By the end of this year, we will most likely have over 1,200,000 accounts.
There might be that many names and accounts, but a large part of them will be inactive accounts just as they are now. If steem.io and the steemit witnesses want one million active accounts they have a long way to go. How many accounts that have been made since HF20, (just them) were active today? What was the percentage of the accounts made since then still active and commenting or voting today?
Reality is, this is the internet, the land of instant gratification for a lot of people, if they can not come on and be active in a social manner they will go elsewhere such as whaleshares or weku.
15 Steem Power(). It should be more than enough for beginners. After all, it says that a fully recharged amount of RCs on such account is sufficient for 22 comments()
When you take away the daily 10 votes that has almost always been recommended, and you understand that the only way to get SP is to have votes cast in your direction or to earn a few "Curation" points for SP, you no longer have the ability to make 20 comments after doing 10 votes.
I think that the people with more than 50 SP have no real clue what is needed in order to use steemit to the fullest as a new user.
As a witness, and one in the upper parts of witnesshood run the numbers and make a post about the results. Number of new accounts made since HF20 vs Number of accounts that were active on 10-21-2018. Show the users of steemit what the numbers are. I am just a user, I do not have the programing knowledge to do this or I would. I can tell you that at a minimum 36 SP is what is needed to be a functioning member of steemit.