Thanks for taking this on J!
I don't quite understand the resistance to clearly labeling the subject of photos in posts. I've read through the posts and comments and tweets and it's hard to understand why there is such a huge disconnect.
The reason that Steem is amazing is because there are no authoritarian figures to misuse power, but that means that as a community we have to agree to what we find acceptable and not acceptable. I think being extremely clear about which photos are of you and which are of anyone else is fair, honest and the right thing to do.
Obviously our avatars can be literally any image, but I think we can all agree that anyone who has another person (who isn't incredibly famous) in their image might cause some confusion as to who is actually writing the comments/posts... even if that person has been super clear and upfront in the past.
I can't imagine any fathers using an image of their daughter as their online avatar because of the confusion it would cause... some of my friends have their very young kids as their Facebook avatar... I get it, they're proud of their kids... but it's never not confusing to have the face of a 2 year old ask me about IT consulting rates or the technicalities of setting up Limited Liability companies on Messenger.
I agree with you completely here.. just stop the confusion of a young girl with a grown adult who is commenting and running the blog. It’s been brought up many, many times that it was confusing and her response was to attack them, so here we are.
She when told this responded with threats, so just alerting the community was the only thing left to do. I may have added to the drama, but from all the comments and even DMs from men who were sickened that they in fact thought those photos were her and are now glad they are aware, I guess that’s a positive. As long as the public is aware that it’s a little kid, they can act accordingly.