thanks for the mention. we started a HIVENOOBS series for the reasons you clearly have said above. We are also on Twitter to help noobs navigate when they set up a new account. Also, we are working with @roomservice on an easy onboarding site....so that people don't have to go through what you did. Please look and share our HIVENOOBS series with others. There are three so far: https://peakd.com/hivemarketing/@hivepeople/hive-for-noobs