It would be nice to get articles like this out to a wider mainstream audience. I know that it might sound slightly discouraging but in my mind it's realistic. More realistic than some of the shit being spouted as an advertisement for steemit.
While it might turn a lot of people off the ones who it would attract would be far more likely to stay in my opinion. They would be coming to the site with eyes wide open and hopefully willing to learn how to be successful from the ground up. There are a lot of supports on here for those willing to grow the only problem being how hard it is to find a lot of this information especially in the beginning.
I do feel we need a welcome pack of sorts for new members that will lay out all the information to get started successfully and grow an account. Basic instructions and guidelines to use the site. Links to the different communities layer out by there genres. Links to the most important discord chats for beginners. Etc....
These are the basics that it took me about 6 months to learn slowly and painstakingly with a lot of missteps and mistakes. I would do so much differently if I was starting again and it was nearly all a lack of knowledge. All of which is out there but so hard to find. It was almost enough to make me leave the site in the beginning only for how stubborn I am as a person. I don't like to fail and I don't like unfinished puzzles.
All it would have taken was a well layer out introduction post containing the basics linked to me in the beginning to save a lot of headaches, heartbreak and about three months of time as I learned one piece at a time what could and should be done.
Just something to think about.
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