Hi Hive account@stellabelle. Thanks for this awesome project you and others are working on to develop steemit and the steem blockchain at large. I would love to make a suggestion of Hive account@airhawk-project to your team. Hive account@airhawk-project is a telegram based community catering to about 1,300 steemians (last count and growing). The admins support this community with leased SP to vote their community members' posts (according to their quality) just to encourage them to get a footing on steemit. The community for example had undrgone a 30k+ SP and currently on a 50k leased SP (thanks to Hive account@rageamuffin and Hive account@thecryptodrive 's Hive account@minnowbooster for the community discount) at no cost to community members. I don't need to say a proof of how these SP is being used can be gotten from the steemd.com profile of the account.
Hive account@airhawk-project in contribution to the blockchain also created an escrow service for easy conversion of SBDs/steem to cash just in the bid to have a tangible participation on steemitdotcom (anyone who knows he can easily convert his earnings to cash would easily embrace the platform). This escrow service comes at no cost.
Hive account@airhawk-project also has a blog that contributes varying contents, contests and all to the platform, especially working with a system that engages and compensates members of the community who make contents for the blog.
This is not to talk more of the series of education that comes up on the community's telegram group here, their exchange could be assessed here
I think I won't be wrong to humbly call on Hive account@ned, Hive account@fulltimegeek and yourself to please take a cursory look at this project and what they have done in their almost two months on this platform.