@carlgnash - Thank God you found me! Luddites should not be allowed to wander around loose in cyberspace. Yes, you're absolutely right about . . . almost everything. I did not read @zeedout carefully before I linked the post to you and to Titus. In fact, I was nearly dozing off after several hours of Steemit reading and several hours of trying to absorb the "do's and don't's" of the culture. Much later I realized that @zeedout was, in fact, speaking of someone else. And I think I may have rushed through the post so hastily because my brain was click- click-clicking its way back to several corroborating YouTube documentary videos about the Catholic missionary schools that were established for the children of indigenous tribes and were later investigated for discrimination and child abuse. In other words, I read the comment and immediately went into brain-skip. I focused on the possibility of a first-person Skype interview with a subject whom I assumed would be @zeedout 's grandmother. But without reading carefully, I left it to Titus to make the connection himself. (I did e-mail @zeedout using the e-mail account linked in the comment but there has been no response.) So, my bad.

HOWEVER, here's where we disagree. I don't at all view this topic as demonizing "the other" although that certainly is the sin that shreds our social fabric. I still think that an interview would be appropriate with a credible subject. The fact that neither Titus nor @zeedout ever responded leaves the whole project in a coma (but not altogether dead).

Carl, your idea of creating content from a series of comment exchanges makes perfect sense because of the presumed interactive and networking purposes of Steemit. People write comments because the thoughts and ideas of others stimulate related thoughts and ideas. Thus, chat rooms. So why not post interesting "chat room" exchanges and invite further responses? I've always said you're brilliant, and I've only known you for a very brief minute.
Freely use whatever you find interesting in my comment links because I've been blessed to meet some of the brightest Steemians in the minnow pond. In fact, and I say this with conscious bias, I am quickly convinced that the intellectual output on the Steem platform far exceeds other social media forums. It's a learning atmosphere. And the only change that I might make would be to ask Steemians to identify their primary motive for participation as either information exchange or earning power. Why does that matter? Because those who really need to earn money might enjoy doing so in a suburb of the community that relishes vote for vote and follow for follow, resteeming and unbridled bot activity unrelated to content. Others who prefer content curation might enjoy a different suburb in which interesting debates are continually generated. (I'm still gathering my thoughts on "social equilibrium.") I've never walked through Reddit, but isn't Reddit content curated by subject-moderators?

OK, this is much too long. Have I covered everything? Let me know. Much love.