I agree with what you say and what Stellabelle says is also true. There is an element of trolls growing on here and this typically happens when the user base gets beyond a certain size. This also happened to Blab.
A lot of men started complaining that "boobs" were making too much money on Steemit, and that there were too many travel posts. Now we have anarchists making most of the money but people complain about that too. Whomever is making a lot of money on Steemit seems to catch heat and Stellabelle is the poster child.
When someone makes a lot of money and people can see it, it attracts negativity. Privacy exists to protect people from this but currently Steemit is a privacy minimized platform while Synereo is promising to be privacy oriented. Steemit could be more private.
For example, if Alice chooses, she should be able to block her posts from showing to anyone with a certain reputation. This way their interface wont show her post at all. This isn't censorship because she chooses who she wants to be able to see her posts on the Steemit website, forcing true stalkers to analyze the blockchain. The security would come from the fact that it takes a lot more effort.
Fantastic fucking idea, @dana-edwards. I have even a better idea. please email me at your earliest convenience to discuss further: [email protected]
It's a bit inconsistent to complain about stalkers and then publicly give away your email address.
Blocking your posts from readership is the antithesis of viral growth of the platform. You are being paid because you are supposed to be onboarding new users with your content.
It seems to me the only problem such stalkers can cause for your blogs is they can spam the comments. I think a feature which enables to you offer a recommended block list to your readers, is sufficient. Then your readers by default won't see the comments which you've chosen to block. But they can always see these, because demand will be such that clients will offer to display the blocked comments.
Synereo is like using a sledgehammer to kill a fly. You don't want to kill readership as that is the entire point. Medium has 20,000 weekly bloggers serving 25 million monthly readers.