RE: Sorry Everyone, No PM Feature in the Short-Term for Steemit.com
Calling people trolls is not nice. And block will not work against the wrong people. Nothing will. In my opinion, you should work on a system that ensures equality & fairness to ALL small and large. The time that it takes to try and control users of steemit like blockchain police when there are many places to go to plug into the blockchain, could be used for good purpose other than to try and control what cannot be controlled. The people cannot be controlled. It's a pointless venture that will only lead to louder voices. Equality however will lead to immediate peace between all users. Throughout history when people are silenced, they appear to find new ways and again louder tactics to use. This results in a virtual network wars because the efforts and priorities were in the wrong place. Work on peace. Work on Equality measures please.
Please describe your vision of equality as it might be applied to steemit, I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at.
Block feature would be just another way to silence people who post and deserve true equality on posts earnings and monetary value. Tho some would use it well, to others it will be just another feature to mass abuse. When a "Big Guy" makes a post telling their HUGE following to block a user, is that fair? As new users come in they are being flagged and attacked already by existing features, causing them bad experiences and to leave the blockchain moments after entry. Again, making more features for "Virtual Elites" to abuse with mass followings will not be a solution. It will result only in the loss of more users, and existing users. When all small are cast aside with no voice because options were made that can be abused, there will be no "Crowd Funding" going on for any elites. They will remain going in the same circle with the same following. Followers losing interest over time, and leaving, too. Equality in my vision is where everyone is seen, and folks just have the choice to control themselves not others by making the choice to simply close the page and move along. In the end it would become just an every growing, unstoppable chain allowed to grow together in peace. No one man, can gain the votes of every man. Most know this as fact. So the more you make, the more you have to sweat waiting to see if it's 50/50 between the people. Chancing loss. Leave it alone maybe, and work on flags so the equality balances out for all instead of on controls out weighing side.