I also experienced the same @hilarski ...
At the moment I and the team are very incentive to do the promo-steem and make meetup ... but constrained us when we want the list of accounts for newcomers can not steemit ... we hope that there is action to be able to simplify the list of new accounts steemit .. this must be will greatly help us to get people to join the plaform steemit. A few weeks ago, we had to use some of our steam to register their accounts.