RE: Is allowing trending posts about Weed genius or short sighted for Steemit?
I see and agree with both views. However I tend to feel that it may be a stroke of genius. I'd prefer a more in depth article about marijuana instead of just a picture, but it raises the issue to the forefront. Hopefully people can begin to have productive, conscientious, and productive dialogue on both sides of the debate where or con. Maybe steemit can be a place where people can dialogue instead of berating those who hold different views. One of the benefits steem has is that a good comment is valuable. Not just to the platform and discussion, but also monetarily. Hopefully this will keep comments respectful, but without people just praising everything to get a vote. I'll vote for someones comment that makes me think about my own stance whether or not I agree. On the other hand though I think we are going to be bombarded with posts of just weed without substance to it. Btw I like your 2 steems! Great post.
@bendjmiller22 I can see your point. Allow Steemit to be the beacon of light and reason, in which rational debate is allowed, instead of censored. My concern, is that this may inspire other people that engage in more serious illegal activities, to sign up for steemit, get a lot of voting power, and turn this into the Silk Road of Social Media.
To quote Spiderman "With great power comes great responsibility". That applies to everyone here. Yes whales have the biggest potential to change content, but if there were no dolphins or minnows, the whales would die out. I think a revamped curation reward might help staunch some of the content and active whales have done a good job promoting quality content and I believe it will continue that way, but a big flood of people wanting to make trouble for steemit have the ability to do so because of the decentralized nature, but I feel as users if we vote to hide certain content (illegal or whatever is deemed to be against the nature of the platform) less negative conotations will be made with cryptocurrency. Also while not fail proof, there are some protocols in place to prevent users creating many accounts easily and the visibility of the blockchain should help problems to be sorted out. There are always people looking to beat the system, but at least for the moment this is a pretty damn good system.