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RE: [Discussion Post] Where do we take STEEM from here? A post for STEEM community discussion

in #steem5 years ago

It's really great to see so many excellent thinkers coming together to share so many constructive insights. I'm also delighted when I hear of fathers engaged in the lives of their children. Awesome!

I continue to bang the drum for what I believe is the single most important starting point for this Steem rebirth. We seriously need to address the abusive behavior on this platform, which has been going on for years.

The idea of seeking out new users from Colleges and Universities can really highlight this concern of mine. I think it would really be a bad idea to seek out this Generation of College students.

My wife and I are from the Nomad Generation - see Generations
The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069
by Neil Howe & William Strauss - which for me, having been raised in the States, is Generation X, and my wife being raised in Italy, simply the Nomad Generation.

Generation Xers didn't really draw too much attention to proper social decorum; we were the nomadic rebels that wanted the "Establishment" to collapse at all costs. Manners were something we applied at home, with the family; but outside of that, there were no rules!

The present Generation is different! When I went to College, there was no reporting "microaggressions". Could you imagine how university students would feel if they saw the amount of abuse that takes place here on Steemit?! With no real way to filter it out, or block it?! They would be repulsed, and offended; and would not want to recommend such a platform. And as far as I know, the MUTE button only serves to remove posts from your feed of authors you are following; not to mute comments. In other words, when I hit the FOLLOW button, your posts appear in my feed; if I then hit the MUTE button, we remain Friends, but your posts do not appear in my feed. That's all; it does not help with abusive comments. For this, we need a BLOCK button, which I have proposed in the following posts:

Troll Hunters: A Community Curator Proposal
Decentralized Censorship of Social Media: A Democratic Approach