Since the beggining of being in Steemit I always have been thinking that the platform is giving people free money and that could make more people wanting to create an account here.
People needs Steem Power to interact with other users. And that seems to be the reason of giving free money to them.
I would suggest to just create accounts, waiting for the user to create some real content and, after a time, giving the money to them as it is done already now.
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