Congratulations @ finnian ! I’ve spent many hours reviewing Steemit materials designed to assist beginners, in preparation to provide some targeted support to particular individuals. Yours is the type of response that will serve as a model for me.

I think it is particularly important to be sensitive to a person’s community(ies) and subject(s) of interest (what they brought with them when they came to Steemit) and then try to help them to quickly find their ‘compatriots’ in the extremely diverse Steemit community, where you have to be extremely agile in keeping track of where your own post is on display after it comes into the New area and then disappears a few minutes later.

I’m a university prof., book author, etc., and so I am accustomed to dealing with people who have a new-person perspective as they enter a social environment for the first time, and to organizing information delivery in the effort to be pedagogically effective. On this last point your post is very nice.