That is something to watch out for in the future, the effect of information drip from "real life" into the Steemit stream of content. How many people are going to notice? How will they respond to knowing this information?

Lets go on with the Ted example, so he has done a horrible deed to his wife that gets leaked to Steemit and, being a prominent user, a ton of people become aware of the event. What are the ethics of an anonymous user? Will they disregard such a horrible deed because they like the content Ted produces, or will they toss Ted out regardless of his content.

Interesting thought you've had @derekareith, I'm excited to see what's in store for us with such a fundamentally new tool for communications.