You seem to have a good head on your shoulders and I like the way you are thinking in this blog. You said

"For me, in my own words,
Integrity is simply keeping your word, being honest and if you respond to your circumstances in an ethical and moral manner, and produce results consistent with what you say."

I have found a big problem in the world when it comes to "ethics" and "morals." There are a wide range of ideas and beliefs about what is ethically and/or morally right and a lot of those differences seems to be tied to the area that you live in and your overall philosophy in life.

Personally I believe in moral absolutes, in other words I reject the modern philosophy of situational ethics. The important thing to me is who has the authority to establish those absolutes and how do we determine exactly what they are?

Ethics and morals do not always seem to have direct ties with one another and thus we have many wide ranging ethical differences generally separated by regions and peoples. I live in a City and County in the State of Alabama in the United States of America, most of the people that I know and see every day are by birth U.S. citizens. But I can go down the road to a nearby city or over to the adjoining County and find that those people use a slightly different code of ethics in their day to day lives. Here we have such terms as "The Code of the Hills" or "The code of the West" that tries to illustrate and quantify those different codes of ethics.

So how do we as a worldwide community deal with a vast array of differing morals, ethics, codes and values? About the only fair way that I know of to do this is to make a list concerning the acceptable code of ethics that are to be adhered to on Steemit and get it ratified by(?) and include a set agreed upon penalty for non-compliance. After these are established it would then be up to the community to hold each other accountable for the adherence to this code of ethics.

It is my understanding that this has already been done, at least in part, but a system probably needs to be established so that additions and changes can be easily made as previously un-thought of issues and scams arise.

So keep thinking on these things and putting them out there for discussion, this community is growing rapidly and right now it is a little above anarchy but not yet at the stage of a full fledged governing system.