About 95% of new users will end up plagiarizing, spamming, insulting someone, begging for votes, or using AI... Then they get hunted down and leave without bringing a single friend. People really underestimate word-of-mouth marketing. Back in the day, there were people who actually helped newcomers. Nowadays, someone sees a newbie plagiarizing and just downvotes all their posts, not only the wrong one. They’re so obsessed with protecting the reward pool that they’re okay with having zero user growth. Even I never upvote new users, because I know they’ll mess something up and lose all their rewards and I’ll lose my curation too.