I think we should all take responsibility for what we do. I post my portraits of people I meet on the street, but never ask for a donation. The portraits themselves were made available for the people on the street to sell. It was a personal project. But I felt a moral compunction NOT to use a platform such as steemit to appeal for help. Rather simply to create an example of engagement between ordinary people and the extremely poor. I have seen some posts asking for help, claiming one or another story and I do think that this kind of thing can be destructive to the communicative and fair minded type of platform we all want. We should simply say no blegging. None at all. Tell us about what you did, your story of helping others, but don't ask us to do something. Be more like kevintmann, a new subscriber who is in the peace corps and describes so vividly the African province he has been living in. I must say though, that during the evolution of facebook's features, the advent of highly geographically localised groups brought about an amazing new potential for social change in our immediate environments. At that scale, all the members of a neighbourhood group or a whatsapp room can collaborate to make powerful changes for poverty, environment and other needs. SO I would like to see steemit still being capable of meeting those goals. It is after all about communication. Perhaps we all should simply maintain a high standard of integrity and require full proofs before ever helping anyone who appeals in this more or less anonymous type of format. The pitfalls are obvious and you're right, this problem has arrived.