I know, I know decentralization, man, and blah, blah, blah. But I'll take a well functioning site over a decentralized one, and if a simply thing like that can't be achieved on a decentralized platform, then maybe decentralization doesn't work.

That. Right there.

I think Steemit is an awesome gig, and I'm certainly one of the people running around singing its praises.

But we do have this one "cognitive blind spot" called Decentralization along with its close cousing "yeah, but Steemit is blockchain based!" These are neat and groovy concepts but we need to be aware that they are NOT magic pills that give Steemit some kind of exemption or "get out of jail free card" from having to deal with human nature. And frankly, "decentralization" is not so clever when the functional outcome is actually fragmentation and chaos.

As it, this site works just fine for developers, techies, blockchainiacs and the like for whom code has personality and going to github is like spending the evening at "Cheers." Which is all good and fine, it we're content with Steemit being for the 0.1% of the population who fits that particular demographic.

But presuming we actually want the platform to become an authentic and viable social content site with appeal to a broader market, we have to be highly cognizant of-- and cater to-- the way most social human beings use the Internet.

Which means dealing with a bunch of extremely fickle individuals for whom "something being difficult or confusing" is plenty reason to set up shop somewhere else.