Hi @swissclive. I made a mistake early on in my first week on steemit trying to call someone out for selling their steem while they were blogging to promote people buying it. I was so sure I saw their conflicting actions in their wallet that I called them out for it on their post. The poster got extremely defensive and sort of reprimanded me for not addressing my thoughts in that sense within a private chat. It was a misunderstanding on my part per their defense. Since then, I've sort of agreed to that in my mind and occasionally speak up to help everyone involved avoid any potential public shame.
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Understood. Public shame can be very distressing for the recipient. That's why when doing it in a public forum I try to be very gentle to start with "I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you were genuinely trying to encourage the poster". The problem is that steemitchat is foreign to many users here, so I am not sure it would work with someone who hasn't even understood steemit etiquette yet.