Some things to do and some things not to do

Hello Hello you beautiful people.

How are things?

I have seen many readers join Hive and thought i would share some tips and pointers about what and more importantly what not to do there.

If you are new and have not made an Introduction post then you should do it, but take your time with it and don't just rush it.

As with any post on Hive, proofread it and make it your best.

Hive is a much bigger ecosystem and you should think of being there for the long run.

Don't just post and keep taking your money, it gets noticed.

Powering up your Hive is essential to grow your account and get bigger curation rewards.

You will notice there are loads of tokens and investment opportunities there as well, but I won't dwell on that today.

My sky last night: Picture taken by me with my Canon Powershot HS70

Tag Abuse

Tags are very very important in Hive, many autovotes are triggered by what tags you use, and using the wrong tag could get you into trouble.

Communities

Before you post in a community for the first time, read the guidelines and rules! It does not feel nice getting your post muted, trust me it happened to me when I first joined and I left in a huff! The reason was tag abuse!

Talking about communities brings me to another point.

Don't spread yourself too thin

There are so many communities and contests all over the place on Hive that you could end up jumping all over the place.

If you like a community, then get to know the members and moderators. Remember it is those moderators than upvote your post and get it curated. So be polite and engage on posts in a community. If you join a contest then do the same thing.

If you are engaging meaningfully it will get noticed in a good way.

Discord

Discord is huge on Hive, and all the frontends and most communities have their own servers. Join in the fun and again you get known and people will come visit your posts.

Don't spam the servers though. I see people just come in and drop their posts and run, stay and engage if you are going to do that, and again make sure that the community and your post are a good fit.

Cross Posting from Read is a NO NO

There are some big curator groups on Hive, one of which is OCD and many communities are part of the OCD program. When you get an OCD this will usually take you past the $20 mark for a post. However there are criteria for OCD curators to follow, I know as I am one. One big criteria now is rewarding content creators that are growing the Hive ecosystem, and as such cross posting from other blockchains is frowned upon.

So if want to use Hive and Read, then make sure that your content is different, don't just copy and paste.

Sourcing and citing images and text in your post

When we curate we go through a post and make sure that the images either belong to the author (if they are yours then say that in your post) or available to be used commercially. If you are using pixabay for example, put the link in your post, don't just say it is from pixabay- actually link to it. A good curator will check that the link works and is available to use.

You have to remember that scammers are all over the place, and the idea is to reward Hivers that are posting original content.

If you are quoting text, then again cite and link the source.

For example, copying and pasting a paragraph or two from Wikipedia without quoting citing and linking the reference could well get your post noted as plagiarism. Do that too often and you will get blacklisted and your posts downvoted and rewards will be 0.

I could go on all day about tips however this one is important.

Do not vote on comments

You will notice that you have voting mana (or power) of 100%, this goes down the more you vote. When you vote you are curating something and do get rewarded, however nothing under 2 cents gets curated, so as your vote is probably worth less than 2 cents it is a wasted vote.

In fact it is even worse than wasted. It takes approximately 24 hours to cover 20% of your voting power. A 100% vote will use up 2% of your power. So 10 full 100% votes is a daily total, you can of course make smaller votes to have more of them, but do not vote comments or replies.

It is much better to reply and if you want to show appreciation then along with your reply leave them a token tip such as WINE LOLZ BEER PIZZA ALIVE PGM LUV etc.

You won't have any of these tokens at the beginning however everyone can use !hivebits once a day and this will give you and the recipient a bit of hivebits, which in time you can sell.

Any questions please do give me a shout.

Have a good one!

Do you want some specific posts or tutorials on Hive, I can do those if needed!