I don't think I've derailed on the issue of snobbery. I left another post the other day from someone else worried about how some of the stuff posted could potentially be running off investors. When in fact the opposite is probably true, that coupled with seeing how everyone feels they have to "fall" in line with everything said, it's like a echo chamber. Echo chambers don't sell good. The whole problem with the blockchain seems to be the problem of not being able to designate your followers into groups, if as you say everything is available to everyone. If people could designate certain material to the liking of certain groups and/or personal stuff like what they have in their garden or what sports they like this would alleviate that stuff going out into the community as a whole. Just like FB, you have friends, acquaintances, or the ability to share something personal with just one person or write in the people's names whom you want to exclusively share that with. It's a thought to keep thousands of pointless stuff flowing into the mainstream, I don't know how difficult that would be to set up but it's food for thought.

I think abuse is probably along the line of what you think it is, people who write comments that isn't reflective of anything written and/or you see that person/persons writing the same comment on a lot of post. People who write simplistic stuff then buy bots to make hundreds off it.
But abuse isn't or shouldn't be based on subject matter that someone else just plain doesn't like the subject. If someone writes a small article that makes a few pennies or a couple bucks commenting on sports, gardening, or some other subject one isn't into doesn't make it abuse. Like I've stated one man's junk is another man's treasure. You also have to realize that some people develop a blog relationship with some people, they will tend to take a look at that's person's material regardless of if it has any substantial value intellectually, that only strengthens the platform when people develop a strong following of various characters.