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Re: Newbie Welcome video
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o_e_l_e_o
on 19/10/2019, 06:18:32 UTC
⭐ Merited by Steamtyme (1)
Great effort. I particularly liked that you mentioned theymos' Welcome Message, which I still really hope he will implement at some point. Also going straight to the rules thread after registering was nice.

I would make a couple of constructive criticisms, though.

First, I think it's too long overall. We have enough trouble getting newbies to spend 2 minutes just scanning the rules thread or even clicking on a sticky or two (for example: The sticky at the top of lending which says newbies asking for no collateral loans are very like to end up red trusted, and yet we see it happening several times a day.) I suspect that most newbies aren't going to watch a 13 minute video and will quickly skip sections or just give up on it altogether.

Secondly, I think you spend too much time talking about the marketplace and trust for what is an introductory video. I like the parts about how to create an account, stickies to read, how to post, etc. However, I don't think newbies who have just created an account should be diving straight in to the marketplace section. Ideally they would spend some time on the forum, getting a feel for how the trust system and the marketplace work, before going straight to making a trade. A single sentence or two saying to be careful in the marketplace because it is filled with scammers, and you will discuss the trust system in a future video would be fine I think.