RE: I made the mistake of voicing my concerns about the upcoming hardfork.
It is like the weather. Fight through the storm. You are still #24 when I just looked so it knocked you out of the top 19, but you are still within reach.
As to shutting down @cheetah. If you've not shared it's code you could do "Two days without @cheetah", etc or longer if you want.
If @cheetah has been cleaning up a lot of trash then people will get to see what it does. You've had my continued votes from my account @chaospoet, but I am small in terms of steem power.
I however, witnessed first hand the problems your projects fixed.
A lot of people did not witness this and do not know you. You are relatively quiet, so it is only those of us that have been around that know a lot about you.
A little campaigning with new people and I suspect you could get back into the top 19.
Also the PR backlash of such voting is important.
I did see that ned unapproved a lot of witnesses recently and that is what I thought it was likely over.
I personally would like to see a lot more frequent hard forks, but with much fewer changes so we can more easily determine which change has which effect.
I'm willing and eager to try any and all of those things in HF17 as experiments, but with them all going on at the same time it'll be really hard to pin down which change had which effect.
My view on this is actually rather unfortunate. I, historically, would have seen this experiment akin to "Lets burn the house down to prove it is flammable." In this situation, if I stop cheetah, that's would be the end of my "stake" in the situation, so to speak.
I'm glad you valued cheetah, but the landscape has changed from months ago. I am no longer convinced that the above is true and that cheetah is desired or necessary.
Well you would know. I am not sure how much cheetah is having to clean up and handle these days.
A metric fuck ton.
Then that could be an eye opener if it didn't clean it up. I remember when the new category had about 10 bot posts per 1 human post and you had to wade through those to find the real posts. Cheetah killed those.
People are convinced that if I don't do it, someone else will. And perhaps they are right.
Main thing I have to say is remember the community is about more than just the guys at steemit, inc. so if you keep doing what you do, but occasionally outreach to the community to let them know what you are doing. Preferably something personal rather than something in report format I don't think you'll have problems getting back into the top 19. I really don't.
As far as you a witness. Keep doing what you do, but perhaps let the new people know more about you. I believe you can get back into the top 19 even without steemit inc
Looking at the witness voting, I am convinced anyone who would support me already has. I don't see a path to get back in at the moment; its the same issue that spawned the no-whale-voting experiment. The whales have extreme influence.
Sorry to hear that. Well not much I can say other than I hope you keep doing what you do, but if you cannot AFFORD to do it for financial reasons then reallity dictates you should stop.
You're position has actually increased a few steps already.
I personally think that both steemcleaners and cheetah should get some support from Steemit Inc because it does good work towards keeping the platform real. I really think that needs to be considered @ned and @sneak