@justmeagain, I gave you a vote!<br>If you follow me, I will also follow you in return!

>There was a time, early this year, where many smaller accounts were locked out. This was when the cryptomarket was on fire and the network was more heavily used. We will see the same thing happen with the new model. **If traffic is heavy, those with almost no stake on the blockchain will be locked out**.
>
>**Some might feel this will stunt STEEM's growth. It will not. The reason I state this is where are people going to go?**
…
>As one progresses and grows, either via investment or effort, the limitations will be lifted. Each SP will provide one with more access.
>
>And isn't this how it should be? **Those who give to the blockchain benefit** either through direct SP or delegation from others who believe in them while **those have other motives do not**.
https://steemit.com/busy/@taskmaster4450/steem-freemium-is-not-free

Steemit Statistics – 2018.09.29 
https://steempeak.com/statistics/@arcange/steemit-statistics-20180929-en
SteemitBoard knock out by hardfork 
https://steempeak.com/steemitboard/@steemitboard/steemitboard-knock-out-by-hardfork

>fitinfun (64) 7 days ago
I do not know one thing about this ned guy except that he recently pulled his large delegation from @surpassinggoogle. This has been a widespread tragedy over the last weeks as @surpassinggoogle helps minnows 24/7 and has all kinds of tags he developed, nurtures and supports.
>
>Anyone can pull a delegation at any time and - thanks ned for the time you had it there. I hope you have a better place for this money, but I cannot imagine what it would be if you want minnows to succeed here.
>
>I was late to this party and do not know the ned story at all beyond that issue. I have never seen any post or comment from ned in the 1.5 years I have been here. I am not saying he hasn't posted, but I have not seen it if he has.
>
>Why do I post on a headless platform and watch people jump ship day after day? I have no idea...
https://steempeak.com/hegaveup/@berniesanders/why-doesn-t-ned-use-the-network-he-created

>Why doesn’t @ned use the network he created? 
>by berniesanders (71)  •  7 days ago
>Other than cashing out, @ned is barely active on Steemit/Steem.  He doesn’t speak at conferences, and does literally nothing to make Steem more relevant in the cryptosphere. 
>
>Does anyone know what @ned actually does???
https://steempeak.com/hegaveup/@berniesanders/why-doesn-t-ned-use-the-network-he-created

>"Hardfork Successful" -> "Hardfork Complete"...Yep 
>by berniesanders (71)  •  4 days ago
>It's time for our top 20 witness (who btw, are controlled by a single voting account) to step up and actually do something with the funds they are bringing in. Or, y'all can keep barely feeding the money tree, complying with all of @ned's wishes, and just wait for it to whither away.
https://steempeak.com/clusterfork/@berniesanders/hardfork-successful-hardfork-complete-yep

WTF of good guy you are? Please contact me privately at intellihandlingpl@gmail.com. I am so happy to find you over this shit! With email nobody can stop our interaction!!

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>How does someone end up being a top Steem witness? 
>by berniesanders (71)  •  a day ago
>In case you are not aware, one single user currently has full control over the governance of the Steem blockchain. This is a fact. Without the vote from @pumpkin, who hasn't been "active" in 6 months, a user has no chance of becoming a top 20 witness, regardless of your contributions and voting by the rest of the community.
https://steempeak.com/centralizedshitcoin/@berniesanders/how-does-someone-like-gtg-end-up-being-the-top-steem-witness

Pumpkin's SP & RC Standings and Activity on the Blockchain:
Vote Weight: 0.71 SP 
Enough credits for approximately:
0 comments 
5 votes 
5 transfers/powerups

Last post: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 (i.e. NEVER)
Last vote time: 2016-09-28 13:31:45 
https://steemd.com/@pumpkin

https://steemworld.org/@pumpkin

This looks like a strawman account.  There's no point in voting witnesses and there's no hope for witnesses to get into the top 20 without taking over existing witness nodes, such as with the case of Jerry Banfield's node.  

Who's responsible for managing witness accounts, other than pumpkin?  Can't anyone step up to replace pumpkin, or is it that the top 20 witnesses are enjoying their indelible status into perpetuity?  WAS THIS PLANNED FROM THE LAUCH OF STEEMIT? Or is this a matter of incompetence, willful negligence or malicious intent?  @Ned, select a cause and FIX the problem.

@intellihandling has set 1.000 STEEM bounty on this post!
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Earn the bounty by commenting what you think the bounty creator wants to know from you.

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Happy Rewards Hunting!

Read again the timmcliff comment.  If the total payout of a comment/ post is less than .02$, it does not receive any reward. However, the minimum value for a vote to increase the reward is different.   

I explained that to you before, but you decided to keep saying the same without checking it.

![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYL9X7TVQ7nFEy5ZGT6oqaJuCjamXbLYGWm851pPH6sCE/imagen.png)

> DO NOT forget that after 7 days your posts cannot be edited;

HF20 removed that limitation

>Unlimited Editing!
Before we go further into what changes users can expect after the Hardfork, we’re happy to announce that once all of the witnesses have begun running version 20 of steemd, we will be able to enable unlimited post editing on steemit.com!

Source: https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/hardfork-20-what-to-expect-tomorrow?sort=trending

Anyway, it is true that Steemit have a big problem in allowing new users to get their posts noticed without using bidding bots, and that the new RC system is very  harmful for them.

My comment on Steemit after HF20 atomic bomb:
@intellihandling so what you're say is that running the @steem-bounty program and contributing to other programs that are helping plankton earn rewards is MORE IMPORTANT to you than boosting your own RC, so you can comment and vote more.  Well, to me, that is a very NOBLE and SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE objective.  I understand your position here.  Your concern is not for YOURSELF, as much as it is for all other small stakeholders here on Steemit, the NIGGER CLASS, as I like to affectionately call my peers.  

I know you are aware that with HF20 votes with a value less than .02 will be rounded down to ZERO, further undermining the ability of the Steemian NIGGER CLASS to support each other with votes.  While the 10X patch is temporarily allowing NIGGERS to vote and post, and although they may have dozens of votes from peers, the end result is a big FAT ZERO.  So, the RC patch allows us NIGGERS to stay busy, voting and posting, but we are working for nothing - no rewards - here on Steemit.  That's the bottom line.  Succinctly, NIGGERS like you and me are no longer able to WORK IN, as was explained in the White Paper:

>There are two ways people can get involved with a crypto-currency community: they can buy in, or they can work in. In both cases users are adding value to the currency, however, the vast majority of people have more free time than they do spare cash. Imagine the goal of bootstrapping a currency in a poor community with no actual cash but plenty of time. If people can earn money by working for one another then they will bootstrap value through mutual exchange facilitated by a fair accounting/currency system. 
https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf

That option to WORK IN has been REVOKED and the original principles guiding the Steemit 'social platform' no longer apply.  That, my NIGGER friend, is the bottom line.

Because your intentions are NOBLE and your ETHICAL INTEGRITY is strong, I would like to delegate what little SPs I have to @steem-bounty, under your management.  Please initiate discussions to guide me through that process by dropping a comment on my final post:
https://steempeak.com/steem-bounty/@justmeagain/why-i-do-declare-it-s-1861-in-the-steem-world-social-experiment-and-a-civil-war-is-unfolding#@justmeagain/re-justmeagain-why-i-do-declare-it-s-1861-in-the-steem-world-social-experiment-and-a-civil-war-is-unfolding-20180930t171430826z

I am using that post to keep track of my last interactions here on Steemit.  I may return in the future, and certainly wish to continue watching the platform, anticipating what I suspect will unfold as an unannounced, but PLANNED dissolution, quite similar to the 1-year DLive EXPERIMENT, which I suspect was arranged between DLive and Steemit Inc.  If it wasn't a backroom deal, the lack of interest from Steemit Inc, illustrated by the absence of management to announce an official statement about the exit, speaks to the CEOs well-known disinterest in the platform, that can only be explained as INCOMPETENCE, WILLFUL NEGLEGENCE AND/OR MALICIOUS INTENT.

Please join me on my final post to work out the details of SP delegation.


https://steempeak.com/steem/@intellihandling/steemit-after-hf20-atomic-bomb

>isnochys (61) 4 days ago
Are those your lessons learned from HF20? :)
>
>Very good, you seem to be the first T20 witness, that actually has learned something from the HF20 mayhem.
>
>For the next HF. Shouldn't there already be a development plan for HF21? A roadmap?
>
>In hindsight we should have seen it coming, when @ned stated "there will be no roadmap for 2018"
>
>And how can we all push the devs to release such a plan? Because right now is the time to announce the next HF..in 2 months.
>
>If SMTs are coming with their planned March release, it will be even worse if they do it like HF20.
>
>What does the Steemit inc CTO say? Has anyone asked him? Seen him lately?
https://steempeak.com/witness-update/@reggaemuffin/witness-statement-for-reggaemuffin-proposing-hardfork-adoption-requirements

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This is unrelated.  I need to economize.  I want it record that I also noticed a miscalculation of Comment RC.  I had zero, powered up and had six, posted twice and had one left.  Attempted to post a comment, but didn't have use of the remaining one credit needed to do so.

The math: 0+6=6, 6-2=1, 1=0!

![YourTransFailed01.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/justmeagain/I68sPpO4-YourTransFailed01.png)

I've waited long enough for another comment RC.  Let's see if I can post this comment!
![YourTransFailed02.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/justmeagain/dentdPV0-YourTransFailed02.png)

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Thanks for posting about pumpkin. I never knew that was a proxy account that defines who all the top witnesses are.

I am struggling to take a blind eye to your use of the N-word. It doesn't seem to bother you one bit. Do you think offending people with a racial slur helps to spread your message? Often, people will take one look at the open use of insulting profanity and they might either flag the post or stop reading and spend their time on something else.

I'm just here because I was looking for interesting steem-bounties to comment on. I'm glad I learned something new about the witness situation here. It's not a topic they like to discuss openly, even though it affects everyone. It gives me clarity why the top witness rarely bother to engage with the masses. It strengthens my resolve to never want to become a witness, and to be honest and true in who I am, even if it means being brutal with my words once in a while.

This is scary, really is. 

I just hope, for  our sakes, this isn't true. 

I went through the additional information in the comments. Seems @freedom is the Lord of the Blockchain

Popcorn Fight on Steemit Blog
In an exceedingly rare appearance on the Steemit platform, the CEO stops by to DOWN-VOTE a disgruntled, established user for “toxicity”.  

>rhondak
But wait--the best (or worst, depending on which camp a person is in,) is the blatant edict by a community leader for his entire drone army to disassociate from Cork and any initiatives he's part of. This edict came with the express threat of removing delegations and all support from anyone who affiliates with him. And the whole drone army concurred that this was acceptable.
https://steempeak.com/@steemmatt/re-jga-re-netuoso-re-steemitblog-hf20-update-operations-stable-20181002t040301542z

The CEO started interacting on Steemit on Sep 25, with a first response to bandwidth issue
https://steemit.com/steem/@cryptoctopus/re-ned-on-the-bridge-hardfork20-20180925t154759157z

Follow his comments here:
https://steemit.com/@ned/comments

Here's a comical exchange that ends with the CEO MUTING a dissenter!
https://steemit.com/steem/@sorin.cristescu/re-socky-re-sorincristescu-re-socky-re-steemitblog-hf20-update-restoring-continuity-20180928t145006133z

Another comedy performance: CEO says, “I will need to mute you for intimating violence by slapping me.”
https://steemit.com/steem/@ned/re-ats-david-re-steemitblog-hf20-update-restoring-continuity-20180928t165357236z

CEO drops a hint about what's to come...
>Scale it or fail it. Glad that’s not lost on some of us.
https://steemit.com/busy/@josephsavage/my-thoughts-on-hf20-rcs-smts-and-the-future-of-steem-contest-enclosed#@ned/re-josephsavage-my-thoughts-on-hf20-rcs-smts-and-the-future-of-steem-contest-enclosed-20180928t170310857z

>brianphobos: "This blockchain has probably made about 50 people more successful than they were before. Everyone else has been stuck in a frustrating time trap."
https://steemit.com/steem/@brianphobos/re-ned-re-ats-david-re-steemitblog-hf20-update-restoring-continuity-20180929t082957967z

And the BIG REVEAL?!!!
Unofficial CEO announcement 10-02-2018: 
>"I am working on an entirely new UI to take the mantle of onboarding normies into crypto."
>
>"Except everything will be new. In order to give the project maximal potential I’m building it under a new corporate structure with new top tier scalable name and domain (mobile first, though) and mission leveraging much experience gained, I believe much to the benefit of everyone, who will join."
https://steemit.com/steem/@ned/re-steemmatt-re-jga-re-netuoso-re-steemitblog-hf20-update-operations-stable-20181002t043239294z

I predicted that Ned & Co. would be moving on, abandoning the Steemit platform, rather than nurturing and enhancing it.  Can you imagine if brick and mortar business owners just walked away from their failing establishments to start new ones down the street?  If Steemit is not a success, why would another platform be a success under the same management, with the same principles and the same centralized decision-making?    

Investors should be asking if this new company and UI is being built with the Steemit Community's funds?  Who's paying for this new venture and why is no one concerned that the time and money that has gone into building Steemit is a total write-off in the same way that the DLive investment is a total write-off?

# PROOF!: If your vote value is worth less than $.02, it is worth ZERO at payout

This example shows that it is the CURATION rewards that are not paid out to upvoters, if their vote-value is below the $.02 threshold. In this example, the whole $.03 (.032 SP) in curation rewards went to the 1 voter with a vote-value over the threshold.  Everyone else received nothing.

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