Great initiative to help steemit gain more users which would potentialy be able to share amazing content with us.
However, i do wonder how some people fail to get an account. As far as i know, most people who struggle with this are making a 2nd,3th or a 500th account. The simple fact that they use the same phone number, same e-mailadress or use the same IP adress to do this might get their signup request rejected.
Are there cases where a completely new user, with an unused phone number, e-mailadress and IP adress would get rejected? I think not? If there is, i would love to know about that because that would indeed be a big problem which should be solved.
If not, i don't think people should get help getting a 2nd or 500th account, if they really want to abuse the system let them do it by themselfs and don't help/support them.
Correct me if i said anything wrong and thanks again for your good will and help!
Oh yes its mostly all users with fresh emails and phone numbers. Experiencing this problem and yes I have seen some people trying to make their second account but most people have very little incentive to do this, and the evidence is all there in the @penguinpablo article @ackza posted after this, and in this "Daily Steem Stats" report you can see how the rates for new user registration drop from almost 9000 one day to around 400 a week later and then a day after that 21,000+ Accounts were al approved all at once!
It really does seem like someone just went on vacation at steemit inc :D The account creation or approval process is just a manual process and since steemit inc doesn't need a large staff, and since most users who had delays were ready to wait, I suppose it is not that big of a problem yet but I do believe this sort of behavior COULD lead to a very sad stunted growth for this social media platform, which COULD happen but probably won't. It is just so much safer to make sure new users being on-boarded is a top priority or what are you even doing really? If you're trying to run a social media website and by definition that means competing with facebook's 3 billion userbase or capturing it, then you have to put the on boarding of new users and scalability as first priority, but maybe not! Maybe steems tech is powerful enough on its own to attract as many people as steemit inc needs whenever they need