A soft fork was necessary to preempt a power down. If the mentioned accounts began a powerdown, this would not have been possible in the same way. There was a window of opportunity for Steem to assert itself and it was taken.
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Ah I see, no then it makes sense as to why it was turned around so quickly and the witnesses had to all come out and say yeah or nay post fork.