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@timcliff, thanks for the effort to at least *try* to clarify what's currently going on. In general, I appreciate your efforts to put some of the technical underpinnings of Steemit into non-technical terms for those of us who are primarily content creators and little else. Your post (and *need to make it*) suggests we have a certain lack of communication between the developers/Steemit and the users. There's a lot of "black box" type stuff that seems to happen, and the community only finds out about it post-fact. It's not that people need to know about technical details... but there's a danger people losing confidence. If you think about it, in the earliest days of Facebook, Zuckerberg was actually *quite active* in user forums interacting with the community over development stuff. Same with Tom at MySpace. Same on several other long lived user-generated content venues. Sure, experiments have to happen... changes get made... and maybe the decentralized format adds extra communication challenges precisely because there is *not* a centralized repository of plans and actions. In the current case, I think a lot of people felt in the dark as to whether this was an actual "Steemit experiment" or just abit running some stuff to see what would happen. I'd like to think we're all onboard and trying to go in the same direction... but is someone actually *driving* the bus?
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kus-knee | 0 | 239,296,384,353 | 100% | ||
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It was a collective decision among several of the whales. It is not my place to say who is/isn't involved. I could be wrong on this, but based on the fact that at least 50% of the whales need to stop voting in order for it to work, I believe there is buy-in from more than 50% of the whales. > but is someone actually driving the bus Would it be scary if I said no? ;)
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author | timcliff |
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It's a decentralized bus, and everyone gets a steering wheel the size of their stake.
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neoxian | 0 | 776,518,290,479 | 100% | ||
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denmarkguy | 0 | 9,416,411,184 | 100% |
Hehe, yes. Exactly!
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author | timcliff |
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Yeah, makes sense.
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author | denmarkguy |
permlink | re-neoxian-re-timcliff-re-denmarkguy-re-timcliff-the-whale-voting-experiment-explained-including-downvotes-from-abit-20170313t043010036z |
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No, not scary... but I just can't stop thinking about what happens when you blow up a balloon and then set it free to fart it's way around the room in a totally uncontrolled pattern until all the air is gone...
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@neoxian's reply (just above yours) is pretty awesome :)
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author | timcliff |
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