Preaching to the choir my friend. But even as well known as I am on the platform, and with the humanitarian aid project everyone loves at first sight, I don't have a pocket full of back-slapping whales and old school buddies to make things happen, and the people that support, en masse, pretty much don't add up to a whale by themselves in total. So you can get name recognition all day, get a couple hundred witness votes and still go no where, because you aren't in the "circles" that move things. Someone like @timcliff is a total outlier who has gotten where he is on sheer hard work, contributions and a ceaseless presence. Outside of him, and a few top wits who have really SOLID contributions to the network for ALL to use, there is definitely a club at the top that is very very hard to break into at this point without a ton of imported money or some serious asskissing politics. And I'm not bitter, not in the slightest. I was ON that path and could have stayed on it, I just hated how filthy dirty it felt, and I'm much happier now climbing back up on merit rather than bullshit boosts from people who loved to use my name for profit but when it came down to brass tacks had zero real loyalty to principle and 100% loyalty to money and their precariously built positions.
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