Great taboo rules. I agree with all

Esti peste tot , omule :))

Good work at clearing this up. Especially the point regarding 'saving your earnings.' Its important to keep the growth of Steem going!

Yes, many people do not realize this importance of steempower in relation to their own growth on the platform.

Great post! Especially the copy & paste bit and the NO SPAM.
You got an upvote & resteem from me (not worth much but they all add up).
Steem on beyond the moon, because why only to the moon.

Thanks! Re Steeming will make this info available to more users.

I think one key point to address is the difference between a critical post about SteemIt and a bashing post. I've seen posts that discuss flaws and offer potential solutions, which are great! Then there are those that simply complain about how it's too hard to make money on SteemIt. It's always a bit sad to see these, but they also typically don't contribute anything but negativity. Those aren't cool.

> No "I follow you, follow back" or "upvote for upvote"

Hear, hear. Bringing the Steemit community down to the same cheap and selfish commercialism that we see elsewhere. It makes me sick.
Of course we all enjoy the personal benefits of Steem, but do it properly by writing posts, curating and generally contributing to the ethos of the community.... not by playing the game!

These are very accurate rules. One should really follow them, no second thought about it!

Thank you for this article, its very informative and very helpful for a newbie like me to see.

I am glad it was of help to you. Steem On!

This should almost be mandatory reading for new users on the SteemIt platform. It is a shame to see people come on here, not knowing any better - then they get warned, flagged/downvoted, and their reputation damaged. Most new people tend not to react well to "discipline" or "instruction" which is perceived to be punitive or annoying - I am no exception to this, either.

Groups that support minnows are a great thing - they are doing their part to spread the proper use and tactics for success on the SteemIt platform. And, posts like this are also helping out a lot.

Thanks for educating new users on the platform about online etiquette. Upvoted and Resteemed.

Thank you, your RESTEEM will also make this information available to more users.

All sounds fair enough cheers. Thanks mike

Commenting on this post for save at my wallet

Thanks . This was very informative and simplified . I'll make sure the new users I told to join will read this information right a way. I hope there is a way for others to get it in their introduction info when they join.
Impressive and useful.

It would be a great tool For new users to receive on their introduction. Agreed. Thank you for your support.

I like it! If I had the skill, I'd build a bot to send this out to every new user.

That would be very cool!

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My voice on the block chain FOREVER. That is pretty powerful. I don't think most of us realize the importance of that. Thank you.

Making steemit history with every post, comment, reply! Keep steemin!

Thanks for this post monkimo. I have a buddy that just started so resteemed for him to see it. Wish I would have realized these rules before I had a post flagged for spamming because I didn't cite a photo (I believe). :) Onwards and upwords.

I was just about to post something llike this!

Im glad you posted this!!!!

here is what I ccame up with rough draft:

if you can get past all the personality residue friction on the SteemSpeak discord you can find some intelligent conversations and points!

One point was about how fake certain steemit minnows (new users) come off as when they begin doing botlike actions like offering a "follow for follow" or saying "upvote for upvote" when this IS NOT Facebook or instagram! Please dont bring that social media baggage over to steemit! On twitter and Instagram yeah follow for follow is literally encouraged by the GUI of the app itself allowing you to click follow button on every person who follows you! But here on steemit, if everyone followed everyone who followed them, we wouldnt ever create our own steemit stars!

Please do not act like a bot! But we KNOW now from the discord chat, WHY we all might be acting like bots! we Interact with bots all the time online so we start ACTING like bots! Monkey see monkey do! and Humans have Mirror Neurons that allow someone to literally copy what they see! and we see all these bots doing this aggregate behavior where its just meant to maximize its own followers , we NEED to remain human! In the long term you will make alot more money if you get followers who are being human and not just trying to accumulate followers....This IS like a video game but you CANNOT just click buttons faster to winsome click race...please do not try to just gain 1000 followers by following 10,000 steemit users.... Its like pollution...it really is! and it only hurts your own feed! Dont spam! Dont post 10 times a day with shit posts with some stupid video or one sentence...its so lame! And it actually IS possible to make alot of money here by posting 1 video and one sentence (but it has to be YOUR video, an u have to already have followers! Im talking to minnows who still dont get it! WHo treat steemit like twitter! Dont pollute steemit with your spam! Your selfish motives to just make money faster are really pathetic! Stop it! You people who do this act like you HAVE to do this because its the ONLY way you know how to make money...well people will notice and eventually flag you! We have BOTS that people donte delegated steempower to! and they flag the people who spam! you cant get revenge on these bots, you cant complain about getting flagged by the BlackList cheetah bot its like...come on.... the people who spam on steemit really dont get this platform.....they think they are bringing content by spamming other peoples videos like i would apreciiate if they posted at least five or six videos per post, like create a COLLECTION of content!!!!

Stop posting short posts with other peoples content! it DOESNt add any value!

here is one way to BeeHive (behave) on steemit! Steemiquette is not required but you will find yourself with powerful followers if you behave your own snappy remarks and STOP yourself before you hitthat post button! ALWAYS re read yoour own posts and pt yourself in your READERS perspective whole you read it!!!! And realy pretend to be a Steemit Whale and re read your own comments or post! ask ypurself..."Would a steemit whale, whose been invested inthis plaform andjust wantsto see quality cntent from people whoo care....do they see this comment or post as having real value and moving us forward and as progress? or is this post or comment just some complaint offering no solutions? If you have a complaint, always give someone the benefit of the doubt if they arent a complete asshole here on steemit! Just go check their blog and youl get an idea of who they are! Chances are they deserve some respect...so go and compliment sandwich any criticism!

What do I meean by compliment sanwich?

Start with a compliment! start with something Good they did that you noticed!,
THEN tell them the criticism or complaint in the middle
Then END it with ANOTHER compliment! tell them ANOTHER good thing! Congratulate them on some accomplishment of theirs!

Compliment Sandwich! Whenever you have to point out something wrong with another steemit user who seems to be an Ok person, just trust me, when you are softer like this it makes a world of difference, you get more flies with honey than vinegar, its true! people are super sensitive! when people get criticized they ALWAYS take it personally!

So ALWAYS show that you are trying to just help by allowing them to see you are complimenting them before criticizing!

Peoples egos are VERY sentive ESPECIALLy here on steemit!

A great analogy I heard in the TeamSpeak discord chat for what happens here on steemit with Flag battles is like a sand castle conflict between children on the beach, we are all children (steemit users) with a sand castle (Posts with rewards built up) , when you knock down someones sand castle, they will get their big brother to come and knock down YOUR and castle!

Insightful tips , thanks for sharing your content. It is people like you @monkimo, that have helped me along my steem experience.

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Great! Wish i read this before i did my first post. Now i started wrong ...
Would be a great idea to show this kind of posts to newbies like me.
Thanks a lot!

Great reminders, especially for newbies and oldies that have lost their way. With the recent surge of new users, SPAM is something served on the daily. It's nice to be reminded what not to do so that the quality of posts on Steemit would skyrocket :D

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Can you repost this . I'm unable to post it on my steemit page. Please help!!!!

I am new to steemit and I have seen couple of the taboos mentioned above from the users on my post's comments. I have made couple of mistakes myself. Now I know the taboos I will try to avoid them. Thanks for the post.

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