looks like @sneak's censorship system may be coming soon. He really thinks it is ok to just delete other people's replies as pleased:
https://steemit.com/steemfest/@timcliff/dinner-with-timcliff-and-sneak-at-steemfest-discussion-about-communities#@lavater/re-timcliff-dinner-with-timcliff-and-sneak-at-steemfest-discussion-about-communities-20171110t054335347z
"They can just open their own post as reply" yeah like I'm gonna open a new post for every reply I want to make and clog up my followers timeline? Replies belong below the relevant posts. That's the logical way.
Who's afraid of Replies and why? who's behind this push? some corporations? the CIA?...
There's absolutely no need for such censorship, if anything it stifles and discourages debate, and he seems the only one pushing for it. I don't see Steemians screaming for an option to delete whichever reply they don't like. In the massive community Feature Requests list compiled by @timcliff it was nowhere to be seen. Steemians appreciate that this is a censorship resistant platform, and anti-social behaviour and spam is already tackled by the flagging/downvoting system.
The other reason he gives is that "other social media allow it"....yeah Facebook and Youtube....exactly the kind of censored Social Media we should be moving on from.
Your post shows that Sneak was pushing for such censorship already 8 months ago, but obviously as @dan @dantheman was still there there was no chance of such measures being implemented back then.
Looks like since Dan left things are taking a dark turn, and maybe he saw it coming and that's why he left.
BTW I thought Steem had been made fully open source, I guess not.
I find it ironic that Sneak apologized for deleting comments from Github saying he wanted to keep it all here on Steemit so everyone could partecipate....but now wants that deletion tool on Steemit too to prevent some replies from being seen.
I don't care much about the Open Source licence thing (I can understand they don't want just someone to copycat them), but if @ned and @andrarchy start allowing replies to just disappear from the site anyone who cares about free and open discourse will inevitably have to move elsewhere. Steemit would risk turning into a platform for promoted propaganda posts with no real debate.