Some sort of "gamification" of new user rewarding could be a good thing. Any ideas? Maybe there could be an additional reward for upvoting a new low rep user, whose post becomes successful. But it should be designed in such a way that it wouldn't be abused.
If all new users just get upvoted, it again goes against the idea of what a lot of people view Steemit as.
But I do agree that some sort of encouragement for new users could be a good thing. It just can't bee "free rewards just because you're new".