Please forgive my IQ ~ I did not understand haha.

Totally I agree with you. Most newbie people in this platform give a comment like a spam. Always same words to all these posts.
I love your words.
>If you open the door to Steemit and think it is blue, you are mistaken, it is a rabbit hole.

Amar bale poree tor ey lekha

I am here for 8 months, met IRL people that are here from the early history of steemit and have even met ned and dan (them not me) and I still feel like I largely don't know how this joint is run.  n00bs really have no idea what they are signing for. XD

Thanks there is much more about steemit than just posting and upvoting. I think it's a good idea to sharpen the axe when you just entered steemit. People who have been here for long do know alot and they earn well as well. 
There must be a reason why, and you just told us why.
Still learning more about steemit, thanks for this information.
Resteeming it for my colleagues to let this sink into their heads.

I am agree with you. Most of the new users is spammers. Their main target is money.😡

I'm not sure sure of anything empirical -but I _feel_ like there are a _lot_ more of 'please upvote and follows'.

..or maybe I'm getting more sensitive to it...
feel free to pass this around ...

![IMAG0009.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmP6G3p51K4bDJi5DEcY6skZxUdM2WYQDXK7LUuE4BRqpR/IMAG0009.JPG)

That's some food for tought. I noticed many people do "follow for follow, and vote for vote" and also many comments are not even related to the article. I try to follow only accounts i like and and the same for upvotes.
"when they find out who you know is more important", i can understand the relation with real life, but on steemit, i guess you're meaning about knowing whales or engaging in groups on steemit chat?
As far as getting to know how the platform works, i think it should be mandatory to read the FAQ first and answer a quizz/some questions before approval.

Wow I really thought about this, see, you're right Facebook and Twitter will forever be different from here, because on here one earns, and to do that, you have to be extra hardworking to earn every penny here, there is notthing free in life, so patience and conststency is the virtue

It's just how we *should* go on in life. Give people value and expect nothing in return. 

The universe has its own way of looking out for the people who add value to other peoples lives.

In the short time I've spent here, I've always kept an open mind, and had the zeal to learn and grow, because I've got long term goals. Though when I joined, it was for the money, That thought changed, and I can actually say, I'm having fun here now . If people are willing to keep their head down and learn, engage, ask the right questions, they'll do better.

I'm still learning, been here since July and still don't fully understand curation

I have seen a few people delete the content from there posts and put up a final post like, "I tried and steemit fail me" after a month on the platform with as you said no investment in learning what it is. It is very complicated but worth the time its taken me to learn the basics. 

>If you open the door to Steemit and think it is blue, you are mistaken, it is a rabbit hole.

I have used this analogy when describing steemit before, I think its very apt for steemit. lol.

I do understand what you are saying and have a lot of experience in social media but this is ALL new but very exciting and I am absolutely going to dig in and learn and take advantage of the fact that so many don't!

It took me 3 months to learn how it really works and I am still learning.  Whenever I think that I understood everything I discover something new. 
Thats what I noticed when I introduce Steemit to someone. The most people think that it is very similar to other social medias and that you can share anything and get followers. But the more time you spend here the more you learn.  Many users give up quickly and leave when they notice the difference.
If we see Steemit as a future job and investment our attitudes will change.

I've been here less than 2 months but I thought I knew most of the important day-to-day things I should do, but just today I learned that if you power down too much and your SP goes to 0 you get locked out of the system, and you have to get someone else to transfer some SBD or SP to you.  
Live and learn  :)

I'm 2 months in, and I'm relatively happy with the way it's progressing, but I'm the first to admit that there's still some things I haven't quite worked out yet, and still some dynamics I still feel I need to tinker with.

And I consider myself to be quite technical and usually pick up things pretty quick. 

I believe that Steemit one of those things about which the more you know, the more you realize that you know very little. Thus, beginners are not to blame for their ignorance, it's on more experienced Steemians to help them out by publishing informative articles about the platform functionalities and by being a good example. Cheers! : )

I'm still rather new here. And when I joined I did indeed expect a Facebook/twitter kind of mix. (Luckily even my action on those are not how the normal people use it so go me). But quite soon I realized that this wasn't the fact. So I decided to do some research into the rabbit hole. 
After a while I thought I knew hot it worked... I thought I knew...
Until I joined the chat and people starting to point out "Newbie go do research".
To what I full confidence obviously would say "I did my research man! I know my stuff"
That would be countered with "Boy.... you know nothing.... trust me... do some more research"
The amount of layers this community has is incredible... Extremely complex and even more interesting

Amazing photography sir. Wonderful post ☺😍☺😍😍😍

@uovote

I think this is a historical door. i really like it. its is awesome......!! keep it up... I am new here so please follow me and i do follow you..

I get the sense you've had a "last straw" moment with this :) I must confess, when I first arrived on Steemit I was totally clueless!  Just like you said, I treated it the same way as I would Instagram or YouTube because it's all I knew, but then I hit that Bandwidth issue and I thats when I realised that this platform is an entirely different animal.

In many ways I'm very lucky, the person who invited me here has been very informative and supportive with this, so while the learning curve is steep, it isn't insurmountable at least. I guess you could say that I have "woken up" to the reality of the system now and so my strategy has changed to reflect that. I think anyone coming here to get rich quick needs to wake up as well (and fast) because they are being foolish!

Over time I have come to see the same names posting multiple times a day and with "questionable" content, such as photos or wallpapers that they themselves have not taken, they are simply popular photos they found on Google uploaded in hopes of drawing in more followers who will all upvote. I compare them to those people on YouTube who rip-off popular / trending videos and then upload them to their own channel just to get the views and the likes.

Unfortunately, I think when you have any platform that offers the possibility of income such as YouTube and Steemit then it will always attract the "treasure hunters." But I'm hoping that won't happen on here as I'm really starting to get the feel of the place; admittedly with a heck of a lot more to learn :)

Your thought is real sir. @steemit is far more complex that the way it looks. To make a reasonable impact here, you must be ready to learn. This is not a platform for Mr know-all.

That "who you know" thing would be less fair if everyone were inaccsessible,  but most people here are very open and helpful because thats the point. This platform is about creating actual relationships , and being yourself, and that is what appeals to me. Theres some inner personal work we all have to do to be confident we can build relationships with people we might be very different from...but its so worth it because it brings positivity to other aspects of life as well, even if the money isnt happening yet.  And that positivity snowballs and helps you succeed.  So yeah the relationships are everything but not in a hob-nobby superficial way.  At least not in my experience here!  :) Fake doesnt work very well at steemit!

It seems that users that go into it like they know nothing are the ones that end up being most successful since they keep an open mind to learning. I still feel like I learn something new everyday here.

Truly a rabbit hole.  So many of my opinions and expectations have been dashed. It is definitely not facebook,  this steemit. The means and ways by which people get by is so subtle that sometimes you think you have figured it out only to see someone pull a trick out the hat. 
I have thank the various groups that I have joined on discord for making it easy for me to meet people and exchange ideas. though I am not making money,  I am glad because steemit is not the end,  you just might need my skills outside steemit. Lol. 
I encourage anyone I meet to participate,  interact,  and expect nothing and hope for everything.  Peace

If just showing up fails to get people the attention they think they deserve, it might help them later in life if they decide to start a business. There are many people who think because they hung out a shingle that people should be coming in droves. This is a cheaper and easier way of learning that lesson. Success often takes hard work and nothing in life is free.

Nobody invited me. I came myself. I try to learn by myself, I read a lot.
Thank you for the post, good man. Any information is useful to me if it enhances the understanding of the platform

So, in an attempt to truly dive down and understand the depths of the rabbit hole, I've undertaken a 10 day task... The first post of which I wrote about you... =)
Please do go check it out:
[3 Artists/Writers Worthy of your (and my) Follow](https://steemit.com/writing/@mandelsage/3-artists-writers-worthy-of-my-and-your-follow-1)

To me its still a minefield. I have no idea what i'm doing, but surely i will learn. Just want to read good posts and interact and feel glad to be a human being interacting with wonderful diverse people from accross the globe.