Yeah, the terrible user retention rate is one of Steemit's biggest problems, at present. To be clear, I would prefer to have both "hoorah-henries" and "hellno-hanks" around, because it makes for more enriching discussion.
I think you have me wrong though. Just because I invested heavily in STEEM doesn't mean I believe PoS will be a sustainable system in the scale of decades. I'm too uneducated on the underlying technology to conclude that with confidence. I also don't think it will keel over tomorrow, next week, or next year, though.
You still didn't answer my question:
what would be a better way of dealing with a similar anomaly than halting things so that everything remains safe until a solution is found and adopted by a supermajority of witnesses, in your view?
but I'm guessing you would say there is no real solution because DPoS is an inherently dysfunctional system in your view.
Hey @d-pend. I suspect that through the same premonitory steps and walkarounds of @talltim, there are yet a few coherent and eloquent "hellno-hanks" here with some interesting and illustrative stuff worth a read to enrich healthy discussions. Maybe everything is not lost and the "hoorah-henries" won't run away with the trophy so easily yet. };)
I'm kinda curious what would you think about that?