# The things I think every new Steemian should know

Most everything is addressed in the FAQ, but there are certain things that take priority over others.

* Account keys.
* Master vs. Active vs. Owner. Public vs. Private. All issues that new Steemians should be aware of when posting or making transactions.
* STEEM, STEEM Power, and SBDs.
* What are they?
* The Blockchain
* Brief intro to blockchain technology
* How Steemit uses the blockchain
* What are the advantages of holding one vs. the others
* How to exchange (internal and external markets)
* Powering up vs Powering down

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* * Curation and Interacting with other Steemians
* Voting
* Voting power as it relates to STEEM power
* Voting power depletion and recovery
* The slider
* Commenting
* How to make meaningful comments
* Asking questions
* Upvoting comments
* Resteeming
* What is it?
* Post's position on your blog
* Rewards
* The 75/25 split
* Wait 30 minutes or no?
* Reputation
* Raising and lowering reputation
* Why is it important?
* Following
* When to follow someone
* Unfollowing
* Rank terminology
* Whales
* Dolphins
* Minnows
* Red Fish/Plankton

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* Posting
* Learn Markdown
* Text formatting
* Images and image formatting
* Text and image links
* Introduction Posts
* How to make a quality introduction
* Account verification
* How to respond to all of the bots that comment
* Plagiarism
* Etiquette about sharing others' content
* Single image or single video posts = not good
* Using images from external sources
* Finding public domain images
* Pixabay
* Unsplash
* Google Image search "labeled for reuse"
* Citing sources from copyrighted images
* Quoting articles
* Cheetah and Steemcleaners
* Tags
* When to use tags
* Don't use tags that are irrelevant
* Creating Blog Posts
* What to write about?
* Consider series of posts
* Original content
* Stories
* Poems
* Art
* Commentary on news or current events
* cite sources
* Responses to contests
* Memes, short stories, photography, etc.

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* Steemit's "Areas of Concern"
* Spam accounts
* How to spot them
* Flagging/downvoting
* Voting bots (bid bots and non-bid voting bots)
* Plagiarism
* Self-voting
* Building Community on Steemit
* Discord
* Steemit.chat