Luke is a sweet talker in my view. He means well and all that, but don't realise not everybody is like him. Similar to Tim who I also don't like.
Other than that I have voted for many of the witnesses you mention.
To me it seems beyond repair to be honest. And selfish, sedate "steemians" seem to be ok with it. Indoctrinated that this is how it works.
Do you have any proactive, productive suggestion to bring to the table?
The distribution problem may be beyond repair. I'm not sure. Maybe SMTs and their Oracles will bring some competition. Maybe EOS will bring competition. I don't know. I do know that throwing our hands up in the air and saying, "Welp, it's hopelessly broke" will never get it fixed unless we first recognize what is broken and then follow it up with what we thing a good fix is. I've asked @berniesanders to define spam in witness-social steem chat and he hasn't replied yet. I think @transparencybot is an interesting service that I, personally, would like to support as I don't think bit bots fit with the intent of "proof of brain," and I personally think there's value in knowing which posts were organically voted for and which posts were bitbotted up by the author of the post.
If @transparencybot is spamming and not providing value, I'll remove my delegation for it. If on the other hand it does provide value, I'll keep it and ask those who disagree to explain why.
Quite frankly -no. I just thought openness was a real good idea. What lies in the cards regarding software upgrades and such is a wait and see game. I could not tell since I don't read a line of code.
What you do is your choice, Luke. It always is. For my part I will continue to support what I believe is a constructive and informative initiative. Naturally I can't change the world, at least I died trying.
Ah, and what if choice is an illusion? Heheh.
I know for a fact that it isn't. Not on a personal level at least. When meandering into government and justice system it gets narrower. But personally I have chosen to live when I could easily have died. I did that from experience, intuition and determination. That's no illusion. And hardly a matter of turning on and off switches. More like how much on and how much off. Something that doesn't exist in the binary world view. Which is much to simplistic.
Well, well. Slightly off topic. To my surprise my computer copes with me with the occasional kernel panic. Whatever that is. Something on-off.
Vote for witness @nextgencrypto!
Thank you for the free promotion @transparencybot and @bycoleman!
@transparencybot you're on the @abusereports naughty list for being a super douche!
Bad Steemian! Bad!