Nice assessment.
Re: "We have already shown we are not very good at keeping new users with a user retention rate of 5-8% at best. "
If by "user retention" we mean account continued activity, there are a lot of factors to contemplate,
one of them is, of course, what kind of users are being attracted to steemit and what are their intentions towards the platform.
In an environment where a large fraction of incoming users are here to abuse the platform a low "user retention rate" is appropriate, it means the abusers are being worn down and driven out by one mean or another.
I mean, those abusing users that cleaners (including yourself of course) hunt, and then end up leaving the platform are a part of the "user retention rate".
In short, in my opinion the onboarding process should focus on onboarding actual quality content producers instead of bodies with a pulse.
Regards,
Walden
@walden do you thinh STM willgo down more?
When you look at it as there can only be two variables, "quality content producers" and "abusers" you see where the retention problem lays, Steemit doesn't offer, want or promote anything in between, I don't know what the "inbetween-er" percentage is but my guess it's the vast majority on the internet supporting the popularity and growth of many, many sites.
Oh, I dont look at it in a black and white fashion, I see the whole spectrum of greys,
and when I say abusers, I mean hardcore abusers, serial plagiarists, spammers, ID theft, etc
PS. in your example there is one binary/boolean variable, not two.
except it's not this at all. The 5-8% of users, are the people who abuse... or are just the top1% that we see on the front page, Every. Single. Day. Five. Times. A. Day.
I would says only 1% of those indicated retained users are abusers, or just use bid bots.
you have no clue what you are talking about.
such an insightful comment. Way to upvote yourself. Proves my point.