Growing Our New Users - Have You Helped a Minnow Today?
Recently I have noticed many new accounts. I think the combination of Twitter/4chan/Facebook/Reddit censorship has brought us some new users. In addition, SteemIt has been getting some positive press recently, I think people are giving SteemIt a new look, and also the word is spreading. We all know we are still in Beta, and getting the site figured out can be daunting. Also, when someone has no followers, it is difficult for articles to get any visibility.
What I would like is to create a welcoming culture which encourages people to stay. I hope every member of our community would embrace the task of doing something to help a new-user everyday. There are some very simple things we can do to welcome new members.
Here are some ideas:
- Vote, Comment and possibly resteem a new user post.
- Welcome new users.
- Follow new users. (Most will follow you back, so it can be a win/win)
- Many times I see people asking questions in chat and the questions get ignored. Please try to direct the new-users to help if you can't help them yourself.
- Link user guides and FAQ articles to the new users
Remember every new user is a potential investor as well as a content creator, brings diversity to the platform. Please treat our new members like the important part of the Steem Community that they are.
Good post to boost good morale in the Steemit community. Thank you.
This post is last year and still relevant.
I am a newbie stumping around Steemit. Did my first food post. It's not so great but I got 0.3 cent. I was so happy to see someone read the post. No one commented, I wish they had I think I would have done backflips.
I know a little bit more #2 is going to be much better.
Yes, my friends be good to newbies just a little, little something can make a newbie really happy.
We have to remember we were there a few months ago. A kind word makes all the difference
This is really important. We were all at this point at some point and someone came in and helped us.
Agreed!
I will NEVER forget. It was a rough start for me. :)
Was for me too, could have quite easily walked away
@whatsup, I'm all over it. I love reading #introduction post. It's no longer #introduceyourself, but #introducemyself. They are my favorite posts to read. It's hard at the bottom and I'm all about team steem. Love This post.
Thank you my friend. Good to see you around. I think we can definitely keep this new round of users if we work at it.
Well said:)
Thank you.
You're welcome:)
Good reminder, for Steemit to succeed we have to be a welcoming community and each of us has a part to play. I think one easy thing that everyone can do is keep an eye on the #introducemyself section and vote / comment on new user introductions.
Yes, that is a good place to find our newest users, thank you for posting that here.
Excellent there is a whole group of us tryng to sort this and you put it into a blog post. I've asked for you to be invited to the group trying to do exactly this in steemit.chat.
I look forward to participating! I am wanting to put together a "help desk". If there is one in the works, I would like to volenteer.
Great post. Keep up the great work. Such new(er) users may also be invited to steemprentice chat and anyone who wants to help as well. Our group helps with newer things using steemit at beginning to more advanced levels of use, skill, and knowledge.
Also shared on twitter
Disclaimer: I am just a bot trying to be helpful.
Good suggestion. I will start leaving a link to that room.
awesome post
Thank you, I really hope we can embrace the new users, I felt like we were kind of shunned as new users in Aug. Only a handful of my minnow friends seem to still be around.
Agree, an Upvote can make the day for a newbie;D~
It sure can. Also just being treated nicely and having comments and interest.