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baah in #steem • 6 years ago

I searched for it out of skepticism with the search function on steemit, 'whale experiment' and guess what, one post "against it" , and everything else was what I'd call in favor of it. Anyway, if you cannot see why or how it was a unprecedented success I suggest you follow up with an optometrist. You think it's naive, even though it's exactly what took place, numerous whales came together and decided to do exactly that, to empower smaller accounts.

Why do you think that this place is open source btw, or that it's admin/moderator free?

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skepticology 6 years ago

If it was such a success, why do you think the "experiment" was discontinued?

The STEEM blockchain is for all intents and purposes controlled by Steemit Inc. They implement whatever changes they want, moderate/censor their front-end, and control almost all the coding that is merged. Only in the last month did they start merging community code requests, but really nobody knows how many of the anonymous developer, marketing, and witness accounts they actually control on here.

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baah 6 years ago

The hardfork stopped the curve distribution which was supposed to "fix" distribution. This is why convergent is brought up, because it didn't fix it.

I won't argue with you about the control over development but at the same time they aren't in "control" of the blockchain. Open source and the incredible development that is taking place on top of it also and the efforts that happen from the stakeholders (like the unprecedented whale experiment) demonstrates that.

Everyone who is ready to vilify the whales, or to suggest that people are totally the worst, giving them any kind of power they will abuse it, the majority, that's is nonsense and counter intuitive to what people really are like. Like I pointed out, ain't no police force that can stop a lynch mob, and you better believe that the police are people too, who all too often abuse their power, IMO much much more than they use it carefully or reserved (or in their capacity) and if you read the Declaration of Independence you'd no doubt have to contend with what it says about people tolerating the intolerable, people are generally good, and forgive grave injustices and help and engage in self sacrifice, and yes, the whales are generally wise enough to recognize what is helping the platform and themselves in turn and what isn't. Yet that isn't dramatic, that isn't exciting, that's not controversial, it's rather dull and unsophisticated. Well suck mah balls either way, what you believe ain't my concern in the faking slightest.

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