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### STEEMIT 101. - How NOT To Behave Or Approach Steemit.
Fellow seaweed and minnows. This one goes to all of you. Just as a friendly reminder.

Before we begin, I want to tell you that I usually **don't** highlight specific people or point fingers towards people directly. However, in this article, I have to do it. - As I personally believe it will be a great lesson for the author **and** also a good example for others.

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### No matter how much I try... - People are still doing this.
I know that I'm not alone. We are tons of Steemians who're trying to educate and teach fellow Steemians. - We spoon-feed people with our knowledge and expertise... And they either don't give a shit about what we say or they don't care about it.

And I'm obviously **not** talking about **everyone**. I'm talking about **some** people. - **Most** Steemians I know of, are listening. They care and they want to learn. - That's also the **main** reason I still work hard to provide good content and to motivate, encourage and inspire my readers. Because I know they care.

That being said, in this article I will talk about user: @sharmin.

> "Art is my life." 

That's the only thing this user have in their bio. (The line of text on their profile). - And here me out, there's nothing wrong at all with using only one sentence or a few paragraphs. And there's also nothing wrong with **not** having any text at all. - You do whatever you want and there's no perfect answer for "how to" use this.

However, in this specific case, the user have this stated and that's basically because this user shares a ton of ART. - So it truly fits their approach on Steemit. - This is actually a good thing to do. - To highlight what you share. - Many other Steemians are doing this exactly like this.

### Personally, I did it like this:
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## Anyhow, this person also did this:

> Please read this post. I want your help but I do not begging. I believe that this post will tuch your your heart. I am not asking you for send sbd or steem, Its your wish. But I request you to 100% upvotemy post. ===> https://steemit.com/steemit/@sharmin/dark-sky-my-dream-like-those-art-without-peoples-support <===

So, this is not about the grammar mistakes or anything like that. I'm not native in English either and I do tons of mistakes too... - This is about the things they're trying to accomplish.

### Let me break it down to you even more...

<center>![beg.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmT1RRTXfnn2yLMrh7U4jmbSf7AiaipN89x6qyKupNBANH/beg.png)</center>

At first glance, this is **exactly** what the user claims it **not** to be. This is pure begging.

I am not known to judge people beforehand, and I usually don't jump to any conclusions at first sight... So I tried to look at this from another perspective. - "*What if this is due to the language barrier?*"

- That said, I gave this user a second chance before judging.

### I looked at this users wallet as I was eager to get some answers...

That's when I saw the message I posted above for the first time. - And for **18** times in total.

After a couple of more seconds... I also found this:

> 이 게시물을 읽어주십시오. 나는 네 도움을 원하지만 나는 구걸하지 않는다. 나는 이것이 당신의 마음에 닿을 것이라고 믿습니다. ===> https://steemit.com/kr/@sharmin/2cfrw9 <===

This is in Korean. - And this is more or less the **same** message this person sent 18 other people in English. - This person sent **30** identical messages to people. - Not begging but requesting a 100% upvote...........

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### Even though I was already aware of this user being a fraud/scam-artist.. 
- I decided to take a look at their latest post. - And I saw this:

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- This user did not **just** beg for upvotes. He/She also shared **other** peoples work.


## And now, this persons account looks like this:

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Long story short. This person is a fraudster/scam-artist who was greedy and destroyed their own reputation. - Like I've stated many times before, Greed **can** be a disgusting thing.

### And that's todays lesson.
- Don't do stupid shit like this. 

Work hard. Put in effort. Share and contribute. - You **will** be rewarded for it.

Building your following, reputation and earnings on Steemit is **not** a get-rich-quick scheme. - It takes **time** and **effort.**

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