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RE: Preparing for changes in Velocity
The problem I see is that just a small group of people decide what has to be changed, shouldn't everyone have an equal say in what happens on this platform? Everyone goes on about how it is decentralized and nobody runs it, but that is not what I see, a small group makes all the decisions. I am not saying the changes that come with the hard fork will be good or bad, we won't know until they happen, but actually I think these are just things the witnesses have decided upon without giving users a say, that being said I do hope they work.
have you voted for witnesses? That is your say. You need not vote for anyone who you think doesn't have your best interest in mind. Other users have their say too by voting in witnesses they think will help the platform.
Actually very few people decide who is a witness, because witnesses are decided by the SP of the voters not by the number of voters.
Yes, I know that because it is a stake based platform where those who have stake have more influence. People may not like it that way but it is at the core of the platform and has been since the start. If everyone had a direct say, not much good would get done because, people only have their interests in mind without understanding the complexities of the system. We see this in the world now as people vote based on emotion rather than understanding of economic systems.
But that is what I said at the beginning, a few people get to decide what is done, so the decentralization that Steemit supposedly has is just a pipe dream. Is this bad? I really don't know.