I am sure that many of you have received a wallet memo from @themilkymark today with this message:
So basically, this person doesn't like the fact that he and others have been downvoted by @themarkymark, so he is calling for everyone to remove their witness votes or he will be downvoting those that don't submit to his will.
He is claiming that @themarkymark is censoring people here on the blockchain, but yet too dumb to realize that nothing is censored here. Everything is still on the blockchain, even when it is flagged.
He is posting links in his post here where people are claiming to have money "stolen" from them by being flagged by @themarkymark because of his blacklist that he manages, yet he and those that wrote those posts are too dumb to realize that the post rewards do not belong to you until after the post pays out and is in your wallet. Just like when this post gets flagged, and I am sure it will, nothing that the post is making will belong to me until after payout.
I for one am thankful for the time that people like @themarkymark and the team behind @steemcleaners, and many other groups, puts into blacklists and fighting the scamming, plagiarism and abuse that goes on here on the blockchain. Without their efforts, the abuse would run rampant, and people like @themilkymark would be free to abuse the shit out of it.
So what are your options?
Well you can choose to submit to his demands like some already have and unvote @themarkymark's witness because you are scared of being downvoted. Or you can just realize that @themilkmark is just being what he claims he is against and trying to force you to use your votes a certain way.
Sure, @themilkymark account has 100k SP behind it, but if you think about how many downvotes he would have to cast to all of those that are voting for @themarkymark's witness, then those downvotes would be worth pretty much nothing. There are already groups forming that are going to be healing the downvotes as well, because we as a community don't put up with this type of abusive behavior where we have someone trying to dictate how users on the platform use their witness votes.
So do what you want from here, but I for one won't be bullied into unvoting anyone.
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