RE: Exploring Featured Posts
Should new users be given more SP to start with, maybe through a donation method from other users, or should there be something like a one month free trial of 100 SP per new account? But then again, I'm not no super mega computer expert, but I kind of have a feeling that a SP free trial thing is not specifically and not exactly possible to do on a blockchain like Steem, just maybe, and I kind of hope I am wrong about that but I guess the free trial is not possible and only donations would work because can a free trial of SP be reversed? If you give a new user some free SP, can you then come back in at the end of the trial and take it back from the new user?
Or if you can't get back the SP at the end of the free trial, could the blockchain tax the new user like a loan system to compensate until that new user is able to pay back for that loan as that new user grows on Steem?
We already have the ability to delegate steem power and to take it back. When you started your account 2 years ago, you were delegated some steem, as was I and everyone else.
Since the introduction of RC, the amount of interaction for new users with limited RC is highly restrictive at a time when they NEED to be active and form relationships. They need to make LOTS of comments and have their username be seen a lot.
By restricting their ability to interact, frustration and hopelessness sets in.
To be honest, even with all my RC, I am feeling rather low as far as my ability to grow my account. All those bots that would randomly give huge up-votes are now gone (or at least I haven't seen one in ages). There is one curation trail I've seen that still has that euphoric effect when it drops by, but it seems to visit the same authors more than not.
I strongly believe that Steem COULD be a great place but something has to happen quickly before the ability to recover is lost. There is lots of competition coming and some are pretty slick. That has me worried.