Unless you joined steemit last week or have not looked outside your own posts, there is a battle that has been raging for months.

Over the last two months or more, the haejin debacle has pretty much engulfed steemit, and I would like to offer up a solution to this problem.

In the hope of a miracle of biblical proportions and this article actually getting read by anyone with any power on here, I will tag some names and hopefully 1 or more might actually come along and add some thoughts to this idea.

I have seen many debates on this subject, some saying @ned should step in, others saying it is a decentralized platform and that would ruin the nature of the site etc etc, I saw a post by @papa-pepper saying the 4 post limit idea was maybe needed to be brought back.

@tarazkp wrote a very interesting article suggesting whales could delegate sp to a mutual account to downvote on behalf of the community https://steemit.com/steemit/@tarazkp/helsing-governance-ideas-good-bad-whales-needed.
I would like to tag @themarkymark in here & also @sircork as these two people seem the most committed in my eyes, to ending this problem and stand-off situation.
@hendrix22 - @lyndsaybowes have spent over 2 months selflessly down-voting on the behalf of the community and this is now getting to a damaging situation as community leaders like @fulltimegeek had to pull his sp back that was benefiting - only he knows how many people.

Enough already man you cry - okay.

I read this article today about a different blockchain, that is decentralised & is run by the community with standards set by the community, it is different though with this unique idea I would like to put forward here, as a way to end this and future disputes. To be a witness takes votes, what would be the difficulty in setting up a vote also for frustrated steemians to have a voice on a decision to take action against any member they feel is rewarding themself with very low quality content? would this be possible or viable?. You can read the full article here http://thefintechtimes.com/phore-bootsrapped-decentrilised-and-community-governed/

I know there is not a single whale or dolphin that has not seen what is going on, and I also respect the fact most do not want to step in as they want to use their stake in a more positive way. Fine, though if we set up this vote system, at least @ned would then be able to step in and help, without looking like he is policing the site, as we would be voting for help, from anyone that wants to help, if @dan can and did join in, why can @ned not if we are asking him to? if not @ned then we could revisit the idea that @tarazkp put forward earlier in this post.

Even small fry like me delegated 50 sp to try to help, and I only had 100 in total, how many of me are there doing that? admittedly I am plankton or what ever you want to call me, I still tried to help.

Is this vote system a possibility is all I am asking here, I hope some dolphins or whales hear my cry, as the life at the bottom of the pond is suffering and drying up, without the majority of us small fry, steemit would become stale, and you would only have a handful of people left, help us out here and give us some hope.

Minnows and even new steemians are having their accounts destroyed by this war, and how many have left due to this is anyone's guess, I was downvoted on 3 posts I made and even promoted with bidbots, why was I downvoted by heajin, uradick and btu? for talking to @hendrix22 in a comment thread on one of hendrix posts, I was not calling heajin out, I did not even mention him, so I was downvoted on my own posts for guilt by association. It took a last minute saviour in @fulltimegeek to seemingly come from nowhere and upvote my posts a few moments after they were downvoted to save me. I never asked, he somehow knew what was going down and helped out.

So is the vote system feasible?. Ideas in the comments section as always.

Remember the start of that article? a democratic voting system "We spoke to Anthony Alleyne, Co-CEO of Phore Blockchain, a growing technology organization which has a democratic voting system within its community and has just launched a strategic b2b blockchain development services arm."

As always, love - peace & respect to all.

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