User retention may be one of the biggest issues at steemit. It’s really easy to think that monetary rewards for creating content and community is too good to be true and after enough posts without engagement (even where the user already has s few hundred followers), many people are apt to pick up and go.
Contests do help with this. I didn’t really want to make any contests for a while but then I thought of the idea for the Deadposts Initiative. Where users can be rewarded for their undervalued deadposts. Your support would be greatly appreciated!