Agreed, now what about on-boarding?

Well the main point being heard by me is that the present new account creation is not ready for mass adoption. That point is perfectly correct in my opinion, yet do we want mass adoption at this point; or ever for that matter? Allow me to explain....

In the present bear market there has been a marked drop off of active users. Before starting my #deletefacebook process, some of those on my own follow list were seen to be very active on FB, while having dropped off the map here on the STEEM blockchain. Such users could be catergorized as Reward Whores, in my opinion and good riddance to them!

One must also ask are we doing potential recruits, like maybe your Grampa, any favors to bring them to a platform where they are expected to be their own bank and provide their own security for it? No attempt to be an ageist, being someone who receives old age pension myself, yet they may not share my past career in IT.

Even AOL still has a user base. 😎

My feeling, after recently using SteemInvite.com, is that recruitment should be somewhat analog. That is, say a friend shows some interest in the STEEM Blockchain then you could create an account with some delegated SPs for them.

After all we are not meant to be a social media replacement for Facebook, but instead a blogging platform. So quality superceeds number of users in my opinion.

[Edit : Imagine automatic Adsense embedded delivery of the blockchain's content for un-logged in users.

Imagine sharing the revenue using the vested interest payments. ]

If someone is biting at the bit to either blog or start spamming then offer a quick and easy means to purchase an account, if such services do not already exist.

That is my take on on-boarding, keeping in mind that things have, and do, move slower for us old farts. 😎