Nice post - a few thoughts on new users.... they could be tomorrow's Dolphins (statistically <1/10 is likely to make it, but a few of them will), so by building community with a few like minded little guys, you're setting yourself up for earning a healthy second income here on steemit!
I'm just as interested in understanding the platform (as a sociologist) as I am in using it to post material that's 'not about the platform'. Nice stats - 2 upovtes per post makes you above average.
It must be horrible, just horrible at the bottom!
"Horrible at the bottom" right? But, on the other hand, not sure where you're from, but some of these folks in Asia and Africa, a few SBD a week is LIFE CHANGING and it costs us nothing to help make that happen. Here is a stat from the direct sales world, a person who signs up with an MLM company and makes ANY money in their first 30 days, is 90% more likely to be in that company 90 days later. So, I think that would hold true here too. If we can train plankton to get their first reward within 30 days, more of them will stick. @markrmorrisjr
In fairness I was talking from a Eurocentric perspective, so fair point. Although, given then 90% attrition rate (as evidenced in the 90% of dead accounts) I'd interpret that as evidence of people not liking it here, probably put off by the sense of injustice at mediocre posts getting huge rewards compared to their own meager rewards. (Of course I'd need to research this further to verify, at the moment it's just the best hypothesis I've got.)
Fortunately this is something which does seem to be changing over time.
On the combating attrition rate that doesn't surprise at the MLM stats: @curie put out some stats a while back on how much their upvotes aid retention, and it's significant.
Cheers!
Amazing what tucking even a few dollars into your wallet will do for your attitude on fairness, eh? LOL