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Maybe we need to take an action and not wait for STINC

I would say that coders should start coding their own hard fork proposals, but it won't matter. From what I've seen and heard from many people, it appears that STINC won't even put something up for a vote unless it aligns with what they want to do with the blockchain.

So, you can spend a lot of time coding something and submitting it to the repository, but it seems that it still has to go through the STINC gatekeepers in order to be proposed as a hard fork candidate. And it appears that Ned and STINC have a very specific idea for the blockchain, even though they claim not to "own" it - and that Steemit is not Steem.

But I would love nothing more than to have people who are not STINC start working on hard fork proposals of their own. I'm just afraid that it'll be a waste of time unless something changes with the behavior and attitude of our dear "leaders."