I joined on February 5, 2018 and hope that you will wish me in my next birth day of steemit account! Retention of anything is harder than attaining it. Only 7.5%, of retained accounts own 91% of the SP! Waw! How lucky I am! I was about to drop out from steemit community for impatience. Thanks for inspiring us with such informative article. Your effort will increase retention rate of steemians.
My suggestion to @paulag: You may Use justified alignment to make your article mare attractive to look at. You may have suggestion HERE in this regard. Stay blessed and work more for us.
I need to learn mark down, I have been saying it for a long long time. Just need to find the time :-)
I hope you didn't mind for such suggestion from plankton like me. Best wishes.