Just to echo a few comments I've seen here, including some of your own, I think that what's most important is getting users to try out the platform.
If a new user can't comment and like and follow at least a decent amount in their first go, they won't feel like investing.
Maybe a solution would be to offer a week long trial of sorts. Sign up, and you get a small bump to normal activity permissions. Not too much, and definitely not too little. The exact amount will be simple trial & error to find.
Then, after a week, that user gets an alert stating:
"Hey, thanks for being a weeklong Steemian! Pretty cool around here, right? Well, if you'd like to continue interacting at the same amount that you've been doing, we recommend you invest in your SP. If you need more time, don't worry, your account will stay open, your just going to be limited in the amount you can do each day." Follow this with a brief, layman's description of RC and the cost of running this platform. Something to that effect.
You'd then wanna direct users to a page where they'll be able to see roughly how many actions they'd get for investing a certain amount, like a slider.
I know Steem is new tech, but there's a lot we can learn from "old businesses" that we can use to our advantages.
Nice post, I enjoy reading your view on these recent matters, if not for at least being so positive in times of chaos lol ^_^
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i like your solution! if indeed we are going to stick with such low operation possibilities for the newcomers, i agree at least giving them a taste is a better option than just locking them out completely. no one will join if that's the case.
This is the best comment I have seen today. Let's not be blind to the obvious problems with this new system! Well, unless we want Steem to remain a closed circuit of old players and no new friends.