AskSteem: Would an onboarding program be viable for the SteemDAO?

Out of risk of sounding like a broken record, we've been checking with users in the community through very low requirements if they would be up for using our onboarding program we've set up through OCD. Our trial run showed some great numbers and with little time it would have made many who are interested in onboarding content creators outside of Steem onto Steem know how to effectively do so, but the interest has been low.

The question is now, is the interest low due to the way we incentivize the onboarding activity? It being mainly through post rewards after showcasing the onboarded users in a compilation post which we know today is something quite subjective to downvotes - mainly from users not even bothering to see where the rewards go to but some also disagreeing with the rewards.

So for that the DAO would be a solution, but then another question arises. Is onboarding something we should focus on right now or is that something that will get fixed in and on itself once we have everything here fixed and ready for them - communities, easy account signup and a more welcoming userbase focused on each genre of communities and content.

Anyway, with OCD being ready to support most activity that we deem beneficial to Steem, we figured we'd ask what the community thinks. Receiving incentives from the DAO would in a way be more "safe" and less relying on the post reward pool but at the same time there may be more crucial things that need to get done before that becomes a necessity.

Onboarding could be considered as marketing at the same time but is Steem prime for marketing?

Please remember that we already have the voting power to support content creators that join and even delegate enough SP for them to have their slider and other benefits mentioned in the past. So please don't make this post about user retention and support - it's mainly about what you think would be best moving forward with the onboarding program as it is one of the few things we haven't managed to get flowing so far and we think after the trial run it would do wonders for new content creators and the network effect it could have. Especially at a time where a lot more SP is focused on curation but the post count is dropping continuously as it has in the past leading to possible overrewarded posts or authors being hit quite often with votes which is also not a good thing for a healthy distribution.