You say it doesn't hold up but you don't seem to be able to grasp the point of view of the average user of this platform. You can argue ( hopefully not heated) at much as you like with the numbers and how little or how much difference or makes but the perception to the average user is that this is unfair

That is my point that that anything further to discourage content creators is not good. We can talk about safeguarding the security of the chain till we are blue in the face but if there is no content beyond the guff we are seeing there won't be a chain to safeguard.

This portioning as I stated looks to your average user to be unfair. That's my point. The average user has been ignored and maligned to date and this looks to compound that further.

And this

Anyway, it is stakeholders who are in charge, not witnesses. If stakeholders think that this isn't going to improve their bottom line or just isn't the right approach, witnesses who support it can and will be voted out

The winesses decided this.

Wouldn't the freedom/pumpkin vote negate your average non whale users even if they acted en masse? I would like to see the numbers on that.

I don't think the stakeholders ultimately do decide unless you bring it back to stake and that is wholly different kettle of fish because if the freedom/Pumpkin stake