It's really hard for me to not bring people over, steem is all I talk about, some people grab the vision at once and want to jump in immediately, while some take their time. In recent times though, whats really been the hardest thing is supporting the people I brought over.
When they come, I'm not big enough to support them, nor do I have whale friends to link them to for support and I don't expect anyone to be as resilient as I am, so I've curbed how much I invite people over.
Maybe if there were some sort of mentorship program, - bring a certain amount of people, monitor their progress and mentor them, after 3 months, they prove their worth through their quality blogs and iunderstanding of the platform.....then they begin to get some sort of support, and the mentor also gets rewarded.
Rinse and repeat.
The mentors should ofcourse be based on some set of rules or guidelines.
I could be a mentor, invite maybe 5 people per month, mentor them for a specified duration of time which after completion they are accessed and granted some sort of support, and I get rewarded. Then I do it all over again.
If 100 steemians are mentors and they each invite and mentor 5 newbies for a specific amount of time in the first round, that gives us 500 newbies that will need support at the end of that round. Can we provide such support?
How about 200 steemians with 5 newbies per round, that is 1000 new accounts.
The mentors mentor their invites for 3 months, after completion and proof, the mentor is awarded and the newbie is supported.
If you ask what I can do? I can invite and mentor.
What will the system do?
I have tought about a mentorship (in some kind of form) also. It could really help prevent a lot of newbies making the same mistakes (and having way too high expectations) as we have made in our early days.
Like the idea you're descibing above very much.
The big question indeed is what the system will/can do.
You can do this right now, @mistakili and @smasssh. Go to @heyhaveyamet and steemterminal in discord and you will find many people to sponsor and help however you like. You do not need to invite anyone new. They are already here.
Thank you sweet @fitinfun for the shoutout
I hope you get some more help over there, @brittandjosie. I'm not up to speed until after steemfest now, but I will try then.