@tipu curate

1-Why do we need to attract users?
2-Why do we try attracting people with the lure of money?
1- If you join any site you are not expected to bring along new users the only time sites ask or people want to bring in people to a 'program' is pyramid schemes.
2- Why do people join other platforms eg. FB not for the money. For the experience. How many people do you think would say they have a positive experience on steem/hive. 
Both are user unfriendly 
Almost impossible  to make money.
Hive has a dao for advertising and steem will have one will either be user for advertising? No.
Try putting in a proposal for either will you get it hell no.
So why bother?
Coz you care fine thats a nobel gesture so you deserve credit but its not our job and the ones whos job it is do not care in the slightest

Gentleman! After a long day when I  opened my beloved steemit account. I read quite a few post regarding hive.
before asking any problem or giving any solution I wanted to know that wheather steemit people will completely shift to hive?
so that I can withdraw my funds to hive?

>Have a stake of at least 1000sp

Damn, too bad it got stolen.

increasing the token!

**What is the best way to recruit new users?**
>The concept is simple, Steem is the perfect combination of a social network, a forum and monetary rewards. The best way (in my opinion) to recruit is offering a social network that pays to contribute to your platform, with publishing photos, poems, literary works, drawings, stories ... It ranges from art to human expression. If your contribution is good, you can receive money for it.

**How do you explain Steem to someone who doesn't understand it at all in a message short enough that they will read?**
>Steem is a blockchain database that supports community building and social interaction, it is the first cryptocurrency that accurately and transparently rewards an unlimited number of individuals who make subjective contributions to their community.

The thing is that people are skeptical of things they don't truly understand.

To be honest, Even I don't really understand how SteemIt works and It would be great if someone could explain it to me through different levels of understanding like I am 5,15,25 years old, that would be great!

If you are able to make me understand through these different levels then it will make people less skeptical as they understand it better.

Best ways to recruit users:

Decrease the drama
Stop tampering with stake
Promote positive engagement
Allow for endusers to feel successful - curate, word of mouth with spread the word.
Stop harping on quality content, very few people consider themselves as authors.  New users feel intimidated.

Make engagement fun!
Continue to do community activities like SteemIt's hundred days of Steem.

Simplify talking points regarding the advantages of the platform.

STOP TAMPERING WITH STAKE, if you want to have any creditibility.

Advertising is effective to the extent that it convinces the individual to whom the message is addressed, the recruitment instruments are innumerable, put into practice by large companies and they are oriented in the experience of their creators, having the opportunity to provide an idea about an effective recruitment process, I will orient myself in my experience, my disbelief about the benefits of steemit ceased when I personally saw what steemit was and how it worked. Someone very special to me, insisted that I know steemit until I achieved it, making me participate and that I was also a witness of what she achieved through the platform, Thus she convinced me, because it really is not credible that a community like steemit is real and much less that it generates so much well-being. You have to live it to believe it.
Among the measures to recruit would be to make videos telling the personal experience of each one of us, that people see that real people like them achieve economic and mental well-being.
Another measure would be the contests, we all love the contests, which is why I consider it appropriate that it can be used as a tool to attract new followers, the methodology may consist of promoting contests in which each participant sets the goal of inviting and making effective new subscriptions, a code would be used for each participant that in turn identifies their guests and thus verify each guest by the contestants, thus the contest would be transparent, said contest will pay awards to those who achieve the greatest number of new members. and make contests and group challenges among people who have the same code, so whoever recruits must train their guest.
I am sure that when each guest is part of and experiences in a tangible way, the reality of steemit, he will not hesitate to stay and be part of steemit.

I think the most logical way to gain new users is to reacquire all of the influencers that brought attention to steemit back.

The easiest way to get that done is to share with them that for the most part, the people responsible for chasing them away in the first place have found a new sandbox to play in.

I am really interested to take this initiative forward:-

- If someone can curate me, I can create infographics of Steem Basics- the updated one(short, sweet) easily understandable for the naive. 

- Why not open a Quora space, and share the questions related to Blockchain in that, We don't say someone to join from our side, but if we see some relevant questions on Steem Blockchain or someone who wants to make something out of blogging, then we can make a reasonable classification for him what Steem is that place.

- Steem is perceived as a steep learning curve for average internet users. We can put some effort to bring down the curve and make it easy for average people, especially the new one joining this ecosystem.

I think the best way to recruit is the financial incentive, we all like and need the money.
Why not use that fort to attract more people?
More simple advertising to get attention, less drama and flag conflicts, blacklist, spam.. Users like it easy, fast and accessible, that's why fb and instagram have so much movement of people.

That´s right, it is a general opinion: *The internet + Make money = Likely a scam*
I think there are two important moments, one bringing new people, two getting most new people to stay.
Money is very important but it is not the only important.
And if multiple users come to
steemit and the conditions are pleasant for them, they will serve as promoters to bring their friends