Yeah absolutely, there just are no checks and balances. Like realistically the admins on Reddit and Facebook can remove and edit posts however they like, but people watch that like a hawk. Plus there's always ways to appeal things. Ultimately that impacts on how people see the platform, like look at Digg for instance, it went down in flames exactly BECAUSE of admins and power users abusing the platform to the point where others felt they had no impact on it at all. Frankly I would like to see a mass migration from Facebook in particular, it's by far the most abusive platform in that respect. On a whim they declare that your page is no longer desirable to them and delete it.
But still it doesn't help that Steemit is basically based on vigilante justice. Like a mod here is basically just a whale who takes matters in their own hands. The only way to somehow then alleviate the abuse is to reach out to other whales, who may or may not care to do something. And why should they, they too don't want to run afoul of some bully. This is everything bad about the legal system in real life, brought to a discussion platform.
Like for real shit like this never works. We see this kind of thing play out in a big way in the crypto sphere too. "Hurr durr banks and governments are criminals, all taxation is theft and regulation is oppression", next minute the whole economy is run by gangsters. It's slowly getting better but the crypto economy is still 99% scam. The currencies themselves are not needed, and there is zero recourse for when someone fucks you over. Anyone can claim they've been "hacked" and oops we lost the money in your wallet tee hee. Naturally then the crypto cunts instead of taking a valuable lesson of course sound off smugly like hurr you should have taken all these steps to make things secure, really it's your fault for not single handedly learning how fucking cryptography works and how to oversee every step in your crypto trades with programs that are shit to use. And then we throw around the figure that it's still only like 3% of people using it all, just wait until more people buy bitcoin and whatever. Yeah those might be connected buddy, the reason why so few people use it is because of how shit it all is. Compare that to even Visa or Paypal where it's easy as fuck to buy things you want and just get on with life. No one fucking cares that transactions are faster. Only people in fintech think that people are kept up at night because their transactions take a second more to process or some shit. When you already have paywave or something, and supposedly third world countries are where you should introduce cryptos because of how corrupt the banks and governments there are. Well guess what, those corrupt banks and governments can just as well outlaw that and you're on your ass again. The problem has always been the people, not the technology.
RE: Steemit isn't gunna last long at this rate...