That is really great to keep supporting to the plankton and help them to kerp steeming..
 By encouraging and supporting plankton then  they can encourage other new usres to  keep steeming... thanks for sharing..

I think there are a few things a person can do to help a new user who is interested in staying and learning the ropes of steemit. It is very difficult for new users to get a following and build an audience, so a tutorship for a little bit with helpful opinions. If it is affordable for you, first a gift of an @dustsweeper account, this can be done with $0.500, and would give them protection on about 70 received dust votes from fellow redfish/planktons on the comments they leave  Second if affordable is an SBI, in conjunction with the dustsweeper account that would give a payout of $0.030 on all the content they create.  I know it is not much but when you look at a new user account it can be very helpful. Encourage the content creation, at least one post every other day, but post that people will comment on. 

Encourage the new user to vote on and respond to at least one comment on the content they created. (this is why I suggest the every other day content creation). It is important for people to try and maximize their vote potential, yet it is also important to engage with a person's blog visitors.  By commenting and voting on at least one comment, this shows other visitors to their post that they are trying to engage with their audience members. 

Everyone's Idea of how to use the vote is different, Self voting at the earliest stages I believe is detrimental to a new user, it is potential reward that could be lost, so if a new user is going to self vote, it should only be on their post that have already reached a payout of $0.03. If they have a gifted @dustsweeper account, excessive self voting (and no I do not know what would be considered excessive) , could lead to termination of the account and funds returned, so make sure if they have one to be careful. Self voting on a comment is a complete waste of time unless it has also reached pay out level. 

Just a couple thoughts, it really does not take much to help a new user as a new user,(about one month old), you could ask @paparodin what he thinks has been the most helpful advice and help he has received. (I use his name because he is one of more recent people I have tried to help). Also when you have the person you think is going to be a good steemian and productive member of how **you** see and want steemit, then promote the piss out of them drop their name, semi introduce them to others. Even as a brand new user to steemit, when I first joined, I found someone that was an awesome writer, I promoted him when an where I could without being blatant about it (like right now), he is now a REP of 64 and has close to 3000 SP earned not bought.

So that was just a few thoughts, helping does not need to be real complicated, sometimes just that little hand up, little piece of advice, and you have a person that may give it 6 months.

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Awesome to hear how you and @slobberchops came up with the idea of #adoptaplankton.  I think it sounds like a great initiative.  I look forward to being able to give back myself someday!

I always respect your ideas about this platform....

I like the idea of adopting a plankton, and in general, thanks for all the support you've thrown my way.

I'll try and upvote others more, try and stem the bleeding from these latest price drops.

i support  you man.

it is so nice post of the day.

Very interesting "selection" of steemians! I follow some of them from many months and they are fantastic ;)

I will be adopting a plankton this weekend, I know you know who mine already is, but I'll do a post about it. Maybe we can get more to do this. 

The price of STEEM is getting more depressing by the day and we need to impart some cheer. 

#AdoptAPlankton seems a good tag.

I think your observation about the value of steem being tied to public demand is important. 

For all of Banfield's problems, he really recruited people to the platform well and created demand for the currency.  

Thinking about that... maybe steem needs external advertising in addition to support for plankton?

Plankton here, thanks for your support!

I also did some thinking about supporting minnows,Im not a big 'Player' myself but do received great help from you and others.. I wanted to put in relation with people who arent as fortunate as I am for instance. So I support your philosophy 100% ,the knife cuts on both sides I think,helping people and giving more exposure to steem(it). But the devil is in the details,how do we implement such a thing :)