Good post. Now that you have proven the problem exists, maybe it will cause some changes to the mindset that has killed the social part of steemit.

These 3 things are what killed the social part:

1. 6 comment limit. People stop commenting after hitting the 6 comment limit. It simply kills your enthusiasm, especially when the people that know how it works save their rebuttal for the 6th comment and post their final statement without fear of replies. Why bother with a reply if the damn website won't let you finish the conversation?
2. Unable to delete posts after a vote or comment. People stop commenting when they notice that they cannot delete or edit comments. No other social site removes your ability to edit and delete your own words.
3. Fear of being blacklisted by the bots and brigades. Between the politics and pet peeves of the whales or censorship\bot brigades, speaking your mind can get you blacklisted around here. Even the bots are being used to flag posts for personal or political reasons.

There was a point where it was "install a block\mute button" or "create censorship bots and brigades". https://steemit.com/steemit/@tinfoilfedora/instead-of-creating-automated-censorship-tools-allow-the-users-to-fix-the-problem-through-curation Steemit decided to ignore all the requests for blocking personally offensive things, and allowed the censorship brigades and hall monitor bots to form. Nobody likes automated bot comments, automated nagging for posts, being censored, or have posts hidden for personal or political reasons.

Once a casual user hits any of these, they just leave. There are more friendly sites out there, and even newbies understand that good conversation is worth more than a few cents.