There is nothing particularly damning in your screenshots though.
Steemit is an inept amatuer website maker. The steem block chain is not steemit, inc.
There isn't much of a reason to "give two shits about steemit" really. We need to improve the ecosystem and continue to make ned and company irrelevant, since they cannot and will not code their way out of a paper bag.
And by the way, they don't even get SMTs if the top 20 don't accept that hardfork, and then steemit, inc and company is fooked and destined to be replaced by competent smaller teams like busy.org and so on. So guess who has a vested interest in gaming the chain of command on the chain?
I'll just leave that there for everyone to chew on as I have been whenever the opportunity presents itself.
But yeah, I not only don't give two shits about steemit, inc. I actively dislike the damage they do to hold back the real future of this chain, damage which is perpetuated by people not even realizing they are not the same thing at all by spreading misconceptions about how code control works here and who is responsible for what.
The top witnesses who are already in position also have a vested interest in not accepting changes that make it easier for you to climb up there, naturally.
If you think it's a mistake that despite many other places for info where you can place a vote, that the primary place users are sent to vote on witnesses only shows 50 and doesn't identify dead ones at all, while allowing a single unprompted click to immediately remove write in votes without warning, isn't on purpose? You'd be foolish to think it's just a low priority set of fixes being ignored. It's part of the manipulation attempts by steemit inc to retain yet more control over the process.
That said, a few have made it up on pure merit or pure influence. Welcome to the game. Play to win by the playground rules, or don't play. That's the option. Because the rule makers have already made it so they can be the only ones to change the rules. IF you can play to win in the current climate, you can gain the power to try and help sway a change in the climate. You just need 15 like minded individuals in the top 20.
Bottom line is you are not, as your post states, a "steemit witness" - you are a "steem witness" - and they are not the same thing, because one of the two is a No-such-thing.
Steemit is one company of many, perhaps the first, sure, but probably one of the worst on the chain in terms of competence in all departments, tech, marketing, and planning, with total fails in customer service. And there are various reasons for that. Some sheer incompetence, and some, purely self serving, short sighted and obvious to anyone with half a brain about tech and tech companies and more specifically, the history and inner workings of this dPOS/PoB block chain construct as it stands today and has stood through 19 prior hardforks.
In the end your post kind of sounds like crying at the batting box, and there's no crying in baseball, just gotta swing harder and beat the teams that play dirty, with skill.
I know.
Some people make and try to make their living here with Steemit.
"Decentralized"
I wonder how the people who do not get that "Steemit" and "Steem" are not the same things damage the platform?
I would appreciate if you stop editing your comment and write your changes below my comment @SirCork.
This ain't baseball, also no way to win with skill when the deciding factor here is power (money & influence).
Some people make and try to make their living here with Steemit.
betrays you still didn't get the point.
steemit is a shitty blog site. It has nothing else at all to do with the steem block chain other than mass conflict-of-interest overlaps into witnesses and dev projects.
you try to make your living in steem, not on steemit. steemit can die tomorrow, and probably should. steem will be fine with zappl, dlive, dtube, dsound, busy.org, dozens of condensor clone sites around the world, and on and on.
Seriously, they are not synonymous. please stop spreading that misinformation by using inaccurate words.
The chain is decentralized, and anyone can step in with about 360 million dollars and buy the top 20 slots. Or less and buy one of them. And that is exactly what has more or less happened in a round about way.
The people who do not get that they are the same things don't so much do the damage, as much as are the damage.
And...
Skill IS the ability to gain money and influence. Ever play poker, it's exactly like that.
The money usually wins, but the guy with one chip left can still outskill him to the end of the game.
I'm doing it.
Yet people who do not even know what a blockchain is, make a lot of cash here by posting on their "shitty blog site".
As a content creator I disagree and I already said why.
Again, I know the difference between the blockchain and this "shitty blog site".
I agree with that.
if this is still your position, I can't make it any clearer, since I'm out of ways to say the same basic fundamental thing again.
you try to make your living in steem, not on steemit. steemit can die tomorrow, and probably should.
you try to make your living in steem, not on steemit. steemit can die tomorrow, and probably should.
As a content creator I disagree and I already said why.
That's just innately false and completely missing the point I've spent way too much time on already.
Steemit can die, and it won't be necessary for anyone to go on doing exactly what they are doing now, on dozens of choices of locations, many much better than this one already.
I guess I get what you are saying now. Because there are alternatives like busy, dtube, etc which are based on Steem we do not "need" Steemit because you can create content on the other platforms as well.
That should be correct now.
Bingo.
I edited my comment to finish it and correct typos and shit. I had no response from you or any others on the page before I was done.
I commented before you edited your comment, you just didn't see it because you were editing, no problem.