Friendships will continue off platform as they already have. Also, I was gone for a year and came back last month. I have about 3 months of accumulated activity on the platform. Yeah, steemit helped me understand a bit more about cryptocurrencies, but this here war is teaching me A LOT about the reason for the failures of decentralized platforms and anarchy in general. In any anarchy, there will always be a dictator claiming he's not one.
I seriously doubt that apologizing will end this. First, the only thing I can apologize for is (almost) descending to his level of communication in curses and threats. And yeah, I am sorry I let him rattle me so.
Second, do you HONESTLY think he'll stop attacking me if I apologized and knelt like a good little slave? Nah. He's enjoying being a bully way too much to stop now.
Apologizing does not mean accepting to be a slave or knell before a higher authority.
He actually said that he would have stopped if you would have stopped .Like i said , if you stop bothering him , he will probably stop bothering you .
Stopped what? I wasn't "bothering" him! How would I bother him anyways? Or WHY? I wasn't looking for a fight, I was looking for an open conversation on how steemit can be made BETTER. Because to me steemit was a fun place to share my short stories before I pass them on to my editor and some other content I thought might interest the readers here.
What bernie wants me to stop doing is telling people what he's doing to me and others. He wants me to stop pointing at him and saying "bully". While he's still being a bully.
All I did to "provoke" him is very politely ask what sort of solution he suggests for the current imbalance in voting power on the platform. That's all. I'll gladly copy-paste it here for you, so you can tell me if you consider such a comment on a post as "bothering" someone in a way that merits a personal attack of such scale.
I'm not here to judge , i will try to stay neutral .
Anyway i hope you two will stop , and just let it go.
Peace and kindness should fill the steemit walls , not anger and negative emotions.