It is either an open platform for anyone, or a happy safe place where everyone speaks only in allowed tone.
First one is a grand idea that can lead many people to speak freely to find out whether or not there are others who support their point of view, however retarded that point of view might seem to the rest of us.
Second one is a circlejerk place much worse than facebook, a place I would not dedicate any time to, personally.
So I guess my point is - there is much hatred in the world, and many idiots to go with it, so if steem is to become a worldwide open blogging platform, expect and be prepared for much more of that. I just hope community voting power would take care of extreme cases.
Yes. Altough once again I will point out, as you can confirm by checking my posting history, that hate is not involved in this for me.
Funny, isn't it? Those who slander (@bacchist), insult (@bacchist, @lauralemons) and downvote (@bacchist, @lauralemons, @stellabelle) me appear indeed angry and hateful in their comments, and fail to reply to well thought-out arguments, instead resorting to the forementioned sort of behaviour.
It is refreshing to see that there are others who see that a happy safe place where everyone agrees with everyone is absurd.
There are those who would like to enforce this (looking at you @stellabelle). She appears drunk with power, having such a big influence on the website, throwing her powerful downvotes to hide what she disagrees with and sending steem dollars to her minions.
So far I've been accused of being a dunce, an idiot, a mysoginist, a cyberbully, a rapist supporter.. you will excuse me if I forgot one or two of the insults thrown my way.
Not one single time did I insult any of the members of this cabal, nor did I downvote them a single time. My only crime is disagreeing with them.
Indeed, @bacchist went as far as starting a reputation-tarnishing, false-accusation, slander campaign against me: link.
But I refuse to yield, and I refuse to let the power of your magic social-justice words shut me up.