Creating this issue at the request of @cnweaver.
Currently new users have access to the following topics
__consumer_offsets
amon.nuem
gcn.circular
gcn.notice
sys.heartbeat
It would be convenient to expose some kind of a testing topic with write access. This can be lower in terms of priority of message delivery, rate limited if need be, and for the purpose of helping newcomers to design their workflows. It is to be understood that this is for the sole purpose of testing and that anyone can be writing to this topics, so there is no guarantee of type or sequence of message received. Also that delivery may be delayed in case there is excessive testing traffic.