RE: Explosion in Steem User On-Boarding
You are my favorite witnesses indeed 😊 and thanks for all your voluntary efforts to make steemit work better for everyone.
I'm far from being able to help out with that help channel, but maybe someday.
Actually, I wrote a newbies getting started guide yesterday that you may want to share with folks. I honestly think it is way better than the approach people are asked to start with in the Welcome section. Don't know if you can pass that along to anyone who can do anything about it, but as a newbie writing for newbies, I've got to tell you that I think an approach more like this is what people really need when they get past the obstacles of getting an account in the first place.
Not to toot my own horn, because really all I did was wade through like 50 different "getting started" articles and then organize the information into the order things really need to be learned/done in, with concise explanations of each step. It's really top of the mind for me, because I'm new myself and having to sort through all this. So I did a sort of "getting started intensive" these last few weeks, and this guide is the synthesis of that.
I probably could have talked more about tags and delegated SP, but on the whole I think people who start with this little guide of mine will have a much better experience on this platform. If you have time to take a look and see if you can do anything to get it to more of the people who need it, that would be awesome.
Either way, thanks again for all you do. I hope to increasingly have the ability to contribute to this community myself.
I can vouch for her starting guide (not that my voice carries any weight here). I want to say upfront I don't know her, just came across her from someone else who resteemed her. I resteemed the post she is mentioning as well as I found it very knowledgeable. I have been studying this platform for 3 weeks now and she covered things I still hadn't come across in it. As someone new here I can say it was a huge benefit.
We are for the most part left to our own devices to figure this out, and posts like hers (I am sure there are probably hundreds or thousands just as good) are quickly scrolled away in the volume of new posts, lost to those coming on board unless it was indexed high by Google and the new user Googled the exact title.
Indigoocean, not sure if you will want to do this or not. In my Google searching I came across a Reddit thread for Steem. Maybe you could reach out to the moderators there and see if they would list it as a resource. I see many there who are asking all kinds of questions (especially why they are not getting approved in a timely manner as this post is about).
Thanks again for taking the time for your newbie guide. I have revisited Steem Supply so many times since reading it, and have never been so excited to see movement of such small increments, hahahaha.
Oh, thank you so much! I will follow your advice and see if I can get it listed there. I'd really like to see it listed on the suggested article on the Welcome page here. I think people need a sort of "quickstart guide" in addition to all the single topic articles out there. It can be overwhelming sorting through all that when you're new and figuring out what you need to focus on right now as opposed to a few weeks from now.
Thanks again for your kind words and suggestion.