Almost 2 months now since my application for a steemit account but they havent approved it yet, some are saying that your location determines how fast the team will approve you. does that mean that the project is for the elite first world citizens only ?
Doesn't it say that you should log on to some chat and inquire about the progress if it takes more than one week? 2 months sounds unreasonable. I signed up about 24 hours ago, and I'm already getting impatient over not even having received any kind of confirmation email or anything. I really can't see any reason why this should take any more than 5 minutes as soon as you provide the code from the SMS.
This is somehow bizarre to me also. Platforms like this should have a hassle-less signup method but this one seems to have the opposite procedure for it. My friend also signed up for Steemit 5 weeks ago but he still is waiting for the confirmation of a successful signup. I just can't fathom the reason behind these delays. People will not use this project if the first process takes too long compared to the other platforms.
One quick question, do they have a live statistics for its user-base and where we can check it?