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Introduction

Hello everybody. Well I've been reading steemit articles and posts for months, but its taken me all summer to decide to join! Mainly because I'm one of those people who kind of throw myself into something fully once I start, so I have learnt the hard way to make sure something is really what I want first.

My name is Sam Black, usually known as Inky. I live in UK, and am interested in anything legal that helps me avoid the drudgery of a 9-5 job. I dabble in bitcoin and altcoins, and am always on the hunt for buried metal. Sadly I havent yet dug up a pot of gold, or even a single gold coin, bit I live in hope. And meanwhile my right arm is getting stronger and I'm getting an amazing collection of old horseshoes. Maybe I'd do better digging in city gardens, but open fields have more appeal to me.

I also like to think that I'd be a survivor if society broke down and I had to feed myself , build a shelter etc. In reality I suffer from severe panic attacks if I notice my mobile phone has less than 50% battery power left so perhaps I'm just kidding myself.

I am old enough to remember putting a hand written letter into an envelope, and young enough not to have had to lick a stamp to put on it, just peel off a self-adhesive one from a little book. But I still toy with the idea of putting biro to paper again one day.

At the same time as appreciating history and tradition, I love living in this age of technical advancement.

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Welcome to Steemit! Show us a picture of your treasure hunts please. A lot more attention will be received for this post if you add a photo to it. I have details on how to easily add photos below. You seem like a real person, not a bot, though, so I checked out your post even without a photo. I am a bit of a treasure hunter too. It goes well with being a private investigator. What's the most interesting thing you've found?

Webpages

There are a ton of other webpages to help you with Steemit. Here are some of the best for beginners:

https://steemd.com/ (This site is used to keep track of your voting power and other stats. You do not want to run out of voting power, and you only get so much per day. I keep my voting power around 80% for example.)

https://steem.makerwannabe.com/ (This site will tell you who follows you, who unfollows you, and who mutes you. It is great for meeting new people too. I regularly check it to see who has followed me to see if I should follow them back.)

https://steemit.chat/ (This site is the official chat webpage for Steemit. There are Discord channels too, but I usually stick to the official site. Come in to network and meet new friends. You can directly message people there too, so it makes it easier to communicate with your closest friends.)

Bots

Oh yeah, there are a lot of bots on here. If you see a cookie cutter reply, especially to your intro post, it is almost certainly a bot. Check the account's reputation. If it is low, I would recommend just ignoring them. Everything is public on Steemit, so you can go look at an account's comments and replies. Are they all the same? It's a bot.

Sourcing and Adding Photos

Adding photos to your account as a new Steemian may be confusing at first too. The easiest way it to click to "Submit a Story." Once in there, use the built in Steemit tool to upload an image from your computer. Below the posting window, you will see "Insert images by dragging & dropping, pasting from the clipboard, or by selecting them." Click on the blue text. Once the image is uploaded, you can copy and paste the link into your account settings.

Here's a link to a Google Document I made to help with the coding:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NlAoGnP8q7ZAxGsEnvza-qotUGkoaae4SwXdubAhi2g/edit?usp=sharing

Account Verification

Verifying your identity is very important because it will get you more support and people will trust you more. The best way to verify is to link back to your Steemit account by using another public social media account. For example, I posted my Steemit articles from here through my Twitter account. Another person posted their Steemit information on their Facebook account. Some people will even post a video of themselves writing out their account information since that cannot be Photoshopped. The more famous a person is or the more valuable their content is, the more important it is that they verify. If a new account falls within those two categories and fails to verify, it may get blacklisted.

Again, welcome, and I've followed you! If you have any questions about getting started, look me up on the chat site.