Why I Am Still Here
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5 years ago in #steemisnottron by themarkymark (78)
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I think we can safely say that there really is a community here... and a lot of people who give a damn about what happens to Steem. I know I can count myself as one of many who might have been skeptical when they first arrived here... and now am staying because of the community.
Of course, we're not in the clear yet... we really need to get you and the other witnesses in the next ten spots down vaulted up to the top of the list. And it's doable. Another drive to get all those who aren't paying as much attention "because they've already voted for 30 witnesses" to go through their vote lists and make sure they don't have any "old" votes from a year back that are for defunct/deactivated witnesses... that could be shifted to slots 28-37. Let's face it, if there's enough voting power to get one person to 170,000+MV, there's enough to get 20...
Thanks for all the work you do, and thanks for hanging in there!
The truth is that some of those accounts that made the vote sum up to 170k may not be aware of this civil war.
Nah, they did it on purpose.
This is the first significant blockchain system I've interacted with. Sure I got a few Bitcoin from a fawcet years ago and have held them, but there's nothing else to Bitcoin.
This social aspect is obviously now ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to this whole system of delegated decision making. I don't see how any system that tries to self organise can do that without having the social means for coordinating within its own control. And I'm loving the community here more than any I've been in for a long time on the Internet all the way back to Usenet days!
It's just a pity we're still stuck using Discord for DMs and voice....
They're better off powering down now and waiting. This stalemate could take much longer than 13 weeks. It's also far cheaper to simply powerdown now and wait 13 weeks.
I'm quite impressed with this community as well. It's not perfect but at least it dresses up for special occasions.
May I add that we are not out of the woods yet in regards to this fiasco..
We need another 10 of our own non-sockpuppet witnesses in the top 20 in order to ensure that Justin Sun cannot have his way with our blockchain as he did with the exchange collusion attack.
Good post Marky. I'm still here too, even if it has been a fucking shitshow since the Steemit Inc acquisition. Glad to still have you around.
We die here 🙂
Only the legends understand this :-)
This is a hill I choose to die on.
That was probably bernie powering up 1 million :-)
From a drama perspective, I was hoping for a real Hollywood style twist, where there was a hardfork, the community splintered into two, half went with the community consensus witnesses, the other half went to tron-town.
Then, the consensus witnesses quietly gathered more and more "original" steem and came back and "attacked" the chain 6-12 months down the track. :P
I don't think that will happen. I listened to the recording of the townhall with Justin, Eli, Roy, and the other witnesses who attended, and there's a lot of ... legal stuff at stake for sure as far as Justin is considered, and I really wouldn't want to be Ned right now, lol.
Do we know anything further about Justin's stake being marked as non-voting at this stage?
I think so too marky, even though there were times all of us has disagreement we still united to protect our lovely community. Maybe I'll make post like this, it's inspiring.
!DRAMATOKEN
Keep going, keep protecting Steem from changes.
Steem is doing great, ignorance is knowledge, slavery is freedom
Thank You for all you have done and continue to do!!