Some comments, from my point of view as a Steem witness for 4 years. (not necessarily representative of all witnesses)

We did not vote for centralization as those who made the blacklist have suggested. We voted to try and maintain checks and balances between the Tron witnesses and the Hive witnesses (who were then Steem witnesses)

You're saying you didn't vote for centralization but then you say you did. Voting for more than one of the "Tron witnesses", better known as attacking witness accounts was voting for a centralization attack. That is actively contributing to the attack.

The hive witness side froze stake out of nowhere in the dead of night without making any efforts to communicate their intentions with the community. This, through a chain of numerous events, is what sparked this whole controversy. We were very frightened at the idea of a group in power who is willing to freeze stake without warning, or consultation with the community.

You mean the real Steem witness "side". The two sides you're talking about are not exactly equivalent. On the one hand there was Justin Sun/Tron, and on the other a loose confederation of community witnesses that rarely agree on anything, especially not unanimously.

The decision of the witnesses was not taken lightly at all. It was only made because of a continued REFUSAL for Justin Sun to actually talk to anyone. That farce of an AMA with Ned was not talking. Before and after that, him and his lackeys did nothing but give actual Steem community members and witnesses a runaround.

Had the wider community been consulted, the takeover of Steem would have taken place earlier, and more damage would have been done (as we saw after March 2nd) than simply keeping Stinc stake idle and making it clear that Justin Sun needed to communicate with the witnesses and the community better. In hindsight, his takeover was inevitable whether or not the soft fork to freeze Stinc accounts was implemented. Turns out the real Steem community witnesses were right to take action, after all.

Justin bought Stinc, NOT Steem. I invite you to read my post made to explain the background and reason that the Stinc stake was frozen here: @pfunk/the-case-for-the-temporary-soft-fork

Anyway, I probably come off as annoyed, and I am with this post which I think is misinformed, but I don't doubt your support for Hive now. And I sympathize with you that despite supporting Hive, you did not get airdropped stake. But if you would like to get an appealed airdrop, to get my vote for that I'd like to see a little better hindsight on your part, because voting for multiple attacking witnesses, you were part of the problem of the Steem blockchain being held hostage.

Edit: cmp2020 and remlaps are full on with the stincing, sinking ship of Steem. Nevermind those last sentences. Their flawed voting was responsible for not getting airdropped, and their actions since then and since this post was made make it clear they're more interested in Steem than Hive. Hell, @remlaps is even a Steemit collaborator err I mean curator now. They got the Steem they voted for! Why complain they didn't get a Hive airdrop? See my reply to netuoso for more reasons why they can stick to the Steem that they voted for.