THANK YOU. I am not an investor like yourself, as such, but often consider folks in your position. A platform that goes offline four hours on end unpredictably is uncomfortable enough for me, a blogger who has been here over two years trying to build SP and enjoying the community. I can only imagine how investors must feel.
I am unaware of witnesses having to tow the party line, maybe. Could you elaborate? On a whole, though, I really resonate with what you are saying about decentralization. The Steemit.com platform is one thing, but now even the chain itself seems to be under very centralized and arbitrary control.
I feel disappointed. Like you, I am waiting to see what will happen, but more and more this site starts to resemble a kind of MLM/pyramid scheme junk heap. I feel for the dedicated Dapp creators trying to build on the chain, as well.
Thanks for the quick reply.. I must have read 30 posts yesterday on hf20 and over 100 comments on each. But i have managed to fine the thread that got me concerned.
https://steemit.com/clusterfork/@d-pend/re-berniesanders-hardfork-successful-hardfork-complete-yep-20180926t161210893z
and the post lower down from @ats-david that mentions a super majority and further down where @nationalpark mentions about @freedom voting for witness's
this is the comment from @nationalpark
https://steemit.com/clusterfork/@nationalpark/re-d-pend-re-whatsup-re-d-pend-re-berniesanders-hardfork-successful-hardfork-complete-yep-20180927t031447476z