Strangely, or not. The majority of people who wholeheartedly agree with your post are members with huge reputations and plankton out fishing.

I am an admirer of your work and this article is, as all your work is, a fabulous piece of well constructed writing and whilst great information, I think there are one or two points I'd like to raise.

Content first ? I'd absolutely disagree. A new member who comes here full of enthusiasm who immediately publishes an amazing, signature article is immediately going to be cut down by the fact that simply put, barely anyone will read it. All the big hitters here appear to be too busy creating their own excellent works to bother offering much encouragement to new members who post quality articles by upvoting or commenting on their posts. As a quick proof of this, check out any new members first post. If they get any comments or upvotes at all, check out those people and see their reps. When I look, I find theyre all also new members with low reps. There are a small number of whales who do engage and encourage, but its a very small proportion.

The whales must take the time to be supportive and to just simply read, comment and encourage a few posts a day. Engagement needs to work both ways and it's not always about the rewards, an encouraging, helpful comment and a little upvote is all it takes to give a newbie a genuine boost and keep them working hard to improve.

I'd suggest anyone joining should first read and learn, and work out their own niche topic before they post. Find similar niches and join in with discussions whilst slowly posting an occasional piece of content.

Also, not everyone who comes here is a great writer, or even wants to write. Some come to learn, be educated read and join debate. Steem is sold as:-

' Steemit is a blogging and social networking website on top of the Steem blockchain database. '

There is a perception upon joining thats it's going to be a 'paid facebook' which thankfully it isn't, but people dont find that out until they arrive. There needs to be more facility for social interaction though as this will encourage more people to join in the debate and prosper, not just the high quality content providers, it seems there is a certain snobbery here about content 'quality', just because people are not always able to put there thoughts into words so well does not make their opinion any less important.

Steem is also a wonderful experiment in empowerment, the rewards can help drag people out of poverty, look at the amazing Philippines community here, an amazing example of teamwork and interdependency.

There can be as many helpful and wonderful guides as you like, but without a fundemental shift in attitude by many of the older members to new members, Steem will not flourish. Self perpetuating reward generation amongst whales is finite.
So whales, read, encourage and mentor please (REM!), its your responsibility.

PS Sorry I couldnt find a wonderful acronym. Niche, Learn, Engage, Comment and Create.....NLECC doesnt exactly trip off the tounge !

PPS Looking forward to Saturday :-)