REALLY GREAT POST, thankyou!
Interesting experience the other day: I told a friend I wanted him to join Steemit and give me some comments on what he thought about the entire experience. Registration, login, posting, setting up a profile, commenting, search, etc.
But at first, he did what I did. Took a look at the initial view pre-login, and said "It needs to be more graphical and explain the platform better."
And then immediately, he said: "I started looking around for articles, and it was all sh*t!"
All I could say in defense:
a) Remember how new it is. People are still trying to figure out how it works, what it's good for, and why they need it. It's a bit of an amoeba pond right now, growing various early cultures. ;-)
b) Think of it as an opportunity. A fertile undiscovered valley and as much as you can fence off, call your own and patrol, you will own. Perfect for homesteaders!
c) I talked to him about ICOs a little, and was mentioning it should be possible to do ICOs on steem blockchain at some point.
So wade through the kimchee; it's going to get really interesting, really fast, at this rate.
Thank you for the feedback. Welcome to your friend as well