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RE: Justin Sun Conversation with Witnesses Is Online. @Ned Sold Out The Community - Failed to Disclose.
Agree 100% on the childish .4444 shit - apart from that I am proud about the community and especially that we finally get some support from big guys of other blockchains.
sorry i (genuinely) don’t get what is childish about the number?
I know there’s some ties to death or the devil in numerology but that’s about it...
4 is very unlucky in China, it’s associated with death.
Although not a witness myself, and I can't speak for any, but I believe the symbolism is not lost on the witnesses, nor is it meant as a racist attack.
Rather, it is a protest meant to convey that the witnesses see the path taken by the Tron in using misappropriated customers funds to centralize the network (most likely a bunch of sock puppets running on a single node) as a sort of death of legitimate Steem governance. Apparently the core Steem developers and communications director agreed, as they resigned over it.
Hopefully it is a 'death' from which Steem can recover. We shall see.
Either way I would not overly fixate on the symbolism. The message of disapproval and protest being conveyed is more important.
thanks for the info :)
oh well - forgive me as a German I should stay away - but it is racism in my view (or could be seen as it - at least it is attacking via childish shit) to use such numbers that offend anyone in the Chinese World
I have seen language calling Steemit employee a "monkey" and to vote for a "human," in addition to cries of "Chinese communism" from multiple witnesses. These statements are dog-whistles for ignorant xenophobia and racism.