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RE: The concept of "saving face" (western eqivalent is preserving honor) is a key regulator of human social intercourse
Interesting post. Being that we're emotional beings it is scary to think that our posts are forever accessible. For me it does discourages me from arguing and rather keep things positive.
The truth is every human has emotions. The challenge is knowing when, where, how, to reveal those emotions, and what the rules are for any given environment. For instance on Steem there are hidden rules, which exist in the brains of persons of influence on the Steem platform. They do not reveal these rules anywhere but will enforce it when you or I violate.
To me that is the biggest problem (the rules you don't know exist which still get enforced). This reveals that the challenge is actually all about managing how others think about you, and you often have no clue how they think about you at least on a platform like this. In some environments you have meta data, and this meta data does give you come clues, but on Steem you do not have the analytics capability that you may have on other platforms.
If anything, Steem is an experiment, but it lacks important features to favor the individual in understanding their audience. I would suggest Steem as a community develop the tools necessary to allow the blogger to know their audience. Ideally the blogger and audience are suppose to grow together, by way of a feedback loop between the two.