Awesome to hear from a principle. I've only been here a month but I am very interested in hearing any of the details you may be able to share about what we can expect with/from hardfork #20. Particularly (and I know this probably isn't your bailiwick) what may be coming along in terms of better spam/scam filters and protocols--especially abuse of the introduceyourself tag, eliminating paid upvoting bots, having at least written guidelines against malicious downvoting with no reason, etc.
Thanks for all you're doing to make Steemit the best platform for connecting people on this planet!
Thanks! As of now the best source of information regarding HF20 is the following blog post: https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitblog/proposing-hardfork-0-20-0-velocity. I doubt there will be significant changes.
Thanks for the information.
Can you possibly see your way clear to using your bully pulpit to urge such reforms in the future?
Nope. I've got my priorities, the company has its priorities and they project well into the next year. If you want something changed we're not the people you need to convince, it's the community you need to convince. The community elects the witnesses, the witnesses determine what has to be on-chain, and we help build code that supports those features. If you want something changed about steemit.com, again we listen to the community (not individual members of the community) and we look at github pull requests. If you really want something changed on either steemit.com or Steem, the fastest way is always to submit a pull request for the change or to convince someone with the requisite skills to submit the PR.