No matter how many times I admit being new to Steemit, that doesn't seem to matter. lol

"You really are showing your ignorance" ... yeah as if I ever claimed to not be ignorant? Interesting.

Cross-posting between platforms is actually a very common theme on the Internet at large. A practice not only widely done, but outright encouraged and not considered as spamming. So I guess we both have a very different view of what the word "anyone" means.

Seeing as you apparently know a lot more about this platform than I do, I'll ask you this:

What is the point of having an @ in front of someone's name, if merely mentioning someone's name in text is going to send them a notification anyways? On all of the other platforms I've been on, the person doesn't get notified unless a person is specifically tagged.

Thats the way it works on Facebook, deviantART and most other places.

"If “it’s not against the specific written platform rules” is your best defence you’ve already lost."

YouTube has this same exact line of thinking. For example, their community guidelines are incredibly convoluted and things such as for example "hate speech" is not clearly defined. So someone makes a video say for example just with general commentary about a particular political stance or whatever, and the video gets flagged and taken down for "hate speech".

From YouTube's perspective, it should be obvious to the end user as to why what they said is hate speech. But the reality of it is, humans all view things differently. One person's hate speech is another person's harmless commentary.

Also just like recently with the whole Count Dankula situation, he was criminally prosecuted for "making fun of nazis". The judge admits that "context is irrelevant" and that reality simply is what the judge says it is. So I view what you are saying as being a very similar sentiment. You can disagree with me and think I'm dumb if you want, but I view "you should have known better because anyone would know better" as an extremely weak argument.