Hi @hive-152479, that is really interesting topic Resteem or not Resteem?
Same like you I resteem with some intention behind:
if I find interesting topic and would like many people to see it because it is educational and other user will benefit from it
because of an interesting user, sometimes we are lucky and come across such interesting personalities who are not known to majority of users and it would be good to highlight them to give them a chance and also a support that anyone will need when they are starting their path on Steemit
the third one, the one that you mentioned to make it easy for us to find it, I never thought about that, I actually find such posts if I upvote them earlier then come later to comment
What makes me irritated that communities pin many posts, especially it is noticeable when the community has many moderators like in WOX that is why I do not feel comfortable with that. But I am not an admin and can not change it. I just got used to scroll down and nowadays I do not really notice the pinned messages, my eyesight maybe got used to ignore them and just jump to new ones.
The other thing that also something that I do not really like is when there is a condition for contest to resteem. I did it myself when our community run contest as asked to resteem announcement post, I do not know if now I would do the same. We change our behaviour all the time.
As to your suggestion to get a function that would make resteem invisible, do you mean invisible for ourselves our own resteem or do you mean for others what we resteemed.
If it is for invisible for us then it is OK, but if it is invisible for others then the whole aim of resteem will loose its meaning.
It's not only because of there are many moderators if it comes to pinned posts it's more that everyone pins but no one seems to care about unpinning what is no longer relevant. To me, it's a lot of scrolling on my phone and I can tell you I have to do it over and over again after every post I moderated. My phone doesn't go back to a place I stopped so I keep scrolling. I also do not see any point in pinning every post for 1 week. Announcement of the winners for example. The winners are announced and no one will have a look out for fun. These announcements rarely make a great read. Also between all those pinned posts with screaming pictures, I find it hard to find what I am looking for but that can be me although I doubt I am the only one who finds it hard to concentrate.
If it comes to muting or better deleting a resteem I want this for me. What I like and I resteemed for a reason can stay but there are times I hit the wrong button and I like to undo that action.
It's true we change and to be fair I like those who use the blog for mainly their own post the most. I wish I had done that.
Resteem of contest is of course a way to advertise or way to support just like asking for an upvote which is most likely rarely done or 0 is received. Next to that mentioning the host is another way of support and advertisement, same for asking the participant to use a hashtag with your name in it. As if anyone would use it to search for good content. No way. Perhaps we should make a list of things we dislike.