I'm glad to see that someone out there does care about user retention. It's a well known fact that a majority of the dormant or inactive accounts on steemit are newly registered accounts and a smaller fraction to accounts with lost passwords. You would hardly see an account that has been built up to high rep holding being dormant.
In this lies the problem:
"Newbies get the wrong idea about steemit, they go to the website and see trending posts worth huge amounts and because they do not know how to navigate the platform, fail to go through the new posts and see firsthand how most newbie posts do so they walk in here, expecting to be rich by the end of the week with no investments or anything of such. The result is that for most new accounts, they end up wondering why the weren't able to get even a $1.00 worth of upvotes by the end of the week."
Here's my solution:

• We need a platform working at the #introduceyourself tag to welcome and greet these newbies and direct them to groups that can help them such as #newbieresteemday #newbiegames #minnowsupport, e.t.c I do not know all of them.
• We need to set up a discord channel(s) that this platform will put out as an invite on the welcome comment, the purpose of this channel would be to give the newbies a proper orientation about what they are in for, what to do and what not to do.
• I would suggest an account to be set up with enough SP contributions to support and incentivize these newbies till they attain a certain reputation score by which time they must be attached to the platform enough to stay on their own...kinda like you treat babies!

I hope this helps! Hive account@paulag