Just some input from me. @pulpably has been helping with @projectnewbie, we have decided with our personal accounts to let users know about the project and the project account would nominate them and only leave 1 message thus knowing exactly how many new users we have nominated on the account. That's why I suggested everyone with their own account let users know about the project and the new one that popped up called @steemprentice.
I don't find a downvote from your account to this user fair, if a problem persists with the project than please direct your flags to it, not taking down a legitimate users reputation by 6 points when she only was trying to contribute to the project and welcome new users.
I read your commend and I attempted to remove the flag but I can't any more.
However, if you are in contact with the people doing this I would ask you convey to them that the approach needs revision. There have been many instances of these "helpful" form posts being made routinely on new accounts and small variations do not change the essential fact of them being spam.
I like the idea of genuine warm welcomes that engage newbies in conversation. I'd even support a "project newbie" that did something like that, in a genuine friendly and interactive manner, just not mass posting form comments.
I understand the concern. We have been wondering within the project about this issue. The thing is that users who don't get nominated feel like they did something wrong, and the reason we only nominate verified intro posts has been to remove the need for users to fake/identity theft on the platform.
To not leave the legitimate new members in the dust just cause they didn't verify their account, we felt a message from our personal accounts letting them know about the project and the support it could give as long as you verify in some way that you really are a new/legitimate user to the platform. I understand that copy-pasting a comment can be seen as spam, but most newcomers have appreciated the information and provided verification later.
We could consider writing these messages manually instead? The whole reason we aren't posting these with the @projectnewbie account was to only comment with it on qualifying ones thus making the amount of weekly new legitimate users easier to count from that account.