Hey, @whatsup.
Okay, I give. I tried looking it up and the explanation I found went over my head. So, what's a SPORK. And more importantly, how is it so materially different from a hardfork, the discussion of which caused the kerfuffle earlier in the year?
You also said it wouldn't affect Steemit and Freedom's stake, but then you say the STEEM in those accounts could be airdropped into a fund.
So, I'm kind of confused at what we're going for here on that.
Also, doesn't their SP, even if it's not doing anything, help with the reward pool somehow? And why are we all of a sudden totally against Steemit Inc.? I thought you were actually saying people shouldn't be so mad at the new direction Steemit Inc was taking since no harm has been done.
Am I missing something here?
So, that is really important feedback, because I am not sure what others would understand and you've given me a feel for it.
Oh and we made up the word SPORK, to get the idea across, but not scare anyone into a power down. (ned) lol.
The "FORK GATE" threatened to create a fork of STEEM that removed Steemit, Inc's stake. Gone... no more.
What this does would be to create a NEW economy, even run it right here on steem. We would drop everyone their stake in new SPORK tokens. Only SteemIt Inc's top 4 accounts would turn into a foundation for growth.
So, we aren't taking anything from them, but the idea is those who wanted to experience a social media site, would not have to start from scratch to rebuild.. They could move with their current status and stake. (everyone would still own their own Steem)
Okay, so, I got the part of everyone having their own stake, except when you say the top four accounts would end up as a foundation. Is that something they do of their own free will, or just something that happens because of the SPORK?
And I'm not sure why those four are the only ones being singled out. Has it ever been confirmed who the Freedom account belongs to? Ned's on record saying he and Dan don't know. Folks have investigated but haven't been able to figure it out conclusively. Unless that's happened more recent than several months ago when I last checked.
It sounds like to me that this is meant to put the largest stake accounts that some might feel aren't doing enough with it into an account where it can do good, which doesn't sound like it's still their stake after that.
This is a NEW stake pool. It doesn't touch the old stake pool.
The freedom account is not confirmed, but it does control the witnesses.
Those four are being singled out because they control 60% of Steem and the hardforks and what gets rewarded and they earned their stake in a poorly executed mine.
Since this is all NEWLY created the only point in doing it would be to experiment with how the site functions without that stake's influence.
Nothing regarding STEEM changes. (Except maybe people would rather invest in spork)
I'm pretty sure Taco Bell made up the word spork SPLINGER now, that’s ours.