Oh, thank you so much for your detailed comment.
A whole day? This topic has been on my mind my whole Steemit life and I could fill a book with it... ;-)
The article triggered me to reply. Although I knew that we had already had pages of discussions about this in the past. I won't go into that depth again. It only costs (a lot of) lifetime and doesn't change anything anyway.
"this already happened, long time ago". probably a few months after the beginning, somewhere in 2017 ;)
Yes, that's right! But back then there was a much larger group of users who were prepared to do something about the abuses. Whether they succeeded or not (as you can see, they didn't) is irrelevant. They tried. They did something. They set signs that they did not agree with the situation. They were loud. They didn't put up with everything.
I also experienced the great flag wars and of course I don't want to experience something like that again. However, I still believe that not much harm can be done to the individual if everyone sticks together in good will. And why not? After all, the fraudsters stick together too.
Nevertheless, the flags are an instrument provided by the system. And they are simply intended to show: ‘I don't agree with what you're doing.’ To send a sign.
Of course, this ‘power’ can also be exploited (as we have seen in the past), but you can think about that when the time comes.
At the same time, I think it's too late for everything (including positive conversations) because there are far too many automatisms.
A hard fork (Witness task) with modified reward mechanisms would be more important (automatisms must not be rewarded). But since too many Witnesses benefit from these automatisms themselves, it won't happen... :-(
Spot on! You're so right about the book thing, it would be in multiple volumes, I bet :)))
Now my turn to thank you for your time reading and responding to my thoughts, I know nothing will change, because I suggested the same common-ground rules, or let's call them guidelines, back in 2018, I think, long before the split.
Do you believe that's possible and more importantly, doable? Frankly, I highly doubt that. True, I'd like that to happen but my stake is too tiny to be really important.
Automatism... I don't mind, it's just a tool, similar to a scalpel - in the hands of a surgeon it saves lives, in the hands of a killer, it takes lives. Actually, I think it has more positive value, as without it, investors and developers won't be attracted and retained on the chain and developers in crypto usually bring some stake along, unless coming from the poor desperate parts of the world.
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Probably every one of us long-term users who made a little effort to look behind the scenes and WANTED to understand did something like this... ;-)
Nope. But I don't want to stop dreaming... ;-)
Of course, every coin has two sides.
But in the real world, there are far more surgeons than killers...
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