This was an important post. Thank you. I had forgotten about the witness vote. So now I have removed all of mine and will re-evaluate.

make the community better by pushing educational rules of behaviour

Are you kidding, or are you afraid of offending certain thugs by using such a politic phrasing? NOBODY here has a right to "push" anything on, or forcibly "educate" anybody, however well intended. That's called COERCION and needs to be nipped in the bud. The thugs who are doing this are FASCISTS because they think they are our betters with a right to bully us around!

The last point is a tricky one given a lot different opinions

Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but there is nothing tricky about it: A majority of thousands finds it more profitable to buy and sell votes and will happily do so. A tiny minority (albeit a rich one) numbering in the teens frowns upon this and would like to bully the rest of us into changing our behavior.

Interestingly enough, some of those holier than thou thugs have gotten at least some of their wealth by selling their fat votes wholesale, or by circle jerking each other. Hands up: Who wants to have an "educational lesson" crammed down their throat by such upstanding, moral pillars of the community? C'mon now, sheeple, they mean well and they have the VP to prove it...

Look: If anybody wants real change, there should be binding rules, those rules should be voted on democratically, and they should be enforced thereafter. The system is set up so we can vote for witnesses. That's a start. Why not modify the system in such a way that we can vote on contentious issues as well? That's a hard fork I could back without reservation! How about it, techies?