i have one "don't be a dick"

Awesome guide! Thanks.

Found a teeny typo; "You may no link" I assume should be "You may not link".

I have been looking for something like this, I did not know how to move forward without doing so.

All Negative????

Thank you so much for the heads up.  This will be a great help for us newbies.  I  have already broken the rules by reposting my intro.  I didn't now how to include my profile pic and I had to repost.  

After posting I discovered that I put in the wrong link for the image.  How do I edit the second post  and delete the first one?  Would appreciate some help.  Thanks.

Thank you SO SO much this really does help.

Thank you for posting this, I am sure it will help many on Steemit. Wish this was done sooner

You just need 1 more and it can become a list of the: **Ten Commandments of Steemit**

You would however have to change You may or should (not) with **Thou shalt (not)**... :D

There are no rules. You judge for yourself what is appropriate or not. You have the ability to vote for what you deem valuable, flag what you deem abusive, and change your behaviour if you are getting a poor or negative response from the community.

>You may not put images in your comments.

I criticised you for using an image in your comments, but it was only because you were putting it in almost every comment, it was self-promoting and not relevant to the topic. I didn't flag you for it but I would have if it persisted. I would have then muted you and that would likely be the last we'd see of each other.

In this way we are able to decide for ourselves in a distributed fashion what is abusive and what is not. If you could accept one flag and nobody else ever flagged you for it, you could happily go on posting that image to your heart's content. It's only if lots of people felt as I do that you would probably be under social pressure to stop advertising yourself in comments in this way.

Don't tag incorrectly 
( I thought you were able to post pics in comments)

Also always add pic when you post or no one will read it.

Please excuse my ignorance in advance.  I am a newbie.  I'm not super internet savvy to begin with either.  I understand completely rules regarding plagiarism and other legal matters, however I thought the beauty of Steemit was to decentralize control from the few to the many.  

It seems rules like a limit on the number of posts per day is simply to suit the rule makers fancy and enable a form of censorship under the threat of downvoting.  If someone produces good content all day long and wants to post it, what's wrong with that?  I'm just asking the question for consideration.  Isn't that counter to Steemit's value proposition?  Less control, less rules, more freedom.  Thank you for reading.

When you say "you may not post more than 4 times a day", would that include comments. I would think that's not what you meant but comments show up under posts so wanted to verify what you meant. I'm not a huge fan of rules, I would prefer principles, rules are narrow and don't apply to all situations, principles allow people to use their own judgment to make the right decision. What I would like to see on here is an easily accessible FAQ or a persistent thread for newbies. You kind of have to read through a lot of posts to figure out the basics and unfortunately I have found incorrect or conflicting information in people's posts that doesn't always get corrected. The white paper is good but very technical and doesn't answer everything.

brilliant post it is a good one at that and makes a statement i am not sure if that is the correct way in saying it but what ever and i hope it goes up trending for more to see

This is very helpful Thanks!

One newbie here! Thanks for the information you've shared! It helps! 😊

Hmm this is quite helpful. So, if I used to post my poetry on WordPress, I can post it here as long as I link the WordPress on my Steemit post, and the Steemit link on the Wordpress post?

This is helpful, thank you for posting!

Thank you - I'm just starting and not much traction yet so I was wondering about reposting some of the early blogs - no can do I see :-) - it's all good.

Fantastic thank you mrgrey I have been flagged in the past and I had no idea why, at least now I know

Ref: "You may use your content elsewhere however a link must be placed in your post to the other external website and from the external website back to your post."

I was looking for this since yesterday.  Thanks a lot

Perfect - this is what I have been looking for as a newby - just paranoid I would do something wrong or just waist my time and everybody elses. Just read the story on Cheetah and it's all starting to make since.. Thanks again