RE: It's time to end the mystery delegations.
On one hand the SP is theirs and they can do whatever they want with it. On the other much bigger tattoed hand, users and investors expect more communication from Steemit.inc.
It's a shitty thing to do but @wa7's whole spiel about "Toxic circlejerking environment" isn't something we should ignore. There is truth in what was said, which i guess was why people are extra pissed off about it, that plus the douchbag thing of hopping on the back of steemit delegation and high tail when it's time to do their own ICO. You should see the self-patting they do in their discord servers. Those people really believed they did nothing scummy.
There's no escaping it, Steemit.inc should treat themselves as a centralized company, we scream decentralization but look to steemit.inc when shit hits the fan. They might as well treat their users as stakeholders because the line is so blur between to 2 now.
I hope they make the deal public. Im sure that itself would open up a whole hornet's nest but not doing it would be worse because nothing wil then change.
None of it was news to anyone, though. Many of us are working on this to the degree that we feel it's important and that we have the ability to do so. Maybe it galvanizes somebody new to put some work into it, I don't know. Personally I think that while it's a good idea to include reducing that particular effect in any retention project spec if possible, it's not among the top five problems I'm looking to solve, except in the sense that it's part of the lack of a diverse class of powerful voters.
@misterdelegation's SP belongs to Steemit Inc. Company decisions should be shared with the community.