I've been promoting HIVE and recruiting new users for a while now. 2 months ago I noticed that there was a referral program in PeakD so I decided to start using that link, mostly because of the tracking system.

I was very excited because now I could keep tabs on my referrals, comment on their posts and help them grow.

I never expected the results to be this bad! Recruited 10 people, only one of them posted something but seems to be inactive now! By analyzing my very small and insignificant sample: only 10% of the people who register actually try to post something and then quit after making 2 posts.

Only people with a lot of dedication manage to ride the steep learning curve that a new user is faced with when they first join. I've been around for a long time and things seem very easy to understand now but I remember some huge mistakes I made when I first joined and how clueless I was.

I think that the only reason that made me stay here was finding a Portuguese community that was willing to help me learn the ropes and upvoted my early content.

We need to support new accounts

I went into Leofinance discord where they have a channel that announces every time someone makes a new account. I copy-pasted 22 names from there and only 2 of them made a post... One of them was plagiarism so we're left with one post for every 22 people.

From now on I'm going to start paying more attention to the #introduceyourself and the Leo finance discord to try and help out new users. My upvotes are small but hopefully, they will be enough to motivate people to keep trying. Also going to comment with some useful tips and words of encouragement.

I think it is everyone's responsibility to grow our community I would love to see some of you join me on this! Let's show some appreciation to the new users so that they stay around and tell all their friends to join as well!