I don't know enough yet about Steemit, how things work here, the supposed hierarchy or what have you. However, I can say with absolute certainty and the weight of history behind me the "powers that be" have always been nervous or frightened of those that threaten to disrupt or re-balance their current power base or structure.
If you're getting responses like that from some of the "higher-ups" here, @yallapapi, then I say it's just a good sign that you're doing something right. So keep on keeping on, man!
well if you don't know what are you on about, go read, figure it out, then come show us a picture or something, it's a public transparent blockchain, it's all a big mess and bernie is one of the first ones to do whatever he likes, most people have tried talking with him, myself included I'm not gonna proofread and edit my comments with links then upvote with bots so i get a payout for it, I do it for myself when I feel like it and all my posts are awesome :)
That was for @yallapapi, call me a hater, I'm split on weather you are a total douche or a minor one, probably the haters blew you off for your bullshit like they did with haejin, if you get into a coalition you might make whatever you like and bernie bernie ...
I don't have time to waste reading your posts that take 3-4-5 hours to write at the least (I know because I've wrote some myself and you are probably better at it than me) I'd rather spend my time with the 0... payout people that aren't possibly douches like well all of the above mentioned :D
I gotta say out of the bunch I prefer you @yallapapi, you have some direction, sadly I'm not convinced marketing is a great thing so I don't like it, there are better people around and well beats me why I read anything trending here than waste my time explaining for people to read and why it's better to have a head on your shoulders and direct yourself than go wherever the current takes you,
I think we have a lot in common :D I just don't like marketing platforms, would what you describe be good for the platform, yeah on your biased world-view, that's the mainstream adoption everyone has been crying for :(
as you can see I can't stop typing so I will :D
in conclusion, yeah a flag from berine is the award you get, its' a distributed-decentralised-centralised platform, the technology is efficient and distributed, the people are decentralised and looking for something and the power is centralised(how it's managed and directed is another topic) at least it's not directed and managed in a totalitarian way, it's pretty close tho, I'd call this place a meritocracy, cheers @oleblueeye
You can always hijack comments here which is awesome :) I hate it when I go back to a post 3 months ago and can't upvote, at least I can comment whenever and wherever
Good luck yallapapi, I gotta say most of what you are doing has been done and I'm not sure it's gotten any better, still I applaud your commitment, now that's enough traffic from me to your post.