Four hours ago, an account called as @steemalliance posted an update regarding choosing a new leader for Steem. (See the original post.)

I feel I am not the only one excluded on these discussions. Leaked user list on a different private slack server (including some witnesses and big stakeholders) includes 71 members on this blockchain. But the community is much bigger than that.

What we get in the post is a just a teaser about what happened in a specific slack server lacking context of the general situation.

Questions to Steem Alliance

• Will you disclose all conversations on all channels for outsiders to get a clear understanding?
• What is @steemalliance? What are your goals? Who founded it? Who do you represent? What's the purpose?
• Why do we need to pick a leader? Isn't it possible for the community to form multiple kinds of organizations/committees and don't give the god mode to a single person?

Questions to "secret witness slack" community

Did you discuss removing Steemit's stake on #steemit-stake channel? If that's the case, why top20 witnesses started posting so-called public statements about not removing any account's funds? If you're not into it, what was the motivation of the discussion on that particular channel?

Edit: See the answers of @therealwolf and @llfarms.

Please understand that this post is created to learn more about the recent fuss and doesn't target any particular group of people. There are lots of discussions happening in multiple places and most of them are not public for the community.