The latest post, which highlights three proposals, is constructed in such a way as to allow for a prescribed winner. The prescribed winner is the only one of the three that are against the aggrieved parties, and the aggrieved parties are divided (conquered) into two camps. This means, even though they are on the same side, they're forced to steal votes from each other, and this ensures they will both lose.

The way I see it, something like this was HIVEio's one opportunity to right a wrong, but the effort is a ruse. How much support would a single hive account have to garner to trigger an airdrop? I don't know how realistic these single proposals are. I know I voted for rollandp on the steem blockchain so he could get his funds back, but I'm not sure it's going to happen or if it did happen.

The way I see it, these low SP accounts were voting for a witness, or for someone to vote for witnesses on their behalf. Had they known it was going to trigger a chain split and the community would veer left, there's a good chance they may have voted in a different way, but we'll never know because they had to vote in a prescribed manner before the announcement of HIVE. This thing is so weird, and the very idea of contrived voting systems seems completely abhorrent to me.

When I think of voting, people ought to vote for whomever they want. And they agree that based on the consensus of the vote, they will follow the leader who won. Only this time, the votes, some of which may have been cast well before Sun arrived at the blockchain, caused a skew in the space-time continuum and resulted in two winners. One based on dPoS and the other based on the will of the witnesses who lost. And they were so salty that they targeted penny-ante accounts to make them pay for "voting incorrectly."

At some point, someone will fix the fundamental problems that Larimer/Scott left in their wake, and their models of blockchain will get laid to rest in the dustbin of history. I'm not sure it can be fixed by changing code, or if it's just rearranging deck chairs. I guess that someone will have to create something that unfucks all the problems from scratch. They'll have to be a bright coder capable of seeing all the angles.