Come on man. Just look at the guy's posts. He puts out real content and only has like 5k Steem. He's a legit content creator, one of those people we're rapidly running out of because we're so god damned cliquey and pretentious at times. I see HIVE as the new Steem. It's a continuation of a failed product that can't figure out what to do when dPoS and decentralization collide.

We gotta fix the problem soon, or these chains will keep splitting, and we'll keep hemorrhaging active users. And also, it just blows my fucking mind that we're judging the merit of who people vote for, the only systems of governance that do this type of thing and hand out consequences to those who vote "incorrectly" are communist countries.

Justin and his socks were one thing, and seeing as how we don't have a fix for the dPoS decentralization problem yet, it was reasonable not to airdrop him. But the other 300 folks who were excluded, that was tantamount to bloodletting, and this humiliating process of making people cow to get their stake mirrored. Ahh, I think I just puked in my mouth a little. We can keep going down this path, but the active userbase will just get smaller and smaller until eventually, it's not even worth the bother.

I think there's a good chance some of those stakeholders who voted equally for both parties, were doing so as an attempt to get both sides to negotiate like adults and stop doing stupid things. Like freezing assets, or trying to fork to a new chain. All votes, no matter how they are cast, are a legit part of the consensus. It's not perfect, or even remotely democratic because it's dPoS. Nobody wanted to see what happened, happen, I mean it dilutes everything, unnecessarily at that. One side loses users, while another side loses some value.

This spy v. spy, blockchain war crap, has got to end. Both sides are just destroying each other and turning the damn thing into a shit show (aka an unappealing investment). Let's wage some peace, and do some good things where we can. This guy is a content creator. We need content creators if we want an appealing community that people are willing to invest in.