RE: “I Know Better because I’m More Experienced...”
I agree with so much of what you said...and yes.. that's usually what happens.
People come for one visit and then leave.
It's sad... It gives the newbies a false sense of hope.
We are still accepting 1-2 members each week in Welcomewagon, but that's so limited. Unfortunately...our training is so hands on and time consuming... That's ALL we can take each week.
Im so glad that there are lots of communities who are willing to help.
And you're right... It's shouldn't be only up to us to fix this...
There are so many people leaving before they can even get started. It's unfortunate. And.... Bad for the platform ultimately.
I heard there was an 80% drop in spam because of HF 20
But... I wonder how much onboarding has suffered also.
Was it worth it? Don't know
It's true that the amount of spam has dropped, but the userbase at the lower levels has suffered immensely.
I should take a look at @pinguinpablo's stats and see what I can find out.
The lack of transparency from STINC is very annoying...
I'm planning to write a post for the people I just delegated too, to give them some tips on the best ways to (survive) grow their account.
I've heard about Welcome Wagon before, of course, and I just saw a banner at the bottom of a post - don't remember which one - which made me want to go out and inform myself a little more. But since you only take in 1 or 2 members a week, it might not be such a good idea to mention it in the post.
I'm still interested in the initiative, though, and I'm ashamed that I don't know more about it than the fact that it exists. I remember seeing the first post, and I wanted to volunteer as a steempeer, but I'm not very good at making commitments, so I didn't.
Everything else that you're doing is still a big mystery to me. I looked through the posts on the blog, assuming you would have a Discord channel or something like that, but I couldn't find a mention of that anywhere (of course, I didn't go through ALL the posts, so I might have just missed it.)
I'll send you a link with the best description of what we do :)
Funny that you just said you thought about volunteering as a Steem peer... because I thought yesterday "she would make a great Steem peer!!!"
Hahahahaha
We do have a discord but it's only for members. We only choose 1-2 newbies per week because we simply have tried more but the level of commitment that we give to each person is reduced drastically when we are stretched too thin and we would rather quality over quantity. What we are doing was working really well before HF20. Our retention rate was about 75% compared to Steemit's 9%
But since HF20 that's probably dropped to about 50% for us. I think it's due to the lack of connection that people feel across the platform. The comments used to be lively and fun, and now people are hesitant to waste their RCs.
Anyway! Like I said .. welcome wagon is great at what we do... But there are other initiatives that serve more and are great at what they do too. But we just have different methods of helping new members. It all works together :)
I'll find the link for WW and send it later. I'm on my phone now hahaha
If I forget, just remind me in a comment 😊
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