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RE: Petition to Demand Steem be made fully Open Source
If this condition is not removed by May 1st 2017, we will power down and leave the network.
Even though i support the general ideal of making STEEM fully open source, I do not think blackmailing is the right way to achieve that. Rather stick with argumentation and facts. Those can be perceived less aggressive.
Declining to continue to participate under objectionable terms (even if those terms were previously acceptable) is not any form of blackmail.
One of the facts in support of open source is that there are people who won't support the project or contribute it otherwise, including those signing this petition (but many others as well).
You've got me .. I translated into "blackmailing" wrongly :) Should have used threatening instead
Blackmail definition:
demanding money from someone in return for not revealing compromising information which one has about them.
You've got me .. I translated into "blackmailing" wrongly :) Should have used threatening instead
Threaten is a strong word, but you can use it to dramatise a demonstration of conditions or demands by stake holders.
You need to understand that there is a difference between Steem holders and SteemIt Inc shareholders!
You're right that was not understood. But now that it is I've sold out.
Words are nothing without actions to back them up. I make an ultimatum and stake my Steem Power on it (which I will probably make a large loss on) to show that I mean what I say and that the issue is serious enough to warrant that.
dude sorry for saying it but use words correctly, It's not either blackmail or threaten, it's a choice so it's a decision.
and that is the only thing it is, argumentation and facts, ok sure, dan left for that reason, the experiment is total bullshit for that reason, why, because if they could they go experiment it would be better for everyone rather than disrupt the whole system, if people want a socialist steemit, go on minds or whatnot, make a sidechain, easy, if you support open source then the current system should be blackmail to you. it might be a bad time and it will surely decrease the stability and the trust in the platform since there will be 5 sidechains instantly, but i don't see you making that argument, so why do you expect others to give you the same courtesy, everybody is free to leave and they are free to say their reasons, it's not threatening, it's making a point, many have done it, you grow discontent with the way of things sooner or later and you say either stop the bullshit/problem whatever or I'm out. Nothing wrong with that, at least he extended some time for it. Dan did it out of the blue for most. Sure he was getting hate for maybe since they had started the project.