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Agreed. The ability to communicate privately will open more interactions and thus investment of relationships in the site.

Private messaging is already implemented on the blockchain and just needs the Web UI to be completed. It is both in-progress and on the roadmap.

I saw that before but didn't recall seeing messaging on there. Honestly, option #1, the topic filtering part and follow list are way more important.

The follow list is also partially implemented. I'm not sure what plans there are for filtering.

Hi smooth, there is a situation in this post you upvoted about feeding street cats
https://steemit.com/life/@baharoba/thanks-to-steemit
It has $1600
And the author is apparently refusing to agree to spend 50% of the SD rewards in buying more food for the street cats, which you would think would be congruent with the spirit of the post.
If you agree with me, please correct your vote before payout if this situation is not corrected.
Thank you

flagged as off topic

OK, yes, Im contacting you here because its the only way I have,
my intention here was not to put off topic content,
its just that I dont have another way to contact you than to reply to a post you made.

What about the issue I mentioned? You dont see any abuse there?
Come on smooth...
Please Act as a gentleman, I upvoted her at first too,
I made a mistake, it happens to everybody, then I corrected my vote. If you keep that upvote up, you are just calling for conartists to fabricate more scammy content like this,
is that what you want?

As much as I can appreciate the thing you are trying to do , thing is, nowhere in her post did she mention anything about using 50% of the funds to buy catfood.

She said she wanted to make money, she went to the bank , withdrew some of her own savings, and bough food to feed those cats in the pictures, and she also mentioned she wanted to do this every week.

You suggested that she uses 50% of the amount and you are trying to pressure her.

it could be another share, say 30% or 10%,
dont you think its reasonable and fair that a person that its extracting money from sympathy to stray animals contributes a share to the issue that drives the attention to the post?
You can see in the comments that people that vote for it really just have sympathy for stray animals and support it, thats the spirit of the post, what she says is in such a broken English that nobody can really understand clearly
and most people probably dont even read it.

Im glad at least you appreciate what Im trying to do. Most people dont.

It can be a science experiment. Pay her like a million dollars to feed street cats, then when the cats have abundant food supply, start multiplying even more. Then the entire town is covered with cats as far as the eye can see.

Sure, it could be that too. :)