@socky, please consider voting for @ausbitbank, voting link - https://steemitwallet.com/~witnesses
Please consider consolidating your witness vote by removing inactive witnesses and lower ranked witnesses in order to try and boost @ausbitbank into the top 20.
All witnesses running 0.22.5 are HOSTILE TRON PUPPETS.
Please consider voting for any of the top REAL witnesses who are NOT running 0.22.5 - thank you for your time and consideration.
Current real-time list of top witnesses - https://steemdb.com/witnesses
We've managed to rally enough support to get 4 REAL witnesses into the top 20 in just the past few hours.
I really feel bad for the witnesses. However, you know the old adage, "Two wrongs don't make a right"
Witnesses started this mess by illegally attempting to void STEEM accounts along with the STEEM in it. I understand that they feel that the STEEM in those accounts was mined and sold illegally, but steeling it is also illegal. I'm really torn. I know that they were trying to do a good thing. They also swore to the STEEM community that they would never pull a stunt like this. Now I don't trust them.
I'm just going to stay out of this. If I support the old witnesses, then I will make an enemy of Justin, If I support Justin, then I will make an enemy of the witnesses. There will be no winners in a war.
Good luck with your war.
I agree with you that the "soft-fork" was unethical, but justin sun is trying to act as a dictator, which seems qualitatively worse than the hodge-podge of motley characters we had running the place before.
I appreciate and respect your decision to "stay-out-of-it", my guess is that justin sun will try to buy more steem in order to buy more influence, this should raise the street-value of steem and this will give the big-fish and witnesses a chance to "cash-out" which will give The Sun what it wants.
I hope the witnesses start their own "social-blockchain" project, I'd be more than happy to jump ship if there was a "better" option.
Thanks again for your time and consideration.
It looks like The Sun has its 17 out of 20 at the moment - https://steemdb.com/witnesses