"Why is Steemit so hard to learn?"
This question often comes with an exasperated sigh as my friend or coworker sets their phone down. I look at the device and see the site through their eyes.
It is freaking confusing at first glance.
Like that time you went into the hardware store and they point you in the wrong direction because they misheard what you were asking for and you're now walking around in circles for 20 minutes trying to find the same item. Cursing how confusing the layout of the store is.
I was browsing through my feed today and I came across a very interesting individual who has just joined a wonderful platform; 
He owns a experimental marketing company and he has some very great ideas about how toimprove our brand and how to make us grow. Check him out.
But during our conversation he brought up a very good buzz word: gamification.
A very good example of this would be when you get a card from a doughnut shop and if you punch it 12 times from visiting the shop 12 times. You get a donut for free. It gives a user or consumer a reason to be active to either keep using the product or be loyal to that product. What I had in mind was to do a tutorial for new users. Make it a game. Basically the biggest problem we have seen is trying to explain to people how this works after they join. So the more people who are able to literally see the tutorial and be able to stay in and grow the better. What I had in mind is when you go on steemit and join you get an email saying follow this course or what not then they'll take you to steemit blockchain either through the same interface like a regular steemit or a different ones like a minnow learning area that posts on the blockchain.
What that will do is you will go in and it'll show you about steem, steem power and steembacked dollars and all the good stuff. Such as how upvotes and curation work. The new users will earn points or a speciality assest or something just for doing it as they learn and do it and they only get it for completing the task so by learning they're literally getting rewarded so it keeps them on the platform. I'm thinking rewarding with an assest like what we see in whaleshares.
If anyone's interested in applying it I would love to hear feedback because I want to know what you guys think about this. I want our learning curve to be lower. So users can learn about the wonderful world of crypto and Steem and how it can change the world because people who get it grasp onto it but people who don't know crypto might not understand all the finer tendencies of it so for us to be able to teach them through an automated not software per se but an automated reward game-like tutorial I think that's the best thing for this blockchain because what other coin has a tutorial that rewards you for using it. That's another way we can break the mold from other coins.
