Thanks for the informed reply. I figured that was the case on the posts being on the blockchain, and yea a blacklist would suffice. This is the least important item of concern with the topic, however.

Regarding the site. There wouldn't be any login process, or anything along those lines. As for the commenting, it'd just use the standard commenting module with steemit. So, when you're designing your templating, you'd just have a series of variable strings like {{comment_block}} that would be parsed to insert the commenting block at the base of a post.

It wouldn't be another version of steemit.com really. It'd be a subsection of the site that's CNAME'd. So you might have jacobt.steemit.com which would be my blog. Then I can take my domain jacobt.com and setup a CNAME record to point to jacobt.steemit.com.

Then, when you load jacobt.steemit.com it'd have my templating. Now, I'm not necessarily advocating for an all out templating system, although that'd be nice. I'd be content with a simple header/footer wrapper that I could add in my settings. That'd allow for a logo, a simple menu, and maybe some footer details. Then, the blog itself would have your posts in a list fashion, as well as a post view.

Naturally over time, this could be expanded on and new features added, but that'd be enough to satisfy me in the meantime.

Another way to look at this is just a personalized page for your posts. The CNAME is just an extra, so I can have my own nice URL to send people to.