I feel like onboarding new users into the waiting jaws of a whale with a bot army which exists for the sole purpose of destroying accounts of people with different opinions is.... problematic.

Imagine a self-proclaimed whale crusader against "bad actors" with the initials BS who single handedly gives this entire platform more bad PR (through his posting and voting/flagging) than all OTHER bad actors combined... how ironic. It doesn't take new users long to get exposed to this toxicity.

EVERYONE who's been using Steemit for a while knows who this is. THIS is what needs to be addressed to improve the "environment" for new users to arrive... ...and stay (which will in turn attract actual investors and increased stake).