I finished reading the 191 comments prior to writing this - -that's a lot of comments not the most I have read - - bit still a lot. HF 19 was done for a reason, I do not have the history behind it, but it was done in the Pastfix a problem. Like I said I do not know what since that was before my time. I do know when you institute a solution you do not completely do away with and return to the past problems, you seek new solutions for new problems that were created. to solve some sort of issue, I do not know if it was the nogono issue , (which it is my understanding @berniesanders solved for the whales), or some other issue, it was put into place to
Limits, Nope steemit is not Perfect, what I have grown tired of is people telling me how to vote, when to vote and who I am allowed to vote for. The other day I saw someone that wanted steemit to start charging fees because then it would speed steem transactions up, (obviously he had no clue in that matter as I have no clue in some matter), NOW it seems people want to tell me how often I can post. Soon it will be what I can post, then it will be a certain time I am allowed to post. No limits - If you don't like how often a person is posting, or what they are posting use the damn mute button.
And all this bullshit talk of soft censorship, the post is there. the comment is there. I'm I censoring someone because I muted them? You bet I am. Do you or the poster that I muted, or anyone else have the right to tell me what I want to see? NO you do not. If you want to see someone's post then click the greyed out post all you want. Someone exercised their right, to vote how they wanted to. They did not vote the way the poster wanted them to, to bad grow up, not everyone likes the same thing.
If steemit inc thought there was a problem, they would take action to fix it. With only 2 or 3 witnesses, looking at and talking about it, seems to me it is all a mute point. With the complete lack of whale support that @berniesanders has received from those that are investors, it is apparently not a real big deal. So in conclusion, I do not need someone holding my hand and telling me or schooling me on, how to vote, how to post, how to comment, or how often to do any of those things. Use the mute, button, or give @berniesanders a billion SP and let him continue to do that which whales do not want to do because they may get their hands dirty.
I strongly agree with most of what you've said here, except regarding censorship. Consider @bloom, for example. He is funded from outside Steemit, and calls himself a 'professional flagger'. This enables ZuckerBorg to silence people by flagging them into negative rep such that most folks won't see their posts unless they look for them, and he could do this without ever having an account on Steemit, by just paying @bloom to do it.
There's no way to counter @bloom, since he but rarely posts or comments.
@dan proposed a method to counter this by countering stake itself, rather than merely upvoting or flagging posts and comments, and this would at least help Steemit counter enemedia propagadists and censors covertly influencing content on Steemit.
Thanks for speaking your mind!