Should authors have the prerogative to prevent their critics from responding?
A: Not if they are any good.
If somebody wants to write to a very select audience, a Social Media platform just isn't going to be their, "cup of tea," I don't think.
If you read your story in a group setting, and still need to be protected from your critics, I would recommend elementary school - so the teacher makes sure that everyobdy plays nice with you. ;)
If you still feel like you are, "Throwing pearls before swine," the obvious solution would be to keep it to yourself, next time.
I'm not suggesting the author have the option to delete specific comments, just that they have the option to set a minimum reputation required to comment.
You can't reply to Joe Rogan's steemit posts, because he's not on steemit.
An option like this, with a built in spam/troll minimisation mechanism might attract some big names over.
I can see it being quite appealing to those who are sick of anonymous trolls on twitter.
It also means that you could actually talk to him or any other celebrity, after you've demonstrated, via reputation, that you're somebody who adds value to conversations.
They've already got Social Media sites for elites - LinkedIn. That's where all of the "pro" types like to hang out. It all looks so very... CEO
I joined that years ago, but it was so dull.
Shameless self promotion and fluff.
I get that its just part of that world, but it seemed so cheap and tawdry.
I'm interested to see what happens to our price and adoption rates when we get our first really big name land.
It's inevitable. If this goes on for much longer, somebody "famous" will happen along at some point - unless this whole thing really is just a big ponzi-scheme, after all. Something tells me it isn't.
Graphene & STEEM (cryptos) may well be known in the future as the instruments that helped kill off the oil industry & U.S. Dollar. That might sound crazy to most people, but most people are too overloaded with information to be able to sort it all out.
I've wasted 9 years on facebook and have $0 there.
Happy to waste half of that time here, even if it all falls down around our ears, but I don't think it will.
Don't look at your FB experience as a waste of time - it was the time we were all "in training" for our futures on SteemIt !!!