Why I do declare! - It's 1861 in the Steem World Social Experiment and a Civil War is Unfolding

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Click image or read it here: https://steemit.com/steem-bounty/@steem-bounty/new-voting-service-by-steem-bounty

Just in case you missed this in your feed, here's a new service that makes sense and dispenses with the gimmicks (i.e. 'quality content' voting circles and category-specific requirements). It's a matched voting circle. Well-intended organizers are kindly helping to ensure we all mind the boundaries of our rank and order here on Steemit.

It's similar to apartheid, where you get to socialize with your kind and class, but not with the wealthy ruling class, or visa versa. I'm glad to see it, after running into a few self-important authors, who get defensive and OFFENSIVE when low-vote-power folks, or DUST - like me - vote on the 'quality content' posts that they've artificially boosted to trending with paid upvote bots! Who can blame them, right? They paid good money to gain exposure and don't want curation crumbs falling into the hands of "plankton", "minnows" or "redfish"!

Here's an example of being accused of stealing from a heavily bot-voted trending post (Be sure to read follow-up comments. There's more about the REALITY of the toxic Steemit societal rules here too!):
https://steemit.com/@personz/re-justmeagain-re-personz-in-defense-of-finding-value-on-steem-20180918t122106458z

Truly, I have become reluctant to upvote posts that I've actually read and appreciated, without checking the rewards value first. Why? Because Vote-Power-Apartheid is the LAW now and has been a loudly spoken 'etiquette rule' from the foundation of this platform. That's the system here on Steemit - you can get punished into poverty by heavy-weights and unscrupulously programmed bots committed to keeping the blockchain 'clean' of the drivel and filth of unrefined 'low quality' 'abusers'. And if you're 'working' your way up the food-chain (see the White Paper listed in the hamburger menu, top-right on Steemit) you'll have to capture the attention of wealthy dolphins and whales to get a few pennies worth in rewards. Sounds like prostitution, doesn't it?

So, for the wee plankton on Steemit, do yourselves a favor and sign up for the Vote Exchange Club. It will save you from the embarrassment of being accused of stealing curation reward crumbs when you actually just wanted to say you LIKE or appreciate a post.

If you're really, REALLY new to Steemit, here's some sage advice I've learned:

  • Do NOT like posts or comments with high rewards accumulated;
  • Do NOT leave a generic comment, such as "Great post!";
  • Do NOT post with the incorrect category tag;
  • Do NOT forget to properly format quotes with the ">" tag;
  • Do NOT forget to cite your sources and attribute copyright ownership;
  • DO NOT copy/paste your own work from other blogs;
  • DO NOT use Steemit to syndicate YOUR OWN established news outlet articles;
  • DO NOT forget that after 7 days your posts cannot be edited;
  • DO NOT forget that votes on posts older than 7 days are worthless.

If you forget any one of these rules you risk the chance of either being scolded or having your reputation score negatively affected by down-votes from 'community members' in person or represented by delegated down-vote bots.

Don't vote or comment on high-rewards posts, because you and me are the Steemian NIGGER CLASS and we oughtta keep to our own kind, keep our heads low and avoid provoking the ire of the wealthy folks ruling the platform.

Fortunately, to assuage the concerns about small fish nibbling away at the rewards of the SHARKS on Steemit, the programmers implemented a solution on Sep 25 with Hardfork 20, aka Velocity. Pertinent to plankton is the section on the DUST VOTE Threshold Changes. What's important is that all us nigger-plankton know our vote is worth ZERO when its value is less than .02!

Don't dat mean we be workin for FREE, MASSA? Yessa, it sho do mean dat!


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Click image or read it here: https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steem-velocity-hardfork-hardfork-20

Also note timcliff's comment:

There are two “dust” thresholds, which can get a little confusing.
There is a dust payout threshold, which requires at least 0.02 worth of payout on a post/comment in order to receive a reward. (If the payout is less, it gets rounded down to zero.) This will be unaffected by the changes being proposed.

There is also a dust vote threshold, which is a minimum restriction on the size of votes that are allowed. This is what is changing, as described in the post.


YOU CAN LOOK ON THE PRIVILEGED, BUT DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH, NIGGER!

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Avoid a WHOOPIN from the MASSAS on Steemit
Know your place and wait for the scraps to be handed to you, like these folks.

Apartheid (South African English: /əˈpɑːrteɪd/; Afrikaans: [aˈpartɦəit], lit. "separateness") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap (or white supremacy), which encouraged state repression of Black African, Coloured, and Asian South Africans for the benefit of the nation's minority white population. The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid

Now that we ALL see the actual results of Hardfork 20 and can understand the INTENT of high-stakes investors, devs, witnesses and delegates, on this platform, it isn't difficult for 'po folk' to recognize that their role here is and will always be to serve the massas. Posting provides the façade of a social media platform, but the true intent is controlling the distribution of and collecting profit from STEEM cryptocurrency. That's fine, but if demonizing new and small accounts by throwing them in with 'spammers' and cutting off their ability to post, vote and collect rewards is a necessary feature of the platform that enables investors to profit, the platform is JUNK as far as social platforms go. It's SOCIAL ENGINEERING by people who probably support EUGENICS!

Due to the fact that many components of the RC system are non-consensus, we can continue to adjust the resource pool budgets, track trends, and adjust charges incrementally over time so that we can meet our third goal of moving us toward sustainable pricing of blockchain operations.
https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/hf20-update-restoring-continuity

In other words, the patch that has multiplied Resource Credits enough to allow basic use of this platform, will be adjusted DOWNWARD gradually. So while all us niggers just got a backhander WHOOPIN with HF20 and an ice pack to take down the swelling with a 10X boost, we is gonna get mo beatins' soon enough, cos dats what the massas hea likes doin'!

Be sure to read the comment section of the HF20 'restoring continuity' update post linked above. You can see how so many 'middle class' users recognize how damaging these platform principles are. They are resisting, but the authorities from on-high want exactly what has happened and will continue to happen. It's no accident! The devs merely MISJUDGED the negative feedback they are receiving in protest. Not that they care what us po folk think. It's the push-back from the middle class they didn't anticipate!

There are some good people here, but I do believe the fundamental agenda of Steemit Inc is to sell high and hope buyers sell low. Imagine, you buy at $4 and bolt when the value drops to $1. Steemit Inc keeps your $3 USD.

Has there been any official statement about the 'experiment' of DLive or its exit after exactly a year? Was the DLive experiment coordinated by Steemit and DLive?

How about those interface upgrades? Most people aren't even using Steemit to interact on the blockchain. They use SteemPeak or Busy. When a company doesn't REINVEST, you should know what that implies.

I'll leave you with a clip and a warning, folks. It's time for me to...


@berniesanders here's a 'shitpost' topic for you. Let the MASSAS FEEL THE BERN!




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WTF of good guy you are? Please contact me privately at [email protected]. I am so happy to find you over this shit! With email nobody can stop our interaction!!

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I'll send you email. :)

This is scary, really is.

I just hope, for our sakes, this isn't true.

I went through the additional information in the comments. Seems @freedom is the Lord of the Blockchain

I discovered and documented in one of the comments here that freedom has a number of linked accounts. Users with an interest in knowing the truth, could pull data on all account names approving witnesses to get a fuller picture of all who have the user-rights to do so. The devs would likely know.

To my mind, the question is, "How is it that the power to approve/unapprove the top 20 witnesses is appointed to any one person or even a small group of people, when the system of witness voting is supposed to determine witness rank?" Voting by the 'community' in this supposedly 'democratic' process is a charade, if ultimately the counts of those votes are dismissed and invalidated by unilateral choices of a single controlling user or small group.

Have a look at this data, noting Voters (Ascending order) and Votes (Asc.) to see how the actual witness voting process is being ignored. The top 20 list would be significantly different if witness ranking actually was reflection of votes.
https://steemian.info/witnesses

Using that same data source sort by Missed Blocks. It seems that nodes with poor performance can remain in the top 20 witness ranks.

I think 'somebody' needs to write out the real methodology and criteria used to determine the actual witness ranking system, but 'nobody' seems to be responsible or accountable. Perhaps someone out of the dev ranks will document the process.

The more I look, the more I find to validate the claim of classism on Steemit. Equating power with wealth is fundamental to Steemit. That's by design and right or wrong, it's the nature of this type of platform. What is objectionable is that people are using that design and their wealth to punish and marginalize the lowest ranking users. Plankton are vulnerable because of their poverty and can be behaviorally manipulated because of their willingness to please wealthy users. That's just the way it is, by design, here on Steemit.

PROOF!: If your vote value is worth less than $.02, it is worth ZERO at payout

This example shows that it is the CURATION rewards that are not paid out to upvoters, if their vote-value is below the $.02 threshold. In this example, the whole $.03 (.032 SP) in curation rewards went to the 1 voter with a vote-value over the threshold. Everyone else received nothing.

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Read again the timmcliff comment. If the total payout of a comment/ post is less than .02$, it does not receive any reward. However, the minimum value for a vote to increase the reward is different.

I explained that to you before, but you decided to keep saying the same without checking it.

DO NOT forget that after 7 days your posts cannot be edited;

HF20 removed that limitation

Unlimited Editing!
Before we go further into what changes users can expect after the Hardfork, we’re happy to announce that once all of the witnesses have begun running version 20 of steemd, we will be able to enable unlimited post editing on steemit.com!

Source: https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/hardfork-20-what-to-expect-tomorrow?sort=trending

Anyway, it is true that Steemit have a big problem in allowing new users to get their posts noticed without using bidding bots, and that the new RC system is very harmful for them.

The Flat Rate Reduction applies to all users, regardless of vote-power. For instance, someone with 10SP will have the vote-power of 8.8SP. Someone with 1.2SP will now have zero vote-power. It is a less significant issue in comparison to the statements that:

  • "Votes that are below the threshold (.02) will be posted to the blockchain BUT THEY WILL HAVE NO IMPACT ON REWARDS"
  • "This change will make very weak votes worth nothing"

Likewise, enabling unlimited post editing is insignificant. What would be significant is unlimited reward oportunity after the 7-day window closes. And that would only be significant if old posts were enabled to render payouts after 7 days. I may edit that list point in my post AFTER 7 DAYS have passed.

The MOST SIGNIFICANT change brought about by HF20 relates to a shift in the founding principles on Steemit as expressed in this paragraph from the White Paper.

There are two ways people can get involved with a crypto-currency community: they can buy in, or they can work in. In both cases users are adding value to the currency, however, the vast majority of people have more free time than they do spare cash. Imagine the goal of bootstrapping a currency in a poor community with no actual cash but plenty of time. If people can earn money by working for one another then they will bootstrap value through mutual exchange facilitated by a fair accounting/currency system.
https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf

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With the zeroing out of votes with values less than .02, small stakeholders can no longer support each other in the WORK IN growth option. The WORK IN option has been rendered obsolete by HF20. Small accounts will realize no rewards collected from the votes of their peers from now on.

The only work in option for small accounts now is to solicit and secure the attention of dolphins and whales, who will influence what is authored, through their decisions to financially support (or not support) content. This is not new. However, removing the option to work in, forces small users to either acquiesce to the whims and wishes of larger account holders or accept that their SP level will remain relatively static, BECAUSE THE VOTES OF THEIR PEERS ARE WORTHLESS NOW. A real-world comparison would be how university medical research projects, funded by pharmaceutical companies, tend to be biased in favor of financial donors.

There are several minnow support projects and these will be the saving grace of any new and small users, who are willing to continue using Steemit. However, it seems that some are already seeing their delegations pulled. A case in point is represented by fitinfun in their statement about ned pulling delegations from surpassinggoogle. Apparently, helping "minnows 24/7" is no longer an objective on the Steemit platform. In one of my own comments on this post, I reference the statement and provide a link to the original source.

If you are an investor, I suggest you heed the warning and start digging into issues evidencing Steemit Inc's about-face as such relates to expanding, developing, enhancing, supporting this platform and your stakes in it. Where's your leadership? Turn your attention toward the TOP now that the BOTTOM has been rendered impotent.

@justmeagain, I gave you a vote!
If you follow me, I will also follow you in return!

How does someone end up being a top Steem witness?
by berniesanders (71) • a day ago
In case you are not aware, one single user currently has full control over the governance of the Steem blockchain. This is a fact. Without the vote from @pumpkin, who hasn't been "active" in 6 months, a user has no chance of becoming a top 20 witness, regardless of your contributions and voting by the rest of the community.
https://steempeak.com/centralizedshitcoin/@berniesanders/how-does-someone-like-gtg-end-up-being-the-top-steem-witness

Pumpkin's SP & RC Standings and Activity on the Blockchain:
Vote Weight: 0.71 SP
Enough credits for approximately:
0 comments
5 votes
5 transfers/powerups

Last post: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 (i.e. NEVER)
Last vote time: 2016-09-28 13:31:45
https://steemd.com/@pumpkin

https://steemworld.org/@pumpkin

This looks like a strawman account. There's no point in voting witnesses and there's no hope for witnesses to get into the top 20 without taking over existing witness nodes, such as with the case of Jerry Banfield's node.

Who's responsible for managing witness accounts, other than pumpkin? Can't anyone step up to replace pumpkin, or is it that the top 20 witnesses are enjoying their indelible status into perpetuity? WAS THIS PLANNED FROM THE LAUCH OF STEEMIT? Or is this a matter of incompetence, willful negligence or malicious intent? @Ned, select a cause and FIX the problem.

I did some detective work. @smooth is approving/unapproving witnesses.

smooth approve witness timcliff 21 hours ago
smooth approve witness ausbitbank 21 hours ago
smooth approve witness lukestokes.mhth 21 hours ago
smooth unapprove witness timcliff 21 hours ago
smooth unapprove witness lukestokes.mhth 21 hours ago
smooth unapprove witness ausbitbank 21 hours ago
https://steemd.com/@smooth

There was a time, early this year, where many smaller accounts were locked out. This was when the cryptomarket was on fire and the network was more heavily used. We will see the same thing happen with the new model. If traffic is heavy, those with almost no stake on the blockchain will be locked out.

Some might feel this will stunt STEEM's growth. It will not. The reason I state this is where are people going to go?

As one progresses and grows, either via investment or effort, the limitations will be lifted. Each SP will provide one with more access.

And isn't this how it should be? Those who give to the blockchain benefit either through direct SP or delegation from others who believe in them while those have other motives do not.
https://steemit.com/busy/@taskmaster4450/steem-freemium-is-not-free

LOL! I think you're right. The arrogance of that statement is stunning. As though there are no alternative social media platforms, thus no one at the top need worry about losing the pathetic parasitic nigger class on Steemit.

The second statement I highlighted illustrates that the White Paper's original offer to either buy in or work up has shifted toward buying and leasing. I did see one comment recently that suggested that wealthier users delegate to their chosen new users. I could see that becoming a voting circle, resembling pimping, rather quickly. Not that it doesn't happen already. Of course it does. However, the emphasis is so strongly placed upon voting that actually reading and interacting, as though this were a genuine social media platform, is hardly a point of consideration. Steemit, as far as I've learned, is not a place for sharing ideas (otherwise known as 'shitpost') and having discussions.

I've had quite a few people approach me with the weku offer. Honestly, Steemit has turned me off of this type of platform with purely monetary ranking. Even if users had the option to sort by date to view 'New' posts, or sort by number of views or comments for a 'Popular' categy, that would be an improvement.

Any how, thanks for stopping by with a lifeline to an alternative platform. :)

So far, my preference is Minds. Users can boost their posts, exchange tokens, use their accounts to host paid advertisements and link back to their storefronts, blogs, videos. They can also add paywalls, should they choose to put up for-fee media. Writers could actually use Minds to host authored works that continue to offer rewards after a week. That's a huge incentive to authoring longer format content.

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