Thanks for taking the time to read the post and offer such great feedback!
Perhaps I didn't make it clear enough, but the requirements/guidelines set for blogs are only for those that we'll be giving a free Steem account + delegate our own STEEM to through the referral program. Obviously, we cannot afford to do this to an infinite, nor very large, number of blogs without additional support. Thus, those guidelines are there to limit how this could otherwise be abused, or quickly wasted.
For the followers of your blogs, they'll be able to either earn their way to a free Steem account through making comments that authors like yourself and others like, or by getting a Steem account themselves to log in with. Alternatively, if they just want to post comments on your blog then they might not even need a Steem account, but of course we all want them to eventually do so.
In any case, if you're interested in helping bring more creators and bloggers to Steem through our referral program, I'm comfident that we can help bring those that you refer onboard either way. I'll be happy to talk with you directly through DIscord or other channels if so.
Alexa rating is simply a ranking based on how much traffic goes to a website (unique site visitors, clicks, etc).
And finally, I'm very happy to hear that we're making something that you enjoy using! It is of course our first objective :)
@frederikaa
Thanks so much for taking the time to reply, and for explaining (probably again) the challenges of delegating steem to new accounts. Of course, that makes sense, and perhaps #justthinkingaloud you and @howo might want to do that in campaigns e.g. for the first 10 to sign up and then again in a second wave, etc., as you build up/maintaing a pot of Steem that can be delegated.
And.
This has really made me excited:
For folk for whom Steem is expensive, this is a great idea. I know that for me, sitting in South Africa where, as at today's rates 1SBD is more than 10 in our currency, it's something that has to be carefully considered. Expecially when one is trying to convert skeptics to crypto. This latter really applies among folk my age and demographic (50+) who blog for a hobby and for whom all of this crypto stuff is mumbo jumbo they'd rather ignore.
Just a few thoughts.
Look forward to the new developments! :)
Finally, and TMI - because life off steemit has been so busy, I've neglected my blog...and haven't posted in a while