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RE: STOP VOTING FOR HIVE OLIGARCHY - START VOTING FOR FREE-SPEECH

in Deep Dives4 years ago (edited)

I stopped voting for witnesses after the chain split when Justin Sun took over. It turns out HIVE made a private rule that if you voted for an account that supported Justin Sun, that your Steem balance wouldn't carry over to HIVE. And this excluded a lot of well-meaning people's stake from carrying over to HIVE. For example, I changed my vote just in time. I had voted for a witness who claimed to be against downvotes, and after some digging, I realized that they were voting for prominent downvoters. That's why I removed my witness from them. But unbeknownst to me, they supported some of Justin Sun's sock puppets towards the end there. So I unvoted them for my reason, but not the "right reason," and had I not done so, my stake would not have carried over to HIVE. All that said, if they are going to punish people based on who they voted for, I will not vote a witness at all. With my low amount of stake, this is less significant than if I were a prominent stakeholder. As far as steemcleaners, spaminator, cheetah, and hivewatchers are concerned: I see that some cases they pursue are legit, but they also have to tighten up against some of the blatant abuse that their accounts carry out.

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If an account was not copied from Steem to Hive, said account could try to transfer the money to a new account on Hive via a third party. So, for those who had their accounts copied, carried over, or forked in other words, they are in a way getting double the money which is kind of like inflation and not technically inflation. But I am not sure my thoughts on it. I like the extra money but at the same time don't like diluting the value money can have.

I feel ya man, it's all kinda fucky
right? Welcome to crypto!

i guess if they can scare any of their opponents away from voting at all, they've already won