Hi and thank you for tagging, I had during last two weeks busy training so did not spend much time on Steemit.

I fully share your opinion, there are few questions that I also was asking:

• why if someone new joining the platform, he needs to do Introduction post as Achievement, and wait until someone comes and verifies you. I do not understand why a person can not simply join and start writing a post, comments and just chatting with others, as this is a blogging platform, isn't it?

• the Greeters ask newcomers to say who invited them, what if the Newcomer just found himself the blog and nobody invited him, is it then not allowed to join Steemit ?

• Here is another comment for a new user:

It was also noticeable that there were some new users from China who have difficulties to be verified, because often they do not speak English and also the whole way how social media in China for example is different from other countries who we know well on Steemit.

In my opinion, as new user it is important to do introduction post but the users should not have the obstacle for posting like they face when they try to post in any communities, they are told that they need to be verified via Newcomer community. People often do not accept those user's participation in contests and challenges and labelled as not verified user for this period of time they will not be visited by any Steemcurator too.

I do not know if anything is going to be changed if not then it is really look like Steemit- closed society the newcomer will come and go.

In general I think anyone should be able to start up and the talks about 300 words** is too much. Who says that if I write 300 words of rubbish then my post automatically getting better in its quality. There are some people who do not speak much are their posts then bad quality?

We need to read posts, and just what it is about and not count words. Would be good to hear opinion of other readers,