Yes, good points, but at the moment we are seeing the Steemit tag-streams having content from every platform - zappl tweets mixed in with video links etc. We haven't yet reached the point of the "I'm on the bus home now" micro-message, but that surely will happen if that platform becomes widely adopted.

So if the consensus is that Steemit *shouldn't* become the blockchain aggregator, then all the more reason to add (as you say) a filtering system so that different *types* of messages can be differentiated.

I think we're heading in the direction messages are not always going to be actual posts, hence my idea that this should be discussed before it becomes unmanageable for many users.

> If Steemit just turns into effectively a "blockchain explorer", then it has no value to me. I want Steemit to be a place where creative people come together to create content. 

We can do both, I think.

> I don't want to see "twitter style" posts on here with people saying "Im out eating my dinner". If that sort of stuff is going to fill up the "New" posts feed then how am I meant to find new, curatable content?

Any filtering/querying tools we build in the UI will allow for negation, too, so you'll be able to say "everything that matches X" as well as "everything that doesn't match X".  I have a lot of ideas around this you'll be seeing peek out into the product in the future.

> Maybe we need a 6th tag on posts that can only be set by the API in which the app puts its name.

This is actually already inside the post's metadata on the blockchain, it's just not displayed by the UI, but could easily be used to filter.

Hi, Im very new to steemit, possibly you can answer a question I have been trying to understand. Your comment here suggests that in it's current form steemit has value to you. Where does that value come from. Why is the system able to award currency for posts? My understanding is that where as Facebook and Instagram gain value when you post things that are quality making more people want to use it. With steem you are awarded for that added value. But if steem is not selling your information or advertising to you how is it gaining value? Please correct me if my understanding is very wrong. Again I am new to all things crypto but I am excited to learn and get involved.

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