RE: The Whitepepe Summary - Steemit Whitepaper in a Nutshell
"Steem's blogging system is intended to both induce continued participation, as well as to help discover and discuss ideas for expanding the network."
And that's a fail with sports betting. No blogging going on there. No real participating in the platform. Just click, risk-free, no-cost piking and win free rewards from the reward pool, while real content creators, who create real value, and really participate in creating Steemit, get the reward pool drained by these whale supported posts. I get get whale support. I get paid. But so many more real content cretors on Steemit, don't, and they are the big losers when sports betting and porn get promoted on Steemit. Real content creators, real people who care about Steemit (unlike steemsports and porn is all about $$$$) are getting shafted, when they are the ones who created the quality that Steemit started off as and attracted new users. Get rid of the trash on Steemit. Communities censor things all the time. Facebook community wants legit content, not porn. Steemit needs to decide if its want to devolve and degenerate into a vice-central betting and porn pleasure hedonism.
I say default to SFW and allow people to see as much as they want at option. Money is money, and so are your pixels yours. What this means is subjective.
Yes, it's all subjective... just bring whatever, child abuse, sex slaves, death videos, it's all good!
Yes, those would be voted up to trending, for sure.
Hard lines never work. But it is uncivilised also to put confronting material in peoples faces. Porn in particular has a way of getting early onto new media. Cryptocurrencies are also well suited drug trade too.
How do you propose to "stop" it? You have to be realistic.