Another knee-jerk response to spam that will just cause problems and be rolled back.

If they would just give each user the ability to block users and block topics\tags based on community curation (re-tagging), this would not be necessary. That would let each individual user be in charge of what they see, simply by selecting their preferred tags to block.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@tinfoilfedora/instead-of-creating-automated-censorship-tools-allow-the-users-to-fix-the-problem-through-curation