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Thanks for that.
Hey um what the fuck happened at steemit while i have been away over the last few days?
were account funds really stolen?

Yes, Justin Sun enabled the fraudulent witnesses to steal 23.6M steem in a hard fork.

Fuck !!!! hold on i just need to reattach my jaw to the rest of my face.
How many accounts ?
I just had a look at theycallme dans account because of something else i saw and its empty! nothing

Triple A claims the accounts up for seizure are those belonging to people who were, “Publicly attacking users, collecting personal information, threatening murder.” They also accuse them of spreading fake news, and damaging network stability.

https://decrypt.co/29416/steem-network-to-seize-5-million-from-its-own-users

It's a tale as old as time, "bad people" don't deserve basic human rights, including their right to hold private property.

And, the accused are presumed GUILTY until "proven" innocent, because "bad people" don't deserve anything resembling a "fair trial" or a "transparent process".

SECRECY = CENSORSHIP

COPYRIGHT = CENSORSHIP

It is a shame that people persist in being dishonest.
I can read only read this far

steem is a blockchain, while Steemit is a blogging application that runs on top. Sun bought the application but also used a large supply of Steem coins and the power of other exchanges to take over the blockchain platform too. When this happened, Steem’s diehard community built their own blockchain to escape to, called Hive.

As soon as I read distortions like that I am done reading any more.

Which part of that quote do you believe is inaccurate?

What I found shocking is that they're still stealing steem from accounts, and in all likelihood will continue as long as they can get away with it.

I'm abandoning ship.

Following our hearts and minds is the best any of us can do.

I disagree with the presented official narrative and time line. They completely ignore the unprovoked hostile actions taken directly against Steemit.inc and Sun.

The moral high ground may need to be occupied before claiming it. Solid ground is good.
Claiming that Sun acted first is a misrepresentation of facts. It is unnecessary, if they had some evidence in support of their stated fears, they should share it or start being a little more accurate with their narrative.

They are full of shit, they even went after accounts that didn't do any transactions in over 2 years.

I'm suggesting that YOU should use Benford's Law to identify fraudulent accounts and fraudulent voting patterns.

This is a fraud fighting tool.

Benford's law has been used to identify fake accounts on twitter by collecting the number of followers of suspicious accounts and then collecting the number of followers each of those followers has and running that as a data-set against Benford's law.

I think something like that would be very useful for HIVE.

And as far as timing votes for profit, I believe all votes should be equally weighted no matter who votes or what time they vote.

The "band-wagon" votes are toxic (gamified for profit only).

AND, when I first joined, there was a view counter. The consensus on why it was taken away was due to complaints POB was dead and posts with hundred(s) of votes only had like 3 or 4 views. From bidbots to autovoters it was obvious most of the highest paid posts received very few actual eyes on them. LINK

And as far as timing votes for profit, I believe all votes should be equally weighted no matter who votes or what time they vote.

That creates a different set of incentives as well. As in, there would be little point to "curate" as you earn exactly what you get regardless if it's crap or not. There needs to be more to it than simply "equal weight".

AND, when I first joined, there was a view counter.

It's a super useless feature when multiple frontends existing in our ecosystem. It was more useful when Steemit was the sole and major frontend. Now, try to make sense of that "page view" by mixing in PeakD, Ecency, different tribe frontends, etc.

BENFORD'S LAW SOLVES THE "FAKE ACCOUNT PROBLEM".

BENFORD'S LAW SOLVES THE "FAKE DATA PROBLEM".

BENFORD'S LAW CAN EVEN VALIDATE OR INVALIDATE ELECTIONS DATA AND FAKE PHOTOS.