When I saw this typo withdraw yesterday, I immediately messaged 3 of the top witnesses: justyy, project7(steemhunt), and jayplayco. I hope they will do the right thing and help you out to resolve the situation.
I messaged them again with the link to this post. I hope everything will be resolved.
If not we should consider a Hive Proposal System to compensate the victims of these hostile actions be reimbursed in Hive tokens.
It's a nice thought but I don't think we should be paying for this. Not Hive's mess to clean up. That would also open the door for other accounts to be frozen on Steem with an excuse offered one could simply dip into Hive's pocket.
I understand. It was just thought since victims have no other options to take.
Obviously it isn't Hive's fault but anyways we could support him only by voting him some post, a funding campaign is also possible but as you said that solution has its problems. Either way leave the solution to legal actions seems very difficult to me.
No. These are terrible ideas. Then everyone and their grandma would be setting up situations where they lost money, true or not, and expecting a damn handout/bailout from Hive. Not happening.
I'm not suggesting to do that for everyone, just in this case that is checked, anyways I understand what you say and your reticence.
There was a member on Steem long ago who was careless with his keys and ended up losing funds. I knew him for a long time. Not very well, but enough to know he was telling the truth. He wasn't asking for anything but I thought I'd help him out so I passed him 10 SBD which at the time was worth somewhere around $100-$150, I can't remember. Another time I had heard a family member of someone I knew in the community had passed away, she wasn't asking for donations, but I passed her enough funds to cover the costs of at least drinks for everyone at the social gathering after the service. I've handed out a few unexpected birthday gifts.
I've also stumbled across a million and one cases where people are asking for money and I did not give them anything. The point is, charity can't be forced upon a community. If you want to help, give them some money. Don't ask everyone else to give them money, if you're the one who is wanting to be helpful. Because all that does is put everyone else in a spot where they appear to be selfish, while the one truly doing nothing looks like a savior.
That's not directed at anyone. Just some wisdom I've picked up over the years that I thought I'd share.
Lol mate, I don't want to put anybody in a bad position, I don't want to appear as a savior, even I'm not forcing anyone to give any money. My initial suggestion was to vote some posts to help which in my point of view is free, only waste your voting power.
I understand for what you wrote that a funding campaign is too much to ask and that could be dangerous in the way you pointed out.
I'm aware that many other people is helping much more than I do.
I know because I oftenly readed your post that you're a good guy, veteran in steemit who earned his money with effort, but seriously you can't write that last paragraph saying that is not directed to anyone when your answering me, and pretend that I won't feel alluded by that. Is a good rethoric trick to make clear your points in which I can generally agree but that make me feel like an idiot for prentend be helpful and imo isn't fair.
It wasn't my intention to make anybody to feel bad or selfish but if I did I apologize for that.
I was just... telling you a story in an attempt to explain how I see things, with words. It wasn't directed at you, I made that clear. I apologize if you took it personally. It was never my intention to make you look foolish. That part in italics is something I would say to myself, since that's how I think. There's no right or wrong. Just one man's perspective. In the future I'll try harder to be more clear.
@jayplayco and all the witnesses were aware of the error within a day of the softfork and did nothing. They refuse to accept responsibility for any lost funds and say it is completely @darthknight's fault.
Seeing that @jayplayco's team has broken their written promise to not freeze any accounts they can not be trusted anymore.
FUCK THAT.
I understand your reasoning and compassion, but Steemit needs to pay him back - not us. They should also release everyone's funds immediately. This is insanity!