The experiment changed: today's target - the guilds - who will be next?

in #steemit7 years ago

In a new twist, today some new targets of our amazing "experiment" were announced. In case you didn't get the memo (I didn't)either, here is what happened.

The origonal awesome message announcing the plan from abit read (yesterday)

"Let's see how the dolphins and minnows will play."

BUT

today it was edited to read

//Edit: I'm downvoting the posts upvoted by other whales.
//Edit 2: downvoting posts upvoted by the @steemvoter Guild.
//Edit 3: thinking about how to counteract bot voting. Bot voting includes voting for a list of authors and follow voting.
//Edit 4: downvoting @steemtrail.
//Edit 5: downvoting @curie

What ?

I thought this was about whales!

Nope

Yesterday's experiment is today's afterthought, seems and smells more like a personal vendetta to me. Can't help but thinking this whole thing is disingenuous and there are hidden agendas being played out. So it seems like guilds and other services are now also being targeted.

Already some whales are publicly backlashing

Young Bernie doesn't mince his words
https://steemit.com/flaggingbullshittest/@berniesanders/fuck-the-flagging

Throw in a Dan vote upvote today on a post criticising the whole torrid affair and you will see it's a mess..
https://steemit.com/experiment/@dwinblood/next-time-you-want-to-do-an-experiment

So yesterday's results have now been invalidated by today's changes and in a few days we have a fork changing everything again

So what's really going on here?

P.s abit is powering down his $200,000 worth of steem

Have a pineapple,
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRM0noEqgl4_8rePOQsyVIU0N7ltqEpSJsj3MLGwap4hPqeVjt9
I might even have a Pina Colada seeing as my 10 minutes is up, and I am not bothering to share my steemit posts to twitter or Facebook audiences now, normal programming will resume when the madness is over.

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Thanks for the news as it breaks man! Standing by for more pineapples! :)

lol...looks like i got some dud image links in there...not gonna bother fixing them.. this is steemit 2.0 - low quality posts

The whole thing is stinky!!!

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