@timcliff, one of things I like most about Steemit is that the community can censor and police itself through free market principles.

You don't like it, then you don't have to buy it (through an upvote that is).

Now when someone within the community acts maliciously, then the community has the ability to penalize that person for his or her actions.

We the people need to understand our role to correct behavior, impact change, and determine what is acceptable.

We the people also need to show grace and understanding to our fellow community members. Let's remove malicious acts, but let's protect differences of opinion and interest.

We can't rely on a corporation to tell us how to act civilly. We need to learn how to do that on our own.