That is a totally magnificent analogy! And I agree totally that the destruction of the Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest tragedies in human history.
I also think that idea could be planted as a "seed" in marketing efforts for Steemit... and for why someone might want to become involved with the site and community. Because we are building something here... and (for my liking) that angle of approach also plays much better than the blunt "get paid to blog" thing... which brings (largely) the completely wrong type of crowd.
Yeah I have quite a few marketing ideas. I was kind of waiting to see how this flagging crap was going to play out, as it sucks to put a lot of effort into marketing something only to have some big negative PR due to flagging nullify such efforts.
It may have to be marketed in spite of the flagging issues, as I see no indicators that is likely to be resolved. That means helping new people have a proper perspective on flags is likely also an important thing if any marketing is actually going to have a chance at not being nullified by a few powerful people that have their own opinions and love to show you those opinions in the form of flags.
The flagging annoys me... the infamous "experiment" was OK, hoping that it was no more than a temporary experiment. The ongoing stuff... especially the infantile "border skirmishes" between people having petty disagreements? That stuff reeks of the less charming reasons why sites like Reddit (and Digg, before) turn into strange clique-ish snakepits.
But... we have to move forward, and if the right people create good content, it may be able to overshadow the nonsense and eventually drown it completely.