RE: Sunday Musings: Does Steemit have Kids Running with Scissors? No, WHALES running with FLAGS!
The code or what text says you "can" do needs to be related to the affect it has on the community of actual people who make up the platform the code is there for.
The code can change according to the betterment of the community. Ignoring the issues in the community while simply following the tech because the tech says "you can" is not going to create a lasting platform as it ignores the community of real people and focuses on what the tech says is "allowed". What is allowed is to be determined by people/community that can change the tech rules to better serve the community rather than harm it. The tech isn't immutable from change.
The community can recognize something is wrong and needs to change. The few powerful stakeholders alone can't decide to use tech/code/functions regardless of how it affects the community of larger users. If that's how things were run, then Steemit, Inc could take their steemit account and do anything they wanted, change any code without care for how it affected the community. But that's not how things are run for Steemit Inc, and they shouldn't be for how stakeholders think they can just do whatever they want either just because "its in the code" or "it says it in the text here".
Maybe my perception of the world is naive, but I always tended to believe that technology was something created to serve us (humanity) to help better the whole... and yet, it often feels like humans are ending up serving technology, instead.
It all gets back to examining and determining our purpose; the truth of what we want. When I found Steemit, my hope was that there could be some kind of synergy here... a venue for people to contribute, where their contributions allowed not only for their own growth and benefit, but for the greater benefit of building a community, to the benefit of the community... and by extension, participating in a greater betterment of the world, as a whole. Recent events make me wonder how capable people are of seeing beyond their own personal stories.
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