I've really been enjoying moderating posts written in answer to the @sndbox challenge in association with Utopian. Both because they bring in interesting and unique ideas, and because they've drawn in a high caliber of writers. We've got some great minds writing Utopian blogposts, but many of them are not, by inclination, writers.

I find the ideas presented here interesting. In my day job, I am a tiny publisher and translator, and I'm always looking for the next place technology will take the publishing industry. And this is certainly an intriguing potential direction.

As one would expect from a writer, this post was well written. I did have some small nits to pick with it, in terms of style and grammar. A couple of examples:

• "From the outside looking in, it seems it is attempting to be all of the above, and I sincerely hope that it succeeds in this multimedia model, but history shows that focus is one of the keys to a successful enterprise." This is a very, very, very long sentence. It would have worked better as two: "From the outside looking in, it seems it is attempting to be all of the above. I sincerely hope that it succeeds in this multimedia model, but history shows that focus is one of the keys to a successful enterprise."

• "This is important because the content is the face of steemit, at the moment a mainstream publishing professional looking in at the trending pages would be far from impressed." This sentence looks like it may have gone through an aborted edit? It would also benefit from being broken up. There's no need for the part after "Steemit" (which should have been capitalized) to be in the same sentence.

• "In this scenario community candidates would have to be vetted based on past content and reputation on steemit" really needs a comma after "scenario."

In my work as a Utopian moderator, I offer edit proposals in accordance to the writing quality of the post. This are issues I might not have commented on in 90% of the posts I moderate, because there would be more egregious issues. But with a higher quality of writing comes a higher standard in editing.

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