......that so many witnesses and community members of influence are holloring about Steem Inc powering down 34million Steem as protection against losing it to a threatened witness led hard fork revolt.

I've read a couple of particularly nauseous pieces today where the witnesses in question were promising @ned not to try and nick his ninja mined SP, and that they knew Steem had problems but wanted us to unite to sort it out.

These were witnesses with huge stakes, who were basically just worried about their own stakes if Steem failed. I'm sure they weren't too worried about the rest of the nice community. They never seem to worry enough ahout dealing with the real issue here which for me is this;

Why do so many lovely hard working, honest and sincere members here get a pittance in rewards no matter how much, or how well they write when there are so many greedy gamers screwing hundreds of dollars a week in rewards simply cos they have enough spare cash to throw at bid bots and then compound that by doing it with multiple accounts, circle jerking to add insult to injury.

Seriously, most of the witnesses are no better. Simply here to line their own pockets and protect their own interests, hence they do sweet FA either directly or indirectly to address this issue, how easy would it be to delegate some trustable members like @steemflagrewards a million SP to wipe out every bad actor theremis in no time? But they won't...

I am not against people making money, I am not against bid bots but I am against people taking the piss and I am against irresponsible bid bot owners refusing to do anything that might effect their own profits.

I want crypto to create a fairer society, not a marxist redistrobution of wealth or any of that nonsense but if this is a decentralised form of governence then you can stick it. The longer I'm here, I become more and more convinced its just a techy form of masonary.

Individual influence should be based on what you contribute and earn from your peers, NOT what you've got and it should never be able to be bought.

I actually wish Steem inc. would sell off 34m Steem, it would bring a massive and diverse new user base as people scrambled to buy cheap Steem then join in to see what it was all about, it would be a total reset.

What I would like to see.
Universal blacklist being adopted by all promotion services plus secondary list adaptable to personal standards. How hard can that be to implement?

Witness Survey

Remember @witnesssurvey where questionaires were sent to 150 witnesses with questions chosen by the community?
I think just 6 witnesses bothered to reply. Arrogant tossers, just reinforcing my already low opinion of most of them, they don't give a damn about the community.

I have just 7 witnesses on my list, thats rather sad.