RE: Atomic Swaps & The Future of STEEM
There are a lot of people out here for more than just the money, I am one of them. I was told basically if you don't like the witnesses, or the choices go somewhere else, I really don't think they understand, that concerns over a statement, direction taken, or dissatisfaction of a choice made, is not an accusation of failure on the part of anyone; people make their feelings known because they like the product and are concerned about it. If they want an audience of yes men and women only it is they that should leave and rejoin the likes of facebook.
Not everyone is going to agree with the choices made, they may support the choices, as many witness have supported the Soft Fork, that does not mean they like it, think it is right, or was even the right thing to do. They expressed their feeling and thoughts on it, and still continue to support the block chain. They did not ask nor tell people to like it or lump it, they did not try to drive people away. People need to understand that dissatisfaction on choices happen, that dissatisfaction is relayed in the hopes that things will be looked at and maybe different choices made.
The people that make the hard choices know that there is going to be back lash. They do not lash out back and tell people to like it or leave it. They are the real leaders, not the ones that lash back at the people that share a concern about the choice they made.
Everything STEEM does has controversy, most recently before the SF being the EIP, a lot of people raged quit from that but a lot of new people also joined since.
I think some people tend to try and focus on too much at once. I am a buidler, an investor and several other things, if I have to obsess over chain security, I lose an edge in everything else. Of course, I talk to witnesses, ask questions/give advice and do everything I can to help. But at the end of the day, you have to trust they are going to do their jobs the best of their ability.
If they failed to react and let's say Tron did pull a hostile takeover, everyone will be blaming the witnesses for not securing the chain. It really can be a tough, thankless job at times, does not make it any less important.
I invite controversy, different opinions and people that see things differently. Strength is in disagreement yet finding a common path forward. Weakness is fracturing and giving up when you don't get your way. It's easy to stay the course when one agrees with everything and there's sunshine and rainbows, but moments like we just had really shine people's true colors.
Reactionary is okay, it is needed at times. Rage quit never works, telling someone to find somewhere else to go when they are trying to understand and to help, causes more strife. Leaders don't do that, those looking for rainbows do.
It is a hard and thankless job most of the time being any sort of leader, you are always in the cross hairs. Some witnesses and others have shown their colors. Things may change, but then again, most people have short term memory loss and always look back on what the positive was that came out of the situation.
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Someone telling you if you don't like it leave is their opinion and way they wish to express themselves. That is in no way the attitude of the majority of the community. Don't let a few sour grapes ruin the whole cluster.
Absolutely not going to. This is the third fork, and third time of being told if you don't like it leave, that/those person/people just do not understand a concern is not a rejection of the entire system.
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I have a reasonably long list of new accounts funded by Steemit that have only ever been used to flag people. All of the accounts were found by following the activities of 1 account. So i think it reasonably safe to say that that individual initiated those accounts. I dont believe that we have a lot of new users we only have new accounts. The EIP is still in force, people being attacked for no reason, even accounts like the @steemengineteam
This place has a lot of corruption to deal with before it even gets close to mass adoption.
But I am still here because I can see what it could become. A world changer especially for the poorest people