This is a difficult one for me. I see people on here that day in and day out post ridiculous stuff that is pure fluff...and earns big money. I regularly put my heart into everything I post, be it a trip that meant a lot to me, thoughts that I have, whatever...and most of the time, they go ignored. Such is life. But to blacklist people based on one copy/paste article (which I honestly ignore 99% of the time), may not be fair. It may be something that they found particularly interesting and wanted to share with Steemians, or they're just having a bad day. For example, I hardly ever use memes in my articles but today was rough and I had to take it out somewhere other than my regular work, soooo I posted up a meme (with an explanation). I just see it as difficult to fairly make a blacklist since a lot of people on here post about so many different topics depending on their mood. There may be a fair way to do it that I'm missing but that's my humble opinion, for now.
This is exactly how I feel too. I deliberately put this provocation into the title. I also can understand the complexity of the problem. But being an engineer, I'm sure that smarter people than myself will think of some solution how to promote genuine work better. It is 21st century after all, problem is though, but there must be some simple elegant principle, and I just wanted to tickle your thoughts on this.
I mean, at one time whales oil was the market's gold (when people used it for lightning). Now we have something much better. I feel that the historical moment is right to yield a better network. Not just another network. And I thought that steemit has this historic potential. The network can be smarter and will be better. That's what I know. I don't have instant solution though. Thanks for the comments.