voluntary coordinated shunning
Anything that was sufficiently controversial would be permitted because it requires a near universal acceptance of an opinion before coordinated shunning is effective. Most people are neutral toward anything that doesn’t impact themselves. In fact, most people are willing to “look the other way” if it will make them a buck.
I couldn't agree more. Shunning, ostracism and expulsion is a valid form of unanimous community management by all individuals. Unfortunately, so many people just don't care about things that don't affect them personally, so it's difficult to get people to stand on a united front of shunning someone who exhibits disliked behavior towards others until they to that behavior to them. Nobody seems to care to stand together unless it's affecting them personally.
Then what are you left with? "Well I'll care about your problem, if you care about my problem" circle-jerking, where people don't actually care about what is going and how it affects others unless they get some reciprocal benefit or loss as a result of being involved. Most people just want to ignore the issues that are going on with others and just go on with their lives, until they are affected.
This is why getting things to change overall, as a united front, is difficult, because most people are still stuck in an overly self-centered, self-interested selfish outlook without much concern for the other side of the coin, and that is other people, concern for others and their interests. We aren't going to get things to change much in society, or on Steemit, unless people can agree on certain behavior and act accordingly to respect those that engage in a modicum of personal responsibility and self-governance of their behavior to not be assholes. And those that don't want to get along, to be assholes, well this is when ostracism and shunning come in to make outcasts of them.
Their are common sense standards of behavior for mutual optimization of survival in a society, and even for this Steemit community. What can be regarded as a form of morality, non-aggression. And these common sense standards can be objectively determined. Moral conduct is not purely about physical or property harm. That is only the most basic understanding to get started on the same common-sense page and level of standards of behavior.
Take care. Peace.