At least you may have done @ned a service
One example of how Oracles could be used is as a means of validating that an account belongs to one person and is that person’s only account.
From the post Ned Scott and @theoretical of Steemit Explore Oracles on Steem
While maybe not perfectly clear there was a mechanism in place to be removed from the list :
You are free to search the list, and if you feel you are wrongly outcast then you can contact the blacklist provider. Please contact @paulag on steemit for the exclusion list.
Most people that run list/bots/or whatnot have no problem dealing with respectable inquiries when in disagreement.
and firing blame on loss of support being down to my list, that in fact was viewed just 6 times before the additional publicity given by yesterday’s breakdown by people,
I was one of those 6 viewers, and I gave feedback on my experience with it to her, as she had requested in the post.
Now I do not know what happened on day 4 of the post, and I do not know what happened prior to the breakdown, did anyone contact her to discuss the issue? or just make an accusatory knee jerk reaction?
People on steemit are all from various cultures. To me I see and accept this post as it was meant by @paulag, an apology and recognition that the list needed some more work. 1person1account list is going to be created. It does not matter if people want it, or like it, or accept it as a fact or not. It was an example, (the first example) that @Ned used while talking about Oracles and SMT in the post above.
Change is never easy, people get set in their ways, and can not understand why something needs to be changed. Cultural Values are different, and have and do cause problems when neither group wants to understand the other. I have no clue where @paulag is from or what her culture is like, but as I stated above, I accept this as an apology, although in all honesty I do not know why all the negative reactions for her trying to do something that @ned has sort of requested.
Is not one of the jobs of Witness to work for the vision of steemit? Are not whitelist something that @ned has called for to enable the continuation of the development of SMT's? I hope we are not becoming a knee jerk reactionary community where everyone is accused of wrongdoing, while trying to do their job.