Here's the funny thing – I absolutely *have* been working surprisingly hard to inform myself about the topic. It's almost as if the system is set up to deliberately keep people from finding out about the topic. Aggressively. Consciously.

Other people have already pointed out that the blockchain and its hard forks themselves are woefully under-documented, but let me tell you that as a relative newcomer to this particular social platform – trying to learn anything about it coherently, cogently, and meaningfully? Almost impossible.

At best you can stumble over a thread like this where people actually get actively engaged. Maybe some aspect of the constantly raging Steemit drama falls across your screen and you can chase one little bit of it.

But if you had money, that would not be the way to bet.

Given the theoretical importance of witnesses, why is there no platform-promoted information on it? Why is it that you guys react with aggressive engagement when something like this comes up?

You didn't start with, "we've already been answering these questions over on Meet the Witnesses, maybe you should check it out." This, nine or so levels deep in the responses, is the first time it's come up. Someone of a cynical bent might suggest that it's the first time that you thought about it or remembered that it exists.

If it didn't come up until now, how important could it be?

You're the one pushing the idea that everyone else needs to be educated on why they should or shouldn't vote for you as a witness and that it's their responsibility, not yours, to convey that knowledge. If you really believed that, your opening response would've been "… and you can find that information over here at…"

But that's not what you did. That's not what you've been doing.

So yes, we're all adults here and we are old enough to recognize a disingenuous tactic when we see it.

You still seem to be laboring under the belief that it is everyone else in the community's responsibility to find out about you and not at all your responsibility to persuade the community that you are worth finding out about, including making doing that easy.

I'm not going to take the blame for that. That's ridiculous.