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TBH it's their prerogative if they want to continue vote for the sock puppet witness,it's a free world here. They just have to accept whatever consequences that come with it. Can't help them with that.

Right. Some people are upset with how it was brought up..."I didnt know, therefore I did nothing wrong." A scary mentality. People should unvote as they become aware and move on. Thank, don't shoot the messenger.

I feel it is still worth being decent in this Steem-Hive relationship, especially while people are still only on week 8 or so of powerdown. It is in no one's interest to intentiinally crash the value of Steem or pick a fight.
My plan was to powerdown and leave peacefully.
In the meantime, supporting 22.8888 now is arguably worse than supporting 22.5 was, unless that is you think all those accounts should be frozen on Hive (or don't care).