I've got nothing good to say. The f'd up math plan to keep the little person in their place and prevent any established whale and probably dolphin from feeling any pain ever, while screwing with people's abilities to feed their children, has left me stunned.
I've been ill the last year with one thing after another. It's left me far behind and detached from the platform while connected via private conversations on Discord to people who use STEEM platforms. The people are from all over the world. If they leave, I'm entirely gone because basically they are the only ones I care about. Well except for continuing to practice.
Basically, this week, Steemit has become a place where I will say precisely exactly any thing I wish to say on any topic. I have Zippo to lose. It is a good place to just practice my arts with or without precision. Why? Because practice is always good.
I would say more but I spent too much RC partying with @Ned on his successful release of HF20.
It was very informative to read your post. I spent some years testing software/ websites and providing in house support for software that was never ever going to work. This release AND the designed "improvements" have left me remembering scams and shams of old.
You were way easy on Ned.
If you want to read my further thoughts they are here, https://steempeak.com/steem/@marillaanne/re-ned-on-the-bridge-hardfork20-20180928t052640869z
I am going to spend time getting my witness votes in order, as you suggested.
Thank you for confirming all my worst suspicions and giving me a moment of sanity in a community of gas-lighting brown-nosers.
I always encourage people to speak their mind...to not sugar-coat things. I'm glad that you have made this decision. I've been doing it for over two years, and while it doesn't exactly work in my favor with this specific culture, nobody can say that I don't speak my mind, that I'm not passionate when I do speak, and that I don't offer constructive criticism/solutions.
Trust me when I say that I am never easy on Ned. I'm sure he can attest to that. But I do it from a place of genuine concern and hope for this blockchain. I wish others would understand that and stop acting as if criticism alone will actually be the thing that holds this blockchain back or brings it down.
I mostly cannot disagree with this description! :)
Thank you for a very non-gas-lighting and non-brown-nosing reply.
There are far too few realists left in the world. Let's blame Zig Ziegler. ;)
One of the reasons I enjoyed testing was that I actually got to point out things that weren't working without hearing, "don't be so negative." Instead I heard, "but it's working as designed."
Pretty sure the system here is, unfortunately Working as Designed, with unforseen consequences because none of the designers are eating the dog food that they are making any more, as a newbie, from a newbie perspective.
I've seen old timers say two things that are not true any more.
a well written intro post brings in a good amount of money to get started on (Maybe so If your good buddy promotes your post and buddy is well connected)
It doesn't really take that long to get to 500 sp.
Bother.
Anyway, Nice to meet you.
You may want to consider spending ten minutes of your time filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, I did last week, it took all of ten minutes. He agreed with the statement that it was time to stop discussing if Steemit is a ponzi/pyramid scheme and actually take a look at whether it actually is. When you earn money the decision should be yours what you do with it, hodl it, power up or power down but you shouldn't be held hostage to invest it back into the company for the advantage of those at that the top, nor should those at the top being given a unfair advantage over those at the bottom. If you decide to do that when they ask what the product sold is you tell them liquid steem.