This is awesome idea! I wish we could've meet in Steemfest in person. For the step2, we are also thinking kinda similar way. We're working on the Steemhunt new user on boarding interface, and may create some newbie hunting/posting bounties. Anyway, in my opinion the test should be fun way to reduce the bounce rate :)
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