"I read the Hive post about the split. I understood it. I am not a crypto person and I had delegated my witness voting to another individual. I checked with that person to ensure they were not voting Sun's witnesses. To me it was a simple and easy thing to understand.
Now even if I did not understand it, I would still have been fine with not being air dropped. It was My Responsibility to understand it if I wanted to participate and receive the air drop."
At the time that you read that, if you had voted for Sun's socks or a proxy who voted for his socks, it would have been too late, and you would have gotten excluded from the airdrop based on the arbitrary metrics. It wasn't if you vote for Sun, we're going to fuck you. It was, fuck you, you voted for Sun. And most of those people, especially the proxied votes, may have voted months before Sun arrived on the scene. Let me see if I can dig up the GitHub that shows the metrics.
"Accounts excluded who voted a minimum of two sockpuppets or proxied someone who voted a minimum of two and who didn't unvote before the hive announcement with more than 1k sp" — GitHub
It will be interesting to see if witnesses impose vote decay
on themselves. My guess is that they won't desire to do that.