Wow, I woke up this morning and can't believe the number of votes this post already has. I know it's mainly due to @welcomewagon and I'm so, so grateful for the support. What an awesome initiative to help new people. It makes everything much less daunting, and it's very rewarding. It really encourages people to hang in there and produce good content. The whole steemit community is one big, happy, unexpected surprise for me :)