Trying to catch up and repairing the wrong route

The last few days have been busy, so I haven't had a chance to catch up on what has been happening surrounding the Steem freeze of some accounts. I do not even know what the justification for the move was, so if someone has any post that gives a synopsis or is willing to give a short rundown in a comment, it would be appreciated.

I saw that @darthknight was included in the list, which is quite incredible considering they are a new account to Steem and came in from Tron - not a witness, an investor. I also saw that they have typo'd the wrong route for a powerdown. Normally, this can be changed in seconds, but since the account is frozen post fork, it is impossible without the witnesses.

This means that all the witnesses that pushed through the fork are liable as they have left the account stranded from normal actions and in a vulnerable state by their actions. And unless they recover the account and allow it to adjust the route, I think there is a very strong case that the Steem witnesses can be taken to court. Since they are Steemit Inc backed, this means that Steemit Inc as a company is likely liable, especially as it seems they heavily supported the fork.

But as said, I don't know the ins and outs of this, but I think that the move was made out of spite and retaliation for not getting the HIVE drop - but there is difference here. HIVE didn't exist - it wasn't owned until it ho the wallets. The problem with the freezing of the accounts now is that they are private accounts and that Steem is very much owned -and has no other claims on it, as the Steemit Inc stake had. The witnesses that approved this fork should be absolutely ashamed of themselves and I am so disappointed that the Steem blockchain has degraded into such depravity.

What is the most interesting thing is that these accounts were powering down and while that would have dropped the price short-term, it would have given the opportunity for those who believe in Steem to power up. And, once these private account had powered down, they would have left the blockchain alone - instead - the supposed witnesses whose job it is to produce blocks and make sure the chain keeps running seem to be doing everything in their power to make destroy it by using their position for personal vendettas.

The hive fork and subsequent no airdrop for some accounts wasn't personal, the founders wanted a decentralized blockchain and that means excluding those who obviously didn't care about that at all, as they had voted to centralize it by supporting Justin Sun. This move however has nothing to do with anything by the looks, just small minds grasping at straws for relevance.

If they really wanted to be relevant, perhaps they should do some development for their blockchain, for as far as I can see, most of the tools I have come to use over the years are turning to hive exclusive, as are most of the developers. What is left of Steem is being run into the ground incredibly fast.

Perhaps this move was a way to save face, to show strength? Well, that is a pretty darn big failure because all it seems to show is how small they are, how petty. The Steem witnesses seem to be not only immature as witnesses, but as people

I wonder how many of them can code further than copy pasting and changing a few numbers and names.

It is going to be interesting what is going to happen during a real hardfork.

Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]

Note to @darthknight: When you first joined you mentioned to me about finding a hidden gem in Steem and then proceeded to power up heavily - I am sorry that it is at this point now and hopefully, the gem you discovered there was actually a poor reflection of its potential, a reflection of Hive and the future here. I really hope that you can get your route recovered and if not, talk to a lawyer. Steemit Inc should be the first port of call.