@steemcleaners does a much needed task of trying to keep scams, plagiarism and spammers off the platform.
Are they perfect, do they get them all.. no but they are a bunch of volunteers trying.
While there are no rules set out by Steemit Inc, there are standards that have evolved from the community over the time of its existence.
It appears you've not been a round long enough to have seen some of the crap that can take place on this platform. A group of people trying to keep it under some level of control is appreciated by many.
I disagree with you and are this post is meant to call for a wide discussion about what is and is not allowed.
Currently we have a group of people dictating what is and what is not allowed. Without looking at the intentions, I see the effect they have on the community, but also outside. And this is primarily becoming negative.
Nowhere can you find which rules they keep, what is allowed and what not? When will you get a remark and when a downvote? How do you object, and if you object how can it be steemcleaners itself decides if they were right or not?
Steemcleaners managed to grow to a level that every comment they make is immediately a money-maker for them.
A comment about unverified identity looks to me only intended to make money. There is no rule, not explicit nor implied, that you HAVE to identify yourself, and like I said before I will never do that. It does not add any value and is an immediate breach of my freedom. So they should not comment on this, but just the fact that steemcleaners comments on a post, is for a lot of people a sign that this person did something wrong.
Not only is steemcleaners making money with every comment they make, but also any normal user does not stand a chance when they downvote you.
The reason most people on Steemit don't speak out is because they are not the target of steemcleaners, and many are afraid of becoming targets.
I've spoken with a lot of people about joining Steemit, but quite a few came back with the remark that Steemit seems to be even worse than Facebook when it comes to censorship.
There is nothing I can say about that, because they are right.
As far as you last comment, that is nonsense. Unless you've been here on another account, I've been a lot longer on Steemit with my other account @blevley. The intention is to start using that for business purposes, but I'm at this time not sure that's the right thing to do.
No serious business will ever join as long as these practices take place.
Without diminishing the (original) efforts of steemcleaners, we are now at a point where some decisions must be made by Steemit Inc. If nothing happens Steemit will no longer exist in two years, it will never grow into the huge social network everyone wants.