I think this is a pretty genuine and helpful idea. I know I've been pretty active since I joined a day ago and frequently browse the #introduceyourself tag since I've signed up. I had a rather semi casual introduction with not a whole lot of interaction from the community.
For some that lack of interaction may raise red flags for new comers and for others they might not care. I'd rather see a very active #introduceyourself tag then any of the other tags on here simply for the retention rate and to be welcoming.
Kudos where they are due @mikepm74
The problem isn't an inactive introduceyourself tag, the problem is an abused tag. How many of those posts you saw were from people with a reputation of 45 or higher? Some people are using the introduceyourself tag just to reap little rewards from the bots that answer every post in that tag. Some people just put up crap posts.
I enjoyed your casual introduction, which is why you were one of my Pick 5 for yesterday!
Frankly, not a lot of good interaction happens in the introduction posts. Great Post, Welcome... these sort of responses are all you can expect really. Once you get out and look at tags like #discussion, that's where you will find real commenting and back and forth exchanges going on.
Yea I have noticed that a lot of the users with a higher reputation use the tag for things like cryptocurrencies.
I'd imagine it would be a rather easy and significant fix from the developers end for steemit to implement a block of creating a post in the #introduceyourself tag fro anyone above a certain reputation score. What that score is I don't really have a good idea. Maybe about 30 rep?
Thank you for selecting me to be one of your 5!
Tags will always be abused. Solid tagging is an art. A craft which first and foremost requires humility, humility in the sense that one should think whether their content truly fits under a tag. Not assume that because there is a tag, it also is available to them.
Who doesn’t remember all content given 357 gazillion tags? Even by professional media orgs.