Excellent breakdown as usual Quill, you've articulated my feelings perfectly. I have read many witness articles in the past two weeks that have really smacked of hypocrisy.

I've read a few with downright anger shaking through my bones, especially when I see people in the comments fawning over them because they want their votes, not because they think they're right.

They are banging on about decentralisation now, however as you and I know, Steemit and therefore its associated currency Steem, never was decentralised in the first place.

The witnesses preferred Ned's centralisation because it enriched them, and put them in a place of power. However when he left, that created an uncomfortable power vacuum, because it made them come to terms with the fact that all their power, lay at the control of Ned.
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They were the ones to push things like the 50/50 content/creator split, which is obviously ridiculous, to try and suggest that I am creating as much value for the chain by clicking a button, as someone who puts as much thought and time into their articles, like yourself, is obviously bunkum.

However, most of the whales and witnesses are curators, ergo they wanted a larger slice of the pie. Thus suddenly creators and curators are the same....

Anyway, I'm finding it quite funny how they are all crying wolf now, my only hope is Justin eventually puts people in charge who know what they're doing.

Oh, and I didn't know they had treated @timcliff like that, so I'll go and give him a witness vote, not that it will make much difference of course, but still, it's a show of support.

Cg