RE: Witness Update -- Team Sircork
How many times did you ask me to join your witness and how many times did I say no? This was why and I told you my concerns, I told you the risks, and you reassured me every time that it was fine.
You repeatedly insisted that I would bring you loads of votes and guess what, I brought you far more than I lost you! But you flipped out over the voters that I had warned you we would lose. 2 people cork. The first you said you could handle. The second was disappointing, but I told you we'd be taking those hits because of my views. I unvoted your witness when you set up your own bidbot and you chose to pull that back because our "friendship" was more important. Meanwhile you're still trying to convince me to join your witness and a week into witnessing you're insisting that I keep my opinions to myself and remain neutral on steem policies.
This was never a "team witness". You hired me and Rhonda to promote your witness. We were never really sharing it. I told you there was a good chance I could lose you some votes. I told you ats-david would be the first to unvote because of me joining. You assured me that none of that mattered and we were gonna use our hard headedness to get to the top. One unexpected witness unvote ticked you off. A flag on a post about animation with no animation in the post. Several hundred dollars from bid-bots. Less than 10% from real people. Yes. I'm making advertisers pay for the advertising like they're supposed to.
When Pennsif unvoted you assumed it was because of me. I didn't mind, but I decided to talk to him about it. All I did was show you the conversation and you flipped out refusing to believe that actually pennsif doesn't want to vote for witnesses who use bid bots. And since you use them that's us. All I was trying to do was clear my name since you were accusing me of losing the votes. I left the chat because I gave up when you refused to believe it and continued to blame me and my actions, putting yourself and your "data" on a pedestal to deflect from the truth and the proof.
And then complaining that we didn't bring in the votes we were "supposed" to. That's all this was ever about and I apologise to all my supporters who've been duped into voting for you. You have money in your eyes and you care about nobody. You actually told us (and yeah this was the point where I quit) to support bid-bots because people using them have all the SP. You stopped Rhonda from posting on 3 occasions telling her it's better to remain neutral and not have an opinion when you're a witness. Not to mention the trading witness votes which we had to try to convince you to stop doing. You told us if some whale like @transisto were to tell us to unvote @steemcommunity or a small witness like them then we had to be prepared to do that to "get to the top by any means necessary".
Oh and I flagged "it doesn't always go as planned" because you've massively profited from this "not going to plan". I paid 50% of the months server cost and Rhonda paid the other. You've paid me one week's blocks and not the other. You completely switched from the nicey nice "friend" begging me to join your witness as soon as I joined and started treating me like an idiot I didn't understand something or had a question. "How is this so difficult understand". You never talked to me like that cork until you had my fucking money and my reputation and publicity to piggy back on. But once you've got the votes what the fuck do you need. Your witness blocks back.
Sorry, Rhonda has stopped me from commenting further on this.
And I am really sorry she has. Because despite the desperate nature and breech of etiquette nearly anyone would agree with of posting direct private messages, which even I didn't stoop too when it could have ruined a certain top 20 witness anyway, you fail to understand that if you are not a top witness, you can talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk. And do nothing.
So if you really knew how to change the platform, and wanted to do so, you will have to try to do it another way now. An instant launch to position 65 paved through 24 hour a day work, diplomacy, fairness, sometimes a fight or two and always with attention to things that CAN be changed, is no longer an option, because YOU opted out, when disagreed with. TRY to pin that on me all you want, but I'm not the quitter and I will get to a place where I can help affect change, for the good of the platform, by not tilting at windmills and shooting my own feet on the way with foolish and hasty decision making.
That's just not how this place works.
I opted when disagreed with? I opted out when I realised I'm dealing with a fraud. I opted out when I showed you that @pennsif didn't unvote because of me and your reacted by continuing to blame me for loses that I TOLD YOU WE WOULD HAVE AND YOU SAID IT WOULD BE FINE. You broke the deal cork which was that if I lost us a vote we would be GOOD. You weren't good, you were a lunatic and made me out to be a terrible person for sticking to my principles like I told you I would.
And as for the "breech of etiquette" you've had plenty of time to (a) apologise (b) settle the block pay and (c) pay for your own damn witness node!
Name a number, you alluded to one that would suit you as earnings for your contribution. But then ran off and blocked and started acting hysterical on rhonda's post.
I'm around.
You have the numbers. What I paid you in bitcoin and what you owe me in steem for the second week. This could have went a lot smoother if you'd honoured the debt in the first place, or even smoother if you hadn't gone "hysterical" about the below.
No, let's expose to the world, what you need for reimbursement, since I've been called greedy here. I wouldn't want to second guess you since that's a moving target, and I'm not going to play this ridiculous screenshot game, by producing the one before that where same person indicates unvoting over your choices and erratic behavior with our community friends. Believe what he said to your face, that makes sense, as opposed to what he said first, behind your back. Logical.
Name your number to be happy. I wouldn't want anybody to think I assume you were greedy.
You mean this?
Where he asks why I flagged and jokes about being offended by me blocking him by DM? (Which he wasn't blocked from intentionally). But if you insist then fine. It's my fault you lost pennsif. Just ignore this. (again)
My keen usage stats are over on steemocean.com, where it was proven to be random nonsense being allegated there. And where it was proven I do twice as much curation as you, all for minnows, with a tiny almost non-existent self vote percentage. Despite not having a huge delegation to use for such things, squandered on flagging good people, to no avail, from an anti-flag delegator.
The parting of ways as witness partners was peaceful enough. What's happening here is another thing altogether. It seems more like an axe to grind. None of this should be trotted out in public, especially screenshots of conversations where no permission was granted to use them by the other party. I'm not sure what point is being made by all this. It's making otherwise reasonable people look immature and petty. That's not what I want for anyone involved here. We're all better people than this.
Rhonda you know I have every respect for you but you're being taken for a ride. It's a publicity stunt and always has been. I'm a fool for buckling and teaming up against my better judgement. I had thought with you there we could make a great influence, but I didn't expect cork to go completely against his word. I trusted him to be supportive if my stances lost him any support.
Yes I'm betraying him with the screenshots. I wasn't going to allow him to speak to me that way in private, and you and I both know he was a lot worse in that group chat that I can't access now. He's had more than 36 hours to think about his reaction and how it drove me away. But he's profited from it so I've heard nothing. He was completely calm and satisfied with the result. While I'm out of pocket after bringing him many voters.
Sorry not sorry.