Dear Justin Sun
Dear Justin Sun,
to answer your questions (some you've asked, some not):
1.) No, I don't want to fuck you. And I don't have anything against you. I was excited when the rumours started about an acquisition of Steemit Inc by Justin Sun . But this excitement rapidly went away in favour of mistrust and anger.
2.) No, I have no interest in taking your stake from you.
I supported the protective softfork and wouldn't change anything in my actions, because I (and many others) saw a huge threat in the PR you've pushed out after the Steemit Inc accusation (Old Steem token to be deprecated and moved over to Tron).
Also, I believe the stake has strings attached and isn't "just any other stake". You didn't buy it over the counter, you made a backroom deal with Ned Scott for the stake his company mined unfairly.
But I also see things as they are, and we, the community, can't really do anything about the stake anymore, without hard forking it out, which I will not support on this chain id.
So personally, I'm in acceptance that you own the stake now on Steem, but this does not mean I won't speak up, when I see you misusing it.
Also, I've been running the old 22.1 version for a week now (roughly).
3.) Yes, I dislike @ned and I'm very glad that this spineless liar isn't part of Steem anymore. (PS: @ned, if you read this)
4.) Yes, I condemn your actions of voting in 20 of your own witnesses, in which you basically fucked over the community and showed that Steem has huge centralisation flaws with the Steemit Inc stake. And no, just because there are a handful of people voting for your witness, does NOT mean the community is supporting you. 6800+ accounts are voting for me and I'm not even an OG witness. Your witnesses have roughly 100 votes.
5.) I will not participate in removing any public code, as even if we'd do that, what prevents us from creating private repositories or sharing the code privately some other way? You either trust the community, or you don't.
6.) I'm disgusted by your constant spread of fake news on Twitter, as well as your misuse of the SteemNetwork & Steemit twitter accounts by attacking the community who build up Steem over the last years.
7.) You should get more in touch with Steem first, before you publish & pledge massive changes. I've been here for 2 1/2 years and many even longer, so we've got some experience on hand regarding Steem. And "just changing" powerdown to 3 days or removing downvotes will have MASSIVE consequences.
8.) I'm not a hacker or malicious and I expect to have a formal apology somewhere along the near road. Same probably goes for each and every one of the other witnesses & stakeholders you accused of such.
9.) If you continue the hostile takeover, I fear that you'll push the community, who brought value to Steem, even further.
And let's not forget that Tron isn't the only SmartContract platform. Maybe for the project I'm working on, I'll just use EOS or Ethereum or Cosmos or a completely newchain, instead of potentially Tron + Steem.
The same could easily be said for many, many other apps built by those in the community, you're attacking as well as those countless others who are watching from afar. If a hostile takeover like this can happen on Steem, why not on Tron?
Now, I've made my chess-move. Please don't mess this up even further.
Wolf,
@therealwolf
Former Rightfully Elected Consensus Witness
Do you believe that my work & engagement is valuable for Steem? Then please vote for me as witness.
Can I copy paste it and make a post for me?
Why not visit @justinsunsteemy it's all there.
I appreciate your answers to those questions and overall stance. I obviously don't speak for anyone but myself, but from what I have heard in various townhalls and on the streets of Twitter/Steem, I believe that the majority of the witnesses/community stands in alignment that:
The Steemit stake should never be used to vote, but also shouldn't be forked off the chain. This answers the fundamental question that Justin keeps raising as his main concern - his funds being stolen.
I also believe that it is in our best interest (and his) for him to keep that 65m STEEM as a stake in this chain and allow the community the breathing room to keep buidling here on our chain. It simply allows him to enrich himself and all he would need to do is fire out some tweets to promote the things happening on Steem (arguably, the thing he enjoys doing anyways).
Hopefully this message becomes clear to Justin/his team.
p.s. lmao at your GIF to Ned. I hope he sees that someday.
Posted via Steemleo
YES! 👆👆
Would it be acceptable to you to have Justin as a hands-off investor in Steem, without any obligations regarding his stake, other than not interfering in governance?
I do wonder if he reads.. or even sees these witness posts.
Just over a month ago we were trying to get non-STEEM content on trending in an attempt to get new users onboard. What hope is there now?
The Steemit page should say, 'Closed shop'.
A lot of people think that trending is important, because it is the first what people see when they come to steemit.
But I am also a reddit user for a couple of years... and frankly I do not remember when last time I saw reddit main page. I always go directly into subreddits which I am interested in
Trending is simply a place displaying content currently receiving high ratings. My most recent post is a perfect example of why a content producer would want their work to hit center stage like that. I received votes and views from folks who didn't even know I exist. As a content producer, that's exactly what you want.
I realize some folks here post absolute shit used as filler to collect those consistent auto votes. They don't set a goal to be anything more than what they were the day before. That's their life and I'm okay with that. All it means is beating the competition is almost too easy for those who set goals to create something people might actually want to see.
Of course, as a content producer, I don't know what people want to see. I also don't want to work in some remote sub section of the internet where the chances of someone seeing me are slim to none. I want a stage and I want the goddamn spotlight pointed straight at my face. I don't know any serious content creator who wants to remain invisible. Working towards that top slot gives someone like me a goal to achieve. Give me a mountain and all I want to do is climb it.
Take that ladder away and you lose the highly driven and motivated maniacs like me.
Keep mucking up this trending page and again, you lose the good ones. There's a really good reason why thousands of top notch quality creators left when the trending page was rigged with paid votes and all we had was some dude attempting to start a cult with a guitar he never played and a bunch of spun fluff articles nobody gave a shit about.
https://steempeak.com/life/@nonameslefttouse/hi-i-m-nonameslefttouse-and-i-can-t-even-compete-with-a-fucking-corn-on-the-cob
I wrote that post long ago, when I saw a picture of corn on the cob, trending, because of those damn paid votes. Thousands of people left because they had no chance to ever succeed.
The trending page isn't some superficial nonsense fancy storefront. That's where the current best of the best is supposed to be and the opportunity to get a number one hit fuels motivated individuals to do the best they can.
Give them that ladder to climb and the quality of work gets better naturally.
It's important for curators to look for a wide variety of quality work to push to the top.
Of course, none of this really matters now. Thousands of people stopped producing content and it's certainly not because of what's reaching the trending page... and I don't feel like talking about this current disaster.
but that’s maybe also because reddit trending is not all about reddit
Ding ding
You have a point, maybe Trending is the past. There's no Trending on Steempeak that I can see.
I always use the trending page on Reddit and Steemit, but with SteemPeak, I have to manually type in the URL just to find the trending page, which is bloody annoying.
@steempeak can we please get a Trending Page button?
Click Explore >> All Topics
Thanks, I'm still trying to get the hang of SteemPeak.
Trending page for which topic or for what exactly.
Trending is more or less the name of an algorithm steemit created based on rewards but depreciates based on time.
There is essentially a trending sorting method for every topic and one that lots of people call "the trending page" which is all topics in one place
@onthewayout just explained how to get to All Topics, but thank you.
Good point.
Butvonly for old users. New users from google land on main page or directly to the content they search.
@ned is a rat, so sad to realise it
I'm surprised more witnesses aren't pushing back harder on the fact that the sock puppet witnesses aren't updating their price feeds regularly. Something that definitely does have a direct impact on the day to day workings of steemit. I did notice it was brought up in the Korean chat with Justin but I haven't seen any trending posts about it.
The pricefeed is now irrelevant as the rate will not update according to the price Every Steem dollar you convert will give you 0 Steem because too many dollars were created.
good morning wolf..
I don't usually Resteem normally.
However, I'm going to share this post.
I can only comment that you can say higher, but not much clearer.
My sincere thanks and of course my unconditional support.
Please dear brother vot me please
yes, the gif is really great and no, it'll be for the best to restrict the movement of the ninjastake permanently.
Thanks for all the work you do as a witness, hopefully we'll figure this whole 'merger with Tron' thing out this year, this platform has so much potential.