The letter attracted attention, including @grumpycat.
As of today, the post is seen by 747 people with 83 upvotes and 121 comments.
@grumpycat upvoted with a huge upvote and resteemed this post.
@grumpycat stopped downvoting since 20.01.2018 - no posts attacked.
The upvote bot @boomerang decreased the maximum post age to 2.5 days link
@themarkymark blogged a very convincing post on "why we should vote hims for witness" link
I am convinced to his pure intentions on fighting with spam.
Moreover, he also accepted to decrease the maximum post age to 3 days.
I am now sure my vote is at good hands.
The open letter accumulated 194.98 SBD so far.
Since I never intended to make money from this post and the money mostly came from upvote of @grumpycat I decided to distrubute the (SBD income - cost) to
@grumpycat victims. The list can be found here
The cost is the 9 SBD initial promotion cost.
I am still afraid of an early optimism but it seems that there are good achievements.
I don't want to fall in "I always whistle at sunrise so the sun is rising because I whistle" kind of fallacy.
If the problem is solved, it is not really important who is behind it.
It is mostly because people involved started to think reasonable.
Either way what we have in our hand is :
That is fair enough.
Stay positive.
FD.