Excellent initiative!

Hive can definitely use all the encouraging newbie welcome programs we can come up with — speaking from experience, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have stuck around for the long haul with out various forms of encouragement.

Although it's not exactly addressing your post — but I know you do have a witness interest, and perhaps are closer to source code tweaks — has anybody ever floated the idea of putting a star/sun icon next to new accounts, perhaps for the first 30 days? It could help with newbie and content discovery by making it stand out. It would also help curation services easily spot newcomers... I know I was greatly encouraged when one of my early posts got "Curie'd."

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