Hello Steemians, last week we announced our new Delegation Application Process. As we disclosed in that announcement, one of the exciting changes included with this new process is that it will be overseen by an independent committee. We are now excited to announce the members of this committee.
The Goal
Before we get to the committee members we want to go into a little more detail about the thought process behind their appointment. Our goal with these changes is to make the process of delegating our stake more decentralized, transparent, and fair. But we also want to make sure that the process is fast and efficient. That’s why we’ve decided to appoint committee members that we believe already have the trust of the community because they have demonstrated long-term commitment to the Steem blockchain.
These are community members who have not been afraid to speak truth to power, while always remaining a force for progress by facilitating consensus. We also did our best to select a Committee with a diverse set of skills, including (but not limited to) real-world business experience, marketing talent, and development expertise.
Independence
The Committee will be tasked with delivering a list of account names and delegation tiers to Steemit, Inc., which will then distribute the delegations according to the determination of the Committee. Steemit will, ideally, not exert any influence over the Committee. But this is our Steem Power, and as such, we do reserve the right to reject a recommendation made by the Committee that represents a danger to the Steem blockchain, or to Steemit, Inc.
Just because we intend to defer to the judgment of the Committee members, that does not mean that more people can’t be involved in their decision-making process. The Committee is free to involve anyone they like in this process as long as the goal remains to distribute delegations in a way that both stimulates economic growth while maintaining the confidence of the community.
With that being said, we would like to introduce you to the members of the Committee.
@aggroed
Dr. Blair “aggroed” Reich is a PhD chemist out of Texas A&M University who spent 10 years working for startups and giant conglomerates leading sales initiatives to committees of chemistry academics who were making software curriculum choices for their courses.
He co-founded and organizes the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network discord group, MSP-Waves, Steem Monsters (a blockchain based digital trading card game) and leads the sales and marketing efforts of the game. With ~2200 daily active players it’s one of the most popular crypto games on the market with the most active NFT marketplace in the world. The game accounts for just under 20% of total on-chain activity for the Steem blockchain, and has grown to nearly $2.5 million in market capitalization after 1 year in business.
He co-founded and leads steem-engine.com, a platform for creating communities and trading assets on the Steem blockchain. It has lead to millions of Steem being powered up, 20 different “tribes” forming, and ranges from thousands to over a hundred thousand dollars in volume in any given day. The base trading pair is STEEM, which brings additional utility to it, and the exchange currently has over 600,000 liquid STEEM held by traders.
Aggroed is a consensus witness on the Steem blockchain and focuses on community development, spreading STEEM into new hands, and keeping people engaged on the blockchain.
@starkerz
Matt Starkey is a chartered mechanical engineer (CEng) and project manager, he has lived and worked all over the world managing multi-billion dollar industrial projects. Matt became a blockchain and cryptocurrency investor and enthusiast in April 2013. Having made successful investments in blockchain and the cryptocurrency markets, Matt has a multitude of positive and cautionary experiences that will help inform his decision-making process as a Committee member.
Matt has applied blockchain technology with his partners to set up several start up platforms:
- Andre Gray’s Football Academy – a transparent charitable giving model for young aspiring footballers in disadvantaged countries backed by the Premiership football player Andre Gray of Watford Football Club
- Oracle-D a blockchain backed content creation platform with over 300 professional authors and content creators
- DCORE a community investment platform working in partnership with hedge fund KMG Capital which hosts 100’s of analysts to review financial assets with starting capital of $10M
- 3Speak a video and content platform that advocates free speech and uses a mechanism which combines several blockchains to store and monetise marginalised content creator's content.
- Promo-Steem: the world's first decentralized promotional network
@eonwarped
@eonwarped is a full-stack developer with five years of experience, working full-time for a large tech company. There he does mostly backend software development, spanning many components in a large, latency-sensitive system. Prior to that, he completed a mathematics PhD at New York University.
He has contributed to projects such as TokenBB, Steemit Condenser UI, and Steem Keychain. He also develops and runs the Steem Engine Nitrous Custom UI for 20 different tokens/tribes. He has written various technical posts concerning the inner workings of the Steem blockchain including posts about SBD mechanics and the voting system. He is also actively helping to test Hardfork 21 by offering a testnet condenser/wallet pair that is running on-demand which makes it easier for anyone to test the hardfork.
Only the Beginning
This is still only the beginning of the process of developing a better system for allocating Steemit, Inc.’s delegated Steem Power. Now that we have selected a Committee, we want to empower these people to develop their own system for determining what projects deserve delegations and how big those delegations should be.
We believe that the top priorities should be speed (coming to a consensus on how delegations should be redistributed as soon as possible) and transparency (ensuring that Steem stakeholders feel informed about the process). But again, we will not influence the Committee, so the decision-making process will ultimately be up to them.
The Steemit Team
Great team!
We ve got a business guy, a community guy and a tech guy, who all did a lot for this blockchain.
Regarding the conflict of interest:
The vote for each proposal should be transparent, with comments as of why a given proposal has been accepted / rejected.
Amen, and I am very grateful to see other people supporting aggroed when I see some TERRIBLE things said about him on this thread by some very jelous people, attacks on him and his family, people calling him a flat earther and slandering his good name with imaginary subway conversations.... Those shril voice shrieking in jealousy are 100% envious that they are not getting any free delegation.
All of the people hating steemit inc, they have no unity and will retreat to their own projects, mad about capitalism... i feel like the ideological struggle is here on steem and its because the election is moving in... well lets just hope steem doesnt turn into golos with all the pretend "sharing" and that we can remind steemians that they are all capitalists at heart. When the price is going up everyone is a capitalist or one in training :D And when the price is low, the users all squabble and talk about ways to overthrow the evil factory owners Steemit inc.... so a strike is organized, but @elipowell calls a negotiation with labor @aggroed and now the workers are unhappy because they think Snowball has become just like the farmers :D But in reality this is less like Animal Farm and more like Lord of the Flies
Everything to improve is well received, we are at a time where only the union of members and teamwork will make a difference, this committee has done an excellent job, I know that Matt @starkerz is a competent, professional person, and with a lot of talent and wonderful ideas that add value to this blockchain, we hope to see good results and that the true purpose of this platform is evaluated, if what we do does not bless the life of a community and leaves a legacy in the world, It's no use. We have organized communities that are doing social impact work that must be valued now.
DARLENYS
@steemchurch representative
So, being part of @steemalliance, driving force behind Steem Engine, and part of STINC's delegation committee?
I think we lost the
decentralizedpart somewhere. Not that it was to begin with, but dang this seems like a step backwards.I am slightly concerned about potential conflicts of interest considering he is part owner of Steem Monsters which has also submitted an application.
Personally, I don't think any user whose is also an applicant should be on the committee so there will not be even so much as a hint of impropriety in the process.
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I agree that no one acting as a representative for this program should be allowed to have ownership in projects receiving benefits from the program. That is just a logical rule.
That is like allowing Olympic Athletes to judge the very competitions they are competing in. Similar case in point.. DTube allows Clixmoney to hold the voting keys.. and he of course is a "DTube creator", as well as a "DTube curator", and we all know how that works out so well for (Clix & Friends).
This is so crooked it stinks to high hell. But why should we expect anything different. Isn't scheming and scamming what this blockchain does best to all of the innocent sheep.
It's all who ya know, and who ya blow. A mirror of real life politics. A dog and pony show. Gross.
You guys are a lost cause.
Have a good one!
Cheers!
innocent sheep? who are innocent sheep?
I don't owe you shit fucktard. Trying to gas light me.. use the few brain cells you have in your dumbed down head and figure it out.. and go fuck yourself with your narc gas lighting strawman bullshit..
fuckin fucktard
Literally what? I asked a question, its not gas lighting, I asked a simple question.
And who said I owed you anything? What?
Please flag: https://steemit.com/@themarkymark/puvfh2
There is still time to get it below 0.020
LOL
Thanks for all the votes. You inspire me to keep doing what I do.
Your persistence might be admirable if it was actually effective. Got nothing worthwhile to do?
self-voted to counteract downvotes that might reduce visibility.
Agree!
Nothing ingenious about selecting representatives to line their own pockets first. Anybody without a high school diploma can do it.
Not saying they should not be paid, as long as they keep their hands off the delegations they are directed to allocate.
100% agree on conflict of interest here.
flag for speaking to this piece of shit anthonywhatevas! butch I tat u was smart net?
I am not sure what words you are trying to express.
Here read this, this is why i called u an idiot for talking to marky!
https://steemit.com/steemd/@coininstant/i-guess-it-is-about-time-to-finally-un-vote-steemd-as-my-witness-i-think-they-blocked-me
Also you need to read it on partiko or something because steemit blocks my posts! sorry about that!
here
Every time I try and use steemd.com to look up my comments and stuff, they never seem to appear anymore, & I get this message below instead:
And then I always get this message too!
I also always run into this message below!
#Time for me to stop voting for them for witness, I think they are corrupt! Must be the global blacklist or something else going on!
I only vote for 2 witnesses, now this new removal will take me down to one! Un-Voting @steemd in the morning if my stuff is still broken! I will add @parriko for witness to replace @steemd! This is getting ridiculous, there is not going to be any way for me to access my account any more if everybody keeps blocking me like this! #onmyown! Seriously this is all @themarkymark’s fault! He’s the one doing all this to me, slandering me calling me the troll. Truth is he’s way worse than me, and he is the real troll! Just go look at the vote history and see how irresponsible he is flagging all my posts for months. Pretty soon I’m just going to concentrate on downvoting everybody who votes for @themarkymark for witness, no excuses! I’m going to start making my list!
Also anybody I see voting for him will be eligible for my downvote too! I don’t know what else to do but try to get rid of him as a witness! So if anybody out there wants to help, just make sure you don’t vote for @themarkymark for witness! That would help me a lot! Here is an example below from today.
Someone send me a list of everyone voting for markymark! I’m going to have to go after them one by one! Heres another:
Ok I guess I got time for one more, he even downvotes my sunset photography:
In the morning I’m just going to add more and just keep posting this over and over every single day as the list grows until somebody helps me out and listens! Goodnight!
Yeah because u mustn’t be too bright. I am mean and flag anyone caught fraternizing with my enemies. You should be able to see plainly well what is going here.
STFU!
I think it is okay for anyone to be on the committee, and you don't generally want people who are uninvolved and uninformed, but they should step aside on any specific cases when their own application (or a directly competing application) is being considered.
For that reason and others it is probably best to have a slightly larger committee.
whats with all this big upvote comment shit circle jerk stuff going on between you and enforcer? You are starting to annoy me a little bit!
u and enforcer keep fuckin’ with my friends @stimialiti and his friends, so I’m going to keep fucking with u! I seen how he has been?
If I'm not mistaken, back in the day we started flagging @stimialiti for bid bot abuse and / or spam.
So you are suddenly cool with bid bot abuse now? Funny how you change sides so quickly.
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Back in the days ain't now! I saw you praising that piece o shit enforcer, I don’t give a fuck! I can change my mind whenever I want. Idk! I’ll say whatever I want. There are no sides.
I don't think you understood the joke.
@enforcer48 shared something on our discord and I made a correlation jokingly hence the intentional strikethru on the top level comment.
@bafi respond hinting that we may have found a pattern and was telling enforcer that we need to take note.
You are making a mountain out of a mole hill. Chill out
Edit: I take that is what got you going about me "circlejerking". Instead of me seeing value in the words, you seem to want to malign me. 👌
Well enforcer flags me all the time, and also from inside a few communities a while back, and I don’t have anything to do with bidbot abuse. After taking so many false flags from enforcer and then watching how he talks to other people he flags, i just don't like him. If could do wrong false flags to me I assume he does it all over! I don’t use discord so i wouldn’t know about the context.
Fuck off I am down-voting u forever! Shaving ur- evil monies! Go to hell, don't contact me again!
Whatever you are the founder of steemflagrewards so I don’t feel sorry for you any more. I had no idea, anyone that likes the enforcer is an enemy of mine. Especially after how i saw u and marky downvote that religius fanatic yesterday very sloppily - made me see steemflagrewards true colors! You’re karma has just cone back to rooster now boy! I just disagree with ur rewards that’s all!
Plus going after this @ljungbuske like that, leading me into shame while I was simply trying to help you out, never again! I really don’t even know stimilanti, but somehow something tells me the guy is no different than me! you living in da past! I saw the stimialti was trying to defend, i couldn’t even figure out what they had done. Also enforcer let the his truth slip, too late now I saw into him. enforcer is pure sick and evil bro, and you cheer him on, thus you must be evil as can be! Have fun, i see your posts look like bidbots to me too!
Anybody making a penny more than me here gets to feel my wrath, lucky for u i pick u too!
Ok I just noticed that case and will be looking into it further.
We are not inerrant and will admit when we have made a mistake.
My flag in that instance was involved by another user via flag trail so I was not aware of the circumstances.
Autoflags are not perfect but that do a lot more good than harm. We just need to make sure mods are being careful before they invoke the power of the trail.
Quick glance on the user, they appear to be quoting passages of some religious text and providing commentary.
Subject to that commentary passing plag checks. I think we can work out a resolution for that user.
See? It's that easy. You don't have to take an adversarial stance with us just because you dislike one of our allies?
You know how to reach me. Feel free
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Steemit INC is a centralized business and their stake is theirs. The fact they are gathering people from the community to help delegate it I think is a step in the right direction.
It's called conflict of interest regardless of how you try to sugarcoat it
It’s true what you say, but let’s face it @aggroed has proven to make profitable moves and sting can’t seem to do much without him
it is not a conflict of interest, this is not a congressional hearing.
and water is not wet.
Well, if they don't want to keep their promise not to use the ninjamine to vote with, it's just one more tall one from stinc.
If they cared about the community they wouldn't use that stake to ensure that only the echo chamber gets rewarded.
I was thinking the same. The reason why we have a delegation application process in the first place could be because of these good men, of course with Steemit Inc.'s support and approval. The good part is that these folks have not been a part of Steemit core team but the community members who stand out due to their kickass work.
Also, conflict of interest arise when @aggored was chosen as the only committee member. There are other two folks as well, damn good at what they do. From different backgrounds with different projects, they will have a say as well in the delegation process. And then Steemit Inc., will(read "have to") ensure the process to be transparent and corruption free without influencing their decision. [They have mentioned this in the blog].
I think we should give all of them a chance to prove themselves as a team now. The crazy part is that things are moving forward.
#NewSteem Next Stop? Phobos!
I understand that part. I was merely pointing out the slight conflict of interest. @aggroed has contributed a lot to our ecosystem, no doubt about it.
It just seems odd to have him participate in the figurative executive, legislative, and judicial branch all at the same time.
I'm sure we will be fine, though. This place needs strong leaders to lead it out of the bear.
Aggroed is just a beast TBH. He steps up and takes on responsibly like a champion. Hats off to him.
You’re goddamn oblivious. That has become clear.
I can no longer tell the difference between that, willful ignorance, or he's been invited into the STINC inner circle.
Yes, let's place more conspiracy nuts into power positions. What a great idea.
Oh, Christ...he's a conspiracy nut too? Like a flat-earther, or just a run-of-the-mill conspiracy theorist?
The US orchestrated 9/11 kind of conspiracy theorist. I recall he thinks the earth is flat as well, I think we talked about that on the subway when I met him a few years back. His PhD in chemistry is not an illustration of his capacity for logical thought.
He's not a mean guy, I can give him that. However some of the early conversations I had with him, will forever discredit him to me.
You can certainly find blogs of his where he refers to himself as a "truther" which is just a cutie term for nutbag. There's a good reason why the man's own family doesn't enjoy his presence.
I mean, OK. He's in the legislative branch. True. Now he's in the judicial. Also true. Executive, not really. However, do you have anyone else you think would be a better fit? He or she must possess the following attributes:
Is there politics here? Meh. Sure. There ALWAYS IS! But I'm telling you, I'd rather have him deciding who gets what for the mere fact that he knows what looks like it will work and what won't. We're not here to waste resources. I don't think this is a bad decision. But I guess we'll find out, won't we?
How about you try and give me other names. And we'll debate it.
I guess by your criteria, not even the people who were in the Working Groups of the Foundation would qualify.
But, that's besides the point. Like you said, we wait and see.
I don't know who was in the working groups, and I'm sure they qualify more than anyone else. But I do think the criteria above can't hurt. I think if you're going to be going around delegating buttloads of SP, you oughta have at least some business acumen, and something to show for your dedication and personal investment.
In this case, sunk cost is a motivator....bias or not.
I totally agree with you. And maybe it's just difficult to find people who are eligible for the position and not being involved in major Steem projects.
I think so too, also i think the guys will make a great job, because there stay in puplic and nobody want drama :)
I agree. In fact, I've been WAITING for them to take the leap. Is it going to be perfect? No. Will the priority be to increase the value and usership of steem?
Yep.
Will it primarily be designed to benefit steemit inc?
Yep.
Is that a bad thing?
Nope. Not as long as the people who get the delegation are legitimately bringing in the bacon, making it a stronger place, and working toward making this platform a household name. I couldn't care LESS who gets the delegation, as long as their goal is to positively affect our growth with DAPPS and projects that bless and help others besides just us!
That delegation comes out of your share and my share.
You sure you want to advocate taking from the disfavored to benefit the favored?
Your share? Its not "your" share its not a commons, its not public property, its steemit inc's stake and the reward pool doesnt belong to you or me beyond what your upvote can provide.
Then, if that was enforced, why would anybody play this game?
Stinc already dosn't use the majority of the ninjamine against us.
That we get a share at all is because they let crumbs fall from the table.
It is them that benefits most by feeding the minnows.
Keeping the price low makes acquiring stake cheaper.
The less they take the more users we get.
If ned keeps it all for himself, nobody will want any.
Btc's price is zero, if all the coins are in satoshi's wallet.
If your friends are driving off a cliff do you sit idly by while they take you over with them?
Gross
Yeah i have actually interacted with and gotten organic upvotes from all 3 of these users and recognized all 3 of these names as TRUE steemians who I recognize as being active in the trenches, more so than myself. I feel like @aggroed deserves to get delegation for his project because it will employ so many people, and if he has to be on the committee to get that passed, its not a freakin conflict oif interests, what is this the government? This is steem and its about time community leaders are recognized, so lets applaud steemit inc's new Executive @elipowell for creating the space to allow for a delegation committee to give aggroed some credit in an official steemit inc position..... because he represents the interests of many steemians, and is a sort of Elon Musk character with his hands in many successful projects. If we just had 10 more @aggroed 's each withtheir own unique steem dapp or game as big as steem monsters, steem engine, palnet.io SCOT communities, each one a separate innovation and accomplishment...
I appreciate all of the concerns but Steemit inc cant afford to NOT have aggroed AND why shouldn't steem monsters get delegation?!
Seriously now.. think about this ... what conflict of interest is there really but your own conflict with the interests of steem and steemit inc being able to bless a successful dapp like steemmonsters with delegation otherwise going toi some other project... but with steemmonsters we could onboard and reward and Afford SO MUCH more...
conflicts of interest happen if aggroed could reward himself here, and he wont be able to. So yeah sorry, it would be a conflict of interest if he was able to fund his own projects but he wont be able to do this is all just a bunch of nitpicking from jelous people
Yeah i have actually interacted with and gotten organic upvotes from all 3 of these users and recognized all 3 of these names as TRUE steemians who I recognize as being active in the trenches, more so than myself. I feel like @aggroed deserves to get delegation for his project because it will employ so many people, and if he has to be on the comittee to get that passed, its not a freakin conflict oif interests, what is this the government? This is steem and its about time community leaders are recognized, so lets applaud steemit inc's new Executive @elipowell for creating the space to allow for a delegation committee to give aggroed some credit in an official steemit inc position..... because he represents the interests of many steemians, and is a sort of Elon Musk character with his hands in many successful projects. If we just had 10 more @aggroed 's each withtheir own unique steem dapp or game as big as steem monsters, steem engine, palnet.io SCOT communities, each one a separate innovation and accomplishment...
I apreciate all of the concerns but Steemit inc cant afford to NOT have aggroed AND why shoudlnt steem monsters get delegation?!
SERIOUSLy now.. think about this ... what conflict of interst is there really but your own conflict with the interests of steem and steemit inc being able to bless a succesful dapp like steemmonsters with delegation otherwised going toi some otehr project... but with steemmonsters we could onbaord and reward and Afford SO MUCH more...
I'm honestly not sure what it is you do aside from crazy rants on various social platforms about conspiracies and steem
It might be a conflict of interest you are fine with, but it is a conflict of interest by definition.
I honestly don't know what you do @netuoso but throw around ad hominem attacks
and what what conspiracies are those?
and what do you do anyway @netuoso ? are we comparing resumes now? How much time have you wasted building things no one uses netuoso?
what conspiracies are those? and what do you do @netuoso ? are we Steemians comparing resumes now?
You’re nothing but a fanboy shill.
Let's look it up in the dictionary:
You may well be right that @aggroed's delegation proposal deserves to be approved. If so then people on the committee without a direct personal interest should see that too.
And aggroed is not allowed to gift his own projects, obviously, so just no, sorry , not a conflict of interest and @steemit @andrarchy and @aggroed will agree
if you start calling conflict of interest on everyone with a successful steem project then you will have no one left to fill the positions
this is nit picking
Free delegation to one's own project is certainly a personal benefit. Denying said delegation to a directly competing project would also be a personal benefit. Read the definition again, it doesn't say anything about gifting.
Nowhere did I say people should be excluded from the positions, only that they should decline to take part in specific decision where there is a direct conflict. This is easy to do and not disruptive as long as there is a slightly larger committee or alternates.
Practically every decision making body in the world uses this procedure.
Gifting delegation, giving delegation, your just arguing semantics now...
When i said gift you knew what I meant, delegating... gifting a delegation, giving a delegation, great what have we done here? argue semantics, cool
no one is giving free delegation to ones own project and no one is going to deny others LOL
Its a catch 22! under your scenarios @aggroed can't help but do something wrong!
And please, tell us about how we should just start using the rules and regulations put forth by all the existing governments on earth, yeah great idea. Should we start using Roberts Rules of order while were at it? Why not just start electing representatives for each region, to spend delegation based on geographic population densities... why not just turn steemit inc into the government where we can't ever get anything done because of all the red tape!
Read this: your nitpicking and arguing semantics.
!dramatoken
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lol they never really cared about decentralization, boy!
dont believe what people tell ya. next step would be voluntarily paying compulsory levy..
wait.
I thought we already do? lol
Yeah. That's the joke.
Thats why I wrote wait
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There was never the ,,decentralized part'' in this story.
It's just a buzz word.
And you are correct.
It's not a bad thing really. I think most of us care more about this place being successful than
decentralized.For me decentralization would be success.
Money is not everything.
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einfach zurrück lehnen. Es wird bald richtig dumme Gesichter geben :)
PS. people here dont get the point of what they call "decentralization". Centralization brings efficiency but introduces fragility to a system: a brain is highly efficient but a small aneurysm can destroy the integrity of the system and kill the organism within a few seconds. Centralization only works when its generated by an evolutionary algorithm. When you force an entity into a centralized role (like in a "Putsch") the system dies shortly after. This is why dictatorships fail.
A dPOS System or a DAO can only exist in a decentralized fashion ... by definition. You either can have a heavy centralized and efficient but fragile system or you have a maximum redundant DAO which is by design platform grade censorship-resistant and tamper-resistant but really resilient and inefficient OR you have BULLSHIT
Crypto-illiteracy and stupidity. PPS. we should shut the fuck up we are not business-minded and dumb kids :3
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Keep dreaming.
I will. One of the last few..
All you others just do what u're told?
offtopic: do you have an oldtimer, or is it just ur name?
Just a steem name.
Well, you can have your decentralized among the few thousand of you (who really care and would stay JUST for the decentralized aspect, itself). I'd rather have slightly less centralized than what's out there (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc) with many millions of active users.
Decentralization for decentralization's sake simply isn't an attractive enough proposition to bring longevity (success) to this, or any, platform, IF by "success" we aim to include anything beyond one percent of one percent of once percent of potential users (at the order of merely thousands of active users).
I'm not in the "more the merrier" camp by any means, but there's a line where you're simply irrelevant as a "get the word out there" platform, and it's WELL ABOVE the 4~8 thousand active user level. It's probably more around the million to 10 million active users, on the low end, 100 million just to be safe.
Maybe, maybe not. But, at least this way, business-minded people like me and you can actually throw something together that has a fighting chance in this god-forsaken world of upvotes.
Maybe it's nothing more than a symbiotic relationship. But I'll tell you what. Why don't you go find another place anywhere else in the world where you can get this kind of delegated support to charge up your own business, without having to do a credit check, offer a collateral, and give over your first born child just to get ahead?
Delegation will go to those who have a plan to grow the blockchain from outside in. Tell me how that is NOT decentralized.
Delegations will go to the chosen ones.
When you'll find one from outside the USA, please let me know.
100% agree. It's bullshit.
Since @aggroed is one of the few top20 witnesses without a vote from @freedom, I would say he is the people’s candidate. Sure he has conflicts of interest, but anyone who would be an acceptable candidate will as well. If the platform succeeds, he is a very wealthy man and that will make us all very happy. A rising tide lifts all boats.
Not even close to accurate
You've got DRAMA. You are going to be a Whale!
To view or trade
DRAMAgo to steem-engine.com.To have proper governance we need to have a conversation about who controls the repos. That's why btc chainsplit and Steem is not immune . It has lost some "steem" obviously , users left for other chains because they felt their voice wasn't heard.(many dpos forks exist now) Let people debate and have a voice and this chain can/will change the world . It's the best data chain I know of, we only need more nodes and liquidity. Without decentralization and liquiditiy, the best technology in our field means nothing to the future investors .
Yeah, here's the problem with these conflicts...
With the Steem Alliance, he's sitting on the board (if I'm not mistaken) and will presumably have rather large influence over foundation proceedings, procedures, and any kind of committee selections they make there (if any). Of course this is assuming that this foundation actually goes anywhere. As more time passes, it looks like this will probably be defunct soon, or rendered pretty much irrelevant.
As a committee member for this STINC delegation, he will be charged with approving or disapproving support for businesses and/or development and marketing projects that may very well compete with his own - or he will be charged with approving or disapproving support for those businesses and projects that directly and positively impact his own projects/community.
As the owner of Steem Engine, he has many different token owners, communities, and developers that will likely be submitting delegation and funding requests from both the foundation (if it becomes a thing) and STINC's delegation program. Any funding or delegation for these tokens/communities/developers will very likely directly and indirectly benefit him financially.
Sure, aggroed (actually, his developers) get some stuff done (whether it has made a difference in adoption or value is certainly debatable), but there's absolutely no reason why he ought to be on this delegation committee. Can STINC really not find a third person to take that spot instead? Were there only three potential candidates? If so, we're worse off than I had originally thought.
Who, excluding yourself, would you have liked to see in this position then?
It seems rather unlikely to me that there'll be many with a proven record on Steem that has not already built or run something which could have a conflict of interest.
You seem to think that every user on Steem is somehow involved in businesses or projects that would conflict with vetting people and making decisions about delegations. I can tell you that most users have no such roles in businesses and projects. And as @jamesbrown said - there is a much larger ocean outside of this tiny Steem puddle.
But more to the point...
Why must we have Aggroed and somebody who does work for Aggroed (Eonwarped) on this committee, given the many conflicts that Aggroed himself has in all of this? Why must we have Starkerz on this committee, given his role in at least four projects on Steem (Oracle-D, Promo-Steem, 3Speak, and the SBA through his role with Oracle-D) - which I assume would be seeking delegations, as at least one of them I know has received delegation from STINC already?
Two of the three committee members have major conflicts of interest and one has a conflict through his work with one of them. And all three, as far as I can tell, have pretty much zero relevant business/social media experience when it comes to vetting viable projects for this blockchain. That's the underlying issue. The conflicts of interest just make this much, much worse.
Why are we getting the ninjamine used against us?
I thought this was settled years ago.
Stinc doesn't use the ninjamine to vote.
Has that policy been changed?
It would be inline with maximizing stinc shareholder take.
STINC is under new management. And they apparently want to make Steem suck even worse than it has under previous management.
Lol, of course they do, these are all features, not bugs.
Will they ever learn?
Smdh.
Isn't this post about Steemit stake being used to vote? SteemIt isn't voting manually but their stake, the Ninja mined stake, is being used to vote.
So yes, the policy has apparently changed.
Not much we can do about that but wait for them to dump?
Golos, here we come!
Same folks ruining them, ruining us.
Smdh.
All hail, stinc!
There's a big world outside of the Steem blockchain of potential "recruits" (with their own track-records in related fields) for a governance position. It doesn't have to come from within this small pond.
Then you would have to set aside a budget to pay those people a wage. They wouldn't do it voluntarily.
Even at current prices this is an asset worth many millions of dollars that is being managed. A budget is not unreasonable.
Of course. If public image is of any importance to Steemit, side stepping situations such as we find here with @aggroed (conflict of interest) should be a high priority, IMO.
It all boils down to a very simple question: is more money gained/ lost in the long-run (all things considered) by hiring on someone from the inside with a blatantly obvious conflict of interest or from the outside, in someone who requires an additional wage (but is also likely more qualified for the position, as he/she is chosen from a pool that consists of billions of people compared to the few thousand that exist on chain, and doesn't come along with the COI label)?
My guess is that investor confidence in Steem is not high at the moment (feel free to guess why I've come to that assessment). I also guess that it'll not grow from Steemit's decision here, but I could be wrong. Time (money) will tell.
Considering that delegations are going to further dilute everyone else's vote, we need to be very judicious about any and all delegations. Plus, could we get some people in here with no conflicts of interest please? Nothing personal, they seem like decent candidates, but a conflict of interest should make them ineligible.
I would just like to take this moment to say that if @eonwarped can’t improve a situation, then it just isn’t possible. He helps me so much, pretty much DAILY! Excellent little list of wizards here. Cheers all around!
❤️❤️❤️
-Serena
lol. I think the steem ecosystem demands some kinda other care than you..
All you want to do is complain.
Lol. Never called you names or anything similar.
I just think, imho, that ur subjective experience about a person has no correlation to his knowledge and skills in another topic.
Have a good night.
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Ahh, well that’s not what you said is it? Anyway.. I apologize for being rude.. (deleted that) I had a bad day and that was misplaced frustration on my part. Have a good night as well.
Aww isn't that nice.
I agree... @eonwarped is a good dude and i believe he is a good choice for this committee!
This is really awesome to see. All three of these people ABSOLUTELY deserve to be there and it was a great move for Steemit to pic people from the community that have proven track records of adding value to this chain.
Please feel free to ignore all the haters. You guys are renewing my faith in Steemit.
Hater translated to - Any opinion/response other than "Yes good, I like this, ooga ooga, me monkey, Eee Eee Eee!"
Thanks! We appreciate it!
Seriously? That is the one comment that you’ve acknowledged and replied to?
He only responds to echos.
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Even though it is a bit weird that someone applying for a delegation is in the delegation committee as well, I think we’re moving forward.
Good to see you started moving fast on your promises. Hope committee would also make quick assessments and announce their decisions.
Den Bock zum Gärtner machen.
To let the dog watch the sausage.
Pretty solid team you have chosen there. Some of the best people on the blockchain with proven track records of helping out the system. Good call.
me choices. I respect these men on Steem blockchain. They have proven capacity and integrity for this. Congratulations @Aggroed @eonwarped and @Starkerz. We all look up to you three for developing Steem projects and communities.
So two techies and a college chemist are deciding on business/finances and social media influence?
Makes perfect sense to me. What a diverse and knowledgable “committee.”
And since this wasn’t answered from the last post...
How much total STEEM will be available from Steemit, Inc. accounts for this delegation program?
I work with Matt & can personally vouch for his work ethic and a keen eye to details. As the post says, he has managed multi-billion dollar projects, so he is overkill when talking about managing the delegation of millions of dollars in Steem.
The reputation for Aggroed speaks for itself & Eonwarped is very highly trusted & respected in the Steem community. I think it is a great starting lineup.
I have no problem with @eonwarped and told him as much myself.
The other two? They already have too many entanglements with other Steem projects and I see no need for them to be on a three-person committee.
And I'm sorry...I'm not impressed with these resumes. I have no idea who Matt is and what these "billion-dollar" projects are. I can only tell you that not many people could accurately explain what Oracle-D is or does and 3speak has been quite messy so far. The Steem Business Alliance is pretty much unknown and hasn't really done much to date either. So based on his Steem "success," we don't have much to go on to judge his "keen eye" and to gauge his achievements.
If these guys are on a larger committee, then that's great. But a three-person committee to decide on the future membership of the committee and doling out delegations? It could have been done much better. And that's a severe understatement.
Did you even read the post?;)
And one techie guy :D
“Working for” isn’t exactly managing.
And “managing multi-billion dollar” projects can be claimed by anyone. I’d be interested to know what those projects were and how he “managed” them.
Inflating resumes is easy to do. Did you know that I own a company with $783 million dollars in assets? I’ve also operated two non-profits that have given over half a billion dollars to third-world medical facilities and school programs.
Maybe I should be on a committee too! Where do I apply? :)
Why would they delegate free steem when people can go out and invest, it’s like a free chance at business when it’s not your money at stake
Yeah, I tried making this point when they announced their new delegation plans. Nobody seems to understand how harmful their delegation practices have been, are, and will continue to be.
So they can delegate it to themselves disguised as someone else? Then break da rules, circle jerk it off some more, pretend to be nice and cancel the delegation and look like the upstanding STINC, rinse & repeat! I don't know any other reason? If it is STINC it is STINC! lol good point made me think again? hmmm...
sorry, your too ugly
😂😂😂 you win steemit today.
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His what is too ugly?!
Baraka is too ugly? Sounds pretty racist to me. :)
lol, i'm amazed anyone votes for you as witness with teeth like that. i mean you look like someone who would eat my children! oh wait i do vote for you haha. Cassie Cage or sub zero maybe:)
That's all?
That’s just one company. I own eleventy-six others.
I own all the land and every chicken.
Unhand my cocks sir!
I'd vote for that.
I'll also be a canary in the coal mine.
Agree.
This post looks more like a reputation polishing..^^
@ats-david:
I have the hunch... that I should be launching myself as a candidate for this committee too. };)
Here you can find the info you need:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-starkey-90ba2719/
I've met Matt personally and he's given me no reason to think he was embellishing his past work experience (due to copious amounts of details he's added). Of course, I'm just a random guy on the internet, but I'm merely stating my own experiences with Matt. Given that there are other people here who've had similar experiences, I'd say that it's fairly trustworthy to use these opinions as some form of vetting.
I’m sure he’s smart and a nice guy and, as an engineer, has worked with projects where assets and equipment were worth a lot of money. That’s great.
But what does that have to do with identifying and vetting legit startups and other businesses and what does it have to do with or tie into the social media aspects of this platform?
We really don’t need more tech and engineering types making decisions about “winners and losers” around here...which was my original point.
To be fair, aggy has proven himself (at least to me) as very savvy on the social and token economics side.
By "savvy" do you mean "pandering to 'minnows' as a faux populist?"
And by "token economics" do you mean that he created a (questionably legal) centralized shittoken creation service and exchange and offers people Steemit clones?
You must be easily impressed!
amirite? :)
Here's why it makes sense.
@aggroed has 10 years of start-up experience, with his most recent personal endeavor contributing to 20% of the daily usership on the blockchain, with a net positive contribution to the value of steem. Chemistry? Sure. He's figured out the formula. He could have had Matt build this elsewhere, and chose to do it here.
@aeonwarped - are you kidding me? He and @holger80 wrote the steem engine Nitrous and user interface when it's the closest thing we have to SMT's (which YOU said we were not ready for. But I digress) with a liquid 600,000 steem and counting. Tell me what you don't like about that.
And @starkerz? Inflated resume? takes deep breath....takes another deep breath....counts to ten You know you're pushing if you piss off littlescribe.
So here's my analysis -
a) you're doing it for the ratings
b) you're jealous
c) you need to get laid
I could probably help you with one or two of those, but I'm not going to say which.
And/Or tell me who you would recommend in their place. And I'll tell you if I disagree.
Oh no, I can't take credit for all of the SMT-lookalike. @holger80 deserves most of the credit in that. I manage the front ends that talk to the bot that he set up. But I'll grant that I am an important part of it all too :)
Now that Ats went after everyones CVs i have to ask one question:
😂😂😂
How many billion dollar projects have you managed Eon? Huh?
Any less then 3 and youre out!
We dont want no million dollar project freeloaders up in here.
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OK. I made the correction. But I guess it doesn't matter cuz I got hid. How can you tell who hid you? Is there any way?
This is the first time I've ever been 'HIDDEN'. I feel like I've reached a whole new level.
Yes, unhide the comment and click the votes count. Ats downvoted.
Hey. Who's that guy hiding in the trees behind you?
I dunno but I checked my other photos and he seems to be everywhere. Should I be worried?
!dramatoken
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In the post, it says this committee is free to include others in this process. Who would you recommend they include?
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Eonwarped is a legend who I would back. With the skill-set and critical mind I believe will lend an edge of caution and strategy when deliberating over a project to determine its worthiness of garnering a delegation. Can't think of any reasons to reject that member of the committee.
But who is starkerz? The name makes me think of getting nude, is this because of the honesty and transparency offered by this particular user? or more of a alignment with blockchain tech in general, as the ledger is open (most of the time). But I digress, this particular individual will surely be a valuable member of the committee as they are obviously already an established professional user of multiple platforms, and in my opinion a keystone in establishing a presence in the real world from this platform.
My 2 cents, take it with a grain of salt.
Keep steeming on.
Love you guise. <3
All three of them needs to agree on the account and tier before they forward it to stinc so I don't aggroed can get away with MSP/PAL favoritism
Sounds like a great stalling tactic for any projects you don't like.. Just disagree.
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Id say this is a good move. Each one of these guys deserves to be in this position.
A conflict of interest? Sure. Maybe. But i dont really care.
I care about right people doing right things.
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If I told you he is lying about his work history and could prove it to you would you change your mind? Honest question here.
Thanks
Not one bit. I look at what hes doing for steem, what all these guys are doing and they deserve this spot.
As long as he wasnt a part of any criminal activity im ok with him not having a phd, being a shitty salesperson in the past or cleaning toilets for a living.
I really dont care.
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You don't think that if the gentleman can't even be honest about the PHD thing that he may fail to be honest about other important matters? In the case of public interest I think it is important people know the truth. I mean if he is a great guy, fine. But why lie about the PHD? Why not just say I do X, Y, And Z? Why even lie? Let your good reputation stand on its own. Don't build a false reputation for the public built on lies is all I am saying.
Cheers man
As i said. I dont care about his rl reputation. Only what he does here.
Ive seen marketing experts with a body of work fail here at the job theyre qualified to do and ive seen people with much less background do a lot more good.
So really. If hes lying thats on him but as ling as he keeps doing what hes doing ill be in support.
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Thanks for your 2 cents. Your time is appreciated.
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We gon getcha smidgy. Just you watch.
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Awesome news, a step in the right direction!
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interesting.
Certainly explains the actions or inactions of some within the Foundation.
Are you talking about Aggroed? The guy who pretty much said during foundation proposal creation that his main purpose was to get STINC's money?
I guess dragging his feet(?) in the foundation makes sense now that we've learned he'll actually get his hands on STINC's money. I wonder how easy it was for him to manipulate @elipowell and stab others in the back...
It feels like consolidation of power and control. It feels like centralization.
I am slightly concerned about potential conflicts of interest with applicants also being committee members.
What assurance, if any, can Steemit Inc. provide that the committee will remain impartial in such instances?
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OK. I had the same question. And I don't think there is a sure fire way. However, I do know there are certain criteria each proposal must absolutely meet before being approved. And frankly, I get the feeling the people on committee will likely be more inclined to decline applications that benefit their own projects, for the sheer appearance of evil.
Do we have to keep doing this the hard way?
Let's go back to 'its a dao'.
And 'we aren't responsible to anybody'.
Stop picking winners and making losers of everybody else, please.
You may get away with this in the short term, but the backlash is coming.
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Congrats, guys. Couldn't have picked a better bunch.
Nothing wrong with those people, but I do kind of get tired of seeing the same people given responsibilities or roles of authority all the time. If this is a large community with diversity of responsibilities we should see a larger variety of characters taking the lead for new projects.
I keep seeing the same people, often top witnesses, getting additional authorities. That's just not ideal for decentralization and democratic systems. Don't get me wrong, its Steemit's SP, so by all means do what you want with what is yours. But I'm just saying...
I do kind of get tired of seeing the same people given responsibilities or roles of authority all the time.Couldn't agree more.
Same here. Centralization of power in a few people, that's not at ALL what I want to be part of. Even if those people are amazing. It's nothing personal.
OK. That's fair. Can't say I disagree. However, this is a LOT of SP we're talking about. It's a YUGE responsibility. We can't just dish it out mamby pamby, ya know? I mean, keep in mind, it's free, basically. free use of gobs of SP. It reeeeeeaaaaally needs to be handled fairly delicately. Not saying there are other people who can't do as good a job. But I mean, we kind of screwed up last year and basically gave the goose away.
In a democratic system we could have Jerry Banfield in charge of what project gets passed on. I am not sure about these committees or what they really are for, such as this one, and then there is the Steem Alliance Non-Profit, (currently looking for a bank last I read), One has to wonder why so much effort is being put into decentralizing the responsibility of Steem Inc? Sorry just a tad cynical lately about a lot of things.
We didn't do it, talk to blah blah over at blah blah committeeGood starting point and certainly an improvement from how it has been done previously.
Still think it is vital that while the committee should be flexible and efficient in how they appprove new projects for a delegation, the community should have a mechanism to opt the receivers of the largest delegations out should it fail to live up to the requirements stated in the first document of delivering sustainable value to the community at large.
They do. It has a quarterly review. Every recipient has to reapply every 4 months. AND, if a recipient sucks, for any reason, they can yank it. For no reason. And, recipients have to be willing to sign contracts, to handle their delegation as they have been asked to. Or rather, as they proposed to, and for which they received approval. If they deviate, the delegation gets yanked, theoretically.
This is where I think having extra sub committee members will come in handy.
Same faces everywhere.
Steemit Inc.'s money, they can do with it as they wish.
Simple as that.
I am now wondering what the purpose of The Foundation shall be since from what I recall, this was in fact going to be one of the core (fundamental) responsibilities of The Steem Foundation.
Just interested in hearing it direct from the source.
Would love to hear what our Community organized Steem Foundation thinks too.
@bluefinstudios , @shadowspub and all the others voted in to do the job for fellow Steemians.
Lot's of things regarding the initial promises of the foundation didn't pan out.
Remember the funding, remember the proposals?
When it all came together after months of work the first task asked was plans for meetups. ;) Like we needed a series of elections to create that.
I'm still a bit salty.. don't mind me.
I hope that shadowspub and bluefin can still find a way to make it useful but the plan that was pitched simply didn't happen.
What do you mean? I'm a little confused. Are you saying they were promised funding, wrote up a plan, and didn't get it? Please elaborate. Salty noted.
Yes, I am saying there was promised funding. Ned promised it on and off the air on several shows, in several chats. There was a huge project and 3 or 4 community elections. There are still people working on it.
After 4 elections and several plans, I resigned when the first task was "write up plans for Meet ups" to build trust. Why would that task require several community elections, appearances on talk shows and 10 or more community proposals.... It didn't.
There are others still on the committee and the funds for legalizing it did happen. However, it seemed like an endless set of hoops to jump through, a moving goal post and a complete disregard for people's time and effort.
That foundation was also discussed as a potential place for community projects to be discussed and handed to the SPS, delegations, and other funding issues that required community input and consensus. I have no idea what is happening with it all now.
I have a great respect for the others on the team and hope they can still turn it into something meaningful.
Yeah, wasn't it a 6 million donation in STEEM from Steemit to the foundation originally and then it became something way smaller?
Thx for the reminder, I almost forget that part of our history.
WTF!!! See, how they played us, again and again... I am rage quiting!!!
No need to rage quit, just accept data when it is presented.
I wondered what had happened to those alliance posts...that's a bit sad !!
You know my views on the chain of events from back in that "era", not to mention anything here that could get people going "off-topic".
You and I agreed on the nature of the events after some discussion. So to beat that horse that isn't dead, can only lead to that horse kicking us really hard.
Which no rational person would want.
;)
PS. No, you are not "salty", you say things as you see them, nothing wrong with that in my books.
Cheers.
It’s not over yet. Still just starting!
Yeah, as I said.. I hope it creates some value in the future.
It never was (at least not officially) intended that the foundation would be in control of the delegation funds. It was only ever suggested that they ought to be represented somehow in the decision-making process.
I get that with all lf the ideas and suggestions being thrown around of what the foundation could or should be, it would be easy to confuse Inc's words and promises from community suggestions and assumptions.
"Controling delegation funds" was always going to be exclusively Steemit Inc.
The Foundation was often presented in a way that was easily understood (and justifiable legitimately) to be a community liaison for Steemit Inc. on many matters, including but not limited to topics such as "Delegation of SP for projects".
But from what I see, it has all been made very clear now, crystal clear.
;)
It still could be at some point. I don't think the time-lime for when it would be ready to take ln certain plausible responsibilities was clear? Only what Steemit Inc would potentislly like it to do?
What it looks like to me is there will be more lined up, sub committee members or whatever from the foundation. And lots of stuff to do. Not just delegation, but the overseeing of it. Three dudes can't do it all.
There will need to be pre-screening, screening, review, final review, requests for modifications, then approval, and contracts must be drafted, and reviewed, and executed, then followed up on. And then there's the whole "did they do as they promised" bit. There needs to be a team of intelligence and analytics, basically. I mean, who's gunna make sure these blokes don't go upvoting stupid crap, or running off with the shared custody of said SP baby?
Lots to do. I think everyone will be busy. And if anything, prolly there's just silence from the INC. due to the need to reduce rumor-mongering.
But, in this case, it might be best to communicate to certain people who were involved from the beginning. Cuz from what I can tell, the ones who are complaining are trustworthy individuals, who deserve explanations. IMHO.
Could be.
I guess you and whatsup are on the same page. And I missed the memo. So there's a "foundation" thing I missed. And it turned into a committee that simply delegates SP. Where did the foundation go? What was it meant to do? And why did it change?
Maybe there could be a sub committee, or prescreening committee with @bluefinstudios and @shadowspub.
Yeah, maybe.
Great guys, the trio , the moderate the delegation process!! But my little misgivings is why hamstring them , by vetting their recommendations as intended??
To avaoid human errors of judgement and undue favouritism as some has suspected in @sterkerz, the number of the committee could be extended to neutralize errors of judgement!!
In all, the results shall bring about a new watershed in the journey of steemit block chain !!
Bravo to the committee!!
I agree that no one acting as a representative for this program should be allowed to have ownership in projects receiving benefits from the program. That is just a logical rule.
Hmm...
Nope, still doesn't sound good to me. Probably a really solid committee, but this is probably another thing that will make things worse for everyone.
need someone can bring steem back to $8 dollars again because now steem is boring
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Not too concerned with who or what apart from obviously you are gonna get shit for some well obvious thing :). I would very much like to just see the memes and I feel like Matt is the main boss with the two henchmen, somehow shredder comes to mind or maybe biker mice... mmm thinking caps on.
Congrats to the committee members.
Cool, but I just wish I knew why y'all let bid bots destroy the content discovering mechanism of Steemit. It's awesome that some tribes are fixing this on their end, but it's counter productive that this vote buying still dominates Steem. As pleased as I am about these recent developments, I still don't know why y'all would kill off one of the main features and making the trending page into something different entirely. It doesn't instill confidence, especially seeing how doable it is after starting my own tribe.
when you say "recent developments" you must be referring to the 50/50 vote split and the 20% downvote HF21? In which case I would ask, what do you mean by "I still don't know why y'all would kill off one of the main features and making the trending page into something different entirely."
You were just buying PAL votes the other day? You ruin the system prick! I don't understand where you get off!
I like this. That's all I got.
Nice move. Is there a total cap for delegations?
lol...you really think they're going to respond to this?
Even if they did, it would likely be a lie or otherwise inaccurate.
Congratulations guys.. Looking forward to your work
I am following these two people @aggroed and @starkerz from some months. As mentioned above they have done a lot of contributions on the block chain and involved many other projects. Hope they continue as they are and help the people who are making awesome things and in need for delegation. Wishing all the best to the team.
STEM people, FTW!
would just like to take this moment to say that if @eonwarped can’t improve a situation, then it just isn’t possible. He helps me so much, pretty much DAILY! Excellent little list of wizards here. Cheers all around!
❤️❤️❤️
-Serena
Traducción rápida al Spanish...
Estos son los individuos que tenéis que agasajar para intentar rascar algo xD
Me parto.
Very beautifully visualized! :D
Very interesting choice. I have high regard for them all. Did not see this one coming.
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You could have just kept this on GitHub. It's addressed now. This was an oversight on my part and of course I apologise for it and we are dealing with it properly now.
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Sure I've removed it here.
I also think it happened due to steem-engine & scot fast-paced dev process. But since you're also a witness and now even a committee member, I'd really appreciate if you don't miss such details, especially regarding appreciation to community contributors.
Thanks for your hardworking!
Yes noted. It really should not have happened
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This is really good news! Happy to see good people working for the future of steem delegations ♥
These all seem to be smart business minds. I'm sure there will be a lot of scrutiny of their decisions to keep them in the chains best interest. For me any change in the status quo is a good thing. Wishing them luck with this task.
Congrats @aggroed @starkerz @eonwarped
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Congratualtions to all on your ascendency!
You are all capable and accomplished individuals obviously connected to Steem and love it.
Individually the choices make sense, however collectively, it seems to be all coming from similar backgrounds with similar interests.
I think at least one member should have community or marketing experience so we can get better insights on how to community or market will react to any proposals.
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