@pfunk, Brother.
I met you years ago at Openmic, in Lucy's posts you always received credit for your great work on steemit.
I learned to admire your work on the platform.
I am Venezuelan and like many of my friends I started steemit making music. The community of Venezuelans find in Steemit an important source of income (I do not know if you are aware of the economic situation in my country).
In my particular case I had the joy of meeting Piotr and we founded Project Hope.
You have no idea how many people and families benefit from PH. I mean the real possibility of bringing food to our table, brother.
We have also developed very strong bonds of friendship.
Project Hope only seeks to remain neutral in this dispute because the future of those Venezuelan families depends on our future as a community.
Don't think that we are supporting thieves. We are really supporting content creators.
That's great, but collaborators are going to get downvoted. Not the posts they upvote, mind you, but their own posts.
I respect your decision because I suppose that it is the product of reflection and deliberation. I am sure it is not a random event.
It is a policy assumed by you and other powerful users like @theycallmedan.
You are people who have known how to win the admiration and respect of the users. Hopefully, our more than 1K subscribers do not misinterpret your actions, since it is painful to see how our beloved community is attacked.
I respect your decision, although I cannot support it.
Hi @pfunk, I hope you can answer this other question of mine:
As you know, we got the 200K SP delegation for a month from stinc, which we've used to reward our content creators inside and outside PH.
Well, this delegation will be taken from us from June 1, since we were not selected for another delegation period (apparently we do not meet stinc expectations).
Perhaps it is possible that this downvote decision that affects @project.hope will be changed from June 1, since we would not be collaborating with stinc anymore?
I also want you to know that you can count on us as a small growing community, to accompany any initiative you undertake at HIVE and that is in favor of the growth of all users and the entire ecosystem.
Your friend, Juan.