As you all know, @ocd has been on a curation break lately as it's been focusing on onboarding. It has not been easy but it's starting to flow a little better and the system is being finetuned and with this post I wanted to tell you about another piece of the puzzle which I think is going to help streamline this even better.
When approaching content creators from other platforms, it seems that providing them with links to accounts or in Reddit's case our subreddit is a more "safe" bet than directly linking them to Steemit or sites where they can apply for an account. We now also have Social Media accounts on other platforms and are attempting to grow and get them active by sharing curated posts on a daily basis and having it as a base to direct content creators to them where they will be able to find easy links to create accounts from projects on Steem that offer cheap or free accounts. In OCD's case they will of course be free but we will want some sort of verification from the applicant that he is indeed a content creator or an active, genuine social media user. So as I was going to write a new sticky post for our subreddit www.reddit.com/r/steemit <- subscribe if you haven't, we're up to 8222 users, I thought hey I may as well just post about it at the same time as my work with the subreddit and various other things on Steem is voluntary so if readers want to reward me for it they may do so on my posts like these ones. After all Steem is about rewarding activity, especially if that activity directly or indirectly helps the network and currency. Anyway, without further ado, this is what will exist in the sticky thread and I will need some help from my followers to fill it up with other dapps/projects/etc that create free accounts which we can direct the content creators to.
Welcome to r/steemit, this is a subreddit for discussions about the cryptocurrency Steem, the company Steemit and anything inbetween. The current most active dapps are on the sidebar and for more check out steemdapps.com and other relevant links to better help you understand Steem, Steemit and the difference between the two.
If you are a content creator that stumbled upon this subreddit and want to apply for an account, you can do so by either asking for one here in this thread if you don't mind using your Reddit username for it or through the chat system or direct messages on Reddit to my account, I should be able to get back to you within 8 hours the latest.
You can also apply for an account through Steemit.com, the waiting time should be pretty short right now but if you don't want to risk it then there are other projects and dapps on the Steem blockchain that offer free account creation. One of them being https://steemhunt.com/ and https://actifit.io/.
There are also plenty of users in the subreddit that offer free accounts from time to time, you may get one by just creating a post asking as well!
Feel free to also ask questions about accounts or other Steem related things in this thread as it will be kept sticky for some time forward.
Okay so that's kinda what I got so far, I would like a comprehensive list of communities and projects that offer free account creation to link in the thread and want to keep it as neutral as possible, i.e. I don't just want to "shill" OCD just because I happen to be in charge of the subreddit so I'm looking for all possibilities and I'm hoping I can get some help with that from my readers or anyone else stumbling upon this post.
Does MSP/PAL create accounts? Any other big communities?
Anyway, having said all that I think it will help onboarding new people from Reddit a lot more if we can direct them to the subreddit and say just read the sticky thread there.
Again, if you have a Reddit account or want to create one real quick then subscribe to r/steemit and try check in now and then if anything's happening. We have a weekly sticky thread where people can promote their OC posts and get curated by OCD and then highlighted and shared on the @ocd Reddit compilation posts and we are also working more and more on sharing and bringing in traffic to Steemit and reward you for it in the Sharing is Caring compilation posts.
Feel free to check those out, they really don't take a lot of time and help spread the word about Steem out there!
Thanks for reading, looking forward to your suggestions and opinions on how to formulate the sticky thread better or maybe add something more to it.
