Broken how? Communities and societies all operate according to established rules (right or wrong). There are various measures to deal with violations of those rules. Some measures are more severe than others as punishments, which vary within a society/community and between various societies/communities.
Can this be done in Steemit? Not right now. No rules or standards established. No measures to address wrongs from those who have the power in a flawed design and abuse it to engage in vendettas.
Do you think Facebook succeeds because there are no rules? No, there are rules, and that's why issues and problems can be dealt with to a certain extent. They adapt and change to correct errors in how things operate, to a certain extent, such as abuses, harassment, copyright, etc. There is a method to apply a right to redress a wrong in some capacity. You can report. You can contact staff on issues. Sure they can censor, ignore, and do nothing, but at least there is a real avenue to deal with issues on the platform.
What about on Steemit? Nothing, other than the "great" flagging tool... yes, the flag solves all problems LMAO!
When power abusing authorities in a flawed system can punish authors by removing rewards others allocate, authors who put out 1 post in a week (tested and flagged), or one post in a day (tested and flagged), even when it's original work without coming from external sources... yes... that's a rational and successful model for greater adoption by the masses... LMAO. Don't you love it when wrong-doings go on unchecked without any consequences? I sure do. Sign me up!
Go ahead and bring in tons of people like in July 2016 through advertising and marketing while this system is still broken like it is with an experiment pretending to be a "real solution". And when people speak truth to power abuse, they can see how great and wonderful Steemit is as they get flagged by power players abusing their authority. I guess that's what it will take for the so-called "community" to wake up to the issue. I guess it just needs to happen to more than one or two people ...
The concentration of power is the problem. It was in July, and people noticed, and they left. Yet it was never addressed, just ignored by the power players and Steemit Inc. Things just kept going as they were. July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March. It took 8 months for the so-called "management" by power playing SP authorities to decide to try an "experiment" to show the problem is with a concentration of power. Will it take another 8 months to deal with the flagging issue? LOL!