Hitman, you is a smart mofo mon!
Excellent comments. I think there may be so much MOOLA around big companies that have approached on the SMT, that's all that's getting done these days..
I am thinking whitelist may replace flags?
Anyway, whitelist is a blacklist in sheeps clothing and sounds more positive, but it requires some maint either way, and white lists are usually compared to blacklists during maint or initial creation.
In some ways it sounds like all of steemit could be switching over to it's own SMT as well?
So we can imagine a "democratic steemit" inside a wildwest Steem blockchain? ;-)
thanks mon. for steemit's survival it is absolutely critical that the steem blockchain becomes a wildwest where all sorts of SMTs can fight each other. steemit inc will have their own SMTs like GPT or appics or whatever. but their own token must not be the dominant force. if it does, steemit will die. it'd be steemit trying to be another facebook, and you can't beat facebook in their own game.
and i appreciate you coming here and adding a lot of input. it's helped me think in a few different angles. i love it 👍