wow, that's amazing to me, i signed up pretty easily i mean it took them a couple days to allow me to create my account but i had no problems. I also came here on the recommendations of a youtuber and i haven't really made any money at it yet but i'm trying to post and comment as much as possible and i am just hoping that people like my posts and my page grows. Definitely think steemit is a great platform and my experience has been nothing but positive except for that fact that i've only made about 2$ so far lol