Well that seems racist, my cats need to eat and need liter to poop in.
Also I think I have re-powered up every single week I've powered down (verifiable in the blockchain pretty much every Saturday for a while now), I just take what I need and attempt to keep at least a certain amount of Steem back.
Also also I sometimes need spare spendable Steem to help support Steem based projects, like those found on http://fundition.io/ - I have supported two projects and there is still one on going that I have donated at least once a week (also verifiable by the blockchain).
I still love you and will vote for you though. But through the jest way I wrote this comment, the true portion of it all is that it is not a fair assessment to make that a person is in a powered down mode is not invested in Steem and Steemit :/
Edit: So I re-read the post and I did not catch this glaring portion that relates directly to all I typed:
there are some situations that merit the powering down of your account in order to liquidate some assets
Love you even more now, stayed fair while making the message :)
Wtf, I replied to this a few days ago! The Busy front-end has certainly been having issues lately . . . Guess it wasn't submitted to the chain.
Anyways! I'm glad you went back and re-read haha, there's no way I could hassle EVERYONE that powers down. That would defeat one of the major draws to the platform, getting capital and influence. The people I intended to hassle were people who have seemed to have lost faith in all of this, people who are obviously just trying to milk it and could care less about the community or flourishing of the platform that's paying them, or people that think that they're "onto something," that intend to divest their stake here elsewhere.
Some people gotta eat, some people gotta feed the kitties, some people have stuff to support, and some people have to pay rent . . . like me right now, sadly. Gonna have to trade off some SBD as much as I hate to, but the landlord striketh very shortly.
Also, I missed the upvote window for this comment, so I'm gonna go drop that on ya somewhere else. Thanks for chiming in!