What a excellent idea!
You are so right about the trending pages. I've found that a lot of the actual decent content by hardworking people, gets forgotten about and easily lost in the sea of the trending page. And the only way I can see to stop this, and is yeah, doing exactly what you're doing now, and helping the minnows on steem bond together and form a solid community that support each other no matter what. The more support we offer to each other as a community, by shoutout posts like this, contests and just generally networking with people, more stronger we will grow. We need to build the new community so all of us newbies work together, it's the only way .
I'm so glad to see fellow steemians feeling the same way and actually doing something out of their way to change the problem. It's a really good idea, well done I wish you the best of luck and hope your shoutout Saturdays continue to be successful. It's inspired me to create a Steem contest to promote creative content! I really hope we can inspire the community to start something new!!!!