thanks for writing this post. I try to always think of things in terms of newbies and thinking that way really dampens my spirits.  The key to it all is to make so simple that newbies so how beneficial it would be for them to monetize their lives on the steem blockchain.  It should really be that simple and there should be people on the chain already who are willing to sacrifice and protect their investment to make it that simple.  Doing so  by doing the hard stuff and somehow shield the newbies from it.   It's really hard to justify why a new member should stay here. It's up to us to make the learning curve disappear and support these people until steem catches up.  If RC delegations is the answer, fine with me. If we have to delegate sp unitl that happens, then so be it I'm always down to help.

@mindtrap, At first i have to say that i haven't delegated **Steem Power** to any **Newcomer** yet but definitely we are in **Decentralised Structure** this **Blockchain** is driven by people and **Individuals** and **Communities** should come forward to empower newbies. Stay blessed.

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What about trigger a sort of delegation faucet when an #introduceyourself post is made?  You could actually tier it where the more effort you put into the intro post, the larger delegation you receive. This way you keep it as is where users barely have enough RCs to operate (prevents spam and abuse), but they can easily unlock more with some effort.

I read most of the comments. I just recalled a small tool but I don’t know if it still exists. It was integrated to ulogs.org in the past, basically where someone runs out of rc it gives them auto rc to complete transaction without them knowing much. I never got to test it though. It was called giftgiver ‘https://giftgiver.me/‘ Something like cpuemergency. The site itself, people can go there if they are short on credit and get a temporary delegation or something. But the owner of that site was integrating this functions into apps willing to try it to were users don’t really feel the first interruption at least and that was the interesting part. Overtime as people become more attached they can begin to value getting sp or powering up. Overall, this is where communities can play a powerful role and perhaps more efficiently than say a few hundred dapps. With communities as much as anyone can taking the ownership role catering to his own dapp instantly, with admins and roles, many more owners. They can rent rc or get sp to grow their communities or incite or inculcate in their members the need for powering up or pooling sp for the community to grow. With communities there will be many more owners compared to if we only relied on dapps and the load will not be too much. Deep down say in the future steemit is able to offer the ability to point a community URL to a personal domain etc, I consider a basic community a dapp. Overall once many start adopting the ownership mindset, new users will be catered to

Also communities already exists. On beta.steemit.com

To create it though you need the wallet on beta.steemitwallet.com

Light account + RC delegation would be a solution. But, even that has it's limits. We will need a "layer 2ish" solution where users create a "fake" steem account. They can do everything a steem user can do, except withdraw what they earn. This will nudge the user to buy a "premium" account. 
But even this has it's limits, as there is only so many RCs/Accounts. 
The solution would need to be a platform-wide layer 2 solutions moving a lot off the chain (give the user a choice) and trying to free up as much space as we can. Not everything needs to be on chain and giving users the option to choose would be good IMO.

STEEM has become a complex ecosystem for an outsider.
The first thing I would do if I were STEEMIT INC would be to create a simple guide for newcomers, straight and simple, explaining the steps to follow in order to interact.
In that GUIDE I would write clearly what you need , minimum SP, RC etc... in order to be active and I would clearly state that a delegation is helping you to initiate your daywork at steemit.
The current FAQ site is very far from simplicity for a newcomer IMO.

i am a new commer here and i completely![Proton Upload.jpg]) agree with you,this platform is becoming what it was created to fight in the first place,a place where the rich few get richer and the rest of us suck up

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> So what's the solution? Keep delegating SP to every newcomer till they stand on their feet?

Yes, this is the solution until RC delegation pools are implemented. It's up to each app that creates accounts for new users to ensure that they have enough RCs to do what they need to do. If the apps don't do that, then users will leave and that app will not be very successful.

Currently most apps rely on Steemit, Inc to create accounts, and while they do delegate some SP to new accounts it's typically not enough. Apps need to stop relying on Steemit, Inc and create accounts themselves and delegate SP to their users when they need it (and remove the delegations when they aren't being used).

This also means that apps will need to have a significant amount of SP themselves to support their user bases and they will likely need a revenue model to be able to get the SP they need.

This is the utility of the STEEM token and what gives it value. If we get more and more apps that are able to run profitably on the platform, then buying SP will just be a regular expense for them like paying for server hosting or other services. The cool part is that it's not really an "expense" since they keep the SP they buy and it is an investment.