I read your and I benefited one or two things in your post. One is the SP you elaborated on. I have shifted my focus on upvotes on steemit, to making friends. I wrote something related with this in my last post. You may check. However, you expressed some sentiment that is a factor affecting the platform. Inviting people to steemit is easy, making them stay is another things. I introduced someone to steemit last week and she already signed up, i have been thinking of how to make her stay if her first post does nt have fair payout. Maybe you can drop some suggestions.