No,
This is going to be used by plagiarists and can be used in spreading hate or horrible ideas. This would also work really well to push a certain message. Let's say Steemit for an example don't like everyone who is saying they don't like a fork so they mute all of these people so it looks like they have overwhelming support.
Not exactly top priority.
None of these are problems.
If steemit starts to mute all critiques then that will just blow back even more against them. It's a tool more so than a new standard.
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