This article contains misinformation. It's not true. Steem and Steemit.com are designed to be intuitive, just use it as you would any other social network. How it all works "under the hood" so to speak, is complicated, but the average user does not have to worry about that. Of course, people making bold and categorically false claims in an effort to get attention does complicate matters, but this is the price of having a censorship resistant platform.