Hi @fyrstikken, how can we help! We actually need this. You know how engaged is the Venezuelan Steemian community, and we want to bring more many on board, we actually have a plan to promote BIG time in Venezuela through a social influencers network we have. Please contact me on the @Provenezuela discord or telegram: https://t.me/eosvenezuela

I suspect part of the retention problem is that:

1) Creators cannot see the amount of views their posts receive; subs, comments and upvotes are nice feedback, but, if you don't know how many Steemians have actually viewed your posts, it is more difficult to gauge the metrics--and the aesthetics--of the community's response to your work.  I think we contributors want to know if our voices are being heard, instead of not knowing if we're yelling into an empty auditorium.

2) I have invited other creators to join Steemit and they have told me that it is discouraging to open the Trending page and inevitably see the same "content creators" dominating the opening page with mediocre content; many times, the content of the most successful posters on the Trending page is not original work and has obviously been thrown together quickly to serve as a pretext for gaming the business side of Steemit.  I understand the necessity of the crypto-speculation here, but I suspect many people did not join Steemit primarily with the intention of earning cryptocurrency;  some of us do not want to deal with the unsettled issue of  taxable income from cryptocurrency. I'm sure governments will somehow find a way to track purchases if not crypto-income.  I joined Steemit because James Corbett had mentioned it in one of his videos on YouTube. I expected to find a great deal of high-quality content and a smarter community at Steemit and I haven't been disappointed with the quality and the wealth and variety of our contributors.  Again, however, the amount of substandard posters who end up usurping the Trending page by buying upvotes, etc. really diminishes the standards for content, in my opinion.  I have never seen James Corbett or Really Graceful--two reliably high-quality content creators--on the Trending page.  I have, however, seen high-content creators like Chbartist on the Trending page--four times on the same page!

I hope this makes sense!

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More users, means more potential investors. Yes please set this up. What else is there to lose?

@fyrstikken, Sounds good and effective and in my opinion this idea deserve a trial because for sure at this point of time **0.1 Steem** will going to feel as **Expenditure** specially when we will invite people. Hoping that this idea will be approved by all Witnesses and will be live in soon in near future. This idea is really appreciated brother. Stay blessed. 🙂

I love this idea @fyrstikken.

There is so much potential. I live in a student town and we try the best to educate people and invite them to steem. 

We run even with local meetups here in Aachen to lower the barrier to enter. 

Most of the time I create accounts for them, so any help like this is welcome.

Good day! Thanks for voting my posts! It is a real pleasure to receive a vote from the Steem Co-Owner :) Best wishes !

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> I want us to onboard a lot more people this year

Me too. I have accumulated a good number of account creation tokens to accomplish such a feat. I was talking with @votovzla earlier today on making this more automatic so he can on board Venezuelans organically and without my intervention. Later this year I'll try to make such an app.

This shortcut wouldn't work as expected.
Please note that this means that newly created account will have only 0.1 STEEM burned, basically rendering newly accounts unusable (without delegating them SP anyway).
Currently STEEM is worth $0.25, which makes accounts cheap as dirt anyway.

Amen!...

I am onboard with this! Woot!

Hey @fyrstikken  would you plz ad me to the clan/group for the new year.  I am such a minnow  I am going to need the help   plz

Interesting suggestion, thanks for the discussion!

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Hiii friend @fyrstikken, I am a big fan and old costumer of your bot @booster, but it is 3rd time that i got problem. I recently send a bid to it but it is not mentioned in current bid round. But the other bidder who send a bid after me about 11 minutes his bid is showing in table. so what is this dude. so kindly check the problem.

That would allow us minnows to help pay for the new friends joining the platform. I really like the idea and I believe long and sustain growth will do better in the long run that account creation fees.

I do like ideas being brainstormed.

This one would be Ineffective.... If someone is not willing to spend 3 STEEM on an account, they are certainly not willing to spend ~10-15 SP to make the account functional. Lowering the fee won't change a thing.

The solution may be to delegate RC without delegating SP which is not possible yet.

Or some other idea...

sign me up i sent you 5 steem @spiritrider

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Hey @fyrstikken, thanks for stimulating discussion. Your opinion and ideas are always valued. I'm the type that would be happy to try anything (within reason) and see if it works. My concerns of reducing the account creation price is however that it could increase spam accounts and botnets and make Steem a worse place overall. 

Also once people are here, how do we retain them? We have a retention issue and the problem of stagnant steemit.com development, so it may be premature to reduce account prices. The current price is less than 1 USD so not a massive barrier to entry, and helps keep out undesirable botnets and also account name squatting, if you drop the price you may get alot of names taken off the market forever by encumbent namesquatters, which will make Steem less accessible in future. 

I do like the benefits for apps though whereby cheaper account prices can help apps onboard more users, but my above concerns are also there. Looking forward to hearing more opinions from others in comments here.

Interesting idea, @fyrstikken. I'm not sure about the 90 days but would be interested about the others witnesses feedback. 

Now with that said: what I personally would prefer are more free accounts (via RC claimed accounts) and more users buying STEEM (creating buy pressure) and powering it up.