*to some users. I love that Steemit offers complete transparency. If this was just another social media platform where you could block everyone you disagreed with or anyone who offended and hurt your feelings, well... then I'd go back to Facebook.
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But you can mute anyone you don't like. It even actually hides there posts, most of the time now. These features will be refined. I am building a python based native app, currently, and it will have block features, I have some ideas about toting up upvotes to determine a secondary ranking for other users that will work as a 'most trusted' filter/sort order, and I will build a simple blockchain for making groups.
I have also proposed a groups name blockchain system, though, since I have already shared this with the Devs, they may add it to the system core, yet. I also have a design for decentralising a chat system, that works like a lower latency version of Bitmessage, so there is no central server, and nodes pass messages around, and delete them after they expire, some reasonable amount of time like a day or so.
Social features are coming. The rocketchat here, it was put in because it is a feature that is needed, but getting it properly integrating, first the core has to be perfected.
This is also, why I say, and will continue to say, Steem is a DAO. We are its shareholders, according to our SP, we have every opportunity to add whatever we want, in fact, we can even contribute changes to the Blockchain and Website code as well, and if the Devs and most senior witnesses agree, it gets integrated. The Devs aren't at all in the position of dictators, their decisions have to be ratified by the biggest shareholders as well, the Witnesses, and can to some extent be shot down by Whales. This exact decision-making process might change but it will only get better, I'm sure. Ultimately if it goes very wrong, the platform will be forked, rebranded, and the people who go there, will determine whether it succeeds or not, if the other way of running it turns out to be more effective.
But I think @ned and @dantheman are smart guys, and will keep this thing moving until it becomes fully stable and autonomous, and once it is in full release, refinements like this may still emerge later on. The simple fact is that this is like a corporate shareholder board, and this works in regular companies very well. The difference is that anyone can get a tiny share and join the discussion, and how the funds disbursed within the system are spent, or invested, is entirely the choice of the shareholders as they are allocated these resources. The real success of Steem, will be all about people realising that it's a perfect place to invest money, a great system for accounting, a marketing and communication platform, and any profitable activity can be integrated into it, to gain the benefits of a very big pool of resources, and allocated more or less depending on the opinion of the other shareholders.