Advertisers don't really care about people's expectations.

We are not advertisers and this is not an ad, its a blog post and this is not up for debate. when you copy paste low quality content like someone elses youtube video on the steem trending page you make less people want to come use steem and you hurt the price of steem.

This author could have so easily taken 5 minutes or even 1 minute to write a simple paragraph and ad one little image but they seem to care more about a quick profit at the expense of the greater long term reward. very sad that your justifying his actions... like you have lost hope in steem maybe?

I see you have 10k+ steempower and have been heer a while so you are probably just numb to the terrible content on steem, and you have forgotten where you came from, reddit, or at least where steemiut came from... and we forget how much better the content of reddit is.... and its because they ahve mroe users... but reddit still had much better content back when it was as small as steemit... we just need to grab those top karma reddit users and bring a large portion of them to steem.

If we actually nudge and poke people and tell them hey, improve your posts, they might improve. You really think we should just sit back and let it happen when we could easily comment and let them know they could be making everyone happy and improving their own chances at success, with just a little extra effort?

If they feel like your post threatens their space, they ban you or shadow ban you

yeah and if lasse disagrees with a comment made on his blog, he flags all your posts, whats your point? :D