A second response to @endingplagiarism

Perhaps of significant note, I was muted before I had any interest in this community nor its leadership.
Hopefully you have also taken the time to read this moderator's comment in forming your opinion (a moderator which you have referenced and presumably respect) which includes a conversation between herself and "the accused" - https://steemit.com/hive-197809/@daytona475/r7x3to

I have attempted to mediate between @milakz and @daytona475 to find what happened. Ultimately the question always hinges on was it incompetence, malice or avarice.

I don't doubt that there is a problem in the process. In part of the exchange, I read that @milakz must vet as many as 150 entries to determine if they are club5050. While I believe at one time, @daytona475 would have been willing to assist in that role; one can understand why @milakz would hesitate on doing so. The fewer people are deciding, means fewer errors.

It is straightforward to look at information with 20-20 hindsight and arrive at a conclusion. I don't know why @andyfish is powering down, and it isn't essential. I often will copy and paste my tags. The only time that I have ever withdrawn Steem in the last five years was because I wanted to prove that I could do it. I believe that ordinarily, that is one of the qualifications for club100. I don't care. I copy and paste whatever is the most convenient. Steemexclusive sure. I can't be bothered to post in Hive. My friends are here.

Do I consider it possible that others are like me and will do things by rote? It is pretty likely. They will not necessarily consider the implications if they are told to write certain things in the tags.

To test whether @andyfish has ever been compliant, I took a look at the post around the time I estimated he started powering down. I found the first problem. I recognized the problem right away because I have developed software in an international context for decades. @daytona475 provided me with this screengrab.

I did a similar search based on my experience with this result.

International Dates tend to be tricky. There is an issue with the way dates are handled on the server being used Month/Day/Year, Day/Month/Year, or Year/Month/Day. There is also how the date is stored. If it is just the day, it can be tricky based on the timezone. If it includes hours and minutes, you can post something at noon on a given day, and your search will not find it because the days terminate at midnight. Noon on a given day would be filtered on the following day.

The post that @andyfish made was in compliance based on the dates used. Knowing that he had started to power down, @milakz now has the hindsight that she needed to check subsequent posts. I believe that @milakz suffered from inertia. If you check a person's eligibility for a certain number of times, and it has always been true, one might not bother after a while.

Once @daytona475 brought the error to her attention, I assume that she faced two options. She could contact the people responsible for the Booming initiative (to reverse the vote) and possibly lose it as an option for the Steem Skillshare community or put processes in place so it doesn't happen in the future. What has compounded the issue was that many people she trusted were also powering down.

I am not a fan of situational ethics, but @daytona475 is very hardline. For years, one of my thoughts has been that people don't realize what they do.

If it is clear that more STEEM has been powered up than has been cashed out, we will likely give an extra vote from @steemcurator01 or @steemcurator02.
You will not be eligible for #club5050 votes if…
You have not made any recent power-ups.
You have bought votes from any vote buying or bid-bot services.
Source

I am assuming that rule is still applicable. In the past, I have never been eligible for club5050. I have saved up to invest in @steembasicincome on behalf of others, including @daytona475. I would save 100 steem and transfer it to @steembasicincome, and it, in turn, votes on your posts.

It isn't the fact that @daytona475 receives that benefit from that vote-buying service. It is that for weeks at a time; I would be ineligible due to the first rule:

You have not made any recent power-ups.

It isn't clear how long is "recent." In common law, one asks what the average man would do.

Since we do not have the average man, we have the accuser. For over a week leading up to when she posted and tagged club5050, this is what @daytona475 had for her compliance. She was ineligible to claim club5050.

From January 1st, 2022, until @daytona475 made these posts, she was still ineligible to claim club5050.

I know that @daytona475 hates me at this point, but I have to ask, did she cheat the Steem Skillshare community or defraud the Booming process or cheat the club5050 initiative. Was it incompetence, malice or avarice? Of course not, and I apologize @daytona475. @milakz probably gave you the benefit of the doubt or used a different date range.

I told myself that it is bad form to include snippets of Discord conversations because third parties can take them out of context. However, this clearly shows @milakz's state of mind in terms of evidence. She knew that she would be back into compliance in a few days. We don't have proof that she knowingly improperly claimed club5050 status at the time or, like @daytona475, assume she was compliant.

Of course, everyone knows that the website or a widget could carry out part of the decision-making process. How much simpler @starlord28 or @steemchiller would it be for each community to put in a date, and the algorithm would evaluate all the posts on that date for transaction compliance. If Bidbots could be blacklisted, the algorithm could disqualify transactions involving them within that time period.

Finally, @endingplagiarism, my posts are an attempt to remedy the situation, and I was attempting to achieve a reconciliation.

@digital.mine - Creator of many of the accounts listed below and owner of the Steem Skillshare Discord channel.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that all of these users receive booming support, none of them are in club5050, and all of them withdraw their steem to the same wallet.

@digital.mine has only posted twice this year, and neither one received booming support. The wallet they ultimately transfer to is for huobi wallet.

As a result of your posts to the community members, thousands of steem delegations were removed without due process. Did you attempt to investigate or communicate with the parties? Have you considered that the people in Kazakstan are facing this?

What about Ukraine?

Your messages to the Steem Skillshare delegators are gutting the earning potential of the members from those countries. If you had concerns, you should have brought them to the attention of the "curators" and "booming" so they could address them with @milakz. No one bears scrutiny when there is an agenda at play.

You will note that I am not tagging club5050.