>From DAY 1, you can begin to document with an #introduceyourself post, which will instantly be monetized.

Only if they do it right. We are a bunch of unforgiving bastards.. is it the first attempt? Yes.. TICK, No.. CROSS. Is it really a new user, Yes.. TICK, No.. Cross.. etc...

I use these params to vote and resteem or not. More than often if I do it gets attention. That's a lot of power some of us get to wield. 

This user gets it.. this other one may not. Get my meaning?

There's a ton of intro posts that sit there and get nothing. I don't want to be a serial resteemer so only the best get chosen.

If they all suck, I ignore them.

..'*but they don't generally know how or what to present to us*'. 

The Facebook lot are lost here.

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You know; one of the social problem of this platform is that there are lot of jaded old timers here. They thought they did all the right things (and perhaps they did) but they just couldn't built up an account they way they expected. This is scale independent actually. What that leads to is a bunch of negativity. Which actually shows up on our trending page. One simple solution is the price. Move the price in the positive direction and lot of that will disappear I say.

We're on the same page. Steem is unique, but has obstacles to usage. At least it got easier with Keychain, but people have to be made very aware that they have to look after their keys. As you say it may just take a few 'influencers' to take it viral. We can help bring them here.

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Would be great to share this on Quora as a answer. Nice work

>Document. Don't create.

I felt like I'm guilty of this. I felt like my presence is not enough because I'm so engrossed with the idea of making my posts beautiful. I agree that sometimes it's the process that makes things interesting and not the output itself.

Regarding Steem, the reason why I joined in the first place is because I think it's revolutionary and I don't understand why most people don't get it. Most of my friends left because of the Steem price so I thought they were just here for instant gratification. The idea of earning something immediately entices them while the idea of investing does not excite them. I'm actually excited of what the future holds for Steem. I'm excited to know where Steem will be in 2025 or in 2030.

What I find very difficult is convincing people to join Steem. When I tried to pitch Steem to my friends, they would just look at me with disbelief. Some would say they will try, but haven't. I guess I will just focus on myself and continue to share my contents on Twitter and other social media, for now.

The negative perception.

I think the biggest hurdle in the way currently is all the negativity with what happened in the early days of steem and bid bots.

Getting people over that hurdle will go a long ways.

The good news, at least, is that some people are coming and it is growing. The more Facebook censors, the more people will be looking for places like Steem.

There aren't enough good opportunities to have fun on this platform a lot of times.

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Hey **@joshman**, give thanks for the kind words. I have been in the USA for 5 weeks visiting family and friends. I had little access to wifi while there, but now back in Suriname safe and sound. I was on Steem for nearly 2 years before ever deciding to make a post. I think this benefited my intro post greatly, as I had the time and awareness of how important that first post is. Many Steemians jump into this not knowing the importance of that first post, often overlooking it or racing through it.