money on the side, that is a bonus.

Shame I missed u, great advice btw!

I also have a couple of my own questions -- and this essay may be a place to pose them.  If not, I apologize.  However ... I've seen advice that you shouldn't upvote *anyone's post* for at least an hour after it's published. 

There was absolutely *no reason* given, and if it's legitimate I'd like to know why.    (At the time I was so new, and people that day seemed to be in such a cranky mood, I didn't dare ask directly.   As you may learn, I am not a wuss, but I do live in terror of offending someone with a question or request that comes across to the well-informed as presumptuous or simple-minded.)

I've also seen warnings to never publish more than 4 posts in a day because you'll get "taxed" on any beyond that -- and any rewards on them (meager as they are in the beginning) will be restricted.

Now, I've also read understandable complaints about some newcomer who slammed up 22 articles on his blog in a 7 hour time period and people found that irritating.  No argument on that.  But if there *are* actual penalties or conventional standards and limits -- even if they're not formally written down somewhere -- could someone please address that ... for those of us who sincerely want to play by the rules but have a haphazard experience finding them.

thanks. The post is very helpful to me as a newcomer in steemit. Your post I can make as my reference reference in steemit deepens. Thanks again for you.

I would change your formatting advice to be stronger. Learning to make your posts look nice should be what you focus on in the first weeks  and months so that you improve quickly. 

Simple formatting is not that hard to learn and there are tons of posts telling little pieces so you can learn as you go. I personally cannot read anything that is a long block of text and do not even try. 

Sadly, I close a lot of possibly good posts for that reason. This is especially true in the writing tag. I want to read because of the title and first sentence, but I just can't. 

I notice you did not mention the timing of the vote. Do you think it is something to ignore in the beginning?

Someone (don't remember who ) right at the beginning told me not to bother with the promoted, so I have never looked at it in the whole 9 weeks. But I did not think of it from the other side of promoting myself. I thought it would be much more expensive so now I will look into it. Thank you!

And thank you for such a detailed post. We're trying down here and it is not easy!

This is very helpful and informative to me as a newborn in this world of steemit. I learned new tips @michelle.grant . For almost a month here, I also learned that you should not aloof yourself from everyone. Learn to engage and explore, maybe join a contest or join a community, in the steemit app or in discord so that you have someone you can ask for questions esp. for the new ones. Enjoy and have fun not alone but with others as well.

it will be really helpful for new comers

Not to forget respect the tags because there's some steemer that will downvote post that does not respect tags. I learned about it the hard way.

Thanks for you short introduction on first steps into the depth of Steemit-Jungle...

You say, one can earn if a upvoted post goes to the hot area, right ? 

so all other upvotes on posts not reaching there do not get me anywhere ? 

Is that right ?

If so, my next question  would be superfluos: how many decimals are counted in calculating the curations by the blockchain ?

My wallet displays only four digits (x.xxx) - is this for display reasons only and lower amounts just accumulating or are they lost ?

This question concerns me since few days as I not really got much out of my upvotes so far and the first 7 days period just finishes on Tuesday...

Thank you so far !

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thank you for the lovely post. You touch many issues that needs to be talked about but isn't. I'm fairly new myself (couple of months) I have noticed many of the mentioned above behaviors like spammy comments/content , posting links of their own blog on someone else's blog post, blindly following  without even looking at the content or a single up-vote at any point ever in hopes one will follow back  then go on a unfollow  spree once they have an audience, creating multiple accounts to upvote their own post, lots of dishonorable behaviors that devalue the platform and it needs to stop but not enough ppl are talking about it. myself along with many others are here to form real friendships with like-minded individuals  and learn new perspectives. I would much prefer getting 10 upvotes worth  0.00 and know somebody cares about my writing than a bunch of  followers that has no intention on ever contributing anything.  it is discouraging. I continue to push myself to keep writing regardless. I notice many whales and dolphins starting to take action on deceitful behaviors. i'm very thankful for that.

They should all read it!! All of them!!

Sir your the past nice information.steemit member

Great post, helpful for newbies, the Do not list must be published daily, spammers are everywhere =(

I've learnt a few things reading this too! Not just tips for newbies :D

Really a helpful post for the newbies like . I want to invest my steem dollar to buy steem power , so that i can reward more . Is it helpful or not ?

interesting information, thanks for sharing

Very informative and interesting post.

<p>This post has been ranked within the top 50 most undervalued posts in the first half of Sep 03. We estimate that this post is undervalued by $13.72 as compared to a scenario in which every voter had an equal say.</p> 
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