I understand 100% what you would find reprehensible about an implication that female (or male) writers on Steemit should have to provide some sort of corroborating evidence to satisfy their audience that they're telling the truth. Given what a horrific trend it already is in our society, we certainly don't need Steemit to become another platform for victim-shaming.

That said, based on Hive account@positive's original post and followup comments, I think we can be clear that wasn't his point or intention. His example of the wedding night rape story that turned out to be plagiarized from Quora is what I think he is referring to as "unverified" claims - the "verification" process being some sort of check to ensure the source material has not been copied or stolen. That poses a serious threat to the fundamental sustainability of the Steemit model, since ultimately no one will want to contribute financially to scammers who they suspect may be fraudulently preying on people's emotions using stolen material. Not to mention it leaves the authors who are contributing their own meaningful, thoughtfully-written stories left out in the cold. It's one thing to tell them that money's not the point, but even if if's not - and for the most part it's not - eventually if enough people see that their genuine, heartfelt work is being ignored in favor of callously purloined emotionbait, there will be a mass exodus that will be hard to reverse.