Your personal experience is largely irrelevant and undermines your opinion. You'd have to show that @mack-bot brings negative value to the space.
Even if 25% of @mack-bot's downvotes were targeted at people that didn't deserve it that still leaves you with the remaining 75% good targets. From @ned's perspective this is going to be a win, so your tactic of focusing on the 25% isn't going to get any delegations pulled.
Honestly though, I'm on your side. Delegations are granted hastily and there don't seem to be any consequences for corruption. The people in charge here are much more concerned with development than fair governance and content ownership. Hopefully this doesn't backfire in the long run.
Lol @ development. Is that why they are years behind their roadmap?
I agree that the governance thing is definitely a joke. STINC has the largest stake, but they decided that it's in their best interest to NOT directly influence the culture.
Instead, they have chosen a half-ass approach where you have semi-functional projects as "community moderation". Yet, they still want most of the control when it comes to politics, etc. Queue the stereotypical scenario:
Development: sounds good! Here's bunch of delegation. No need to be accountable though. Even if the dapp is filled with cesspool of abuse, etc.
Governance: Ahhhh we can't do that. Here's some seed money. Oh, pssss we would like to decide who we like in the background, but will never be involved in any visible issues.
What the hell is the point of being the largest stakeholder when they choose to half-ass everything? And they wonder why someone wanted to fork them out?
Almost all the top projects in the crypto space started off centralized. Even Bitcoin. When the project has a solid frame and foundation, then community jumped on it to further the decentralized work.
This entire chain failed when STINC decided to create a pseudo-decentralized environment where stagnation prevails and the ecosystem grinds on like a zombie. Not quite dead, but definitely not alive.
I'll admit I'm a little out of my element here, but how can you be years behind on the roadmap on a platform that's been around 3 years?
Development always takes at least twice as long as predicted, so no surprises there on my end. They've also started a bunch of projects and not finished them which makes it feel like they are moving a lot slower than they are.
I see the downward pressure of the price action as a good sign. Steemit is selling off coins. If they were competent with their finances they'd have a lot more coins right now, which would obviously be not ideal.
Silver lining.