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Good evening fellow Nairalanders.

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Hello guys... Been a while

tosyne2much:
Baba, wetin you dey find extra steemit account for nah

E geh why bros! Double hustle things

colinsin:
Yes

Colinsin is one of the most trustworthy person i have dealt with in a while

colinsin:
Available. Contact on signature

Come to whatsapp. We have unfinished business

OhGeeBee:
I have a new one to trade

Let's deal

I may need to buy a new account soon. holla at me if you have one

chineduho:
Any chance we should expect the steemstem & steemiteducation tutorials

Read up this post
https://steemit.com/steemstem/@steemstem/helpful-guidelines-for-crafting-steemstem-content

for those who want to do steemstem posts, please read up this post
https://steemit.com/steemstem/@steemstem/helpful-guidelines-for-crafting-steemstem-content

Marvel1206:
Posted thrice, didn't get an upvote. Got it the third time. Esteem also upvotes too

Exactly!

chineduho:
Any chance we should expect the steemstem & steemiteducation tutorials

oh! I almost forgot about that. Lemme see what I can do. Maybe, I'll get you a link to read up yourself. What ya say?

funshyboi:
I posted tru the busy.org after which I used the listed tags, but no votes from any of them

It is not guaranteed but a guy I told this same thing got an upvote. Just keep using the site to do your postings and using the tag

Godmother:
Yeah, I grab.
My money is tired up but I do kindle publishing and should get paid on the 28th. I'll use that to purchase more steem.

You will teach me kindle publishing ooo

funshyboi:
baba I did as you've said, but it's close to 24 hours and no votes from any of them Is there something am not getting right

What exactly did you do?

Activity schedule for newbies

● post through *busy.org* and use *busy* as one of your tags

You can get an upvote from busy.org twice a day and in intervals of 12 hours..i.e.. there is a cooldown of 12 hours after a busy upvote

● delegate just 1 steem power to minnowsupport....they upvote few of your posts everyday...2 max i guess

● join the PAL discord channel....you can submit 1 of your post everyday in the post promotion channel for an upvote from the msp-lovebot account.

● try to include *life* and *community* as one of your tags and stand a chance to get an upvote from @bue @hr1 @team and some few other curators

You can also include *nigeria* and *africa* as one of your tags if its a quality and well designed post and stand a chance to get an upvote from nigerian curators.

Thanks for reading and wish you all success in your Steemit journey

tosyne2much:
This is a very thoughtful comment baba


Let me make a little addition

People should avoid making too short, irrelevant or monosyllabic comments such as "nice post, I like this, interesting, nice one, please upvote me, I just upvoted you, etc

Steemit is dominated by many intellects unlike Instagram, Facebook and Twitter that are highly dominated by unreasonable people. Try to make comments that are very sensible on people's post. By so doing, people might he forced to check up your blog

Another thing I want to chip in is that you should avoid resteeming too many posts ( resteeming means sharing people's posts). I hate to see too many resteemed posts on people's blog and I trust that many people hate it too

When people only take a glance at your blog, what they see will determine whether they will follow you or not and if they see that your blog is devoid of creativity, they lose interest in your blog. If they scroll down and all they see is 5-10 resteemed posts before they see your own post, you're only slowing down your ministry. (people do this but a newbie should avoid it)

Lastly, try to search for this app on playstore "plagiarism check" and make sure you perform plagiarism check as you're writing. Don't let's deceive ourselves here, what most people is to rewrite other people's article and spice it up well

You can rewrite the post of other people but ensure sure you use plagiarism check in order to put you on a safe side.
Once your post is infested by Cheetah's comment, you will earn little or nothing from such post.

Let me add one more thing. Whales like when you hype them and this works like magic too.. Try to comment on their posts and heap praises on them. Whine their head and make them feel like a king. I remember swelling the head of a whale and he gave me $5 straight up.

Note: Your comment must be in alignment with the post but still try to hype them codedly


Have I made any sense at all?

You overly make sense. I can't count the number of times I've received good upvote from @surpassinggoogle because of heaping praise. But sha do it well as tosyne2much has said. People like @maryfavor are quick to flag down comments that irritates her. But commenting is a good business. I earned more than $5 last two weeks from commenting alone.

No matter how good you are at writing and how much you have researched, if people don't get to read your work, you won't earn nada.

One thing we advise newbies (I was given this advise too). Set a target to comment at least 50 times every day. I'm not talking about the "Nice post" kind of comment but one that shows you really read the work. What works for me and I know will work for you is this; immediately you drop your post, go on a marathon commenting on other people's posts.... It will prompt them to come check yours too.

What I've noticed that many new Steemians lack is communication. Early this month, I met with @gbenga, Nigeria's topmost curator and he kept emphasising on that. Four things that will help you on steemit as he mentioned are

CONSISTENCY
COMMENTING
COMMUNICATION
BE ORGANIZED...

afolwalex20:
That's exactly what I did.

Check that there are no spaces.. It should work

tosyne2much:
Utopian is more of programming and coding

If you are not inclined in their area, you will earn nothing from Utopian

So you think I'm a programmer or I'm into coding. It just takes a bit of studying and practice.

doyinisaac:
ok someone do not need to create a code for that right??

No. Just check one of those links I posted and see.

afolwalex20:
Please continue o..
I'm following already.

Those links you shared aren't working.

You know Nairaland hates people pasting links.... Just copy the full link and paste in another tab on your browser

I could forget about Utopian though and talk about steemstem if people think utopian is difficult

doyinisaac:
how can those that are not technology guru benefit from this??i mean those that are not programmers or cannot develop any code??

One doesn't necessarily have to be tech savvy to make utopian contributions. Lets take Nairaland for instance. I don't like that at night viewing the page hurts my eyes, I could make a recommmendation for night feature like this

NAIRALAND: ADD ABILITY TO TOGGLE NIGHT FEATURE

Its the other categories like translation and development that are more complicated.

So you can see that the program is flexible. It accommodates everyone both programmers and non programmers. I will explain that more below...
Let me now explain three categories (suggestion, bug hunting, and visibility) under which contributions can be made... You can read up others by visiting utopian.io
Suggestion: here, you just make a suggestion. Maybe you want sbd/Steem price indicator button on the front page of your blog. Just write something comprehensive about it and use an arrow to show where you want this to be. Most of my contributions have been made under suggestion category. A good way to get a better understanding of what I mean here is to visit these my links:

https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@penauthor/suggestions-for-steemrocks

https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@penauthor/suggestions-for-steemlyt

https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@penauthor/suggestions-for-projectsend

These three should give you a good idea on how to make contribution
These are just a few... Just be creative. You can come up with anything. It must not be only steemit that you must contribute to. There are other open source projects, just search them out, study them. You can compare them with sister projects and make your suggestion.

ABOUT THE UTOPIAN TUTORIAL I TALKED ABOUT, LEMME BEGIN

In this tutorial, I am going to adopt some tips from @elear's post and I will drop the link to the post at the end so that you can read further and start contributing in earnest.
According to @elear who happens to be the founder of utopia project, Utopian.io is the only platform that will reward you for making Open Source contributions with Steem Power and shared SBD. While everyone is trying to make utopian-io based posts is because Utopian.io will reward you for creating contributions with the votes of the community members plus the vote of the Utopian Bot that is powered by about 4 million Steem Power! So wake up and make the best of this opportunity...
Now... I know newbies would have questions regarding what open source projects, open source contributions and shared SBD really are?


Please read in between lines...study whatever lines I drop...very important.
Don't wait until u get everything before trying to contribute. Practice makes perfect. Okay?
On the first one being open source projects: In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. Open source software is usually developed as a public collaboration and made freely available.
For example...Steemit is Open Source, that means its codebase is public, accessible by everyone, editable by everyone.
Another examples of open source projects include utopian.io, busy.org, Google Chrome Browser, WordPress, etc. They are many. You can search online.
On the second question: open source contributions. These are ideas you make to open source projects in order to enhance user experience or positive growth of the concerned project. These contributions can take different forms such as:

- suggestions,

- sub-project,

- visibility, etc.
I will include a screenshot of the different categories so you can see

doyinisaac:
i won't tell you

Why la?

doyinisaac:
yeah true....but another strategy is upvote your own comments or posts but make sure the upvote is done on the sixth day after the post was created so the next day you will receive your rewards even if the post is later flagged....though you will hardly get flagged even if you upvote your own comment....and besides a flag will only become effective if the flagging was done by several people or the flagging was done by a whale

Doyinisaac, what is your username?

If all things go well, I will post a comprehensive tutorial about Utopia later or at most Saturday. I'm also going to get you a link to understand how to do steemstem related post. Everybody can earn well on Steemit with the right guidance.

tosyne2much:
One could get flagged shey?

Yes oo...The upvote has to go round.

tosyne2much:
What about using the $0.03 to upvote 10 of your comments daily before the SP loses value. That should give a total of $0.30

Multiply it by 7 days, that will give you $2.1.. When you divide it by two, you are getting 1 SBD and a very little SP

I'm thinking of doing this daily but a friend told me I could get flagged upvoting each comment I make

That's very true.

Tosyne2much

You na boss oo.. I checked your blog and you're doing amazingly well.....Like how did you make it so fast? Which community do you belong to that was just dashing you sbd like that?

I'd also like to know about steemnaira